Service Employees International Union (SEIU) news and information

SEIU-United Healthcare Workers downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers last week before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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The upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers failed for a second time to win the prize of representing 45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California.
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers and the California Nurses Association want to rally workers to take a more aggressive stance in collective bargaining, and to do that, they're ready to tear down the relationships its rival Service Employees International Union has built with some large...
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In a video news interview from the Democratic National Convention, Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry says SEIU members and Democrats are fired up to promote the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a core reason to reelect President Barack Obama. Henry also...
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Drugmakers were seen as the key group Democrats sought to win over as the White House crafted and pushed through the 2010 healthcare law, according to an investigation by House Republican staff.
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Workers at eight Twin Cities hospitals reached a tentative contract agreement Wednesday, averting a potential strike later this month.
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The biggest healthcare union in California reached a pact with the state hospital association that calls for immediate steps to make nice and a pledge to work together to improve and reduce the costs of care, and could provide a template for partnerships in other states.
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Prime Healthcare Services has long responded to the Service Employees International Union in much stronger and more public ways than its fellow hospital operators in California. The hospital chain now has moved the feud to federal court, filing an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the union and...
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With union activity already strong in healthcare, President Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board has been nixing old rules and considering new tweaks in ways that experts say are clearly intended to invigorate organized labor.
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After an administrative law judge's ruling that wiped out a union vote affecting 43,000 Kaiser Permanente employees last month, the Service Employees International Union is urging federal officials to call a do-over election as soon as possible. But the breakaway union seeking to raid SEIU's...
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