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that these ballot propositions are a negotiation tactic in SEIU-UHW's effort to cause dialysis clinics to unionize, by leveraging the threat of continued costly ballot fights (or regulation) if they do not—rather than an earnest attempt to improve patient safety. Some have called the tactic inappropriate and an "abuse of the initiative process." SEIU has used ballot initiatives for this purpose repeatedly since 2012.
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and pushed for UHW West members at 60 facilities to vote to decertify SEIU. In the series of elections that have taken place so far to determine whether or not current SEIU-UHW members want to stay in their union or join rival NUHW, more than 73,000 have chosen to stay in the local.
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