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August 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) just released a sweeping new plan to strengthen American labor unions—and meet Sanders’ goal of doubling union membership during his first term in office. Sanders’ labor plan calls to end “at-will” employment, the legal rule that American workers can be fired by employers for any reason, end state right-to-work […]

SEIU Conditions 2020 Presidential Endorsement on Demand for “Unions for All”

Aug 21, 2019 Nicole Berner and Dora Chen

Today in Milwaukee, the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry laid out our union’s bold vision for an inclusive labor law regime that would empower millions of workers to form unions and rebalance our economy away from entrenched corporate interests. SEIU members and the workers in the Fight for […]

August 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta was arrested in Fresno Tuesday during a protest in support of raising wages for home healthcare workers. Huerta, who is eighty-nine, was arrested alongside seven others while demonstrating outside of a meeting of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. The demonstration was organized by SEIU 2015, which represents home care […]

Remembering Héctor Figueroa

Jul 23, 2019 Brishen Rogers

Héctor Figueroa hired me into my first job in the labor movement. In 2000, he and a new leadership team began at SEIU Local 32BJ, the massive building services union centered in New York City. Héctor was initially the Secretary-Treasurer (essentially the third-in-command) and political director. One of the union’s first major initiatives was to […]

June 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

National Nurses United (NNU) and Johns Hopkins Hospital have reached a settlement affirming nurses’ right to unionize without interference from their employer. The hospital’s 3,200 nurses began their organizing campaign last spring; by June, they had filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the hospital was deliberately impeding unionization. In October, the […]

June 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Cai Shuang Chen, a delivery worker in New York, won $327,738 in a wage theft case in September 2017. However, Chen is unable to collect this money under New York state law, as the restaurant he worked for changed its name and thus technically no longer exists. In reality, the restaurant maintained most of its […]

May 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Yesterday, JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement in a class-action case brought by a father who was denied the company’s 16 weeks of parental leave on the grounds that he was not the “primary caregiver.” The company will pay $5 million into a fund to compensate about 5,000 men who were denied parental leave for […]

May 30, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

The California Assembly has passed a bill that will make it harder for employers to classify workers as independent contractors. As Ryan wrote earlier this week, AB-5 codifies the “ABC test” introduced by the California Supreme Court in last year’s Dynamex case. Under Dynamex, a worker is classified as an independent contractor only if: (a) the worker […]

May 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will prevent independent provider (IP) homecare workers paid by Medicaid from deducting union dues from their paychecks. SEIU, which represents around 500,000 homecare workers across the country, announced that it will challenge the new rule in court; and five state attorneys general are suing as well, […]

May 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Both houses of Mexico’s legislature passed a domestic workers’ rights bill, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to sign into law. The bill extends Mexico’s minimum wages and benefits — including social security, healthcare, and maternity leave — to the country’s domestic workers. The bill also bans children younger than 15 from engaging […]

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