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11/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
Unions help working families fulfill their dreams in
many different ways. At SEIU, this includes yearly college scholarship
opportunities. Through five different scholarship programs, SEIU awards 52
scholarships that enable SEIU members and their children to pursue
their educational goals at accredited colleges, universities, and
technical schools.
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4/1/2008 3:27:11 PM
Shame on CNA Promo Button
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3/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
SEIU’s 75,000 members across Pennsylvania are reaching out to their communities to support Barack Obama in the April 22 Democratic primary.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
Bay Area security officers united in SEIU Local 24/7 have voted overwhelmingly to approve a
ground-breaking, five-year pact with the area’s leading private security firms
that covers 4,000 officers and provides higher wages, a family health care plan,
and a career ladder.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
On Monday, the national citizenship campaign co-led by SEIU announced it has
surpassed its goal of helping more than one million eligible immigrants apply
for U.S. citizenship in 2007, nearly doubling the total number of applications
received in 2006.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
Members of SEIU Local 32BJ on
Dec. 29th announced a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract covering
26,000 cleaners of 1,500 New York City buildings that provides more than 16
percent in pay increases over the life of the contract, improves the pension
benefit for the first time in four years, and maintains fully employer-paid
family health care coverage.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal looks at how record-high oil prices
affect the lives and budgets of five average Americans. Among them is SEIU child care provider
Paula Hall, who made headlines in July when she delivered the Democratic radio
address.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
As part of SEIU’s ongoing efforts to hold private equity buyout firms
accountable for the impact of their actions on people’s lives, SEIU on Dec. 17th
called on global buyout firm the Carlyle Group to disclose information about the
potential health hazards associated with its sewer sludge business Synagro
Technologies.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
On Dec. 14th, SEIU President Andy Stern held a conference call with top
progressive bloggers to discuss the leading economic and social issues facing
the nation as we wrap up 2007.
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1/10/2008 12:00:00 AM
Wackenhut Services, Inc., the mega security company with oversight over numerous
U.S. nuclear facilities, yet documented problems in such areas as employee
training and working conditions, saw its CEO resign yesterday without public
comment.
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
More than 4,000 private security officers in San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties united in SEIU Local 24/7—who have been working under an expired contract since June 30th and who conducted the West Coast’s first-ever strike of private security officers in September—reached a tentative agreement late Thursday night with the Bay Area’s largest private security companies on a contract that includes higher wages and family healthcare.
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
The Republican Main Street Partnership became the first partisan political organization to endorse Divided We Fail yesterday, undescoring what American families already know: that fixing health care is an issue that crosses party lines. More
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
SEIU Healthcare nurses from New York, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Tennessee, and Washington State mobilized in Lexington, Kentucky Thursday to join Appalachian nurses who are taking a stand for quality patient care.
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
Addressing an audience of AARP advocates, care providers, and policymakers in San Juan, Puerto Rico today, SEIU Healthcare Chair Dennis Rivera shared a vision of partnership to build a more sustainable and affordable care system that is poised to meet the Commonwealth’s growing long term care demands.
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
In remarks Friday at the Asia Society of Southern California, SEIU President Andy Stern raised concerns about union pension money invested in buyout firms like the Carlyle Group alongside investments by the Government of Abu Dhabi. In 2006, the State Department called the United Arab Emirates' respect for human rights " problematic."
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12/5/2007 12:00:00 AM
On the Dec. 1st anniversary of Rosa Parks’ infamous arrest, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina wrote about the ongoing struggle for dignity that Fisher Island’s low-wage workers face daily on their ferry ride to work.
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11/27/2007 7:13:50 AM
SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger is on The Wall Street Journal’s
2007 list of 50 fast-rising women to watch.
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11/27/2007 12:00:00 AM
Iowa National Guard member James Gallagher returned home this past July after
spending his 24th and 25th birthdays in Iraq.
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11/27/2007 12:00:00 AM
Healthcare as a stocking stuffer?! Ridiculous as it sounds, prepaid healthcare
gift cards are one insurance company's brainstorm to help the 47 million
uninsured this holiday season.
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11/27/2007 12:00:00 AM
Off the coast of Miami Nov. 17th, decorated boats ferried more than 100
activists as close as possible to the shore of the ultra-wealthy and until now
thought to be off-limits beaches of Fisher Island to protest discriminatory and
abusive treatment of the workers that clean, maintain, and protect the island.
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11/27/2007 12:00:00 AM
As the Writers Guild of America entered week three of its strike against the
media conglomerates of the AMPTP, more than 400 SEIU members from 10 Locals
throughout the greater LA area joined thousands of film and TV writers, actors,
musicians, and Teamsters last week in a labor solidarity
rally and march down Hollywood Boulevard calling for all workers to be able
to share in the profits of their labors.
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11/16/2007 9:57:50 AM
Leaders of the nation’s largest and most established Latino organizations and
Spanish-language media companies Wednesday launched Ya
es Hora, ¡Ve y Vota! (It’s Time, Go Vote!), an unprecedented multi-media
effort to significantly increase Latino voter registration and turnout in the
2008 presidential elections.
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11/16/2007 9:57:16 AM
This week, workers across the country employed by Aramark who provide food
and cleaning services for public and private facilities are educating
taxpayers and customers about Aramark’s business practices that not only
harm workers (low wages, no benefits) but that shortchange consumers by cutting
corners on quality and promising savings the company can’t deliver.
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11/16/2007 9:56:36 AM
Before Capitol
Hill hearings yesterday—held to investigate the effects of nursing home
ownership on the quality of nursing home care, especially in light of global
buyout giant the Carlyle Group’s impending takeover of the nation’s largest
nursing home chain—SEIU released new research showing significant increases in
deficiencies at two nursing home chains after leveraged private equity buyouts.
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11/16/2007 9:55:38 AM
Last night, SEIU Executive Vice President Gerry Hudson and
1199 SEIU United Healthcare
Workers East were honored at Cornell University’s Industrial Labor Relations
(ILR) School 60th anniversary celebration for extraordinary leadership in labor,
remarkable commitments to labor education, and the use of education to
strengthen labor’s efforts to improve the lives of all working people.