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Workers United is an American and Canadian labor union which represents about 86,000 workers in the apparel, textile, commercial laundry, distribution, food service, hospitality, fitness and non-profit industries. [4] [5] It was established in its current form in 2009 and is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The SEIU was part of an ugly split from the AFL-CIO in 2005, when it joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers and others in forming a rival federation.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers [2] in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. [3] SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: healthcare (over half of members work in the healthcare field), including hospital, home care and nursing home workers; public services (government employees, including law ...
Delegates from the 15 affiliates (representing 100,000 members) met in Philadelphia in late March, and on March 22, 2009, they voted to disaffiliate from UNITE HERE and establish a new union, Workers United. [18] [19] [20] Workers United immediately affiliated with SEIU.
April Verrett, who is secretary-treasurer of the 103-year-old union, is running unopposed but has received the support of leaders who represent 89% of SEIU’s membership, according to a letter ...
In total, more than 500 workers around California participated in the strike organized by union local Service Employees International-United Healthcare Workers. SEIU-UHW has said that dialysis ...
After a lengthy and divisive internal leadership struggle within UNITE HERE, 100,000 members of the union's apparel division disaffiliated from the national union in March 2009, formed a new union called Workers United, and affiliated their union with SEIU. [30]
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) 1979 1,300,000 Retail store and distribution employees. 2008: UFCW: United Auto Workers (UAW) 1935 990,000 Full name: International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Automobile, truck, farm equipment, and construction equipment manufacturing workers ...