
Tag: seiu

Deep dives on the success or failure of individual labor unions does not a robust comment section make. But this New Labor Forum piece on the successes of SEIU 32BJ is quite worth your time. SEIU Loca
The conditions of elder care are an absolutely atrocity. That was true before COVID. Hell, that was true for decades before COVID. Workers often labor at multiple facilities–which materially con

This is a month old now but as relevant as ever: Understaffed, underpaid, and under-protected long before COVID-19 struck, health care workers in the US have had a brutal and traumatic year. Our careg
On September 27, 2005, several unions, led by the Service Employees International Union, left the AFL-CIO to start an alternative federation entitled Change to Win. The idea was to create a federation

Very few readers of LGM know who Hector Figueroa was. He was the head of SEIU 32BJ in New York, one of the most powerful locals of one of the most powerful unions in the country. It was under Figueroa
Here’s an interesting case with potential major implications: A janitors’ union in San Francisco has taken on a court battle with major implications for what workers can do to protest their em

I hate to see Planned Parenthood go full union busting: At the Working People’s Forum on Race, Class, and Justice on June 2, an audience member stood at a microphone and told all four Democratic gub
On October 23, 1995, John Sweeney won the election to become president of the AFL-CIO. This ground shifting event began the process of moving the federation away from its staid Cold War policies and u
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