Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Labor’s Private-Sector Left
In the 1960s, government worker unionism subordinating the wider labor movement was still decades away. The Left of organized labor (laying aside some straggling outright communists and fellow-travelers like International…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Causes of the Long Decline
By 1979, when Lane Kirkland succeeded George Meany as head of the AFL-CIO, fundamental changes to the economy had led to a decline in the unionized share of the private…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: A Trade Unionist in the White House
Precisely one former national labor union president has been elected to the presidency of the United States: Ronald Reagan. Before his political career, he was already a notable figure, perhaps…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
Big Labor’s Decline and Left Turn: Membership Decline
Lane Kirkland, leadership of the AFL-CIO from 1979 through 1995, was defined by the Long Decline in union membership and union density, the proportion of the workforce consisting of organized…
by Michael Watson on March 21, 2024

Labor Watch
A Curious Carveout in Big Labor’s Golden State
California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a loophole that seemed suspiciously closely designed to exempt Panera Bread from a sectoral-bargaining law demanded by the SEIU. Newsom and the SEIU have…
by Michael Watson on March 11, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
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by Jonathan Harsh on March 1, 2024

Labor Watch
The Price of Bent Unions Is Red Unions
Corruption within organized labor is pervasive, but what happens to a union after the thieves, Mafiosi, or corrupt political fixers have been driven out by the long arm of the…
by Michael Watson on February 29, 2024

Organization Trends
Michigan’s Racist Redistricting “Reform”
In November 2018, Michigan’s credulous voters adopted the Voters Not Politicians proposal to have an independent commission of citizens redraw state legislative districts, purportedly to end gerrymandering. The "nonpartisan" commission…
by Ken Braun on January 8, 2024

Labor Watch
Unions’ Anti-Israel Posturing Exposes the Illusion of a Right-Labor Alliance
Aided by a tight labor market, Big Labor is having something of a moment. Even the young guns of the self-appointed “New Right” are getting in on the action. But…
by Michael Watson on January 2, 2024

Labor Watch
BEST OF 2023: In Defense of Taft-Hartley
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind from the massive disruptions it inflicted on the American economy in 1945–46. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the “Taft-Hartley Act”…
by Michael Watson on December 29, 2023