http://www.yourstreet.com/news/service-employees-international-union YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us This Labor Day, Wake Up Walmart , along with a large coalition of labor, environmental and community groups, are challenging Walmart to live up to their PR promises and join us in supporting the American Values Agenda for Change at Walmart . To help with the effort,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6675306/labor-s-labor-day-challenge-for-wal-mart Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:49:08 -0700 Going out on a limb here to predict there will be no one shouting about czars at the Rally for Healthcare Reform set for Saturday at Riverfront Park behind the Peabody Hotel. An event hoped to send a message to Arkansas's congressional delegation to man up, it's... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6675411/their-turn Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:38:08 -0700 The Service Employees International Union is calling for a boycott of GEICO. The Maryland-based auto insurer is replacing its unionized cleaning company with a non-union outfit. SEIU is protesting on behalf of the dozen workers who lost their jobs after cleaning the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6681459/union-urges-consumers-to-say-no-to-the-gecko Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:06:08 -0700 Last night, Noel Freeman sent out this press release: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1 confirmed Tuesday during a screening interview with City Council At-Large Position 4 candidate Noel Freeman that his opponent, C.O. Bradford, has falsely... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6666329/off-the-kuff-freeman-and-bradford-spar-over-seiu-endorsement Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:54:08 -0700 An effort by some workers at Sutter Roseville Medical Center to go non-union failed Thursday with a lopsided vote by union members to keep Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West as their bargaining agent. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6641195/sutter-roseville-workers-back-seiu-uhw Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:55:08 -0700 The Service Employees International Union has announced it will gather union members and health care proponents in front of Rep. Roy Blunt's Springfield office today to indicate support for health care reform, according to the union. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6626872/union-members,-health-reform-proponents-to-gather-at-blunt-s-office Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:10:08 -0700 Kenneth Gladney, the African American man who said he was beaten up by members of the Service Employees International Union at a town hall meeting on health care wants the NAACP to investigate his case. But St. Louis NAACP President Claude Brown said Gladney has not... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6569717/gladney-wants-naacp-investigation-group-says-it-never-received-complaint Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:48:08 -0700 Weeks after wrapping up a deal to close a $26 billion budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking aim at what he calls California's next great fiscal problem: the state's battered pension system. Reviving an idea he floated during budget negotiations in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6565077/governor-wants-to-revamp-battered-public-worker-pension-programs Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:00:08 -0700 Dean spoke to 150 people about the plan inside the Service Employees International Union building on Dublin Road. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6557741/not-all-get-in-to-dean-town-hall Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:36:08 -0700 The new ad is being paid for by a new coalition called Americans for Stable Quality Care. Members of the group include, among others, Families USA, the Service Employees International Union and the American Medical Association. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6544082/unions,-medical-groups,-drug-makers-back-12-million-ad-campaign Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:47:51 -0700 The new ad is being paid for by a new coalition called Americans for Stable Quality Care. Members of the group include, among others, Families USA, the Service Employees International Union and the American Medical Association. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6544036/unions,-medical-groups,-drug-makers-back-12-million-ad-campaign Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:46:59 -0700 A libertarian activist in Albuquerque crossed a line on Friday when he advocated physical violence against members of left-leaning groups at town hall meetings on health-care reform. I'm not giving the guy the publicity of linking to his page or publishing his name,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6522810/town-hall-violence-isn-t-helping-anything Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:10:08 -0700 Washington Times Editorial: ... On Aug. 6, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney sent marching orders to his members to confront concerned citizens at town-hall forums. In St. Louis, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reportedly attacked and beat... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6522883/prairiepundit-the-union-label-on-protest-pretests Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:49:08 -0700 Kenneth Gladney of St. Louis claims members of the Service Employees International Union attacked him. However members of the union, which supports President Obama's health care plans, say the politically conservative Gladney initiated the fight. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6523476/protestors-demand-justice-for-man-injured-at-health-care-forum Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:45:08 -0700 Union officials continued to receive a barrage of threats on Friday evening and into Saturday punctuated by warnings that if organizers were sent to counter-demonstrate at health care town halls they would be met with violence. An official with the AFL-CIO, a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6513091/unions-receive-increasingly-scary-threats-of-violence-for-town-hall- Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:10:08 -0700 A federal labor relations hearing involving Nova Southeastern University janitors who lost their jobs three years ago ended Thursday.<p/> Miami-based TCB Systems has been accused of not hiring six janitors because they actively worked on behalf of the Service... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6500679/labor-relations-hearing-on-nova-southeastern-janitors-ends Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:00:08 -0700 The union representing 95,000 state workers has authorized a strike in response to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's order that state employees take three unpaid furlough days a month for the next year, according to the Chron. The Service Employees International union... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6470497/state-workers-to-strike- Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:00:08 -0700 The Gov. signs the CA budget (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Although no strike is reportedly on the immediate horizon, the Service Employees International Union "announced that 74 percent of its membership approved [a] strike authorization in votes counted Saturday,"... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6470549/california-s-largest-state-employee-union-ok-s-strike-authorization Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:00:08 -0700 Security guards in California who watch over Kaiser Permanente hospitals voted overwhelmingly Saturday for their first-ever union contract, which slightly boosted pay but more importantly bolstered health benefits, the Service Employees International Union said July 25. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6421642/kaiser-security-guards-ok-first-seiu-contract Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:59:08 -0700 Security guards in California who watch over Kaiser Permanente hospitals voted overwhelmingly Saturday for their first-ever union contract, which slightly boosted pay but more importantly bolstered health benefits, the Service Employees International Union said July 25. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6421652/kaiser-security-guards-ok-first-seiu-contract Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:59:08 -0700