Service Employees International Union

Summary (posts follow):

Union run by Andy Stern. Very strong supporter of illegal immigration, going as far as paying someone linked to the Mexican government to organize immigration marches. An unknown portion of their dues are from the wages of illegal aliens, i.e., money that was earned illegally. More on them here.

Last modified Dec 9, 2008

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Toothless Obama admin immigration enforcement: 100s janitors fired, not deported (+how many SEIU members are illegal aliens?) - 11/09/2009

In Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security sent no match letters or a variant to around 1200 janitors employed by the major corporation ABM informing those employees that there was a mismatch between their Social Security numbers and other information. They were required to provide documentation by October, and when all or almost all didn't, ABM fired the...

Tides Foundation awards three advocates for illegal immigration; two links to the Mexican government - 9/01/2009

... Current or former activist for the Service Employees International Union; the SEIU paid his base salary for six months while he organized marches and the like. * Salvador Reza, who's agitated against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. See this.

David Axelrod conflict-of-interest? Getting $2 million from former company that's now pushing Obamacare (PhRMA) - 8/19/2009

... Roundtable, FamiliesUSA, and the Service Employees International Union. PhRMA "represents the country’s leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies" (phrma.org/about_phrma). Note also that Axelrod's "astroturfing" company operates from the same address as AKPD; whether he still has an interest in that company isn't known. [1] politico.com/blogs/bens...

George Soros gives $5 million to push Obamacare (HCAN, NCLR, ACORN, SEIU, etc...) - 8/11/2009

... National Education Association * Service Employees International Union * United Food and Commercial Workers(UFCW) Other members include: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), National Abortion Federation (abortion doctors association), National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Brave New Films, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Gamaliel, Leade...

Weren't violent confrontations at healthcare townhalls part of the plan? - 8/08/2009

... Obama supporters - such as the Service Employees International Union - have started to show up in order to "make their voices heard". And, Obama and other Democratic leaders have made some questionable or highly questionable comments. But, it's not that easy to make hay out of what Obama supporters are saying and doing because his opponents' hands aren't that clean. If th...

"Reform Immigration For America": business, labor, CAP, NCLR, CHIRLA begin new push; summit, townhall meeting; John Quigley - 6/01/2009

A new group called "Reform Immigration For America" recently launched in order to push for comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. They're a coalition of business, labor, and far-left/racial power groups; see their slick site here: reformimmigrationforamerica.org. A surprising variety of amnesty hacks this side of raving extremist (or thereabouts) is involved with their organ...

Mike Kingsbury /SEIU offers bad economics, bad logic (legalization as a "wage floor") - 5/04/2009

Mike Kingsbury of the Service Employees International Union offers the exclamation point-rich blog post "What a week for immigration reform!" (seiu.org/2009/05/what-a-week-for-immigration-reform.php). He's so excited he forgot to think things through, saying this about the recent immigration marches: Why we as citizens don't do this more often, I don't know. I do know that...

4/30/09: Chuck Schumer holding immigration "reform" hearing (Alan Greenspan, Joel Hunter, Doris Meissner) - 4/28/2009

... the INS. * Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union. The Socratic debate will commence at 2pm Eastern, and a webcast might be available.

College Board comes out for anti-American DREAM Act, depriving U.S. citizens of college educations (Gaston Caperton, Thomas Rudin, Roberto Gonzales) - 4/21/2009

The College Board - the group of over 5600 educational institutions that administers the SAT - has released a report advocating for the anti-American DREAM Act; that would let the illegal aliens covered under the bill take college educations away from U.S. citizens. See that link for the details and a question you're urged to ask those politicians who support the bill in order to discredit th...

McCain won't support union-driven immigration "reform" push; other uncertainties - 4/19/2009

Change to Win and the AFL CIO recently joined forces to promote comprehensive immigration reform. Now. per this, John McCain says: "The current plan being developed by the administration and organized labor calls for immigration reform that does not adequately address either securing the border or a legal temporary worker program and is a plan I cannot support... We need to act on the pressin...

Change to Win, AFL-CIO join to push immigration "reform"; ditching big business; labor commission - 4/14/2009

... federation (which includes the Service Employees International Union) have joined forces to push comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. This is a continuation of the plan that was outlined in Soros-funded Democratic immigration push might ditch business interests involving a commission to manage future immigration levels. The unions want the basic components of "reform", but the...

2006: Grover Norquist supported amnesty with U.S. CofC, far-left ACLU, NCLR, SEIU, NIF, USCCB, AFL-CIO - 4/09/2009

On January 12, 2006, the American Bar Association held a conference called "Fortress America: Comprehensive Immigration Reform" at the National Press Club in Washington DC in support of that "reform" and specifically in opposition to HR4437. The brightest lights in the amnesty firmament showed up, all in support of amnesty. I saw video of the event on CSPAN (IIRC) at the time, ...

