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It's Jim White w/ Aimee Mann.

{This blog post was originally posted on the blog Calitics } In the five weeks since SEIU International trusteed California's SEIU-UHW West something enormous has transpired in our state: California's healthcare workers have spoken . What those workers have said is crystal clear: We choose NUHW . :: A majority of the workers from 350 healthcare facilities...representing over 91,000 California healthcare workers ...have petitioned to be represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in just five weeks time . That includes an absolute majority of the 50,000 healthcare workers in the Kaiser network of hospitals and clinics. It also includes homecare workers in Fresno County who collected almost twice the number of the petition signatures necessary to trigger an election that will allow 10,000 homecare workers in Fresno county to secure representation by NUHW. That total also includes numerous workers at smaller facilities like those working at Orange County'