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  • Worst Employer In America? Video Spot Calls Out SEIU Union Busting

    Posted on Sep 01, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team

    The Center for Union Facts released a bombshell report and TV spot exposing the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for years of controversial employment practices. The report reveals that the SEIU’s own employees accuse the union of union busting activities, sexual harassment, and promoting a toxic workplace that provides little work-life balance. The report includes Glassdoor […]

  • The SEIU’s Terrible Tactics: Hospital Strikes

    Posted on Aug 25, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team

    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has made hospital strikes a key part of its negotiating strategy, regularly holding hospitals hostage – and putting countless lives at risk – until the union’s demands are met. In just one example, SEIU members in the union’s Minnesota and Iowa Healthcare local authorized a strike against a group […]

  • Failing Members at the Bargaining Table and on the Picket Line

    Posted on Aug 23, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team

    We’ve heard about the miserable experiences of employees at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), but does the union treat its membership any better? The SEIU’s track record reveals a union that repeatedly fails to support its members at the bargaining table and on the picket line.  In 2023, the State Employees Association of North […]

  • SEIU Staff Continue to Protest Outside Union Headquarters

    Posted on Aug 20, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team

    Back in May, staff at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) national headquarters made headlines after authorizing a strike against their employer over failed contract negotiations. The media coverage on the subject may have died out, but striking employees – and members of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 2 – continue […]

  • Amalgamated Bank Nearing a Financial Crisis?

    Posted on Jul 21, 2023 by LaborPains.org Team

    Is America’s “socially responsible bank” also one of the country’s most fiscally irresponsible banks?  Just over ten years ago Amalgamated Bank was in dire financial condition and barely managed to escape closure after being warned by both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and New York State Banking Department that it was dangerously undercapitalized.  Could […]

  • Unions Help Drive Amazon out of New York City Area…Again

    Posted on Jul 08, 2022 by LaborPains.org Team

    In 2019, New York City’s labor unions played a key role in tanking the development of an Amazon location in Queens – and the thousands of jobs that went with it. Now, it looks like unions are once again behind a failed deal for a new Amazon cargo hub in Newark, New Jersey. Labor unions […]

  • SEIU Boss Resigns After Being Hit With Embezzlement Charges

    Posted on Oct 15, 2021 by LaborPains.org Team

    The executive director of the California SEIU resigned after she and her husband were hit with 13 felony charges, including embezzlement, tax fraud, and perjury. According to the criminal complaint, Hernandez and her husband, Jose Samoyoa Moscoso, schemed to siphon thousands of dollars from the Working Families for Solorio for Senate — an SEIU PAC. […]

  • Biden Admin Wastes No Time Capitulating to Union Interests

    Posted on Jan 21, 2021 by LaborPains.org Team

    Yesterday, Joe Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. He wasted no time capitulating to some of his biggest supporters — labor unions. After taking office, President Biden immediately threatened to fire National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb. In an unprecedented move, Robb was given the […]