On AlterNet: seiu

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The 99% Versus Wall Street: Stephen Lerner on How We Can Mobilize To Be the Greedy 1%'s Worst Nightmare

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. December 22, 2011.

Savvy organizer and big thinker Stephen Lerner talks to AlterNet about how to take power back from Wall Street.

Defense Contractors Using Prison Labor to Build High-Tech Weapons Systems

Mike Elk, AlterNet. April 28, 2011.

Prison labor seems like a win-win to many, but a closer look reveals a race to the bottom for skilled workers.

200,000 March For Immigration Reform in Massive D.C. Rally

Douglas Rivlin, AlterNet. March 21, 2010.

The message was clear: fix our broken immigration system, stop the deportations that split up families, and allow immigrants to come to the US legally and to earn legal status.

Immigration Reform: House Of Labor Marches With Immigrants

Douglas Rivlin, NewsJunkiePost.com. March 20, 2010.

The complicated relationship between the forces fighting for immigration reform and the labor movement have been on display this week and will be on display this weekend.

Civil War in Progressive Mega Union

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Nelson Lichtenstein, In These Times. December 31, 2009.

When the SEIU leadership decided to move against one of its largest locals, they unleashed a storm that few of the leaders apparently believed possible.

Too Late: Obama Organizers Finally Rail Against Obama on Health Care

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 20, 2009.

From dissatisfied Obama campaign staffers to fed-up SEIU members, many are unhappy with Obama on health care reform. At last.

Labor Against the War Shifting Sights to Afghanistan Occupation

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 23, 2009.

Because of domestic issues like health care reform, many unions have remained silent about Afghanistan. That's about to change.

Will the Senate Stand Against Anti-Choice Stupak Amendment?

Emily Douglas, The Nation AlterNet: Politics. November 13, 2009.

As the fight for health-care reform moves to the Senate, will Harry Reid stave off the anti-choice forces who mucked up the House bill?

For Glenn Beck, SEIU Is 'Radical, Marxist,' Except When Its Nurses Treat Him for Emergency Abdominal Pains

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. November 5, 2009.

Beck described SEIU nurse care as "amazing" after his inflamed appendix was removed.

Green Supermarkets? Janitors Push the Next Wave of Healthy Workplaces

Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media. October 27, 2009.

One of the country’s largest unions is broadening its idea of a safe and healthy workplace.

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage

John V. Santore, Media Matters for America. August 11, 2009.

The conservative playbook has been laid bare, and it's ugly. How long until their overheated rhetoric spills over into violence?

Union Faces Threats as Mob Mentality Deepens on Right

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Politics. August 7, 2009.

In fact, SEIU seems to have quickly become the new focus of far-right activists.

Don't Let Wells Fargo Be a Roadblock to Economic Recovery

ZP Heller, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. July 14, 2009.

Why won’t Wells Fargo use its bailout billions to keep the Quad City Die Casting company afloat?

Worker Uprising Against Wells Fargo Spreads After Major Victory to Keep Factories Open

Mike Elk, AlterNet. July 2, 2009.

Workers fight back against Wells Fargo for closing their factory and they win! Now other workers take on the fight.

Demanding Justice for Murdered Immigrant Luis Ramirez Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 19, 2009.

Join us in urging Pa. Gov. Rendell to speak out about Luis Ramirez's tragic slaying.

Fighting Rich Lobbyists to Save Health Care Reform Is AlterNet's Top Take-Action Campaign of the Week

AlterNetMay 11, 2009.

Powerful medical lobbyists stand in the way of health care progress in the name of profits. We must put an end to it.

Don't Fall for the Health Industry Barons' Empty Promises

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 11, 2009.

Obama is welcoming the health care lobby's Trojan Horse -- a pledge to cut the growth of costs to "only" 4.7 annually.

Saving Death Row Inmate Troy Davis's Life Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 5, 2009.

Troy Davis faces execution for murdering a police officer, despite that 7 out of 9 witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Fire Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis

Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. April 27, 2009.

Join SEIU in demonstrations across the country tomorrow to protest the poster boy of corporate greed.

Public Outrage Over Bank of America's Self-Serving, Predatory and Dangerous Practices Heats Up

Ali Jost, SEIU AlterNet: PEEK. April 16, 2009.

Leading up to Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting, consumers, employees and shareholders will call for reform, from top to bottom.

SEIU Throws Down the Gauntlet to O’Reilly: Walk a Day in Our Shoes

ZP Heller, SEIU AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 9, 2009.

Combating O'Reilly's baseless attacks over Employee Free Choice.

The Armageddon-Provoking Employee Free Choice Act

ZP Heller, SEIU AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 4, 2009.

The horrors, the horrors of allowing workers to negotiate fair wages and benefits.

Why Healthcare Can't Wait

Andy Stern, Jeff Kindler, Huffington Post. February 26, 2009.

There have been many issues where labor and business don't see eye to eye. Here's one where we firmly agree: the need to fix healthcare, now.

Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

Esther Kaplan, The Nation. January 19, 2009.

The financial markets are in tatters, but corporate America is keeping its eyes on the prize: crushing organized labor.

Bank of America: Bad for America

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 15, 2009.

Squandering $25 billion in bailout bucks.