ARE SEIUS PLANS FOR ORGANIZING THROUGH POLITICAL ACTION REALISTIC?
Both childcare and homecare “organizing” is really about changing state laws for a lot of SEIUers (with some notable exceptions like Local 880 in Chicago, now being merged into SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana, with the fabulously awful acronym HCII which staff have taken to pronouncing “hickey”). How realistic are their plan for the coming years? SEIU is seeing a lot of big things on the horizon with the 2008 elections, but I bet they have probably already gotten a lot of the low-hanging fruit. Where are they going to have traction? I know when they announced they had “organized” 55,000 state employees in North Carolina by affiliating the state public employees association I chuckled. (Linda Rouse Sutton, the president of the state association, is the woman introducing Andy in the video of his speech I linked in a previous post). It did my heart good to hear Linda’s drawl up at the podium, and made me a little homesick too, reminding me of Kings BBQ (based in Linda’s hometown Kins
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- ARE SEIUS PLANS FOR ORGANIZING THROUGH POLITICAL ACTION REALISTIC?
