The Union Label Blog has non-stop coverage of the SEIU convention this week. You’ll want to subscribe to our RSS feeds to get the updates as they happen.

The following is a list of our posts on the convention so far.

-And the Attack on Democracy Begins for SEIU

So, the convention has barely started and we already have the goons at the top of the SEIU trying to shut down the voice of its own members. The UHW folks are one of the alternative voices of the Services Employee International Union and they have been trying to encourage the union to reject the top-down style of leadership — more like dictatorship — of SEIU president Andy Stern.

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-A Nasty Rift in a Powerful Union

Here is a pretty good summation of the current fight between SEIU president Andy Stern and insurgent union local chief Sal Rosselli. It’s in the L.A. Times today.

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-SEIU Report: Andy Stern’s Iron Fist Appears in So-called Training Session

Andy Stern just cannot resist making sure his little robots are all in line, can he? Apparently, Stern doesn’t trust that his membership can go even a second without his propagandizing them. Under the guise of a “training session” SEIU member Michael Rivera reports that the SEIU corporate line is all they will got in lieu of any training.

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-Shut Up and do What Andy Says

Andy Stern has a plan. But, if you are in a local he doesn’t like, don’t expect your local to be “allowed” to stay in existence. Because if there is one thing that Andy Stern doesn’t like it’s union members that think they have a say in their own union. And if they don’t like it, he’ll make them just go away.

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-The Irony of Union Anger Over Smoking Ban

Last month, the UAW got their overalls in a bundle over a smoking ban instituted at the Caterpillar manufacturing plant in East Peoria, Illinois. The union got so mad they filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board claiming that the “60 year privilege” of smoking at the plant had been unfairly broken by the plant management who instituted a smoking ban that will be imposed on all U.S. properties.

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-Fireworks on the Floor: UHW Members Stage Walkout at Convention

SEIU President Andy Stern got an earful from the insurgent members of the UHW at the San Juan convention today. It got so heated that the UHW members staged a walkout in protest of Stern’s re-election.

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Stay tuned for a lot more coming out of the SEIU Convention!

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