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*'''Property services''': with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries | *'''Property services''': with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries | ||
*'''Public services''', with more than 1 million local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers | *'''Public services''', with more than 1 million local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers | ||
==Barack Obama== | |||
In 2009, its president, [[Andy Stern]], was the most frequent [[Obama Administration#White House operations |White House visitor]] to President [[Barack Obama]]. The union endorsed him, as a candidate, in February 2008.<ref name=SEIU-Obama>{{citation | |||
| title = SEIU Members Endorse Sen. Barack Obama | |||
| date = 15 February 2008 | |||
| publisher = Service Employees International Union | |||
| url = http://www.seiu.org/2008/02/seiu-members-endorse-sen-barack-obama.php}}</ref> | |||
==Critics== | |||
Conservative critics have been emphatic that SEIU has great influence on President Obama. On [[Andrew Breitbart]]'s BigGovernment.com, Mike Flynn claimed, of violence in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], "Evidence is emerging that the events of that day went far beyond St. Louis and may have been part of a nationally orchestrated campaign to intimidate and silence dissent. <ref name=BG>{{citation | |||
| title = Obama’s Shock Troops: SEIU and Political Intimidation in St. Louis | |||
| author = Mike Flynn | |||
| url = http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/06/obamas-shock-troops-seiu-and-political-intimidation-in-st-louis/ | |||
| date = 9 November 2009}}</ref> | |||
There are relationships between SEIU and [[ACORN]]. | |||
==References== | |||
{{reflist|2}} | |||
Revision as of 17:19, 30 January 2010
Said to be the fastest-growing union in North America, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) focuses on three sectors of a service economy; it is the largest union in the first two:
- Health care: with more than 1.1 million members in the field, including nurses, LPNs, doctors, lab technicians, nursing home workers, and home care workers
- Property services: with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries
- Public services, with more than 1 million local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers
Barack Obama
In 2009, its president, Andy Stern, was the most frequent White House visitor to President Barack Obama. The union endorsed him, as a candidate, in February 2008.[1]
Critics
Conservative critics have been emphatic that SEIU has great influence on President Obama. On Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, Mike Flynn claimed, of violence in St. Louis, Missouri, "Evidence is emerging that the events of that day went far beyond St. Louis and may have been part of a nationally orchestrated campaign to intimidate and silence dissent. [2]
There are relationships between SEIU and ACORN.
References
- ↑ SEIU Members Endorse Sen. Barack Obama, Service Employees International Union, 15 February 2008
- ↑ Mike Flynn (9 November 2009), Obama’s Shock Troops: SEIU and Political Intimidation in St. Louis