This summer, the Service Employees International Union plans to spend some $50 million to ensure passage of a labor-friendly law that would allow any workforce to join a union if more than half of its employees sign a petition. Currently, workers approve whether a union should represent them in elections which, labor leaders say, can be easily manipulated by employers.
Renegade labor leader Sal Rosselli today said the SEIU, America's largest union, has an opportunity in California to achieve the
