The SEIU has long bragged about being the fastest growing union in the nation.  The truth is actually quite the opposite.  According to a recent ALG study, the SEIU is actually on the decline, and has never reached the numbers it brags about. Service Employees International Union’s 2012 LM-2 Shows Membership Dropped By Nearly 45 Thousand Members- The First Drop [...]

SEIU’s dispute with King’s Daughters Medical Center led to a robo-call campaign which disrupted hospital phones. The Sixth Circuit Court has dismissed the case. By Brad Tidwell — When the King’s Daughters Medical Center wanted to shift some of the rising costs of employee healthcare to the employees, the SEIU decided to take action. The SEIU started a robocall campaign [...]

By Rick Manning — The City of Los Angeles should arrest any person who blocks traffic without delay.  If these Service Employee International Union (SEIU) occupiers are allowed to arbitrarily disrupt the City of Los Angeles without interference, they will be encouraged to engage in further, even more disruptive temper tantrums when they don’t get their way.  Mayor Villaraigosa has [...]

As frequent visitors of this site know, we have been focused like a hawk on Michigan’s Proposal 4- the SEIU’s heavy-handed attempt to unionize all home caregivers in the state of Michigan, often parents of adult children with disabilities. In one overwhelmingly positive election result, the SEIU’s Proposal 4 has been defeated, and by a wide margin- winning almost every [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Daily Caller. By Kevin Mooney — Having already experienced a continuous string of political setbacks at the state level, one of the nation’s largest unions was jolted again Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of non-union workers who objected to paying fees for union political activities without notice. [...]

By Bill Wilson –The Supreme Court deserves praise for their 7-2 decision today in the Knox v. SEIU case, which determined that a state cannot require its employees to pay a special union fee that will be spent for political purposes without first giving the employees information about the fee and a chance to object to it. It is simply [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at SEIU Monitor. Yesterday at around lunchtime, Mary Kay Henry, President of Service Employees International Union, issued an emergency email to her SEIU email list, with an urgent call to action: Collective bargaining rights are under attack – again. The “RAISE Act,” introduced by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), is yet another attempt to [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Come and join the union! You will be guaranteed a safe, flush retirement fund for life. This has been the standard pitch from organized labor to workers who could earn more in the private sector. But government figures show that union pension plans are in trouble; especially for rank-and-file members who are not in leadership positions. [...]

In the debate surrounding the Affordable Healthcare Act, widely known as Obamacare, much was made about the “Astroturf” Tea Party members who were opposed to the massive government healthcare takeover. However, as this shocking video demonstrates, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is directly paying individuals, and in a shady brown envelope no less. “That’s why they gave us that [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — Imagine someone broke into your home and stole several thousand dollars worth of your belongings, including your brand new car.  And then, when they were arrested, in addition to having to repay you monetarily for what they stole, they only got probation and a miniscule fine. You’d be pretty upset, right? Well apparently that is how [...]