Word: seiu
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Into this touchy scenario, in the past ten years, have walked a number of hospital unions, most notably local sections of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a subdivision of the AFL-CIO. The SEIU today boasts some half a million members; hospital workers comprise about 200,000 of that number. The union has made its major advances in cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, organizing in major hospitals. But until about five years ago the union did no organizing in Boston--a city with a rather conspicuous concentration of hospitals. It wasn't until...
...library workers are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which last week ratified a new pact with Brown following a separate strike by nearly 350 service workers lasting over 100 days. That strike, which mustered an unprecedented level of student support, came to an end only after eleven students blocked a truck attempting to leave Brown's main dining hall area...
...university is wary of a quick settlement with the SEIU on the terms requested by the workers because any pay hike might have to be duplicated for all non-union workers on the campus. "They can't, for obvious reasons, make it look like the union gets better benefits for workers," one union negotiator says...
Negotiations between the university and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are at an impasse...
...charged the SEIU with engaging in "illegal strike activity including acts of physical assault, threats of personal harm, destruction of property, vandalism, mass picketing and blockage of entrance...