Harold Meyerson on the SEIU/UNITE HERE fight:
At first glance, you might think that a settlement could be glimpsed, albeit at a distance, in the increasingly bitter fight between the hotel workers’ union leaders who now control UNITE HERE and the onetime apparel workers’ union leaders who have left the union and since affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Can both sides’ harassment of the other side’s members, locals, and organizing campaigns be brought to a halt? (SEIU says, for its part, it has now stopped this harassment, but UNITE HERE insists that it continues, even as its own campaign of harassment continues, too.) Can a unified movement turn again to fighting for labor-law reform and universal health care and to organizing the unorganized?
Apparently not – certainly, at least, not yet.
