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...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....
...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...
...In California, the recent passing of a law making “gig economy” workers such as ride-sharing drivers into full-time employees could increase costs for companies like Uber and Lyft by as much as 30 per cent...
...Calstrs, the $215bn fund that pays teachers’ pensions in California, sold its stakes in CoreCivic and Geo last year....
...Oregon, which leans slightly to the economic right of California, passed a defined-benefit law....
...“They are a means to an end and that end is for the SEIU to get collective bargaining rights for fast-food workers.”...
...Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, is inspecting border security operations in San Diego, California and El Paso, Texas this week....
...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...
...It further divided its opponents by joining an alliance with the SEIU union on healthcare reform....
...In this case, the special ingredient is the author’s expertise as a labour historian – Lichtenstein teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara – which allows him to deliver some timely historical...
...Wal-Mart Watch, the anti-Wal-Mart campaign funded by the SEIU service workers union, warned supporters this month to be on the lookout for what it called new “stealth” Wal-Mart stores....
...But it sent demonstrators to picket a meeting of the Wal-Mart group, which includes fellow union leaders from the SEIU and the CWA....
...Wal-Mart’s headquarters also now has a “war-room” crisis response operation run by experienced political campaigners, countering campaigns funded by the SEIU and UFCW trades unions....
...The UFCW and SEIU food and service workers unions launched new campaigns against the retailer, most recently funding radio commercials that suggested Jesus would have preferred not to shop at Wal-Mart....
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