An election to decide which union will represent workers at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center is scheduled for this week in a clash between giant Service Employees International Union and upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers. Leading NUHW's campaign are ex-union officers forced out when the SEIU asserted control over the California healthcare chapter a year ago, alleging mismanagement and fiscal irregularities. The new union has few resources compared with the SEIU, and does not yet have a single worker under contract, the Los Angeles Times reports.
