Service Employees International Union

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Rival unions declare truce over organizing nurses

AP Features 7 days ago

Two powerful labor unions, ending months of bitter rivalry over organizing nurses, declared a truce on Thursday and pledged to work together on unionizing hospital workers and reforming the health care system.The agreement between the 1.8-million member Service Employees International Union and ...

Rival unions’ reconciliation will be visible to valley nurses

Las Vegas Sun 7 days ago

After a yearlong battle to represent nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals, the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association have reached a peace accord.Under the agreement, the SEIU will essentially cede the 1,100 nurses it now represents at ...

Nation's fastest growing union gets bigger

AP News 7 days ago

Breakaway union group joins SEIU after bitter split from UNITE HEREThe nation's fastest growing labor union just got bigger.About 150,000 breakaway members of the trade union UNITE HERE have formed a new organization and say they ...

New coalition, backed by SEIU, leaves Culinary out

Las Vegas Sun 7 days ago

Its goal: Help organize gaming workers here and in Atlantic City The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, and the Service Employees International Union, the nation’s largest union, announced Monday the creation of the Gaming Workers Council, a coalition of unions dedicated ...

Next goal: Capitalize on election momentum

Las Vegas Sun 7 days ago

Union turns focus on policy setting, as business lobby gears up its opposition Unions, so integral to the Democratic victory in November, are staying in high-energy campaign mode, hoping to ride the momentum of their election efforts to win support for what ...

SEIU places California local into trusteeship

AP News 8 days ago

SEIU ousts leadership at local that challenged union presidentThe nation's fastest-growing labor union wrested control Tuesday of an insurgent California local after more than a yearlong power struggle over how best to wield union clout.Andy Stern, president ...

SEIU taking on unfaithful Democrats after election

AP News 8 days ago

SEIU to take on Democrats who don't keep campaign promises after electionsThe head of a powerful service workers union threatened Tuesday to unleash money from a $10 million "accountability" fund to defeat any political figure – Democrats included – who breaks promises ...

Groups join to spend $10 million on thank-you ads

AP News 8 days ago

Health groups, union join for ad campaign to thank lawmakers for expanding health coverageA variety of interest groups are joining to spend more than $10 million in television and newspaper ads that thank 83 lawmakers for expanding children's health insurance and urge ...

Calif. union OKs deal that would halve furloughs

AP News 8 days ago

Largest Calif. state employee union reaches contract deal that cuts furloughs to 1 day a monthCalifornia's largest state employee union reached a tentative agreement Saturday with the Schwarzenegger administration on a contract that would cut the number of days its workers are ...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Coalition rises, then stalls

AP News 8 days ago

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Labor and business, joined in health care cause, now at odds on specificsLabor unions and business groups have teamed up in a multimillion-dollar national lobbying campaign to pressure President Barack Obama and Congress for big changes in the nation's ...

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