SEIU defends Kaiser-Permanente
[Those of you who’ve seen SiCKO know how Kaiser-Permanente dumped a
homeless woman suffering from dementia onto the street. SEIU defends
Kaiser! From an article by Charles Andrews]
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/andrews050907.html
[…]
Enter SEIU
United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W), a large subunion within the
Service International Employees Union (SEIU), represents many Kaiser
workers. One might expect UHW-W to recognize in SiCKO a wonderful
opportunity to expose and denounce Kaiser Permanente’s systematic
incentives to minimize the care provided to members. The barely
hidden profit drive makes work at Kaiser intense, frustrating, and
stressful for many Kaiser employees.
Instead, UHW-W attacked Michael Moore for “smearing the reputation of
one of our nation’s most progressive, reform-minded, pro-worker
health-care organizations: America’s premier not-for-profit, pre-
paid, integrated health-care delivery system, Kaiser Permanente.”
[SEIU statement: http://www.seiu-uhw.org/mediacenter/news/page.jsp?itemID=28672235]