Facts you should know before voting

• Click here to help stop CHP's back room deal with SEIU
• ALSO EMAIL A LETTER ON BEHALF OF OHIO RNS
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• Return the Ohio RNs for Democracy

#1. CHP’s back room deal with SEIU will benefit CHP, not RNs.

• CHP gets a “sweetheart” union that will NOT focus on issues important to Registered Nurses. CHP gets increased profits and inferior RN contracts. SEIU’s back room deals result in contracts that are among the worst in the nation.
• SEIU will not oppose CHP’s plans to replace RNs with LPNs and to implement other cost-slashing measures which compromise patient safety. In these “sweetheart” deals, SEIU usually fails to represent their members at all. Google “SEIU no democracy” for more.
• CHP RNs will never be represented by a professional nurses union like the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) Ohio, which has the best RN contracts in the nation and has won the historic RN-to-patient safe staffing ratios in California.
• Having SEIU representing CHP nurses in Ohio means CHP will never have safe staffing ratios in their hospitals.
• Look at the joint CHP/SEIU mailing. SEIU makes no commitment to improving staffing and patient care. Why? Because the SEIU RN contract will not provide improvements in these critical areas.

#2. Less than 2% of SEIU’s members are Registered Nurses.

SEIU is not a professional nurses union. The vast majority of SEIU’s members are in property services (janitors and security guards), public services (city, county and state employees), and healthcare (nursing homes, hospitals, home care and child care). In the acute care hospitals represented by Service Employees, the overwhelming majority of SEIU’s members are not RNs, but rather housekeeping, dietary, and other service staff. In Ohio, 98% of SEIU members are non-RNs.

#3. SEIU is not in the Ohio State Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

The Service Employees left the AFL-CIO so they could pursue their corporate partnerships with employers like Wal-Mart and nursing home operators at the expense of their members. The AFL-CIO serves as the umbrella organization for professional nurses unions like NNOC-Ohio.

#4. Ohio RNs want safe staffing ratios.

• NNOC fought and won the first-in-the-nation RN-to-patient safe staffing rations in California.
• SEIU opposed safe staffing ratios in California, then fought unsuccessfully to have LPNs included in the ratios count.
• NNOC is fighting for safe staffing ratios in Ohio and many other states.
• Ohio nurses will never achieve safe RN-to-patient ratios with SEIU representing Ohio nurses.