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SEIU-UHW

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SEIU-UHW

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SEIU-UHW is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 05, 2022 and March 06, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “SEIU-UHW thinks that is acceptable collateral damage”; “SEIU-UHW had spent $5 million on [backing the ballot initiatives]”; “SEIU-UHW’s ballot initiative”. It most often appears alongside California, 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, abundance liberalism.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 05, 2022
  • Last seen: March 06, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
November 05, 2022 · Original source
I am changing my vote to ABSTAIN on this one, but I might be overly conservative and I would super-understand if other people voted NO. F@&k The Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare West Andrew Grossman does better detective work than I did and figures out what’s up with The Kidney One.
Inline links: Andrew Grossman
According to an LA Times report, the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare West has been trying to unionize workers at California dialysis companies. Either the workers haven’t been interested or the companies have successfully prevented this from happening. In order to retaliate, the SEIU-UHW has been sponsoring these ballot propositions to over-regulate California dialysis companies so overwhelmingly that they would have to close many of their clinics. This would be a disaster for dialysis patients and probably literally kill many of them, but apparently SEIU-UHW thinks that is acceptable collateral damage. According to the Times, SEIU-UHW doesn’t especially care if they win or lose, they just want to make the dialysis companies spend so much money fighting the propositions that they surrender and agree to give the unions what they want. This explains why they’ve put the same losing proposition on the ballot three election cycles in a row, and why they keep doing it even when every doctors’ group, nurses’ group, and patients’ group insists it would be disastrous for Californians with kidney disease.
Inline links: an LA Times report
I am really angry about this. If anyone knows a way to hurt the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare West, please let me know. If there’s some company I might be patronizing that works with them, and the competitor doesn’t work with them, please let me know so I can switch to the competitor. These people should be utterly ashamed of themselves and I hope there’s some way to make them cease to exist as an institution.
SEIU Delenda Est
March 06, 2026 · Original source
[Union leader Dave] Regan said that the SEIU-UHW had spent $5 million on [backing the ballot initiatives], but that it paid off handsomely. “For a $5 million investment, we get an $80 million turn to pursue those things,” Regan said. He observed that the CHA would have spent as much as $100 million to defeat the initiatives.
The conversations, reported here for the first time, have occurred intermittently for months as SEIU-UHW’s ballot initiative targeting billionaires migrated from the backrooms of California politics to the center of a raging debate about Silicon Valley and income inequality, sparking tech titans’ wrath and vows to move out of state.
“We’ve been at this for four months,” Newsom said in an interview with POLITICO, describing an “all-hands” effort that has included him meeting one-on-one with SEIU-UHW’s leader, Dave Regan.