AFL-CIO and SEIU Appear to be Union Busting
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Hourly employees working for AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who are represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) are being treated unfairly. Richard Trumka (head of AFL-CIO) and Mary Kay Henry (president of SEIU) are hypocritical. While these union leaders accuse companies of not sharing their wealth with employees,…
Read More SEIU Suffers More Setbacks on Fight for $15
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Uncategorized
The following is from an opinion column in the Sun Prairie Star by Richard McCarty, Director of Research at Americans for Limited Government Foundation. For the past several years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been dumping millions of dollars of its members’ money into efforts across the country to hike the minimum wage…
Read More SEIU Slashes Organizing Budget by $90M Fearing Worst from Trump
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB, Uncategorized
Businesses can breathe a little easier knowing that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) doesn’t plan on engaging in much organizing activity over the next few years. This decision may be as much the result of its failed Fight for $15 campaign as it is fearing Donald Trump. Over the last three-and-one-half years, the SEIU…
Read More Service Workers International Union (SEIU) Insurance Pays for Sex Change
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
A female who identifies as male works at a hospital in New York as a cleaning and sanitation specialist. He is a member of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. He has health insurance through the union’s self-insured plan. Two years ago when he sought authorization for his hysterectomy, he was told that it would…
Read More If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em: SEIU Befriending Franchisees
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
We have reported on the SEIU’s campaign for $15-an-hour wages for fast food workers. Seeking to have franchisees pay nearly twice the minimum wage for historically minimum wage work is not the way to befriend fast food franchisees. Now, the SEIU is extending a proverbial french fry to franchisees in hopes of forming an alliance…
Read More SEIU Continues to Win Adjunct Professor Elections Across the U.S.
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Adjunct professors and other contingent faculty at three California colleges recently voted in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In its campaign to garner support, the SEIU cited the workers’ low wages, lack of benefits, and poor job security. Now the SEIU, through its “Adjunct Action” campaign has successfully organized adjunct professors…
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