By Doug Cunningham

A California judge is temporarily barring SEIU members and SEIU President Andy Stern from following, threatening or stalking “officers, directors and staff” of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. Judge Jon Rantzman is having SEIU appear in court May 1 to consider a three-year injunction.

The California Superior Court temporary injunction prohibits SEIU and its president, Andy Stern, from following or threatening CNA/NNOC staff, officers or directors at work, in hospitals, clinics, offices and homes.

The CNA says SEIU members had come to the homes of at least five CNA board members unannounced. CNA says they pounded on doors, yelled and pointed cameras at CNA members.

The two unions are competing with each other to organize healthcare workers. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is urging the two unions to de-escalate their confrontation.