SEIU Members for Democracy
SEIU Members Speak Out
Below you will find links to sites which promote strong democratic unions and a return to the intrinsic power of any union--the voice and grass roots leadership of members like you.
Reform Web Sites
http://www.reformseiu.org/ - "S.M.A.R.T." SEIU Activists for Reform Today
http://cityoflosangelesseiumembers.com/blog - City of Los Angeles SEIU Members - Blog
http://www.seiuvoice.org/ - UHW-West members who want to get their unon back on track
http://www.cseunited.org/main.htm - Rank and File site by Local 1000
http://www.csea4us.com/ - California State Employees Association "Don't quit the union, fight back and help change it"
http://home.comcast.net/~lowda/index.htm - The SEIU 503 (Portland, Oregon) Midvalley Recall Squad hopes to recall their elected president, Joe Nicola, for seeking $110,000 in back pay for overtime
http://521membersfordemocracy.blogspot.com/ - SEIU Local 521 Members for Union Democracy
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/RNFLinks.htm - Rank and file reform Web sites by other union brothers and sisters provided by The Association for Union Democracy
S.M.A.R.T. Platform for Change
http://www.reformseiu.org/search/label/platform - The Platform for Change developed by http://www.reformseiu.org/ for the 2008 SEIU International Convention in Puerto RicoPetitions
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/2008-seiu-international-convention.html - Stop Rigging Elections for the 2008 SEIU International Convention in Puerto RicoEvents
http://www.seiu2008.org/convention_information/Default.aspx - Details on the SEIU 2008 Convention to be held in Puerto Rico beginning Saturday, May 31, 2008, where the S.M.A.R.T. Platform for Change (see above) will be presented
Documents
The SEIU Local 521 Story - by a rank and file member. Documents referred to are the 2008 SEIU Local 521 budget; the August 2007 SEIU Local 521 Executive Board minutes showing the 521 Stern-mandated member service call center Budget, one of many new SEIU call centers across the country; The SEIU Local 521 MSCC equipment upgrade cost estimates (does not include staffing costs and expenditures); the call center member privacy petition; and the SEIU 521 Pledge and Commitment oath. All MSCC costs are coming from dues-payers' strike funds without a prior general membership vote or approval.
http://www.reformseiu.org/2008/02/seiu-officials-and-tyrone-freeman.html - SEIU officials and Tyrone Freeman interfere with SEIU members' democratic rights
http://www.reformseiu.org/2008/12/seiu-local-221-members-deserve.html - An open letter to Lois Balfour of SEIU 221 from S.M.A.R.T. activist Monty Kroopkin
http://www.reformseiu.org/2006/02/seiu-higher-education-workers-local.html - SEIU 2007 endorses S.M.A.R.T. Platform for Change
http://www.reformseiu.org/2006/02/stern-berger-trustee-their-former-local.html - Stern and Berger trustee their former local, PSSU 668
SEIU Members in the News
See our Democracy4SEIU Bloglines Feeds for the latest local and national news on the Crisis in SEIU: http://www.bloglines.com/public/Democracy4SEIU
See LaborNet for SEIU stories at http://www.labornet.org/ (a subject search does not list titles or dates, but this still a topnotch site for labor news)
See our LabourStart search for SEIU stories at http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/newsquery1.pl?searchtext=seiu&language=en&number=100&Go=Go
See Labor Notes Archive for SEIU stories at http://labornotes.org/archives
See our Democracy4SEIU news feeds page for our Archive of Top Stories
Videos Online
SEIU CA Workers Speak Out On Crisis In SEIU: Part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1058177590408814637
SEIU CA Workers Speak Out On Crisis In SEIU: Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5891163838978583510 On March 22, 2008 dozens of SEIU members and leaders from California presented reports on the crisis in the SEIU. Topics include: SEIU Mergers Union Democracy, The Road to the SEIU International Convention (May 30 – June 5, 2008), and Reform within SEIU. This forum was produced by the Labor Video Project P.O. Box 720027 San Francisco, CA 94172 lvpsf(at)labornet.org (415) 282-1908http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f89TbysQPg&feature=related - YouTube - SEIU Debate on Democracy (Rosselli and Stern) by Democracy Now!, plus related videos including Stern's response and members' reactions to the democratic crisis in SEIU
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uhw+seiu&search_type= - A "UHW SEIU" video search on YouTube produces a number of revealing reform videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkf0kLhlIA - Movement for Union Democracy (M.U.D.) members of SEIU Local 1107 take control of their local's E-Board meeting after controversial officer elections
http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,2334129408.aspx - SEIU Mergers and the Future of SEIU (Part 1)
http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,155078720.aspx - SEIU Mergers and the Future of SEIU (Part 2)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7988090147676042582 -SEIU Mergers and the Future of SEIU (Part 3)
Blogs
http://strongervoice.blogspot.com/2007/06/voice-for-all-working-people.html - Stronger Voice
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=151029623&blogID=367067331 - SEIU Reform Nevada Style, by SEIU Local 1107 member, "Left Wing In Vegas" Dave
Humor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpByLxnHPis - Ken Hamidi interviews 'Jim Hard.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttbLO6AS2kk - Ken Hamidi and the member's court.
http://www.labornet.org/cgi-bin/ib/cgi-bin/ib.cgi?action=read&id=121 - Andy Stern, Walk a Day in My Shoes, by SEIU 521 member Catherine Alexander
To submit a site or link to this page please contact democracy4seiu@gmail.com
Members collaborating with other members across the country can revitalize our union and strongly impact our union leadership.
Around the country SEIU union members have had their voices silenced by template agreements, by having to sign "pledge" forms relinquishing their right to speak out against injustice in order to serve as rank and file leaders, and by being excluded from meetings and 'inside information.'
Many of us don't really know what is going on in our own union.
Together we can share what we know and take back our union.
By broadcasting our reform message we can educate other members and create a strong force for change in our union.
Here you can read, watch, and listen to other SEIU members who have had the courage to speak out for the rights of members like you.
If you are actively working for reform, please consider submitting your name, comments, photos, and videos to the sites included on this page.
