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Tyrone Freeman

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Pro-Bernard Parks Mailer Touts Endorsements From Dead People, Misspells Magic Johnson's Name

    Whoops: Earvin "Magic" Johnson's name is misspelled on a pro-Bernard Parks mailer​Unlike in Chicago, dead people can't vote in Los Angeles elections. But they can make endorsements, judging from the latest mailer to hit the streets in the hotly contested campaign between L.A. Councilman Bernard Pa ... 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

    October 16, 2008

    L.A. Board of Supervisors Second District Race

    Parks, Ridley-Thomas and a vast labor machine duke it out. What about voters?

  • 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

    October 26, 2006

    The Final Hours of Miguel Contreras

    The 911 call said he went in for a card reading. But the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the botanica?

  • News

    March 2, 2006

    An A-Plus in Fund-Raising

    Teacher unions-backed candidate rolling in the dough

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Antonio’s New Pals

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

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Demands of Independence

    Let Gov. Arnold see what people like Mary Martz really need

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Break Time

    Taking on L.A.’s health-care workers’ union

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Life Goes On

    At City Hall, tragedy begets absurdity

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    A Gray Area

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

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