Patient Dollars for Patient Care
Since January of this year, management of Citrus Valley Medical Center (CVMC) has waged a coordinated and concerted anti-union campaign to interfere with our rights to join our coworkers in forming our union. Instead of working collaboratively with their employees solve issues regarding patient care, staffing levels, and benefits, CVMC management is wasting precious patient care dollars on high priced, union-busting consultants.

CVMC management has hired four consultants from The Burke Group to conduct mandatory anti-union meetings with employees. At these meetings, we and our co-workers are harassed and intimidated by management and the consultants so we won't support forming our union. Even worse, caregivers are being forced to attend these anti-union meetings on work time, which takes us away from our patients.That is why every dollar that CVMC spends paying these expensive consultants is one less dollar spent on patient care.

Who is The Burke Group?
Started in 1989 by David J. Burke, The Burke Group is a for-profit management consulting firm based in Malibu, California which specializes in deterring and eliminating union activity. Burke also does business under the name "Labor Information Services."

Consultants that work for The Burke Group are very well compensated. For example, the Burke Group charges its clients roughly $300 per hour for each consultant, plus additional costs for food, lodging and transportation.For one union-busting consultant, that’s roughly $2400 for an 8-hour day. During 1998, one arm of the Burke Group's operations reported earning $1.25 million in profits. Revenues from the remainder of its operations are unknown, since only one part of the company's business is required to disclose information to the government.

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    Tell Citrus Valley
    Health Partners
  • that caregivers at Citrus Valley Medical Center deserve the freedom of choice to form a union in the absence of employer interference and intimidation.

    Let management know that they must agree to free and fair election guidelines so their employees can decide whether to form a union on the basis of facts, not fear.



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    Others in the community have signed a letter of support for the Citrus Valley workers and so can you!