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...SEIU president Mary Kay Henry said: “The Ivy League is where the whole scandalous model of nearly free labour in college sports was born and that is where it is going to die.”...
...are coming from in this country,” said Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)....
...Renaye Manley, deputy director of SEIU’s strategic initiatives department, said unions wanted to see companies’ political spending subject to more transparency and board oversight....
...” with both the CTU and SEIU Local 73, a union representing more than 31,000 workers primarily in the public service....
...He has a formidable war chest of $54m, thanks to support from unions such as the SEIU and his top individual donor, Netflix chief Reed Hastings....
...Chris Baumann, southern regional director of SEIU Workers United, the labour union, said: “These big corporations that are headquartered here, they always celebrate the civil rights movement, as they should...
...(SEIU), which represents about 2m nurses, cleaners, fast-food employees and airport workers....
...He also met with five union chiefs including Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO and Mary Kay Henry of the SEIU....
...“It’s outrageous that they demand billions of dollars and don’t think about workers that have loyally served them,” said Robert Hill, vice-president of an SEIU group representing 35,000 contracted airport...
...“I do hope that this is the moment that they can put action behind that principled commitment,” said Mary Kay Henry, international president of the 2m-strong Service Employees International Union....
...The SEIU, one of the labour groups behind the movement, is calling on all Democratic 2020 candidates to get behind a “unions for all” platform that would make it easier to organise people in services industries...
...Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU California, a coalition of over 700,000 workers, said the Senate’s passage “has set the stage for a major breakthrough for workers that are excluded from basic pay and protections...
...(SEIU)....
...The American labour movement “has not prepared its own succession plan”, according to David Rolf, president of SEIU 775, a fast-growing union in the north-west....
...The association allied itself with large state-level public sector unions such as the AFSCME and the SEIU....
...“They are a means to an end and that end is for the SEIU to get collective bargaining rights for fast-food workers.”...
...Although the striking workers were not union members, the SEIU is offering them its own training programmes based on the advice of the US government agency leading the Ebola response, the Centers for Disease...
...“2013 is our window of opportunity,” said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, one of the US’s biggest unions, representing healthcare and public service employees....
...The meeting will follow on the heels of one with progressive groups such as the NAACP and the National Council of la Raza, as well as the SEIU and AFL-CIO labour unions....
...There is also strong support from a disparate array of outside groups, from business representatives, such as the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable, to labour unions including the AFL-CIO and SEIU...
...The SEIU was sued and ultimately paid a full refund to employees who challenged the charges....
...There are a clutch of other conversations going on, with the Business Roundtable and the SEIU union also involved, as well as evangelical Christian and Jewish leaders and, of course, Latino and immigrant...
...Instead, it comes from Priorities USA Action, a “super political action committee” that supports President Barack Obama, and the SEIU service employees union....
...“This ruling makes clear that our campaign to mobilise Latino voters and communities of colour to organise and grow our electoral power is an absolute necessity,” said Eliseo Medina of the SEIU labour union...
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