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Andy Stern

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • News

    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

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Picket Fences: From Dream to Fantasy

    Hotel workers seek to beat poverty

  • News

    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.

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    The Cavalry to the Rescue

    America’s new labor federation means to travel light while rebuilding unions

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Terms of the Divorce

    California unions try to maintain cohesion even as their movement comes unstuck

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    Breaking Free

    Now or never for American labor

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    End of Solidarity

    The breakup of the union movement takes on a life of its own

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Miguel’s Legacy

    Taking labor to the next step

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Antonio’s New Pals

    Labor unions worry he’s giving up on security guards’ organizing fight

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Losing Labor’s Power

    What happens to the L.A. labor movement (and local politics) if it splits in two?

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    The Incidental Candidate

    Kerrying doubts into the voting booth

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Bushless in Boston

    Progressives, pawns and prawns in our cowardly democracy

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    The Movement’s Mayor

    The new-model unions pick a new-model candidate

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Al, It’s Not About You

    Labor endorses Gore — for John Sweeney’s sake

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Where's the Left?

    American liberalism at century's end

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Caretakers Take Charge

    75,000 workers (in 75,000 work sites!) form a union

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Famous Victories

    How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall

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