RE: Steelworkers, California Nurses Launch New Union to Boost Organizing

[michael pugliese]

   Hey, the Reds I like as friends and comrades are mostly Trotskyists.
You like the friends of Uncle Joe. Stop calling me a race baitin',
red-baitin' and I'll stop calling you a Stalinist.
  I hear, in person you are warm and friendly, to comrades you've
known to decades, aND KNOW TO BE SOLID RADICALS, YET YOU CALL
THEM ANTI-COMMUNISTS! 
Michael, The Warm,  not the war-mongerer...;-)


--- Original Message ---
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3/24/02 10:54:57 AM


Steelworkers, California Nurses Launch New Union to Boost Organizing
by michael pugliese
22 March 2002 23:39 UTC  


Charles: It's your compulsive recitation of people's red backgrounds
that makes you look like a creep. Hey , maybe you aren't a creep
and you just like to show off all this stuff you know. But it's
a bit weird to go around announcing everybody's left pedigree
so much, or at all, e.g. see what you say below.

^^^


   I've known Giulana Milanese, an organizer for the CNA (met
her after she left the CPUSA for the CofC/CCDS) for over a decade.
Great organizer, wonderful person. Warm, smart, savvy. And she's
never said I was a red-baiter. Hmm., wonder why? Plus, she works
well with Michael Lighty, from DSA, another CNA staffer. As
does
Carl Bloice, from the CCDS, formerly in the CPUSA.
Michael Pugliese

RE: Steelworkers, California Nurses Launch New Union to Boost Organizing

[michael pugliese]

   I've known Giulana Milanese, an organizer for the CNA (met
her after she left the CPUSA for the CofC/CCDS) for over a decade.
Great organizer, wonderful person. Warm, smart, savvy. And she's
never said I was a red-baiter. Hmm., wonder why? Plus, she works
well with Michael Lighty, from DSA, another CNA staffer. As does
Carl Bloice, from the CCDS, formerly in the CPUSA.
Michael Pugliese

--- Original Message ---
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3/20/02 1:38:11 PM


Steelworkers, California Nurses Launch New Union to Boost Organizing
Nationwide
http://www.bna.com/

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--The California Nurses Association and the
United
Steelworkers are launching a new union to organize health care
workers
across the United States, leaders of the two organizations told
BNA
March 11.

The union will work to organize nurses and other health care
workers,
mainly in states where the Steelworkers union already has a
strong
presence, USW President Leo Gerard said. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Minnesota,
Illinois, and northern Indiana are likely targets of the organizing
efforts.

The new organization does not yet have a name, but will be a
separate
union with links to both CNA and USW, Gerard and CNA Executive
Director
Rose Ann DeMoro said.

The launch of the new union expands an alliance that CNA and
USW formed
one year ago, which has provided a structure for them to work
together
to organize health care workers. Under the alliance, CNA organizes
registered nurses and USW organizes ancillary health care and
service
workers (15 LRW 307, 3/15/01).

Few health care workers in the Midwest and steel-producing states
are
represented by unions, Gerard said. Many of those workers come
from
families that have worked in the steel industry. There is not
a lot of
health organizing going on there, he said.

Gerard, in Sacramento to speak to 350 nurses attending a CNA
conference,
told BNA that USW and CNA signed the addendum to their alliance
agreement March 11, signaling the beginning of the launch.

In the year that the alliance has been in place, CNA negotiated
a
contract for 125 nurses at a hospital in the San Francisco Bay
Area that
gives the nurses retirement benefits under the USW pension trust
(15 LRW
924, 8/2/01). CNA will be seeking the same pension benefits
in upcoming
contract negotiations this year on behalf of 20,000 nurses who
work at
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., Sutter Health, or Catholic
Healthcare West, DeMoro said.