Background News About SEIU

NYSNA to SEIU: Stop Raiding Our Bargaining Units
NYSNA Press Release 06/06/08

Service Employee Union's Latest Attack on RNs Parrots McCain's Attack on Obama's Health Plan
Press Release 06/05/08

IN MAY DAY LETTER TO SEIU PRESIDENT ANDY STERN, 100 SCHOLARS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS DEFEND RIGHT TO "PRINCIPLED DISSENT" AND CAUTION AGAINST UHW TRUSTEESHIP
Open Letter, Press Release 05/01/08

Nurses Blast SEIU for Deceit in Hiding Violence at Michigan Conference
Press Release 04/24/08

SEIU claims right of "free speech" to stalk, harass, and threaten Registered Nurses
Press Release 04/21/08

Court Orders Service Union and its President Andy Stern: Stop Stalking and Harassing Registered Nurse Leaders and Staff of California Nurses Assn/NNOC
Press Release 04/16/08

Federal Investigation of Use of Employer Funds in SEIU Las Vegas Election, Latest in a Pattern of Service Union Corruption and Violence, Says California Nurses Assn/NNOC
Press Release 04/15/08

RNs Call on Service Employees Union (SEIU) President Stern To Renounce Violence Following Brutal Attack on Labor Event
Press Release 04/14/08

RNs Condemn Violent Service Union Attack at Michigan Event - Hundreds of SEIU Staff Bused in to Smash Into Meeting to Attack RNs and Break Up Conference on Union Democracy
Press Release 04/12/08

RN Leaders of California Nurses Association/NNOC Demand Andy Stern Immediately Cease SEIU’s Harassment and Stalking of Nurses at Home and on Patient Care Floors
Press Release 04/11/08

Hospital Chain and Hand Picked Union, SEIU, Forced to Cancel Rigged Election After Protests by RNs and Other Employees - 'A Victory for Employees, Patient Care, and Union Democracy'
Press Release 03/11/08

 

Saint Mary’s Reno RNs Choose CNA/NNOC In Landslide 64 Percent Vote for 500 RNs - Nevada Breakthrough for Fastest Growing Union

Press Release 12/07/07

 

News Articles:

 

Unions battling for state employees
East Valley Tribune 06/21/08

 

Wal-Mart’s Detractors Come in From the Cold
New York Times 06/05/08

 

Juan Gonzalez on Puerto Rico’s Overlooked Primary and a Bitter Divide Within the SEIU
Democracy Now! 06/03/08

At San Juan Convention…Teachers Remind SEIU That Unionism Means More Than PR In Puerto Rico
CounterPunch.org 06/03/08

Communique from the Convention
Statement by FMPR 05/31/08

Puerto Rican Teachers Challenge the Purple Lockdown
Labor Notes 05/31/08

Labor's Growing Pains
The New Republic 05/29/08

A Leader, His Critics And a Union Divided
Washington Post 05/27/08

SEIU Promises to Support NY Senate Republicans
Daily Kos Blog 05/05/08

Politics: A process of give and take
Albany Times Union 05/05/08

Company Unions: The New Threat to the Progressive Labor Movement
Beyond Chron 04/25/08

Violent Crackdowns and Sweetheart Deals
CounterPunch.org 04/23/08

Change to Lose
The New Republic 04/22/08

The Future of the Labor Movement? Reflections on the Labor Notes Conference
Monthly Review 04/22/08

California's Stern Rebuke
Wall Street Journal 04/21/08

Nurse Union Wins Order to Restrain Rival Union
New York Times 04/18/08

Open Letter to SEIU Members and Leaders on the Violence at the Labor Notes Conference
Open Letter 04/17/08

Court orders SEIU members to stay away from nurses union organizers
San Francisco Chronicle 04/17/08

California nurses union gets restraining order against SEIU
Los Angeles Times 04/17/08

SEIU Member Issued Restraining Order for Stalking
New York Sun 04/17/08

 

Federal agency scrutinizing union's election tactics
Las Vegas Review-Journal  04/17/08

 

Labor law broken during SEIU election, report says
Las Vegas Sun 04/17/08

 

The Healthcare Union War
In These Times 04/16/08

Nurses Accuse Members of SEIU of Assault During Mich. Parley
New York Sun 04/15/08

Dispute Heats Up Between SEIU, CNA Over Elections In Ohio, Las Vegas Hospitals
Bureau of National Affairs 04/15/08

Security Guard Union Files Lawsuit Against SEIU Locals Alleging Racketeering
Bureau of National Affairs 04/15/08

 

Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney On Developments in the SEIU-CNA Dispute

AFL-CIO Press Release 04/15/08

 

SERVICE EMPLOYEES UNION (SEIU) ATTACKS LABOR GATHERING— CONFERENCE-GOERS ASSAULTED
Labor Notes Press Release 04/12/08

 

SEIU Local 32BJ Officials to Face Civil Racketeering, Conspiracy, Fraud Charges Under RICO Act
Allied International Union 04/10/08

 

Nurses union has plans for Texas
Houston Chronicle 04/02/08

 

Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay
SF Weekly 04/02/08

 

EXCLUSIVE: Internal emails show top staffers at SEIU seeking to undermine dissidents in contested union election
San Francisco Bay Guardian 04/02/08

Patients beware
San Francisco Chronicle 03/29/08

Union head moves to oust West Coast dissident
San Francisco Chronicle 03/27/08

Rifts threaten breakaway union coalition
Los Angeles Times 03/27/08

Quiet Deal Leads to Bitter Fight in Ohio Hospitals
Labor Notes 03/28/08

 

Pfizer, SEIU and the "Cholesterol Con"
GoozNews 03/20/08

  

Labor Leader Expelled from China Visits Los Angeles
PR Newswire 03/06/08

 

Union, nursing home alliance team up
Seattle Times 03/05/08

 

Union Grows, but Leader Faces Criticism
New York Times 02/29/08

 

Union Hears Rumbling in Its Ranks
Wall Street Journal 02/29/08

 

New York labor leader Dennis Rivera in shady Puerto Rico union deal
New York Daily News 02/29/08

 

Unhealthy Union
SF Weekly 12/12/2007

The Stern Gang and the SEIU

Harper's Magazine 11/29/07

 

Dems' letter raises ethics question

Seattle Times 10/25/07

 

RNs at Nine Catholic Healthcare West Hospitals Overwhelmingly Approve New Master Pact

Press Release 09/07/07

 

Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?
The Nation 06/28/2007

 

Union Disunity - The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

SF Weekly 04/11/2007

 

Does Andy Stern Talk His Walk?
In These Times 01/05/2007

 

Smear tactics; Unable to get what it wants from non-union agencies, the SEIU is taking the low road to bring down a vital levy
Cleveland Plain Dealer 04/13/2003

 

Bald-faced lies; The Service Employees International Union wants to beat a levy and cares not a whit for the lives it will crush in the process
Cleveland Plain Dealer 04/25/2003

 

SEIU's fight against public health in Ohio
NNOC/CNA 03/25/03