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Sign Of The Things To Come?
Hospital Chain Gives Obama’s NLRB & SEIU The Finger
By LaborUnionReport
February 4th, 2013
In
a move that may become more
prevalent among employers–as in epidemic–a California hospital chain is
refusing to comply with rulings issued by Barack Obama’s
constitutionally-questionable National Labor Relations Board.
Since
early 2010, Prime Healthcare
Services has been the target of a vicious SEIU ‘extortion campaign.’
The
SEIU, according to a 2011 press
release, began its campaign against Prime Healthcare Services in order
to ward
off a “raid” by a rival union and allegedly aiding a SEIU-unionized
competitor
ensure a monopoly:
According
to PHS’ officials, SEIU’s
extortion campaign began approximately 12 months ago when PHS rejected
SEIU’s
demands for a “quick” deal for SEIU members at PHS’ Centinela Hospital
Medical
Center so that SEIU could avoid a challenge from NUHW, an upstart union
formed
by disgruntled SEIU members. SEIU initially threatened to expose “dirt”
on PHS,
disseminate reports based on Medicare data, and claim that these
reports showed
that Medicare patients were acquiring serious blood infections like
septicemia
at PHS’ hospitals even though SEIU knew that the Medicare data
identified
conditions present on admission; not hospital acquired conditions.
[Emphasis
added.]
The
hospital chain resisted the
SEIU’s attacks and, in turn, later filed a Sherman Anti-Trust suit
against both
the SEIU and its SEIU-unionized competitor, Kaiser Permanente:
Hospital
operator Prime Healthcare
Services on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente
and the
Service Employees International Union, alleging the rival medical group
and
labor union violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to squeeze
Prime
from the marketplace.
In
its lawsuit, Prime alleges that
SEIU’s activities include pushing false media stories about problems at
its facilities
– such as reports of unusually high rates of blood infections – as well
as
campaigning against the plaintiff’s efforts to acquire Victor Valley
Hospital
in Victorville.
As
the SEIU attacks have continued,
the SEIU has enlisted its union friends running Barack Obama’s National
Labor
Relations Board. In turn, the NLRB has aided and abetted the attacks on
Prime
Healthcare Services by siding with the union in charges the union has
filed
against the employer.
On
Thursday, Prime Healthcare,
opted to ignore the NLRB–as it’s mere ability to issue rulings has been
cast in
doubt due to an appeals court decision on the constitutionality of
Barack
Obama’s “recess” appointments.
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