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Labor/Employment

Sep. 14, 2010

Health Care Vote Rattles SEIU

As thousands of Kaiser health workers cast a vote starting this week on whether to switch to a rival union, lawyers for both sides disagree on whether it could imperil important bargaining victories at the HMO.

By Catherine Ho

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A dispute that racked up millions of dollars in legal fees, divided colleagues and hung a question mark over which union will represent thousands of health care workers for California's largest HMO, could hinge on 43,000 ballots that Kaiser Permanente employees are receiving in the mail this week.

The vote is the latest in a heated power struggle between the powerful Service Employ...

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