• Hey, remember when SEIU members kept calling in sick at a rate three times that of non-union government employees in La Crosse, Wisconsin? Yeah, the union is fighting any reform effort.
• SEIU may face a challenge in organizing nurses in Houston, and one observer says “I saw signs of growing intensity in their rivalry.”
• More trouble for SEIU: “Union negotiation notes must be made public, judge rules”
• EFCA Updates rips a professor at the University of Oregon (full disclosure: I dropped his class on labor issues after “syllabus day” because I thought he was too biased) for his biased report attacking the secret ballot elections process for choosing union representation.

Plus, check this out (via the Union News blog):