SEIU emerged as a key player in the national movement for comprehensive immigration reform in the late 1990s and 2000s. At a rally in Los Angeles in 2000, SEIU leader Eliseo Medina passionately advocated for legal protections and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant workers. Assuming leadership on this issue fit with SEIU's history as a union founded by immigrants that represented more immigrant workers than any other US union. SEIU continued organizing forums and rallies over the next decade to call for comprehensive reform that allowed all workers, regardless of documentation status, to unite and advocate for better wages and working conditions.
Chapter 3 janitors and the battle of century citySEIU
This document summarizes SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in Century City, Los Angeles in the 1990s. It describes how SEIU organized the 400 janitors employed by non-union subcontractors in Century City. Their efforts included marches, demonstrations, and a strike vote. A pivotal moment was a peaceful protest that was violently attacked by police, injuring 25 people. This galvanized support and the janitors eventually won their fight, gaining raises and benefits. Their struggle in Century City became a subject of the film "Bread and Roses" and demonstrated SEIU's ability to organize shifting immigrant workforces.
This document summarizes an article from Councillor Yancey's newsletter about several topics:
1) It discusses Councillor Yancey backing union members in a contract dispute with a private bus company and calling for fair treatment of workers.
2) It provides details on winners of the Do the Write Thing challenge that were recognized by Councillor Yancey for their efforts to reduce youth violence.
3) It outlines Councillor Yancey's support for creating an oversight commission for the Massachusetts prison system to improve conditions and reduce recidivism.
Asia Society Northern California's 2012 Annual Report summarizes the organization's work over the past year. It highlights four key aspects of their success: a dedicated staff, engaged board, strong donor support, and active community participation. The report provides an overview of major programs in sustainability, business, arts, and culture. It also recognizes honorees and top donors who helped raise over $330,000 at the annual dinner.
The father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with purpose of showing him how poor people live.
Find our what his son saw and what he thanked his father for.
The document discusses Community Driven Information Centers (CDICs) in Sri Lanka, which aim to provide public access to ICT services and applications to promote education, personal, social, and economic development in rural communities. Some key challenges to establishing CDICs included a lack of economic and communication infrastructure in rural areas. The objectives of CDICs are to build communities' capacity for community-driven development, empower them to manage resources using ICT, and promote rural livelihoods. The Gemidiriya project in Sri Lanka established over 650 CDICs across 7 districts. Benefits included increased computer literacy, transparency and accountability, and opportunities for employment and business. Lessons learned stressed the importance of community ownership and responding
Cranford Real Estate Market Update - July 2014Jean Zuhl
The document summarizes the real estate market conditions in Cranford, NJ in July 2014. It finds that inventory of homes for sale has decreased from the previous year, while average home sale prices and the speed of home sales have increased. Specifically, the average home sale price in July 2014 was $461,294, up from $440,001 the prior year, and homes sold on average within 36 days, faster than the 49 day average. This market environment favors buyers due to low inventory and sellers due to high prices and quick sales.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It notes that regular exercise can reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease and diabetes, improve mood, and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. Staying active also helps maintain a healthy weight and keeps muscles, bones and joints healthy as we age.
Chapter 3 janitors and the battle of century citySEIU
This document summarizes SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in Century City, Los Angeles in the 1990s. It describes how SEIU organized the 400 janitors employed by non-union subcontractors in Century City. Their efforts included marches, demonstrations, and a strike vote. A pivotal moment was a peaceful protest that was violently attacked by police, injuring 25 people. This galvanized support and the janitors eventually won their fight, gaining raises and benefits. Their struggle in Century City became a subject of the film "Bread and Roses" and demonstrated SEIU's ability to organize shifting immigrant workforces.
This document summarizes an article from Councillor Yancey's newsletter about several topics:
1) It discusses Councillor Yancey backing union members in a contract dispute with a private bus company and calling for fair treatment of workers.
2) It provides details on winners of the Do the Write Thing challenge that were recognized by Councillor Yancey for their efforts to reduce youth violence.
3) It outlines Councillor Yancey's support for creating an oversight commission for the Massachusetts prison system to improve conditions and reduce recidivism.
Asia Society Northern California's 2012 Annual Report summarizes the organization's work over the past year. It highlights four key aspects of their success: a dedicated staff, engaged board, strong donor support, and active community participation. The report provides an overview of major programs in sustainability, business, arts, and culture. It also recognizes honorees and top donors who helped raise over $330,000 at the annual dinner.
The father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with purpose of showing him how poor people live.
Find our what his son saw and what he thanked his father for.
