Lafayette: The SEIU Local 100 Annual Leadership Conference was going to be held this year in Lafayette, Louisiana. We had won an election for 300 Head Start workers employed by a private non-profit called SMILE in Lafayette at the beginning of this year and had just come to a tentative agreement on the contract. Additionally, we …
Category: Labor Organizing
SEIU Quadrennial Convention
San Francisco: Not surprisingly, when the largest union in the United States convenes every four years and thousands of duly elected delegates come from every nook and corner, it is quite an event – part business meeting and part spectacle all mixed with intense debate, bread, and circus. Because the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has …
Bridging the Gap on Healthcare
San Francisco: Somewhere between five and ten thousand people poured out of Crissy Field along the San Francisco Bay to walk the 4.5 mile roundtrip across the Golden Gate Bridge. This march was largely organized by the Service Employees International Union to coordinate with the SEIU quadrennial convention being held at the same time. The weather …