Purple Bullying: SEIU trustees trample membership rights

by Steve Early In Chicago this coming weekend, 2,500 rank-and-file activists, from the U.S. and abroad, will be meeting under the banner of Labor Notes to celebrate the revival of union militancy, including recent strike victories like the West Virginia teachers’ walk-out. This conference—nineteenth of its sort since 1981—will be the largest gathering ever hosted […]

SEIU to Cut Budget 30%

In response to Trump victory in Electoral College From: The Hill The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is planning to cut 30 percent of its budget by Jan. 1, 2018, the end of President-elect Donald Trump’s first year in office. “Because the far right will control all three branches of the federal government, we will […]

SEIU and the Standing Rock Conflict

SEIU Statement on Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access Pipeline WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Service Employees International Union issued the following statement in support of the Standing Rock Sioux’s efforts to prevent the Dakota Access Pipeline from disturbing their sacred lands and burial grounds and to avoid the threat of contaminating the Missouri River […]

Some of SEIU’s ‘Fight for $15’ workers aren’t unionized — and don’t make $15 an hour

by Arun Gupta  On Friday evening, just before 7 p.m., in a darkened hall in the Richmond Convention Center packed with more than 1,000 low-wage workers and union organizers, Olimpia Barajas-Ames gave the signal. A mother of one and an organizer with the Child Care Fight for $15 campaign in Las Vegas, Barajas-Ames stood up, […]

Organizing for a Sanders endorsement from an SEIU Local

by Russ Weiss-Irwin I just wanted to share a hopeful little story from my hopeful little SEIU local, tucked away in Central NJ. I’m a food service worker at Princeton University, and together with 425 or so other blue collar Princeton workers, I’m part of SEIU Local 175. I’m pretty new on the job; just […]

SEIU Mourns Members Killed in San Bernardino

by Paul Garver Ten of the fourteen killed and many of those wounded in the shootings in San Bernardino were County environmental health specialists who were members of SEIU Local 721, which represents public-sector workers in southern California. The local’s president, Bob Schoonover, noted that its members regularly worked at the Inland Regional Center, the […]

SEIU Endorses Hillary Clinton

SEIU Exec Committee Endorses Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton scored another major union endorsement, this one from SEIU, on Tuesday. The union endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, and is one of the major backers of the Fight for 15. So is it a contradiction to endorse a candidate who doesn’t support a $15 federal minimum wage? […]

Why It Would Be a Mistake for SEIU to Endorse Clinton

Why it would be a tragic mistake for SEIU to endorse HRC at this time. This letter is being sent to SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and members of the IEB.  This is also being cc’d to members of the Board of Directors of SEIU Local 503 in Oregon, the local to which we belong. […]

SEIU: Do the Right Thing!

SEIU is about to endorse the candidate who doesn’t support $15 an hour   According to recent news accounts, the SEIU International Executive Board (IEB) is about to endorse Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, Nov. 17. SEIU’s biggest national campaign is the Fight for $15 and a union. Across the country, we are organizing workers to […]

Sanders Supporters in SEIU Urge Union not to Endorse Clinton

by Annie Kami Driven by fears that the powerful SEIU labor union is close to announcing an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a contingent of Bernie Sanders supporters within the union is petitioning the organization’s international executive board to hold off on endorsing a candidate. With SEIU’s executive committee set to meet in mid-September, a growing […]