Now, the union will ask to have nearly 650,000 voter signatures set aside on the initiative, which it had hoped to have on the Nov. 8 ballot.
The union’s decision comes just days after a judge in Sacramento, Calif., ruled in favor hospitals.
The judge agreed with an arbitrator that the union had violated what amounted to a peace pact with the California Hospitals Association when it filed the initiative late last year, according to the report.
But this doesn’t mean the union is giving up.
“This is only a short-term delay,” Steve Trossman, a spokesman for SEIU-UHW, said, according to the report. “We’re going to be coming back in 2018.”
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