Service Employees International Union
Said to be the fastest-growing union in North America, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) focuses on three sectors of a service economy; it is the largest union in the first two:
- Health care: with more than 1.1 million members in the field, including nurses, LPNs, doctors, lab technicians, nursing home workers, and home care workers
- Property services: with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries
- Public services, with more than 1 million local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers
Barack Obama
In 2009, its president, Andy Stern, was the most frequent White House visitor to President Barack Obama. The union endorsed him, as a candidate, in February 2008.[1]
Critics
Conservative critics have been emphatic that SEIU has great influence on President Obama. On Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, Mike Flynn claimed, of violence in St. Louis, Missouri, "Evidence is emerging that the events of that day went far beyond St. Louis and may have been part of a nationally orchestrated campaign to intimidate and silence dissent. [2]
There are relationships between SEIU and ACORN.
References
- ↑ SEIU Members Endorse Sen. Barack Obama, Service Employees International Union, 15 February 2008
- ↑ Mike Flynn (9 November 2009), Obama’s Shock Troops: SEIU and Political Intimidation in St. Louis