SEIU to File Motion to Dismiss CNA Restraining Order

Service Employees International Union taking immediate legal steps to dismiss
temporary restraining order filed yesterday by California Nurses Association

WASHINGTON, April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Service Employees
International Union (SEIU) today announced plans to file a motion to dismiss
the temporary restraining order filed yesterday by the California Nurses
Association against SEIU President Andy Stern and SEIU.

"This is an entirely frivolous injunction being used for political purposes,"
said Attorney Stephen Berzon, a partner with Altshuler Berzon LLP, the San
Francisco-based law firm handling the case. "The CNA designed their suit to
interfere with SEIU's legitimate, constitutionally-protected free speech
activity. The CNA ran into court and procured the order without giving SEIU
notice or an opportunity to be heard. Once SEIU gets its day in court, this
illegal injunction will be overturned very quickly."

This week's legal maneuvering by the CNA is the latest tactic in a campaign of
untruths and misinformation led by the California-based union. After waging a
vicious "vote no" operation at Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) hospitals in
Ohio that sabotaged a three-year effort by nurses and hospital workers to win
a fair process to freely choose whether to form a union with SEIU, the CNA has
inaccurately characterized efforts by CHP workers and supporters to engage CNA
leadership over the union's anti-union tactics as "harassment." Video footage
shows what the CNA called "5 male staffers harassing CNA Board members" was
actually a registered nurse and respiratory therapist going door-to-door to
try to speak to CNA leadership: (available online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGw2QJTgw4I).

The temporary restraining order -- filed Wednesday afternoon by the CNA
without providing notice to either SEIU or SEIU President Andy Stern -- was
issued under the California Code of Civil Procedure 527.8 intended for
"Employees subject to violence or threats of violence at the workplace."

"Under no circumstances have SEIU members or staff harassed CNA members or
leadership," said Andy Stern in response to the temporary restraining order.
"It's shameful that the CNA is continuing to spread misinformation and
distorting reality to divert focus from the real issues -- the anti-union
tactics that sabotaged the opportunity for more than 8,000 nurses and other
hospital workers in Ohio to freely choose whether to form a union with SEIU."

For more information visit http://www.ShameOnCNA.org.

SOURCE Service Employees International Union

Lynda Tran of Service Employees International Union, +1-202-907-1172