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SEIU wins in expensive battle for Kaiser workers, rival appeals

October 12, 2010 by Source
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By David Moberg / In These Times / Originally published Oct 8, 2010

One union came out on top this week at California’s Kaiser Permanente facilities.

In a much-anticipated showdown over the future of healthcare unionism in California, a substantial plurality of the 43,000 members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers-West at Kaiser Permanente facilities have voted to remain with the Service Employees union …

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Lawsuit details SEIU surveillance effort of own members in internal battle

May 7, 2009 by Source
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An unexpected lawsuit has provided dramatic new details about who SEIU is hiring – and how much money it’s spending – to carry out its trusteeship of SEIU-UHW.

On Friday, an international security company sued SEIU in federal court for failing to pay all of its $2.2 million in bills for surveillance and security services … r

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Most Influential Union in Country Fights Its Own Staff Union Over Layoffs

March 18, 2009 by Source

As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country’s fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off.

The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU’s national field staff and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees.

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Internal-SEIU battle results in new healthcare union but clogs labor negotiations at Tri-City Hospital

February 3, 2009 by Frank Gormlie
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The internal division within the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) has taken a serious turn for the worst, breaking out in open warfare between the factions. This new trench to trench in-fighting has resulted in a new national healthcare workers’ union, but has also disrupted local labor negotiations at Tri-City Hospital, already beset with its own internal battles.

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What the ‘ell is going on in SEIU ?

January 8, 2009 by Source
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Today – Thursday, January 8 – a group of 70 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials will join a conference call, set up in Washington, D.C., to decide the fate of 150,000 members of United Healthcare Workers-West, SEIU’s third-largest affiliate. Among the actions the SEIU International Executive Board (IEB) may take is transferring 65,000 long-term care workers in California, against their will, from UHW into a new statewide entity with officers appointed by SEIU President Andy Stern.

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A New Union Democracy Movement is Born in SEIU

March 12, 2008 by Staff

FAIRFIELD, CA — Alarmed by moves that have made our union look increasingly more like a corporation, workers in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are forming a rank-and-file caucus to restore the heart and soul of the labor movement to SEIU: union democracy. SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today (SMART) is an organization of […]

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