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• in Politics
  Tea Party, Or Progressive Agenda Movement Declaration Document?
  One might call this a "put up" job in order to manipulate folks into acts of chaos and agitation.
  by theedje / on Oct 3, 2011
• in Politics
  Immigration Activists in Denver Ratchet Up the Protest, Civil Disobedience
  Immigration Activist bring civil disobedience to Denver, 14 arrested for blocking a street. Community ratchets up actions!
  by immigrants2bfree / on Jun 16, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “seiu”

 

• Republicans and business push to expand guest worker programs

  
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  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Guest worker visas are resurfacing as one of the most contentious parts of immigration reform negotiations. Despite the compromise deal between the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO that went into the bipartisan Senate proposal, there are a number of Republican efforts to increase numbers ...
  3 days ago

• Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Karen Handel to run for Senate in Georgia

  
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  Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here . Leading Off : • GA-Sen : As expected, former Secretary of State Karen Handel has entered the GOP primary for Georgias open Senate seat. Handels path was cleared when Rep. Tom Price, a political ...
  3 days ago

• State Workers Union Wants Return of Merit, Longetivity Pay

  
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  Legislative Committee members need to hear your stories about coworkers who have left state service due to the lack of raises. Read More Join/Start the AMG Discussion read more
  4 days ago

• Women Speak Out On CPS School Closings & Immigration Reform As Mothers Day Weekend Begins (VIDEO)

  
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  Including the voice of women, and particularly mothers, in pending issues across the city, state, and country is increasingly important, according to several organizations which saw the start of Mother’s Day weekend as an opportunity to advocate for their causes. The Chicago Foundation for Women on Friday joined ...
  1 week ago

• Fast food strike wave spreads again, now to Detroit

  
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  As St. Louis fast food workers were going back to work from their Wednesday evening to Thursday strike, Detroit became the latest city to be hit by this springs wave of fast food strikes. Organizers report that more than 100 St. Louis workers joined the strike, and Detroit is expected to be bigger ; in fact, Josh ...
  1 week ago

• New York City Council Passes Bill Forcing Employers to Provide Paid Sick Leave

  
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  On Wednesday the New York City Council voted 45-3 to pass the New York City Earned Sick Time Act, a bill which will require employers with more than 20 employees to Continue reading New York City Council Passes Bill Forcing Employers to Provide Paid Sick Leave
  1 week ago

• D.C. Circuit Rebukes NLRB Activism, Again

  
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  One of the Obama National Labor Relations Board’s payoffs to Big Labor bosses was a rule requiring that employers provide notice to employees of their rights to unionize . The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that that requirement violated the National Labor Relations Act and the First Amendment, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Georgetown Adjunct Professors Vote to Unionize

  
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  This past weekend, Georgetown’s adjunct professors voted in favor of forming a union with the local branch of Service Employees International Union, SEIU Local 500. The election was conducted by the National Labor Relations Board . Just under 650 of the eligible voting members participated in the election, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiser Aftermath: How About Some Competition to Organize Healthcare Workers?

  
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  by Wade Rathke Little Rock       Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same ...
  2 weeks ago

• SEIU Wins Again at Kaiser, But Militant Minority Grows

  
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         by Steve Early Steve Early Thirty-one months ago, when the Service Employees International Union first defeated the National Union of Healthcare Workers in a unit of 45,000 service and technical workers at Kaiser Permanente in California, SEIU leader Dave Regan proclaimed that “NUHW is now, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kaiser Aftermath: How About Some Competition to Organize Healthcare Workers?

  
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  Little Rock        Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same result with a wider ...
  2 weeks ago

• Honor Workers Today - Support Immigration Reform - Support Equal Protection And Reject Second-Class Status For Workers

  
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  SEIU sent this along ~ Mayday! Its May Day! Work. We all do it, and we all have certain expectations about it. We expect to be paid. We expect to receive fair treatment. We expect that if we work hard, well have access to greater opportunities and better jobs. Today, May Day, is a day to honor workers. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Los Inmigrantes Merecen Legalización Sin Ataduras

  
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  Por LISA LUINENBURG Socialist Action Millones de inmigrantes indocumentados y sus familias, amigos y aliados esperaron con esperanza la revelación, el martes 16 de abril, de la nueva propuesta de Reforma Migratoria Comprensiva. A pesar de las altas esperanzas, la nueva legislación incluye muchas provisiones ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kaiser Permanente SEIU Scrum Shows Labor’s Weakness

  
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  Usually when the SEIU is in a (figurative) dogfight with another group, it isn’t another union. In California though, the SEIU is fighting another union (the National Union of Healthcare Workers or NUHW) for the right to represent employees of Kaiser Permanente hospitals. SEIU, which lost 45,000 members last year, ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Unions Are Getting Their Groove Back

  
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  by Harold Meyerson Harold Meyerson Yesterday—April 24th—was a red-letter day in the annals of worker mobilization in post-collective-bargaining America. In Chicago, hundreds of fast-food and retail employees who work in the Loop and along the Magnificent Mile called a one-day strike and demonstrated for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Labor To Stand In Solidarity With Immigration Reform Advocates On May Day (VIDEO)

  
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  Chicago community, faith and labor allies said they stand in solidarity with immigrant rights advocates and will make a push for comprehensive immigration reform at the upcoming May Day workers march and celebration in the city. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with our immigrant brothers and sisters in support of ...
  4 weeks ago

• SEIU agitates Chicago fast-food workers to demand $15/hr. wage

  
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  CHICAGO - If you had a long wait for an Egg McMuffin this morning, its because fast-food and retail workers are taking to the streets in Chicago to protest their wages. The protest is being organized by by SEIU -...
  4 weeks ago

• Nannies bill of rights to be considered in Illinois Senate tomorrow

  
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  SPRINGFIELD - In an attempt to unionize through the back door, SEIU and other fundamentalist liberal groups are attempting to pass a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights through the Illinois State Senate. Only New York has a similar provision in...
  4 weeks ago

• Reading the Tea Leaves on Huge SEIU-NUHW Decert in California

  
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  New Orleans   First come the disclaimers.    I have no stomach for this 5 year saga in California that has created a huge rift in the labor movement as folks picked sides between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers’   (NUHW).   Depending on how ...
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• Proposed Management Reporting Rule a Costly Gift to Union Bosses

  
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  The Obama Administration has made no secret of its efforts to stall the decline in union memberships not by reforming unions but by curtailing employee and management rights. The Department of Labor alone has reduced union transparency by abolishing certain reporting requirements and cut the number of investigations ...
  4 weeks ago

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