Occupy Wall Street Adjusts To Outside Support
WASHINGTON -- During a recent demonstration in Washington, D.C., several hundred progressives gathered on K Street were protesting the same outrage bu...
WASHINGTON -- During a recent demonstration in Washington, D.C., several hundred progressives gathered on K Street were protesting the same outrage bu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Service Employees International Union, one of the most influential labor organizations in Washington, D.C., is undertaking a compreh...
Peter Dreier | Posted 09.04.2011
This year, Americans celebrated their independence at a time when almost 10 percent of the workforce is officially unemployed, millions more are underemployed, and millions of families are losing their homes. Under these circumstances, why isn't the left gaining momentum?
Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
As the SEIU awaits the results of its Kaiser election contest with NUHW, the union faces a reckoning regardless of the outcome. SEIU confronts a "heads I lose, tails you win" scenario as Kaiser election results are announced on October 8.
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011
If this weekend's rally was modeled on the 1963 March on Washington, it lacked the spirit of civil disobedience and direct action that marked that event 37 years ago.
Mary Kay Henry | Posted 05.25.2011
The politicians and corporate interests pushing arguments that we can't afford Social Security are the same people who destroyed our pensions. The same people who want to hand the fate of our retirements over to Wall Street.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
A legend of the labor movement stepped into the turmoil engulfing organized labor in California on Tuesday, pressing the new head of the Service Emplo...
Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
After an 18-month battle that began with SEIU believing it could affect a hostile takeover of a fellow international union, the two unions reached a settlement today almost entirely on UNITE HERE's terms.
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
So it's “the year of the women" in the media again. But again, it's only some. All about money media are all about the women of the GOP. It...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The nation's fastest growing labor union elected its first woman president Saturday. The Service Employees International Union sel...
Amy B. Dean | Posted 05.25.2011
In the two weeks since Andy Stern announced his retirement after 14 years as the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), most o...
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The race to become the next president of the nation's fastest growing labor union became clearer on Wednesday after one of the cand...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
A giant New York-based local union is poised to vote to support California labor leader Mary Kay Henry (above) for the presidency of America's largest...
Randy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
According to published minutes from an April 10, 2010 SEIU-UHW meeting, SEIU plans to "Basically create WWIII" in order to drive NUHW organizers and s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In a bold warning shot to Democratic lawmakers, the new president of the powerful Service Employees International Union says that members are prepared...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.21.2011