Service Employees International Union (SEIU) news and information

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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A powerful healthcare union in California and its upstart rival have been locked in a battle over members at hospitals across the state for the past two years. And now, the larger union is declaring victory, while the smaller one says its expansion plans have only just begun.
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St. Michael's Hospital and Nursing Home, a critical-access facility in Sauk Centre, Minn., will become part of the CentraCare Health System, a three-hospital system based in St. Cloud, Minn., effective July 1, 2012, under an agreement approved June 1, by the Sauk Centre City Council.
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Community Health Systems tried to regain the offensive last week in its attempt to acquire Tenet Healthcare Corp.
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The largest healthcare union with more than 1.2 million members--including doctors, lab technicians, nurses and home-care workers, the SEIU was started in 1921 by members of seven small janitor unions that hoped to build strength by joining forces. After the Great Depression, the union was the...
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Regarding “Most Catholic Health Partners workers reject SEIU”:
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Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, has scheduled a union election involving about 6,500 workers this week, in a rerun of a controversial 2008 labor vote in which the Service Employees International Union canceled balloting after bitter opposition from a competing union.
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