Few know more about the internal politics of the American labor movement than Harold Meyerson and he is skeptical that it matters much that SEIU has returned to the AFL-CIO, a position I happen to mostly agree with. But what was the Change to Win...
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Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to.
Mary Kay Henry stepping down as head of the Service Employees International Union is huge news, not just because she is the head of one of the nation's largest labor.
This might be a bit inside baseball for this crowd, but Mary Kay Henry stepping down as head of SEIU is a big deal, largely because it is so unusual for labor heads to step away. SEIU has long been something of an exception to...
Good stuff here: Labor groups and fast-food companies in California reached an agreement over the weekend that will pave the way for workers in the industry to receive a minimum.
Another major school workers strike has begun in Los Angeles. And it isn't just a teachers strike. Classes were canceled for more than 420,000 students on Tuesday as school employees.
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 Local 32BJ offers a case study of how unions...
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 contributed.
This story from SEIU in California says a lot both about anti-vaxxer politics and about how too many unions operate. The newly elected president of California’s largest state worker union.
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 caregiving workforce – overwhelmingly made up of women, people of color, and...
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.
On February 25, 1999, 74,000 home healthcare workers in Los Angeles voted to join the Service Employees International Union. This moment demonstrates the growth of what is today the second.