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At CHW, a lot of the real work on the ground to win a "fair elections deal" and thousands of new members was done by folks now in the rival National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).  But since Stern seized control over United Healthcare Workers (UHW) -- an action taken to "expand accountability," according to Stillman -- these ex-UHW activists have been consigned to SEIU's version of what George Orwell, in 1984, called "the memory hole."  In the chapter on Catholic Healthcare West, there's even a picture of the organizing committee at Seton Medical Center that has former UHW leaders cropped out of it.

SEIU better ship copies of Stronger Together out to California right away, in bulk, because thousands of care-givers at Kaiser have just decided that the way to make "major gains" there is by holding the biggest NLRB election since the 1940s (covering 45,000 workers) and switching to NUHW.