SEIU

  • NUHW Supporters Brave Eggs, Bottles in Los Angeles

    Attendees at an NUHW forum in Los Angeles had to pass a demonstration of a few hundred SEIU staffers and members who had arrived on buses. The SEIUers chanted, beat on drums, and threw eggs and water bottles in an unsuccessful effort to intimidate people from attending.

  • With Members Angry, Unions Sue to Stop Mandatory Vaccinations
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 11 2009 - 1:17am

    A feverish anger rose this fall among New York's health care workers, the first in the nation required to take a flu shot. Health care union activists said union leaders were too timid responding to the mandate.

  • Andy Stern's BFF

    Who loves Andy Stern? Pictures don't lie...

  • Red Cross Pricked for Labor Problems
    Oct 24 2009 - 1:08am

    Management disrespect for workers at Red Cross is spoiling the reputation of one of America’s largest humanitarian organizations, according to a report by Jobs with Justice.

  • Food Service Workers Buck Secret Organizing Deals
    Paul Abowd
    Sep 8 2009 - 10:14am

    A delegation of U.S. food service workers flew to the Paris headquarters of their employer Sodexo last winter, delivering petitions against the company’s anti-union practices. They also took to the streets, joining the French general strike.

  • Has Andy Stern Reunited Labor?
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 17 2009 - 2:04pm

    When was the last time you heard a union president denounce another union president—publicly? For labor’s upper echelon, the most scrupulously honored principle is protocol. (And you thought it was “solidarity.”)

    But at the UNITE HERE convention in late June, the torrent of abuse heaped on Andy Stern’s head would have caused a less confident labor statesman to turn pale. “Darth Vader” and “pirate” were just two of the epithets—and these from presidents without a dog in the fight between UNITE HERE and Stern’s Service Employees (SEIU).

  • Labor Rallies for Health Care Reform, but Keeps it Vague
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 15 2009 - 1:56pm

    It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform. Resolutions favoring “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system, have been passed by 558 unions, central labor councils, state federations, and other union organizations. Yet in practice leaders of many of those same unions have acted as if actual single-payer legislation (Representative John Conyer’s HR 676 and Senator Bernie Sanders’ S703) didn’t exist.

  • NUHW Comes Close in Homecare Vote
    Jane Slaughter
    Jun 23 2009 - 12:36pm
    Many activists cast the battle between the National Union of Healthcare Workers and SEIU International as a struggle over the soul of unionism. Outspent by about 50 to 1, the new union narrowly lost its first major contest for 10,000 Fresno homecare workers.
  • Viewpoint: SEIU Staff Fight for Their Union

    Author(s):
    Malcolm Harris

    Excerpt:
    SEIU announced plans to lay off 75 organizers and other field staff, a "reorganization" that reveals SEIU’s cynical view of organizers and organizing—and another step toward the increasing centralization of the union.

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  • Quiet on the Western Front? Behind the SEIU-CNA Alliance.

    Author(s):
    Mark Brenner

    Excerpt:
    When the Service Employees and California Nurses Association called a truce in March, many union observers were confused—but breathed a sigh of relief. What does the SEIU-CNA deal mean for health care unions in California and beyond?. . . .

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