Posts tagged April Verrett
Union leaders speak at 2024 Democratic National Convention
August 20, 2024 // “We are all in for Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris has always been all in for us,” said April Verrett, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.
Opinion: Kamala Harris’s California quid pro quo for unions
July 28, 2024 // Prime Healthcare Services alleged that the union then told them that it could make the problem go away. “Dave Regan, the president of SEIU-UHW, repeatedly informed Prime… that Harris would approve Prime’s acquisition only if Prime allowed SEIU-UHW to unionize workers at Prime’s hospitals,” according to court documents. SEIU donated to Harris’s 2010 and 2014 campaigns for attorney general as well as her successful 2016 Senate bid. A district court dismissed the lawsuit. It didn’t dispute that there may have been an arrangement between Harris and the union. It instead said that Harris had the legal power to rig the system this way.
Op-Ed: SEIU Brings Progressive Union Politics to Philly
June 4, 2024 // While serving as president of SEIU Local 2015, Verrett faced one of the largest union staff labor strikes in American history after accusations of union-busting, surveillance, assault, and intimidation. Verrett’s dedication to SEIU’s progressive politics, however, is unmatched. In the words of the union’s new leader, America’s “ugly, insidious, anti-black racist structures” inform her decision to make “eradicating structural and anti-black racism a core strategy” of union operations.
SEIU DOING A LITTLE UNION-BUSTING OF ITS OWN
May 15, 2023 // This week, the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 2 went on strike protesting the unfair bargaining conditions and lack of bargaining in good faith of their employer. The employer? SEIU. In this brief video on Twitter, SEIU staffers can be seen hanging a sign from their headquarters building in Washington, D.C., that reads “SEIU: Stop union-busting. Bargain a fair contract!” The description of the video explains, “Unionized staff at SEIU have authorized a strike to win pay that keeps up with the cost of living because Mary Kay Henry and April Verrett continue to utilize corporate tricks and delay tactics instead of bargaining with us in good faith. #UnionsForAll starts at home!”
Biden’s personal recovery plan: Pump up unions, squeeze Big Business
May 13, 2022 // The president is hoping his political fate — and the Democrats’ standing among the white working class — can be saved by lifting up organized labor.