On September thirteen of this year, the Los Angeles Times recently posted a battle between two Unions fighting for 43,000 employee votes. The battle is to be said the biggest private-sector labor election since 1941. Edvin Hakopian a member of the NUHW describes the battle between two grand Unions as “hostile.” If SEIU were to win, it could help the company from moving off a turmoil, but if the NUHW won it can cause an increase in significant force in the healthcare industry. The Kaiser face off according to UC Berkeley Professor Harley Shaiken, "is a critical election, but it's unusual in that it's a fight between two unions versus a fight over organizing new members…this is putting a lot of resources into fighting for a group that is already in a union." The Unions ups and downs are that SEIU has much more money and people but NUHW is counting on the loyalty of their people as pay for what their Union leaders have accomplished. Others like SEIU executive vice president assume that, “Kaiser workers would risk losing hard-earned gains in salaries and benefits if they decided to leave SEIU. There are also others who doubt the new coming business of NUHW because they have contracts with SEIU and with NUHW they have no complete guarantee. Although NUHW has about 8,000 workers, there have been about 30 elections they have chosen to drop out of in which SEIU have seem to be strong. SEIU has been built for more than 30 years now and it’s challenging trying to compete with this Union especially if you’re a new comer in the business.
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