The document discusses Community Driven Information Centers (CDICs) in Sri Lanka, which aim to provide public access to ICT services and applications to promote education, personal, social, and economic development in rural communities. Some key challenges to establishing CDICs included a lack of economic and communication infrastructure in rural areas. The objectives of CDICs are to build communities' capacity for community-driven development, empower them to manage resources using ICT, and promote rural livelihoods. The Gemidiriya project in Sri Lanka established over 650 CDICs across 7 districts. Benefits included increased computer literacy, transparency and accountability, and opportunities for employment and business. Lessons learned stressed the importance of community ownership and responding
Cranford Real Estate Market Update - July 2014Jean Zuhl
The document summarizes the real estate market conditions in Cranford, NJ in July 2014. It finds that inventory of homes for sale has decreased from the previous year, while average home sale prices and the speed of home sales have increased. Specifically, the average home sale price in July 2014 was $461,294, up from $440,001 the prior year, and homes sold on average within 36 days, faster than the 49 day average. This market environment favors buyers due to low inventory and sellers due to high prices and quick sales.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for both physical and mental health. It notes that regular exercise can reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease and diabetes, improve mood, and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. Staying active also helps maintain a healthy weight and keeps muscles, bones and joints healthy as we age.
This document provides a summary of offers and promotions for March 2014 from The Chemists India Trusts. It includes mega offers from GNC with discounts of 25-30% on products. There are also bundle offers, discounts of 10% on selected Guardian products, and other offers with price reductions on books, supplements, and soap gift packs. Focus categories for the month are feminine hygiene, baby care, and immunity products. The document outlines alliances with Jet Airways, Citibank, ICICI Bank, FreeCharge, American Express, and SBI Credit Card that provide additional discounts. It introduces new Guardian product launches and recommends placements of Guardian stands and the Choose & Save stand in stores. Finally, it highlights the Q
The document outlines various offers and promotions from The Chemists India Trusts including:
1. Buy 1 Get 1 free offers on select Guardian products and 50% discounts on Guardian baby care products.
2. Special discounts for customers who use Citibank, ICICI, Amity Synergy, SBI, American Express, and Freecharge cards.
3. A focus on promoting Guardian products in the categories of vigor and vitality, Ayurveda, and personal hygiene.
4. The launch of several new Guardian branded products spanning various categories.
This document provides tips and methods for quickly designing dungeons and adventures for roleplaying games. It recommends using bullet points to plan adventures instead of overthinking details. A classic "five-room dungeon" formula is described using a entrance, puzzle, trick, climax battle, and reward. Random dungeon generators and tweaking published modules are other options. The document then provides an example tomb adventure outline using different rooms and encounters to demonstrate how to structure a short adventure. It concludes with an overview of the "three paths method" for designing adventures with branching paths.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un paquete de sanciones contra Rusia por su invasión de Ucrania. Las sanciones incluyen restricciones a las importaciones de productos rusos clave como el acero y la madera, así como medidas contra bancos y funcionarios rusos. Los líderes de la UE esperan que las sanciones aumenten la presión económica sobre Rusia y la disuadan de continuar su agresión contra Ucrania.
Presentation given by Santanu Sengupta, Board Member, African Centre for Mobile Financial Inclusion on August 1st, 2011 at eWorld Forum (www.eworldforum.net) in the session Telecentres: Effective Approaches and Best Practices
This document provides instruction and examples for solving equations with fractions and mixed numbers. It begins with bellwork examples of fraction equations. The objective is stated as solving equations with fractions and mixed numbers. Several example equations are then shown and explained step-by-step with the homework assignment listed at the end.
The document is a message from a cousin encouraging their cousin to be more active and less sedentary during an upcoming trip to Lake Powell. It notes that the cousin often uses their Xbox, television, and fast food as excuses to not be active or go outside. It encourages putting down the video game controller during the Lake Powell trip in order to hike, cliff jump, and spend quality time together like they used to, promising an enjoyable time, workout, and calories burned.
This letter from a father to his son provides advice for caring for him as he ages. The father asks his son to be patient, listen without interrupting as he may repeat stories, and not force him to eat or shower if he refuses. He reminds his son of how he cared for him as a child and asks that his son now help him walk and live out his days with love and patience, as he had for his son.
As influences of light and moisture on germinationjugafoce
Santiago Villamil Castro, a 4th grade student, conducted an experiment placing seeds in three containers with different conditions of light and moisture. Seeds in direct sunlight and exposure to rain deteriorated the most, while those in low indoor light deteriorated slightly. However, the seeds exposed to low light and maintained moisture retained their appearance and color the best. The student learned that too much light can negatively impact seed germination, and adequate moisture is important.
Transmedia Mind materialized form, function and social meaning of educational content from visual and audiovisual narratives represented in different media and platforms that allow, through the exchange and interaction in different social contexts, the construction of knowledge.
A professor holds up a glass of water in class and asks students how much they think it weighs. When students provide guesses, the professor notes he doesn't actually know unless he weighs it. He asks what would happen if he held it up for minutes, then an hour, then a day. While the weight wouldn't change, holding it for longer periods would cause muscle strain and pain in his arm. He tells students this is like problems in life - thinking about them for a short time is manageable, but dwelling on them for too long can paralyze you. The lesson is it's important to think about challenges, but more important to "put the glass down" or stop dwelling on problems at the end of each day
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This document discusses human factors in healthcare. It provides definitions of human factors and outlines some key aspects including work environment, teamwork, safety culture and individual factors. It notes that errors are inevitable due to human fallibility and that around 80% of critical incidents relate to human factors issues. The need for defenses in depth is discussed including integrating human factors into education and having a just culture of reporting and learning from incidents. Examples from other industries like aviation are provided that demonstrate how human factors can be successfully incorporated. The document advocates for a systems approach and taking human factors as a core skill in healthcare.
Abby, Peter, Jonathan, Granny Vee, Annie, and Tutton-Rah are the main characters in the story. Peter is Dakota's favorite character because he is brave and doesn't like cats. The story takes place in a rundown house on top of a hill. Abby and Peter go to their uncle's house but discover that the man they thought was their uncle is actually Tutton-Rah, and the house isn't really their uncle's house. Dakota didn't like the book because it didn't make sense that a person could eat a mummy's insides and it didn't explain how a character went to a theme park.
This document provides information on product offers and promotions for the month of August 2014 by The Chemists India Trusts. It includes details of discounts on GNC products, private label products, FMCG items, and loyalty programs. Mega offers on GNC include 25% discount on products and 50% off membership fees. Discounts are also provided on specific private label products. The focus category for the month is highlighted as heart health and child nutrition. Instructions are given on implementing loyalty programs, alliances with banks and merchants, and placing promotional materials in stores.
O documento resume a formação e experiência profissional de Luciana França Cescon na área da saúde mental, com foco na prevenção do suicídio. Ela atua na prefeitura de Santos e realizou pesquisas sobre o atendimento a pessoas com risco de suicídio em um CAPS. O texto também fornece estatísticas sobre suicídio no Brasil e no mundo e discute mitos e fatores de risco associados ao comportamento suicida.
The document provides a history of the development of NGOs in the Philippines from the 1960s through the 1980s. It discusses the emergence of different types of NGOs like development NGOs, traditional charity organizations, and funding agencies. It outlines key events that influenced the sector such as the rise of social movements in the 1960s-1970s, the declaration of martial law in 1972, and the People Power Revolution in 1986 that ousted the Marcos dictatorship. The document also discusses the proliferation of NGOs after 1986, as well as challenges around coalition building among different organizations.
The document summarizes key events in the civil rights movement and Vietnam War era from 1960-1968. It discusses the 1960 presidential election between JFK and Nixon, major civil rights events and legislation under JFK and LBJ, the rise of black power movement, and growing US involvement in Vietnam. It also covers social programs under LBJ's Great Society and the urban unrest in later 1960s challenging racial equality goals.
This document provides a summary of offers and promotions for March 2014 from The Chemists India Trusts. It includes mega offers from GNC with discounts of 25-30% on products. There are also bundle offers, discounts of 10% on selected Guardian products, and other offers with price reductions on books, supplements, and soap gift packs. Focus categories for the month are feminine hygiene, baby care, and immunity products. The document outlines alliances with Jet Airways, Citibank, ICICI Bank, FreeCharge, American Express, and SBI Credit Card that provide additional discounts. It introduces new Guardian product launches and recommends placements of Guardian stands and the Choose & Save stand in stores. Finally, it highlights the Q
The document outlines various offers and promotions from The Chemists India Trusts including:
1. Buy 1 Get 1 free offers on select Guardian products and 50% discounts on Guardian baby care products.
2. Special discounts for customers who use Citibank, ICICI, Amity Synergy, SBI, American Express, and Freecharge cards.
3. A focus on promoting Guardian products in the categories of vigor and vitality, Ayurveda, and personal hygiene.
4. The launch of several new Guardian branded products spanning various categories.
This document provides tips and methods for quickly designing dungeons and adventures for roleplaying games. It recommends using bullet points to plan adventures instead of overthinking details. A classic "five-room dungeon" formula is described using a entrance, puzzle, trick, climax battle, and reward. Random dungeon generators and tweaking published modules are other options. The document then provides an example tomb adventure outline using different rooms and encounters to demonstrate how to structure a short adventure. It concludes with an overview of the "three paths method" for designing adventures with branching paths.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un paquete de sanciones contra Rusia por su invasión de Ucrania. Las sanciones incluyen restricciones a las importaciones de productos rusos clave como el acero y la madera, así como medidas contra bancos y funcionarios rusos. Los líderes de la UE esperan que las sanciones aumenten la presión económica sobre Rusia y la disuadan de continuar su agresión contra Ucrania.
Presentation given by Santanu Sengupta, Board Member, African Centre for Mobile Financial Inclusion on August 1st, 2011 at eWorld Forum (www.eworldforum.net) in the session Telecentres: Effective Approaches and Best Practices
This document provides instruction and examples for solving equations with fractions and mixed numbers. It begins with bellwork examples of fraction equations. The objective is stated as solving equations with fractions and mixed numbers. Several example equations are then shown and explained step-by-step with the homework assignment listed at the end.
The document is a message from a cousin encouraging their cousin to be more active and less sedentary during an upcoming trip to Lake Powell. It notes that the cousin often uses their Xbox, television, and fast food as excuses to not be active or go outside. It encourages putting down the video game controller during the Lake Powell trip in order to hike, cliff jump, and spend quality time together like they used to, promising an enjoyable time, workout, and calories burned.
This letter from a father to his son provides advice for caring for him as he ages. The father asks his son to be patient, listen without interrupting as he may repeat stories, and not force him to eat or shower if he refuses. He reminds his son of how he cared for him as a child and asks that his son now help him walk and live out his days with love and patience, as he had for his son.
As influences of light and moisture on germinationjugafoce
Santiago Villamil Castro, a 4th grade student, conducted an experiment placing seeds in three containers with different conditions of light and moisture. Seeds in direct sunlight and exposure to rain deteriorated the most, while those in low indoor light deteriorated slightly. However, the seeds exposed to low light and maintained moisture retained their appearance and color the best. The student learned that too much light can negatively impact seed germination, and adequate moisture is important.
Transmedia Mind materialized form, function and social meaning of educational content from visual and audiovisual narratives represented in different media and platforms that allow, through the exchange and interaction in different social contexts, the construction of knowledge.
A professor holds up a glass of water in class and asks students how much they think it weighs. When students provide guesses, the professor notes he doesn't actually know unless he weighs it. He asks what would happen if he held it up for minutes, then an hour, then a day. While the weight wouldn't change, holding it for longer periods would cause muscle strain and pain in his arm. He tells students this is like problems in life - thinking about them for a short time is manageable, but dwelling on them for too long can paralyze you. The lesson is it's important to think about challenges, but more important to "put the glass down" or stop dwelling on problems at the end of each day
Parallel Session 3.5 Crossing Boundaries to Improve OutcomesNHSScotlandEvent
This document discusses human factors in healthcare. It provides definitions of human factors and outlines some key aspects including work environment, teamwork, safety culture and individual factors. It notes that errors are inevitable due to human fallibility and that around 80% of critical incidents relate to human factors issues. The need for defenses in depth is discussed including integrating human factors into education and having a just culture of reporting and learning from incidents. Examples from other industries like aviation are provided that demonstrate how human factors can be successfully incorporated. The document advocates for a systems approach and taking human factors as a core skill in healthcare.
Abby, Peter, Jonathan, Granny Vee, Annie, and Tutton-Rah are the main characters in the story. Peter is Dakota's favorite character because he is brave and doesn't like cats. The story takes place in a rundown house on top of a hill. Abby and Peter go to their uncle's house but discover that the man they thought was their uncle is actually Tutton-Rah, and the house isn't really their uncle's house. Dakota didn't like the book because it didn't make sense that a person could eat a mummy's insides and it didn't explain how a character went to a theme park.
This document provides information on product offers and promotions for the month of August 2014 by The Chemists India Trusts. It includes details of discounts on GNC products, private label products, FMCG items, and loyalty programs. Mega offers on GNC include 25% discount on products and 50% off membership fees. Discounts are also provided on specific private label products. The focus category for the month is highlighted as heart health and child nutrition. Instructions are given on implementing loyalty programs, alliances with banks and merchants, and placing promotional materials in stores.
O documento resume a formação e experiência profissional de Luciana França Cescon na área da saúde mental, com foco na prevenção do suicídio. