Posts tagged SEIU
Ignored by Her Union: LA County Homecare Provider Speaks Out
September 21, 2026 // Dallas, TX — In a video released today by the Freedom Foundation, Shequita Chamberlain, an in-home healthcare provider for her mother, exposes how SEIU 2015 has trapped her in union membership despite never joining, and has continually ignored her requests to opt-out. Chamberlain has been trying to leave SEIU 2015 since 2021. She has sent four certified letters, called repeatedly, emailed, and even showed up in-person at SEIU 2015’s headquarters—only to be turned away under supposed COVID protocols.
Op-ed: Sean O’Brien is just Randi Weingarten in a hard hat
September 20, 2026 // Unions across sectors, including the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, and largely private-sector Communications Workers of America, want contracts to cover sex change procedures and abortions, while other unions demand workers submit to diversity, equity, and inclusion programming. Conservatives should not expect organized labor, whose members are now nearly half directly employed by governments, to be anything other than fully committed to Big Government and other entities that support Everything Leftism. There’s no clean way to divide organized labor against itself, so any conservative who wants to empower union bosses needs to know they are empowering all of them, including the ones they know better than to help.
Proposition 44 pits California clinics against union known for ballot battles
September 17, 2026 // While SEIU-UHW insists it will put resources behind the measure, the union hasn’t invested any major funds in Prop. 44 since May, instead funneling its dollars to support the billionaire tax. Opponents of the measure, meanwhile, had $32 million in cash on hand as of the end of June and have continued to raise money since then. The proposition is one of the least popular of the 14 statewide measures on this year’s ballot, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released Tuesday. Just 34% of the 1,745 California adults surveyed said they backed it.
14,000 Security Guards for Major Tech Companies Plan to Strike
September 16, 2026 // The security officers marched through downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, passing by the Dreamforce Conference, an annual tech gathering hosted by software giant Salesforce. Many tech employees, as well as leaders of the companies that the security guards protect, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, will attend Dreamforce.
150 Allina Health doctors start four-day strike after contract negotiations fail
September 15, 2026 // Allina is also in the midst of a hospice nurses strike that began Friday and will last through the week. Sutter Health, a California-based health nonprofit, says it is planning to acquire Allina Health in a deal that was announced in March.
Government Unions Are Making a Comeback — and Taxpayers Will Pay the Price
September 15, 2026 // Taken together, those same four unions have added back more than 230,000 members since 2024, the Commonwealth Foundation reports. That’s a 3.5 percent jump, and it has wiped out most of what looked like a permanent decline. Two of the four unions, AFSCME and SEIU, now have more members than they did before Janus. Only one union, the NEA, is still losing members, but even that decline has slowed.
California’s most powerful union boss threatened women, tried to ‘extort’ billionaire tax support: probe
September 15, 2026 // SEIU United Health Workers West President Dave Regan is under investigation for allegedly trying to strong-arm an endorsement from the SEIU’s state council. He is also accused of threatening and intimidating women employed by the council, as well as physically assaulting former SEIU executive Courtni Pugh, who’s now a political consultant leading the effort to stop the billionaire tax. The assault allegedly occurred in 2009.
New Report: Faster Labor Contracts Act Advances Union DEI Agenda Through Politically Appointed Arbitrators
September 13, 2026 // Americans for Limited Government today released findings in a new exposé, “The Faster Labor Contracts Act: Advancing the Union DEI Agenda”, revealing how a union-backed bill, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, moving through Congress would hand labor bosses a powerful new tool to impose radical diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) mandates, transgender workplace policies, and restrictions on cooperation with immigration enforcement — all without a worker vote. This report is the latest in ALG’s series examining how union leadership continues to push priorities at odds with President Trump’s agenda and the concerns of many rank-and-file workers.
Michigan earns ‘D’ in government union, worker freedom report
September 10, 2026 // The report called many of these actions taken by states and unions “anti-freedom” proposals which leave workers confused on their rights and obligations. “Union executives are spending tens of millions of dollars to rewrite the rules of the game and bolster their political machine in every state, at the expense of freedom for government employees,” Osborne said. “State lawmakers across the country must stand up against anti-freedom labor proposals to ensure that every American worker has the right to choose whether or not to associate with a union, without coercion or fear, and that their hard-earned dollars don’t fund a political agenda they don’t support.”
Opinion Shameful: Republicans help SEIU defy Gavin Newsom’s return to work order
September 1, 2026 // Enter Assembly Bill 1729. Authored by Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee and coauthored by Republican Assemblyman Josh Hoover, the bill throws a statutory obstacle in Newsom’s way. Existing law already requires agencies to maintain telework plans where teleworking is “both practical and beneficial.”