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Service Employees International Union

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Judge Michael Nash: I'm Opening the Secret Courts in Los Angeles so Child Dependency Screwups Get Sunshine and Fewer Kids Die

    God Bless Our Lost AngelsLance Helms, almost forgotten. But not by Judge Michael Nash.​Presiding Judge Michael Nash in L.A. County Dependency Court has seen horrific child sexual predators who rape their toddlers and sickos who starve their foster children -- and social workers and judges who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Private Security Officers Guarding L.A. County Buildings Say They're Under-Trained and Under-Paid, Placing the Public at Risk

    ​The security provided by private companies to protect Los Angeles County buildings is a joke. At least that's the picture painted by contract security officers who participated in a recent study conducted by labor leaders. Their training, they say, is deficient, equipment is sparse, and it ofte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    SEIU Backs Proposition 19 Pot Legalization In Great Score For Legalizers

    Yes for pot. ​Take your mouth off the bong and cheer, you legal pot advocates, because this is a good score: One of the state's biggest and most powerful unions, the Service Employees International Union, has endorsed Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize pot and i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    LAX Janitors Threaten Strike, Possibly During July 4 Holiday

    Some LAX janitors mull a strike​ You know what would be really great during July 4 holiday weekend if you traveling through LAX? Dirty terminals.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    City Employees Ratify Budget Pact

    After a week of balloting, an umbrella coalition of city employee unions representing 22,000 members has just announced those members have ratified an agreement recently struck with the city's Chief Administrative Officer. Under its terms, employees belonging to the Coalition of L.A. City Unions wil ... More >>

  • 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 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 >>

  • 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

    August 17, 2006

    Flat Line, Bottom Line

    Is a hospital chain cutting corners for profit?

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Who Goes There?

    L.A. security guards seek more security

  • 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

    January 19, 2006

    Making Those Red States Blue

    Unions look to battleground states — and the South

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Terms of the Divorce

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

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Not So Fast

    Herb Wesson’s cakewalk turns into a challenge

  • 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

    July 14, 2005

    Kicking the Buckets

    Aerospace janitors strike

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Laboring to Stay Together

    The odds on the AFL-CIO’s dissolution

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Beggars’ Banquets

    One labor struggle ends, another begins

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    In Miguel’s Shoes

    Ludlow leaves the council to run L.A. labor

  • 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

    January 20, 2005

    Making Those Red States Blue

    Unions look to battleground states — and the South

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Breach of Security

    L.A.’s biggest property owners break with their own history and oppose security guards union

  • News

    May 27, 2004

    Long Arm of SEIU

    L.A.’s biggest property owners break with their own history and oppose security guards union

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Dean’s November

    The outsider now has the inside track in the race for the White House

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Letters

    The outsider now has the inside track in the race for the White House

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Union Triage

    The fight for hospital workers involves two unions against each other – and a health-care giant

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Recipe for a Recall-Free California

    Make it easier to pass a state budget

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    The Senior Squeeze

    Budget crisis prompts union-organizing effort

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Flying High

    More money for airport workers

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    The Part-Time Machine

    Sometimes it’s enough to save full-time jobs

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2000

    Tale of Two Strikes

    Why the SEIU caved and the UTU hung tough

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    The Workers Walk

    And belatedly, county officials realize they probably should try to negotiate a settlement

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Battle for Prosperity

    County’s labor issues are as fundamental as they are hard to resolve

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    Waving the Waiver

    It’s nonsense to send people with colds to ER

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Flying Right

    Anti-union strafing to end at LAX

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    The Red Sea

    How the janitors won their strike

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Janitor Power

    The new womens’ movement

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Street vs. Suite

    Why L.A.’s janitors will win their strike

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Health Care for Saints

    Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabled

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Trashing Cheap

    Janitors make progress on health insurance, but many still go without

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    The New Unionism Finds a Home

    Once the nation’s most anti-union big city, L.A. has now become America’s most dynamic labor town

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    A Gray Area

    Governor Stands in the Way of Decent Wages For Health-Care Workers

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Holding Pattern

    For contract workers at LAX, living wage is grounded

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    The Wreck of the Business Tax

    The Riordan Express went off the rails. Does it matter?

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Caretakers Take Charge

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

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Inside Agitators

    The City's Most Effective Activists

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Rumble on Rodeo

    Beverly Hills meets the new labor movement

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