Service Employees International Union

The Financial District is Still the Best Place to Protest for Fair Wages

A sea of purple T-shirts was crowding downtown San Francisco as hundreds of union security workers marched through the streets to bring attention to their contract negotiations with security and janitorial contracting companies ABM Security and Universal Protection Service (UPS). While the march a ... More >>

Arrested Janitors Promise to Keep Protesting

San Francisco police arrested 27 janitors yesterday at the corner of California and Montgomery after thousands of union folks took over the Financial District in a noisy, traffic-clogging protest. Disgruntled janitors marched through roughly seven city blocks yesterday, toting signs that read "stan ... More >>

Scab Janitors Sought on Craigslist

Denizens of the Financial District may have seen -- or, more likely, heard -- recent demonstrations by unionized janitors, who have threatened to strike if negotiations with the city, Macy's, and the Westfield mall aren't resolved by today. Buildings don't clean themselves, however, and ads for scab ... More >>

San Francisco Court Workers Explain Today's Strike

Court workers who walked off the job this morning are gathered in front of the San Francisco Superior Court House, where they plan to picket throughout the day. SF Weekly correspondent Jeff Sandstoe caught up with some of the nearly 200 demonstrators, who are being represented by the Service Employe ... More >>

Kaiser Union Election Produces Winner, Legal Battle

Matt SmithTime to put the signs back in the shed.​The Service Employees International Union yesterday decisively won an election to represent 43,000 workers at Kaiser medical facilities around California, an occurrence academic observers predict could be the death knell for dissident leader ... More >>

Labor Pains

A fight between two unions here could set the course of the U.S. labor movement.

Workers of the World Unite -- Around a Joint -- as SEIU Endorses Prop. 19

Karl Marx would be proud​California's largest labor union is getting behind a ballot initiative that would allow governments within the state to regulate and tax marijuana, as the Service Employees International Union announced today that it would back Proposition 19 on this November's ballot.Obse ... More >>

Alto Means "Cut It Out?"

Dems Hop Bandwagon to Scuttle State Building Fire Sale

Your government in action...​Official fired for criticizing sale asked to air beefs in Sacramento next week; he says government is looking for "exit strategy." Top California Democratic Party players are piling on a movement to scuttle Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to sell 24 state buildings a ... More >>

Getting Real About Prison Education Cuts

School's out -- forever? ​California has the highest inmate recidivism rate in the country: 70 percent. Now, as a result of a $250 million budget cut in prison education programs, the state is gearing up to liquidate programs, slash in-class hours, fire more than 800 of the state's 1,200 prison te ... More >>

So You Say You Want a Constitution. But Are You Ready to Double Down?

We here at The Snitch have followed the long-running murmurs about a future state constitutional convention with interest. After all, in a state as saturated with moneyed interests and crippled by partisan hackery as California, just what rough beast might be born from a thorough redesign of our met ... More >>

Peace Breaks Out! Fasting Pro-Union Workers Come In From the Cold at Dianne Feinstein's Office

At Guantanamo, hunger strikes don't end earlyThis just in from the San Francisco Labor Council: Apparently a group of workers have broken off their fast at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's local office on Post Street. The workers' hunger strike was the latest in a series of local events and rallies organized ... More >>

Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

Renegade Healthcare Union Claims Success Cannibalizing SEIU

The National Union Of Healthcare Workers, a renegade splinter union formed in January when the Service Employees International Union ousted the leadership of its 120,000-member United Healthcare West affiliate, claims to be near stealing away 50,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente.The new union is hold ... More >>

Bad Medicine

A nurses' union joins antidevelopment forces to prevent a new hospital from being built.

Ousted Labor Leader Rosselli Forms Own Union, Targets SEIU Workers -- and Doesn't Expect SEIU to Play Nice

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 elec ... More >>

Oakland Union Boss: 150,000 California Health-Care Workers May Quit SEIU

The leader of an Oakland-based health-care affiliate of the Service Employees International Union said Monday that workers may quit the union en masse if SEIU president Andy Stern follows through on a threat to take over the affiliate. "If the SEIU International forces us into trusteeship, we w ... More >>

Breaking News: SEIU Boss to S.F. Health Care Workers -- Accept My Ultimatim, Or I'll Destroy You

Andy Stern, boss of the two-million-member Service Employees International Union, sent an ultimatum Thursday to California health care workers ordering them to accept a deal critics say will undermine the rights of elderly nursing home patients. The ultimatum comes after Stern claimed last fall that ... More >>

Hot! Horny! Wasted! Teens!

New research about young military recruits who smoke, drink, and screw too much.

SEIU Moves to Dismantle California Health Care Affiliate

Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in ... More >>

Will California Scandals Derail SEIU's Dream of Total World Domination?

By Matt SmithThe Service Employees International Union plans to spend $50 million during the coming months lobbying for a bill that would make it harder for employers to fight against unionization drives.But critics of the union's national leader, Andy Stern, say ongoing scandals in California may s ... More >>

SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

Union, Heal Thyself

Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

Chocolate Salon, Obama lovefest and a donut party - Your Monday Morning Hangover

Barack-a-Thon: Obama's Sweating Throngs Jam Delegate Election

Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

Unhealthy Union

Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

SEIU's Rosselli Resigns as State Boss -- Sac Bee

Alliance between SEIU and nursing home chains now defunct

Stern Reprimand

SEIU members in Northern California challenge the national boss over his collaboration with employers

Letters to the Editor

Week of 4-25-2007

Union Disunity

The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

Mean People's Court

On many fronts, the spiteful are doing harmful things that you should know about

The Politics of Cynicism

SEIU lobbies for nursing home chains. Clint Reilly vs. Jack Davis, redux. Kerry raises money for Reilly's wife. Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

Gutted

How the nursing home industry, organized labor, John Burton, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are cooperating to guarantee giant health care corporations huge profits -- using billions of your dollars

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Partners in Slime

The California service employees' union and the nursing home industry join forces to increase corporate profit, grow union membership, and sell out abused nursing home patients

A Dog-Eat-Dog World

A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

Closed Shop

Organizer out of work after bucking SEIU 790's Willie Brown lovefest

Letters

The Grid

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Big Deal

State Ballot Measures

The Grid

The Grid

Dog Bites

What Price Hygiene?

Janitors claim building managers are treating them like dirt

Dog Bites

Dog Bite