SEIU Faces Steep Declines in Membership and Revenue

By Jackson Reese
03/31/2024
SEIU Local 99’s massive strike in LA Unified ended with union leaders bragging that the strike showcased the union’s strength. But the reality is more stark for the union: SEIU is facing steep declines in membership and revenue, and the strike appears more like an act of desperation. According to internal LAUSD documents, the union...

TAGS: California government unions, California public sector unions, public employee unions, seiu, seiu local 1000

AB 421: SEIU’s Bid to Gut California’s 112-year-old Referendum and Initiative Laws

By Will Swaim
03/31/2023
In the devil’s workshop we call the state legislature, government union leaders are hard at work — destroying another of California’s democratic institutions. Fresh off the shutdown of Los Angeles Unified schools and the overthrow of their own elected president — and facing steep declines in membership and revenue — Service Employees International Union (SEIU) activists are...

TAGS: AB 421, California Legislature, Referendum, seiu, seiu local 1000

SEIU’s dirty little secrets

By Jackson Reese
10/22/2021
California’s largest union has two names it doesn’t want members to know about. The first is Alma Hernandez. The second is Mark Janus. Hernandez is the now-former top boss at California’s largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In a truly let-them-eat-cake-moment, she’s been charged on multiple counts of embezzlement and tax fraud...

TAGS: Janus, seiu, seiu local 1000