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July 1, 2009
Union Seeks to Block City's Early Retirement Pact
Bob Aquino must feel a little besieged these days. Not only has the Los Angeles city employees union he heads been the target of membership raids by a rival union, but now his members find themselves on the municipal chopping block as the first municipal employees facing layoff notices. The story h ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
SEIU: Force for Change or Purple People Eater?
At a time when organized labor should be poised to charge into a new activist era with the President they helped elect last November, service-sector unions appear instead to be headed into civil war. After the garment and hotel workers unions merged in 2005 to create UNITE HERE, the two factions a ... More >>
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January 28, 2009
UHW: SEIU Can't Fire Us -- We Quit!
Likening the takeover of their union local to an act of "martial law," leaders of the Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers-West announced the formation of a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, that would have members in Los Angeles. During a teleconference with media, UHW preside ... More >>
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January 27, 2009
SEIU Brings Out the Guillotine
A press release just issued by the Washington headquarters of the Service Employees Union International announced it has served trusteeship papers on its rebel health-care workers local, known as the United Healthcare Workers-West. The Oakland-based UHW, headed by its president, Sal Rosselli, has be ... More >>
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January 26, 2009
UHW's Rosselli Backs Away from Breakaway Threat
In a telephone press conference held today at his Oakland headquarters, Sal Rosselli was sounding conciliatory. Or was he? Earlier this month, when the executive board of the Service Employees International Union voted to merge three long-term health-care locals into one mega-unit, Rosselli's local, ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Has the Fat Lady Sung for Rebel Healthcare Union?
Yesterday an outside arbitrator hired to sort out the accusations, counter-charges and bad blood in general between the United Healthcare Workers-West and its parent union, the Service Employees Union International, issued his report. It fell an inch or two short of calling for the rebellious UHW to ... More >>
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January 16, 2009
SEIU v. SEIU
The war between the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Service Employees Union International and its huge rebel local, called the United Healthcare Workers-West, continues to heat up. Last week SEIU's international executive board approved the absorption of the 150,000-strong UHW into a 240,000-me ... More >>
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January 12, 2009
SEIU Drops the Other Shoe -- And Has It Thrown Back
Last Friday the Service Employees International Union announced that its executive board had voted to merge three of its California branches of long-term health-care workers into one mega-local. This would add 90,000-members from SEIU state locals 6434 and 521, to the union's 150,000-member United H ... More >>
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December 11, 2008
SEIU's Brush With Blagogate & Other Sorrows
It seems like only yesterday that Andy Stern, who heads the giant Service Employees International Union (nearly two-million members), shocked the labor movement when, in July, 2004, he told the Washington Post's David Broder that both organized labor and the Democratic Party might be better off with ... More >>
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September 11, 2008
The All-About-Me Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa's Frenetic Self-Promotion
Hours of travel, fund-raising and PR leave little time for his job
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August 26, 2008
The Unfolding Mess at SEIU Local 6434
Tyrone Freeman seems to be only the tip of the proverbial iceberg at the Service Employees International Union these days. Freeman, if you remember, was the target of an LA Times investigation early this month that found the SEIU Local 6434 president had used hundreds of thousands of dollars in un ... More >>
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February 23, 2006
Picket Fences: From Dream to Fantasy
Hotel workers seek to beat poverty
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February 9, 2006
Trouble in the Big Purple Trucks
How SEIU's mobile phone bank and L.A. politicians may have landed on the wrong side of campaign law.
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September 29, 2005
The Cavalry to the Rescue
America�s new labor federation means to travel light while rebuilding unions
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August 18, 2005
Terms of the Divorce
California unions try to maintain cohesion even as their movement comes unstuck
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July 28, 2005
Breaking Free
Now or never for American labor
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July 28, 2005
End of Solidarity
The breakup of the union movement takes on a life of its own
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May 12, 2005
Miguel�s Legacy
Taking labor to the next step
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May 12, 2005
Antonio�s New Pals
Labor unions worry he�s giving up on security guards� organizing fight
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March 10, 2005
Losing Labor�s Power
What happens to the L.A. labor movement (and local politics) if it splits in two?
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October 28, 2004
The Incidental Candidate
Kerrying doubts into the voting booth
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July 29, 2004
Bushless in Boston
Progressives, pawns and prawns in our cowardly democracy
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February 22, 2001
The Movement�s Mayor
The new-model unions pick a new-model candidate
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October 21, 1999
Al, It�s Not About You
Labor endorses Gore � for John Sweeney�s sake
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March 25, 1999
Where's the Left?
American liberalism at century's end
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March 4, 1999
Caretakers Take Charge
75,000 workers (in 75,000 work sites!) form a union
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June 11, 1998
Famous Victories
How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall

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