Fight for $15 Organizers Demand a Union

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/05/31/fight-15-organizers-demand-union/

After voting at their annual conference last year to investigate the status of organizers working for the Fight for $15 and other SEIU campaigns, the UUR found Fight for $15 employees are rightful union members and entitled to UUR representation.

“We are strong believers in the work of the Fight for $15 campaign,” said UUR President Conor Hanlon in a statement last Monday. “Our members work side-by-side with non-union staff who are on the front lines of this campaign. Why then, should Fight for $15 staff not be part of our union? Many of them come from the same communities and share the same struggles as fast food, home care and other low-wage workers. Like those workers, they deserve the benefits of a union. We call on SEIU to honor its commitment to working people by recognizing them as members of UUR.”

This isn’t the first time problems within SEIU have spilled into the public. In 2009, the UUR filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against SEIU in response to announced layoffs of 75 of the union’s 200 members.

[Old Union Guy]

1. About time. I always thought it made more sense to do wage demands through a union. n/t

[MichMan]

2. Shameful Hypocrisy ! n/t