SEIU

  • 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.

  • Wage Laws Could Include Homecare Workers, Finally
    Jenny Brown
    Jan 19 2012 - 1:42pm
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    Two million homecare workers are finally getting a little respect under U.S. labor law. New Labor Department rules would extend overtime and minimum wage protections to home health aides and personal care assistants in the 29 states that don’t already cover them.

  • ‘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.

  • Nurses Say Private Equity Firm Starving Massachusetts Hospitals
    Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus
    Dec 20 2011 - 6:26pm

    Nurses sang sour carols today to the private equity firm they say is starving Massachusetts hospitals and pitting workers against each other. Steward hospitals, owned by Cerberus Capital, is squeezing hard.

  • Unions Weigh California’s Taxing Situation
    Jim Miller
    Dec 19 2011 - 10:13am

    Several tax initiatives could appear on next year’s ballot in California, and unions are weighing endorsements as they decide between taxes aimed at the 99%—or the 1%. One coalition is pushing a millionaires’ tax that could raise $6 billion.

  • Workers Challenge Big Food
    Jenny Brown
    Nov 23 2011 - 10:51am

    Where does our food come from? “Farm to fork” may sound like a doctrine for foodies, but for workers in food production and service, struggling for decent jobs, it’s an organizing goal, as they attempt an alliance to take on the food mega-corporations.

  • SEIU Settles Sodexo’s Racketeering Suit, with Organizing Gains Uncertain
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 14 2011 - 10:05am

    The Service Employees' corporate campaign at the food-service giant Sodexo ended September in secrecy. It’s unclear if the agreement includes provisions that organizers say have led to success elsewhere.

  • Occupy Oakland Shuts Port as Unions Hustle to Keep Up
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Nov 3 2011 - 1:33pm

    Oakland's “day of action” closed shops and halted traffic at the nation’s fifth-largest port. Unions hustled to rally members, building a healthy response for the first occupy action where success required other organizations to mobilize.

  • Occupy Wall Street Holds Ground, with Labor's Help
    Jenny Brown
    Oct 14 2011 - 1:44pm

    Authorities scrapped a plan to dislodge Occupy Wall Street after a thousand people rallied to defend the encampment at daybreak. Unions called out members, backing a protest that’s put focus on wage cuts, layoffs, and foreclosures.