In a dramatic agreement likely to accelerate the drive to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and rapidly promote unionization in the healthcare sector, the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee today announced the signing of a transformative cooperation agreement.
For more details read, the March 19 New York Times account: Two Unions, Once Bitter Rivals, Will Now Work Together
Filed under: Organizing, Politics Tagged: | CNA, SEIU
Looks like the volunteers for NUHW will no longer have their medical benefits paid by the dues dollars of the CNA members.
[...] Duane Campbell’s comment on this blog references Steven Greenhouse’s article in the New York Times welcoming the alliance. Indeed we must applaud the decision by SEIU and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) to bury the hatchet after years of negative campaigning against each other. Agreeing to work together to support single-payer universal health coverage, to support the passage of the EFCA, and to collaborate in organizing nurses and other health care workers is unequivocally a positive step forward. [...]