SEIU

  • Tax-Dodging GE Takes Union Fire
    Jim West
    Apr 25 2012 - 4:04pm

    At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this morning outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes. Signs read, "We pay taxes, why don't you?"

  • Why the Millionaires Tax Was Worth Fighting For

    The tax compromise made by the California Federation of Teachers resulted in major improvements to the ballot initiative that could be in front of voters in November. But there are compelling reasons why proponents of the millionaires tax should have bucked the governor's deal and continued their struggle to reverse endless austerity.

  • California Unions Compromise on Millionaires Tax
    Mischa Gaus
    Mar 15 2012 - 11:11am

    A California teachers union struck a deal with Governor Jerry Brown that would combine a millionaires tax with a sales tax boost. Union activists split on the move, saying it contains key flaws, but shows how the debate on taxes has shifted.

  • Struggling to Organize, Adjuncts Succeed at American University

    Adjunct professors at American University in Washington, D.C., won a union last month, but not before two years of organizing made it possible.

  • Getting Members Involved in Occupy’s Next Phase
    Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
    Feb 29 2012 - 9:53am

    The idea that the 99% can actually stand up to the 1% is contagious. How can stewards build on this moment of opportunity? Several unions are drawing members into home defense actions.

  • Wage Laws Could Include Homecare Workers, Finally
    Jenny Brown
    Feb 28 2012 - 1:42pm

    Two million homecare workers are finally getting a little respect under U.S. labor law. New Labor Department rules extending overtime and minimum wage protections to home health aides and personal care assistants could go into force next month.

  • Unions Rally to Protect Contraceptive Coverage

    While Catholic bishops are organizing to get religious-affiliated institutions exempted from providing contraceptive coverage, some unions and women’s organizations are counter-mobilizing. They want to defeat a proposal that would allow employers or insurance companies to refuse coverage of any health care service based on undefined “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

  • SEIU 1199 Protests Connecticut Nursing Home Lockout
    Mischa Gaus
    Jan 31 2012 - 11:57am

    Connecticut nursing home workers are making it personal for a scofflaw employer who’s locked them out of their jobs, seeking big takeaways. Members of Service Employees 1199 protested at the "institute for justice" their boss founded.

  • ‘Union Stooges'? The NLRB Is No Panacea for Workers

    Three New Year appointments to the National Labor Relations Board assure that it will continue to operate. But while unions are celebrating the NLRB’s ability to keep the lights on, along with a handful of union-supportive decisions by the board, the hard fact is that even when the NLRB is operational, it doesn’t work for workers.

  • New York Governor, SEIU 1199 Raise Hackles with Medicaid Deal
    Mark Brenner
    Jan 9 2011 - 9:48am

    New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.