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Service Employees Union International

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    March 30, 2009

    Massive Cave-in -- Workers Abandoned

    Well, EFCA got the rug pulled out from under it last week. That's when key Senate Democrats caved in and announced they couldn't support the Employee Free Choice Act in its current incarnation.  EFCA is -- or was -- a bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions and the looming fig ... 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 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 >>

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