Nurse Blocked from Voting on New Contract After Refusing to Sign New Union Card

Wisnewski v. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania

Alan Wisnewski is a forensic registered nurse at SCI-Waymart State Prison. He must accept SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania (“SEIU”) as his representative in collective bargaining.

Alan filed a lawsuit, Wisnewski v. SEIU, claiming that officials told him he could not vote on a new contract because he would not sign a new union card.

However, SEIU officials didn’t tell Alan all the facts: chiefly that the new union card contained language to prevent those who signed from ending union dues deduction from their wages except for one fifteen-day window a year.

Alan already had the right to vote on the contract according to SEIU’s own rules and membership contract, because he was already a union member. He alleged, however, that SEIU allowed other members to vote while denying him the same right.

Wisnewski v. SEIU was settled to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.


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Alan Wisnewski is a forensic registered nurse at SCI-Waymart State Prison. He must accept SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania (“SEIU”) as his representative in collective bargaining.

Alan filed a lawsuit, Wisnewski v. SEIU, claiming that officials told him he could not vote on a new contract because he would not sign a new union card.

However, SEIU officials didn’t tell Alan all the facts: chiefly that the new union card contained language to prevent those who signed from ending union dues deduction from their wages except for one fifteen-day window a year.

Alan already had the right to vote on the contract according to SEIU’s own rules and membership contract, because he was already a union member. He alleged, however, that SEIU allowed other members to vote while denying him the same right.

Wisnewski v. SEIU was settled to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.


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