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...workers joined with members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) to protest TH Niles, a company that is a tenant in 1280 Mass. Ave., according to SEIU Local 615 President Rosio Saenz. The company recently fired its unionized custodial workers and hired a single non-union worker to replace them for lower wages through the Commercial Cleaning Company, Saenz said...
...downtown Washington office of Andrew Stern, head of the nation's largest union, he came away with two things: a bit of advice and the names of local officials across the country. "I'm the voice of 1.6 million members," the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told those who sought his endorsement. "Go talk to them." Only one candidate, Stern says, took him up on it. Howard Dean not only talked to SEIU members, he showed up on their picket line at Yale University, cheered their organizers at a San Francisco hospital and consulted the union...
...Democrat to do so since the system began in 1974--but the move made perfect sense. If he wins the nomination, Dean will be facing the best-financed presidential campaign in history, and he'll need all the financial help he can get. The probable endorsements this week from SEIU and AFSCME, the huge service and public-employees unions, will give Dean a major lift when it comes to ground support. Still, it was a bit unsettling to see the Democratic front runner use the hallowed stage at Cooper Union as the forum for an address on ... fund raising...
...bother to have a vote? Because Dean is trying to be remain the underdog, even as he becomes the frontrunner. He has the money advantage. The latest polls show him ahead in New Hampshire and tied with Gephardt in Iowa. And two of the biggest unions in America, the SEIU and AFCSME, are poised to endorse him, which will help kill the impression that only rich Northeastern liberals support him and put a stake in the heart of Dick Gephardt, the old liberal guard?s best hope of derailing Dean...
Aaron Bartley, a rally organizer representing the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said that Harvard has offered no legitimate explanation for last month’s firing of seven-year employee Michel Montimer...