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NY Daily News: SEIU members angry at money spent to fight California healthcare workers September 2, 2009 Above, members of Local 1199 protest during a 2007 contract dispute.By Meredith Kolodner New York’s lowest-paid unionized workers are up...
Beyond Chron: SF Labor Council Backs UNITE HERE Local 2, Rejects SEIU’s Threats August 31, 2009 by Randy Shaw In a further sign of SEIU’s growing estrangement from the labor movement, the San Francisco Labor Council...
Beyond Chron: San Francisco New Epicenter for Labor’s Civil War August 18, 2009 While progressives battle tea baggers, the insurance industry and the traditional media over universal health care, San Francisco is gripped...
Sal Rosselli: Governor’s charge on home care is the fraud (Sacramento Bee) July 22, 2009 Tonight, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sits down in his Jacuzzi with a stogie, 440,000 frail seniors and people with disabilities...
ISR: U.S. Labor in the Crisis—Resistance or Retreat? July 21, 2009 THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the...
Counterpunch: The Healthcare Worker War July 13, 2009 The SEIU and the Hollow Shell It Left Behind By CAL WINSLOW What is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)?...
Against the Current: The NUHW Revolt July 1, 2009 THE LARGEST BATTLE within the U.S. union movement in decades is happening right now. It is an organizing campaign to...
McKnight’s: California healthcare union struggle continues, SEIU accused of using anti-union tactics June 25, 2009 The battle appears to be raging on over representation of California’s healthcare workers. Recent reports indicate that as part of...
Los Angeles Times: SEIU borrows business’ anti-union tactics to fend off a rival June 24, 2009 The Service Employees International Union alleges that the upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers is intimidating and misleading workers. By...
Wall Street Journal blog: Unions fight over health-care workers June 24, 2009 Even as the economy has lost millions of jobs over the course of the recession, health care has continued to...
Beyond Chron: Is Fresno SEIU’s Vietnam? June 22, 2009 by Randy Shaw SEIU defeated NUHW by 233 votes in their bitter election over Fresno’s 10,000 home care workers, but...
Fresno Bee: Homecare union election challenged June 20, 2009 Workers in Fresno Co. will have to wait 10 more days for final results. by Barbara Anderson Fresno County’s 10,000...