NALEO, LULAC, SEIU, Univision: ending raids for census not enough, immigration "reform" needed - 4/01/2009

... Latin American Citizens and SEIU (Service Employees International Union) announced a grassroots campaign that would supplement Census Bureau efforts to reach the traditionally hard to count Hispanic community. An estimated 1 million Hispanics, or about 3 percent of the U.S. population, were missed in 2000. "Make no mistake about it: The census cannot succeed if Latinos are not fully counted,...

Some questioners at Obama town hall were plants (SEIU, donors, etc.) - 3/27/2009

... included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008. Th...

Annoying: Rachel Maddow misleads about Employee Free Choice Act - 3/11/2009

... side of the leadership of the Service Employees International Union and other unions. It'd be nice if they both went away, but lacking that perhaps the Dems could come back with something that's at least slightly less of a sham. ...

NCLR, LULAC, MALDEF, SEIU, LNHI: universal healthcare for illegal aliens (Latino Agenda for Healthcare Reform) - 12/23/2008

On December 12, the group Latinos for National Health Insurance (LNHI, president Jaime Torres) convened a meeting in Washington DC where they and a host of other groups created a coalition called the Latino Agenda for Healthcare Reform. They called for an end to a supposed disparity in healthcare coverage between Hispanics and other groups. And, they also demanded "access to high quality, ...

Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich arrested by FBI on federal corruption charges; accused of trying to sell Obama's senate seat - 12/09/2008

... various unions including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)... On November 10, Blagojevich, his wife, Harris, Governor General Counsel, Advisor B and other Washington-based advisors participated at different times in a two-hour phone call in which they allegedly discussed, among other things, a deal involving the SEIU. Harris said they could work out a deal with the union and the Pr...

Colorado Democracy Alliance/Jared Polis to "educate the idiots" - 10/01/2008

... alongside Mitch Ackerman of the Service Employees International Union, Jenifer Brandeberry of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Boulder "activist-philanthropist" Linda Shoemaker and Rob Katz, CEO of Vail Resorts. CoDA "strategy group" members (PDF) include liberal activists Bobby Clark and Michael Huttner of ProgressNow, Chantell Taylor of Colorado Ethics Watch, and J...

Mexico linked groups complain about "hate group" FAIR (FIRM, SEIU, America's Voice, NCLR) - 9/11/2008

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is currently conducting the "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" rally in Washington DC where radio hosts from across the country and their listeners lobby their representatives to support pro-borders causes. Needless to say, the other side doesn't like that too much, and four such groups have joined together to place a scurrilous adver...

State Farm not a good neighbor to Republicans (Hispanic voting drive with NCLR, NALEO) - 6/26/2008

... involved include ImpreMedia, the Service Employees International Union SEIU and the We Are America Alliance [3]. Members of the WAAA are linked to the Mexican government. Others involved include Entravision Communications and Mi Familia Vota Educational Fund [4]. This NCLR press release makes it clear they only care about one thing: race-based power [3]: Strategically, the campaign seeks to e...

Campaign to Defend America launches anti-John McCain ad (George Soros, MoveOn, CAP, SEIU, Fund for America) - 3/05/2008

A group called "Campaign to Defend America" ("CDA") has released an anti-John McCain ad that you can see here. They're supposedly going to be spending in the low seven figures running it on TV. It points out various ways that McCain is "McSame as Bush". Cute. And, it also ends with a rather questionable photo of McCain hugging Bush. When I first heard about this,...

Progressive States Network fighting the "Anti-Immigrant Movement" (Nathan Newman) - 11/12/2007

A little known group called the "Progressive States Network" is launching "The State Immigration Project" (progressivestates.org/content/714) and offers "Fighting the Anti-Immigrant Movement in the States" - authored by their policy director Nathan Newman - as their first artifact. They intend to support "state legislators and advocates working to promote a smart...

John Edwards: path to citizenship for everyone living in the U.S. - 9/24/2007

... quote from John Edwards (9/17 Service Employees International Union political action conference): "We're going to ensure that every single person living in the United States of America has a completely achievable path to American citizenship so that they don't live in the shadows." It'd be nice if we still had reporters rather than simply transcript

LULAC, Raza radicals: Senate bill "unworkable", "this is our land!", "border crossed us" - 5/20/2007

A couple days ago, Mickey Kaus suggested one way to scuttle the Senate's amnesty bill: get radicals to support an even worse version, and perhaps even utter "reconquista" style statements. It looks like he's got his wish. From this: [Jaime P.

