Wal-Mart may have inadvertently done workers a big favor with its threats that a Democratic victory in November could lead to passage of a new law making organizing unions easier.
Andy Stern | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama spoke to the SEIU the morning after he clinched the nomination. He spoke to us because he's one of us, and has spent his entire adult life standing with working families.
New York Times | Michael Barbaro | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business
Over the last several months, a confidential report has circulated within the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores, proposing sweeping changes to its emplo...
Dave Johnson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
I don't actually blame Democratic elected officials for the "spineless" way they have been acting. I blame all the rest of us for not getting the public behind our ideas.
Dave Johnson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
This is a great thing happening here at the SEIU convention in Puerto Rico. These people are going to really make changes happen -- with health care the first priority.
Mike Fishman and George Gresham | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Over the next three days, nearly 2,000 delegates from Unions across North America will meet to elect leaders, debate on current issues and set the agenda for our union for the next four years.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the plight of security guards working for a company called Inter-Con, a contractor at Kaiser Permane...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Do you think for a minute that a large corporation would allow any kind of pro-labor stories to be carried on news media that it owns?
Stephen Elliott | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Senator Boxer has failed to come out against Proposition 98, the landlord scheme to end rent control in California.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business
This week I wrote about the Kaiser Permanente / Inter-Con Security Security Guard strike. The post Security Guards Striking for the Right to Have Our...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business
Companies classifying workers as "temporary" or "contractors" is one of the bigger scams that is going on these days.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
In Oregon, Kaiser Permanente security guards are employed by Kaiser, not by a contractor. They are unionized and here is a short chart of just some of the difference this makes.
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
There is a strike starting today at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California. Security guards are paid little and get few benefits -- not even sick leave.
Andy Stern | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
We are at a moment of enormous opportunity for working people. Americans have broad recognition of economic injustice, and we in SEIU have the hope of Barack Obama.
Kelly Candaele | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Just as we are on the precipice of a major political realignment, a possible resurgence of progressive politics in Washington, the backbone of that movement -- organized labor -- is engaged in a self-destructive internal battle.
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Just as we are on the precipice of a major political realignment, a possible resurgence of progressive politics in Washington, the backbone of that movement -- organized labor -- is engaged in a self-destructive internal battle.
Dr. Karen Stephen | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
I used to have a voice. But now SEIU International is telling me and my local union to shut up in the public discussion and debate over the direction of the union.
Raquel Mack | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living
Last weekend, I joined with 1500 of my colleagues to sign the first ever union contract for private security officers in Washington, D.C. It was a big win.
Jamie Court | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Stern's brand of unionism is geared toward building membership numbers by giving employers what they want: sheep who listen to the HMO bosses, nursing home owners and other corporate shepherds.
Deborah Burger | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
In its latest deplorable action, the SEIU bused in hundreds of its purple clad staff to break up a conference of union members and activists Saturday night.
Deborah Burger | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
In what world is stalking women in their homes and at nursing stations where they work a hallmark of a "progressive" union?
Scott Hanson | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Even for people who haven't gone down the challenging and forever rewarding path of organizing a union, the California Nurses' Association's strategy doesn't make any sense.
Stephanie Taylor | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
To grasp the tragedy that occurred when the California Nurses Association stopped Ohio nurses from organizing, it's important to understand the years of work put in by Ohio nurses to reach this moment.
Chicago Tribune | Stephen Franklin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
An explosion of insults between officials from the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association capped a scrapped effor...
The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
According to independent expenditure notices filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Service Employees International Union plans to spend more...
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Art Levine | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business