Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO News

  • DJ SABMiller Strike In South Africa Ends After Wage Deal Reached (9 Feb 2010 09:43)

    ... some plants and depots, its operations were operating as normal during the strike. The Service Employees International Union, which has members in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, Monday lent its support ...

  • Craig Becker Could Be First Casualty of Scott Brown Win (9 Feb 2010 07:57)

    ... of his alliance with labor, which includes his job as a lawyer for the Service Employees International Union; Republicans fear that he will push through pro-union changes in the law without the ...

  • Scott Brown's vote today could set D.C. tone (9 Feb 2010 05:37)

    ... in a statement. Republican leadership in the Senate views Becker, a lawyer for the Service Employees International Union, as too pro-union. Brown’s friend and mentor U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been ...

  • Study: Latinos will play key role in Texas governor's race (9 Feb 2010 00:21)

    ... big difference in hotly contested elections. Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, called immigration reform a "litmus test" for many in the Latino community in deciding ...

  • Ignore These Voters at Your Own Risk (9 Feb 2010 12:40)

    ... America's Voice. Sharry and officials from the National Council of La Raza and the Service Employees International Union who joined him on a conference call with reporters Monday, said Latinos share pocketbook ...

  • Fattening up Big Labor (8 Feb 2010 06:17)

    ... improved nutrition in schools? Think purple -- as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union. The East Wing is now in full-campaign mode -- leaning on the nation's mayors, ...

  • Dartmouth To Lay Off 38 Workers Now, More In April (8 Feb 2010 23:56)

    ... that was done was thoughtfully done." Earl Sweet, president of local 560 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 550 of the non-faculty staff on campus, called the layoffs "a ...

  • Editorial: Not without a fight! (8 Feb 2010 00:53)

    ... widely considered to be radical. Becker has been associate general counsel to both the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). There's ...

  • After the Primary, It's Not Politics as Usual (Yesterday) (8 Feb 2010 06:17)

    ... out Council members who had supported non-union Wal-Mart's opening more stores in Chicago. The Service Employees International Union spent at least $1.5 million to help Gov. Patrick J. Quinn win Tuesday's primary. ...

  • Climate bill backers pick up jobs theme (8 Feb 2010 12:30)

    ... regain its footing, leaders from the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, United Steelworkers, Service Employees International Union and others wrote. With the unemployment rate still hovering around 10 percent, environmentalists and ...

  • Republicans at the table (8 Feb 2010 13:11)

    ... vote together to block executive nominees. “Becker, a counsel for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, was blocked from confirmation last year by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. President Obama renominated ...

  • School District, Labor Unions Reach Tentative Deal on Furloughs (8 Feb 2010 18:56)

    ... been meeting with leaders from the Santa Monica Classroom Teachers Association (SMMCTA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to come up with a cost-cutting plan. The District is operating on a ...

  • Latinos say their votes could tip 40 congressional races (8 Feb 2010 22:34)

    ... is a litmus test in the Latino community," Eliseo Medina, the president of the Service Employees International Union, said during a conference call about the study. "To us, this is a policy ...

  • Perdue OKs meetings with union reps (4 Feb 2010 06:43)

    ... of the State Employees Association of North Carolina, which is Local 2008 of the Service Employees International Union, the nation's largest public employee union. North Carolina and Virginia are the only two ...

  • Change to Win Study Shows Drug Manager CVS Caremark Charges More for Generic Drugs to Federal Employees and US Government than Walk-in Customers (3 Feb 2010 21:15)

    ... care, a secure retirement, and the opportunity for the future. The affiliated unions are: Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union ...

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