[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The back and forth continues between SEIU and the California Nurses Association, with a California Superior court dismissing a temporary restraining order against SEIU and SEIU President Andy Stern filed last week. SEIU has described CNA's action as a "publicity stunt."According to an SEIU press release, the court had an opportunity to review video footage submitted by SEIU of the incidents that CNA falsely claimed to be "stalking," and on the heels of an anti-Strategic Lawsuit to Prevent Public Participation motion, also filed yesterday by SEIU, against the CNA "to prevent CNA from further efforts to silence critics of its divisive tactics," according to SEIU.<> <>"For months, CNA leaders have made inaccurate and exaggerated claims trying to cover up their own anti-union tactics in Ohio and other states. They have produced doctored 'evidence,' they have made phony allegations and they have cried wolf," said Andy Stern, SEIU International President. "Today’s court decision shows the public what the CNA is really about, but that’s little comfort for the thousands of Ohio nurses and hospital workers who saw their dreams of forming a union destroyed by the CNA.  It’s time Rose Ann DeMoro and the CNA wake up and apologize to the workers they hurt."There's more...

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

The health care union battle now appears is back in the courts.

Yesterday the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) filed an anti-Strategic Lawsuit to Prevent Public Participation motion against the California Nurses Association (CNA. In layman's terms, that prevents the union from further efforts to silence critics of its divisive tactics. According to an SEIU press release, the motion cites a temporary restraining order against SEIU President Andy Stern and SEIU that the CNA obtained as a publicity stunt last week as the latest effort by the CNA to suppress nurses and hospital workers who have criticized its anti-union tactics in Ohio and other states.

SEIU also filed an application to vacate the temporary restraining order, which was obtained by the CNA on April 15 from a local court commissioner -- without any notice to SEIU -- and based on what it calls "misrepresentations by the CNA."

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[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Dave Johnson
Speak Out California

Tuesday's post began:

“In Dubai, people get free housing, free medical care, AND $5,000 per month. The people of Dubai share in the country's oil wealth.

“In Alaska, people not only do not pay state taxes, the state government writes every state resident a check every year. The people of the state of Alaska share in the state's oil wealth.”

But in California the big oil companies get to pump our oil from the ground for free, and then sell it back to us. Right now these oil companies are reaping the highest profits of any industry ever in history, making a few people immensely wealthy, and are not giving back any of this wealth to We, the People of California!

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Yet another court has turned the attempt by US Term Limits to challenge Attorney General Jerry Brown's title and summary language for the measure to reduce and reform the term limits of state legislators.
 
Legal experts and political observers said there was little chance a court would overturn the AG's correct interpretation of the term limits reform initiative. The challenge was widely regarded as a publicity stunt designed to garner headlines for the right-wing organization challenging the term limits initiative. Fortunately, only a handful of newspapers, including the Sacramento Bee, wrote about the lawsuit.
 
Supporters of the inititative are expected to turn in more than one million signatures in July. It enjoys strong support in statewide polls, most recently a 56-28 percent edge in a survey conducted by San Jose State University.