Gambling on NUHW just got a lot riskier...

Gambling on NUHW gets riskier every day. Remember four months ago when a federal jury levied a $1.57 million judgment against them? Now, NUHW and its leaders are trying to indefinitely delay paying the money. They say they don't have the resources - and paying it would force them into "bankruptcy." How do they plan to win good contracts for 45,000 Kaiser workers when they can't get their own house in order?

In a motion in Federal District Court in San Francisco last week, NUHW says the judgment "is a major percentage of its annual operating budget." NUHW is also seeking to delay the payment of individual judgments ranging from $31,400 to $77,850 from Sal Rosselli, John Borsos, and 14 other defendants who are now NUHW officials.

"That money doesn't belong to NUHW. It belongs to hard-working members of SEIU-UHW and it's past time that they pay us back," said Alisha Blinks, an Operator in the Kaiser Communications Center in Walnut Creek. "If paying this court-ordered judgment is a hardship for them, they should've thought about that before illegally using our dues money for their own purposes."

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Read more, and see the court documents here.