The fight over who will succeed Andy Stern as president of SEIU is missing one thing — a plan to reverse labor’s recent failures.
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Reading The Tea Leaves: Andy Stern Leaves SEIU.
Labor leader Andy Stern is stepping down after 14 years as the head of the SEIU and five as the dominant force in the alternate labor coalition, Change To Win, that he founded in a schism with the AFL-CIO. While Stern brought a unique vision and drive that made the SEIU one of the most […]
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SEIU HALF-OUSTS KEN LEWIS.
Yesterday, at the Bank of America shareholders meeting, various pension funds and other dissident shareholders, led by labor unions and in particular SEIU, attempted to force Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis out of both his positions. (SEIU’s pension funds own shares in B of A.) Lewis managed to hang on to his role as CEO, […]
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SEIU UNIONIZES 55,000 WORKERS IN NC
Good news out of SEIU today as they announce the unionization of a whopping 55,000 workers in North Carolina. The specifics of the story are that they got the State Employee Association of North Carolina to vote to unionize. Convincing a public sector association to choose to unionize is a bit more in the low-hanging […]
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ASSIGNMENT DESK: THE FUTURE OF SEIU.
Drew says, “I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Andy Stern piece over at TNR. And more broadly, if you have anything to add re: the state of SEIU and Change to Win, and how they will play into the political climate that will drive healthcare reform in the next four years, that would […]
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SEIU PUTS MONEY BEHIND MOUTH, HEALTH CARE.
It’s a really big deal that SEIU has committed to a $75 million campaign for universal health care. More important, by far, than the opinions and strategies of the individual presidential candidates is the strength, commitment, and ferocity of the coalition pushing for reform. Politicians are, at the end of the day, politicians, and they […]
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CALIFORNIA SEIU ENDORSES OBAMA.
They had been backing They had been backing Edwards. It’s symbolic good news for Obama, but likely comes too late for the union to add real muscle to his quest to win the Golden State on Tuesday. –Dana Goldstein
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HOW EDWARDS ALMOST DIDN’T GET THE N.H. SEIU ENDORSEMENT.
NBC’s Aswini Anburajan reports: If Rodney Woodill hadn’t received a call from his wife Tuesday night, asking him to come home because his two-week old baby was sick, Edwards might have never won the endorsement of New Hampshire Service Employees Association, part of the Service Employees International Union. Woodill, who represents 900 county and municipal […]
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EDWARDS GETS SEIU-IOWA.
Chuck Todd says Edwards is going to get the nod from SEIU in Iowa this evening. While the dissected, state-by-state endorsements might take away from his support in other states, this is a key gain for his campaign. He gets the union’s on-the-ground action there, as well as some much-needed publicity and incentive for the […]
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RE: SEIU’S ENDORSEMENT.
As Garance notes, SEIU has always upheld that they won’t endorse till late in the game. October is most often mentioned, though in 2004, they didn’t endorse until November. But this seems precisely backwards. Theoretically, SEIU should take either one of two tacks: They should endorse early, like August, and spend a number of months […]