[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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by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]