Univision conducts citizenship drive with Mexico-linked group (NALEO) - 5/11/2007

The Spanish-language TV network Univision is encouraging their eligible viewers to become (U.S.) citizens. The initiator of the campaign (NALEO) has at least one link to the Mexican government, nominating the recipients of Mexico's Ohtli award.

NBC Nightly News promotes left-wing environmental group "Step It Up" - 4/24/2007

Tonight's NBC Nightly News featured Brian Williams introducing a segment on a group called "Step It Up" which wants to end global warming and which held marchs across the U.S. on the 14th. The report was all bright and happy and wholesome. Then, of course, I looked up the group itself to find what they weren't telling their millions of viewers.

Kennedy-McCain illegal alien amnesty nearing completion; business, racial groups - 2/22/2007

From this: Senators and lobbyists are putting the final touches on a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that includes an easier citizenship path for illegal aliens and weaker enforcement provisions than were in the highly criticized legislation that the Senate approved last year. Sen. Edward M.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, Julien Ross, AFSC - 2/18/2007

... Colorado Catholic Conference, Service Employees International Union Local 105, and the American Friends

The "Missouri-Kansas Coalition Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Bigotry" - 1/31/2007

The "Missouri-Kansas Coalition Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Bigotry" is a new coalition that's fighting against those "vigilantes" who want to enforce our immigration laws, specifically the Minuteman Project.

Lobbying for immigration "reform" - 1/29/2007

Mike Madden of Gannett News has a brief round-up of the money that was spent lobbying for and against immigration "reform" in 2005 and the first part of 2006 here. According to a Gannett study, $3.3 million was spent in that period, and most of that was the pro side. They also mention the Center for Responsive Politics.

SEIU wants a massive illegal alien amnesty for all - 1/18/2007

... wasn't already clear, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) has announced its "agenda for comprehensive immigration reform" by sending a "detailed letter" to Teddy Kennedy, which, of course, is preaching to the choir: The letter identified core reform principles to which SEIU is committed, including legalization, a new worker program, labor and civil rights la...

Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007 - 1/17/2007

From this we learn of yet another coalition in favor of massive immigration, this one calling itself the "Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007". Its members include: * R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president, U.S.

SEIU dividing over "guest" workers vs. amnesty for all - 1/03/2007

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was deeply involved in last year's illegal immigration marches. However, their president Andy Stern only goes as far as supporting the Senate amnesty schemes which include "guest" worker plots.

Immigration march organizers have foreign links - 9/01/2006

Many of those who attended the recent immigration marches are foreign citizens who are here illegally. But, it doesn't stop there. For instance, one rally organizer is a former Mexican consul general and another is an official with a Mexican political party. Not surprisingly, the MSM has barely mentioned such links.

El Cucuy es Raza! (Bustamante, Cedillo, NCLR, voting) - 8/02/2006

Popular Spanish-language radio host El Cucuy (real name: Renan Almendarez Coello) is on a 10 city bus tour trying to register members of his audience as voters. He kicked off the campaign in San Jose (California) on Monday, and joining him on his fun bus were Lt. Gov.

Karl Rove's pro-illegal immigration extended network - 7/15/2006

Let's take a look at Karl Rove's new friends, the National Council of The Race ("La Raza") and who they're working with. The group Defend Colorado New tried to pass Proposition 55 (similar to Arizona's Prop. 200 or CA's Prop. 187), but in June they were thwarted by a possibily activist CO Supreme Court. On the other side is the deceptively-named Keep Colorado Saf...

Clinton, Rove to speak before National Council of La Raza (The Race) - 7/01/2006

The National Council of La Raza ("National Council of The Race"), a far-left, Ford Foundation-sponsored racial power group, will be holding its annual meeting at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 8-11.

Is the Colorado Supreme Court pro-illegal immigration? - 6/13/2006

... Ackerman, head of an SEIU local (Service Employees International Union). Also, Anna Sampaio, political science professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. The former interim chairwoman was Lorez Meinhold, executive director of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. They selected Pena to replace her after seeing him deliver a rousing speech before a May 1 illegal immigration march. UPD...

Illegal Immigrants, Unite Here! (under the union banner) - 5/03/2006

Byron York does something that the MSM fails to do: follow a link. At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, "We Are America." Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name "New American Opportunity Campaign," and below that was a web address, www.cirnow.org... Following...

Chicago protests against ICE's show immigration raid - 4/21/2006

Supporters of illegal immigration hastily convened a protest in front of DHS's office in Chicago to speak out against yesterday's once-in-a-blue-moon enforcement action. The report from CBS 2's Sylvia Gomez is here, and that from ABC 7's John Garcia is here.

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