Tag Archive: SEIU (page 2)

• 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 […]

• Prop 22 Opponents Have a Bad Case of Sour Grapes

  Posted on Nov 06, 2020 by LaborPains.org Team

  This week, Proposition 22 — a California ballot measure that allows certain gig workers to be exempt from the state’s AB 5 law — passed with 58 percent of the vote. Now, app-based drivers for gig companies including Uber and Lyft are able to retain their independent contractor status, instead of being reclassified as employees […]

• CUF and Freedom Foundation Call For Investigation into Seattle-Based Worker Center

  Posted on Aug 03, 2020 by LaborPains.org Team

  Reported today by Bloomberg Law, the Center for Union Facts and the Freedom Foundation have filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards against union-backed labor group Working Washington. The 57-page complaint, supported by a 500+-page appendix of evidence, calls for an investigation into Working Washington — a Seattle-based worker center whose […]

• SEIU-Backed Worker Center Targets Postmates

  Posted on Apr 27, 2020 by LaborPains.org Team

  The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is in the midst of a corporate campaign against Chipotle. Last year, New York City-based SEIU local 32BJ ramped up its Fight for $15 movement to organize workers at the burrito chain’s locations in the city. And that’s just the latest iteration of the union’s partnership with the Fight […]

• SEIU’s Hypocrisy in the Face of Corona Crisis

  Posted on Mar 23, 2020 by LaborPains.org Team

  Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal highlighting its latest campaign to  “Protect All Workers.” The ad was an open letter to America’s CEOs from SEIU President Mary Kay Henry. In the ad, Henry asks these business leaders to implement a list of union demands […]