Congrats to the employees.
Though, I wonder how the pricing will change for services, and could this put Planned Parenthood financially out of reach for those that need it most.

So Mr. Greenberg is already interfering with his employees' rights, even as he claims that they're free to do what they want. They're forcing him to lawyer up. They're forcing him to hold anti-union meetings. They're forcing him to distribute anti-union screeds. They're forcing him to limit services because lawyering up costs money. Guy sounds like a real shitbag.

....and the union doesn't have lawyers on the payroll?
Nobody has said a word about limiting services, from what I've read so far. But they will certainly be forced to raise prices.
I refuse to believe that someone who decided to make his living working for Planned Parenthood (a non-profit too, right?) is a shitbag, just on principle.
As the workers really didn't have clearly defined goals in joining the union, I hope they feel they get their monies worth. They are paying for it, as well as the many women who go there for help.

Not so good for the 43 people who voted no... Now they have to join a union they do not want to belong to and are forced to pay dues they cannot afford. Not to mention the rest of the PPCW employees that are not eligible to be in the union who will now have to deal with this new union regardless.

I have no doubt that SEIU is a good organization but PPCW is a non-profit organization and the wage increase freeze is due to republican attacks on women's healthcare and the loss of funding we have seen all around the country, as well as the economic downturn which has dropped the number of donations to PPCW.

SO while SEIU promises its new members wage increases to cover their new union dues we must stop to ask where this extra money is going to come from seeing as how most of their money is from donations. Seems to me it will ether land on the backs of all the non-union workers at PPCW or it will land on the low income clients at the check-out counter which is 180* opposite of PPCW’s mission in the first place.

Also David Greenberg has been very fair and understanding with all PPCW employees and even the very pushy SEIU. There has never been a reason for them to act that way as many in our community will testify to David's Kindness and accessibility. David has always been open to talk to any employee at anytime and these people are just upset he has to give them the same answer each time.

One last question, When the SEIU finds out that you really cannot get blood from a stone what will be their next move? Will they call a strike and send all those PPCW employees out to picket PPCW right next to all those people holding up gross mutilation signs while low income clients go without healthcare? Isn't that a bit dangerous? Will they trash PPCW in the media like they are doing already giving the anti-choice movement even more ammo to attack PPCW with?

This vote has the potential to tear PPCW right down the middle and I would say that the employee you mentioned in this post earlier would be glad to see it happen as she is very bitter and likes power games…

I'm a dyed in the wool liberal, and I was totally pro-union until my two completely negative experiences with two different unions. In my personal experience, the unions were only about collecting dues and bureaucracy, other than that they couldn't have cared less. I'm still very liberal, but I'm very skeptical about unions - in my view they just create stifling, unhappy workplaces.

"I'm still very liberal, but I'm very skeptical about unions - in my view they just create stifling, unhappy workplaces."

The alternative sure as Hell isn't any better.

But however this turns out, services to women should ABSOLUTELY NOT be fucked with!

When PP built that fancy new building in NE, where did that money come from? The proverbial stone certainly bled then, didn't it? My sense is that the PP workers are forming a union not so much because of money but in order to have more of a voice in overall decision making, and that includes financial priorities.