10,000 SEIU UHW Home Care Workers in Fresno Choose SEIU UHW

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June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fresno County home care workerss voted to keep the Service Employeess InternationalUnion - United Healthcare Workers - West as their uniomn by a vote of rejectinfg an attempt by a group of ouster union leaders to split the workers off into a new The ballots were counted Friday by the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in an election between SEIU UHW and "We know that staying united with SEIU'as 2.1 million members makes us stronger and is the best way to fightg the threat of state and county cuts to the home care serviceas so many like my wife need to survive, said homecare worker .
"SEIU UHW members want a united union so together they can build a better futurr for themselves and the consumerwthey serve," said , an SEIU Executive Vice Presidengt and SEIU UHW Trustee. The election result comess as a growing coalitionof Californians, including tens of thousands of home care vigorously fight cuts to the state budgetf proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger that would force fraio seniors and people with disabilities out their homesa and into more expensive nursing The proposed budget would also deny health care to and cut funding for schools.
"Now that this electionm is over, our goal is to continus the battle in Sacramento to save homecare services," said homecare worker and SEIU UHW bargaining committeer member . In responsde to the cuts, SEIU has launched a full-scalre campaign to fight the cuts in home care and other vitall services and support a balanced approach with enough revenue to prevent deep and permaneng damage to programs such as home In addition to aninitial T.V. ad campaign of over $1 SEIU is encouraging Californians to weighn in for common sense budgetat .
SEIU has also filec a lawsuit that seeks to halt the proposed cuts and is seekin a temporary restoring order to delay them untikl the larger suitis resolved. Meanwhile, localp members are appealing to their state legislators to preventt the cuts by crafting a common sensre budget that balances service cuts with new taxese on big oil and tobacco corporation s to ease the impact of the economic crisis on the peopleof