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SEIU Engulfed in Labor Dispute

The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU’s national field staff members and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees.

In return, the workers union, which goes by the somewhat postmodern name of the Union of Union Representatives, has filed charges of unfair labor practices against the SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers union’s leaders say that the SEIU is engaging in the same kind of practices that some businesses use: laying off workers without proper notice, contracting out work to temporary-staffing firms, banning union activities and reclassifying workers to reduce union numbers.

Y’know, you’d think that if any workplace would be a worker’s paradise, where the bennies are good, the donuts are free, and the laws of economics are really just mild suggestions, it would be a union office.

Questions:

• Is there any possibility of a strike? Picket lines?

• If so, will SEIU members also strike in support of their union brothers?

• How many employees does the Union of Union Representatives have?

• Are those employees unionized? And if so, what is their union called?

Anyway, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

Hat tip Kevin Binversie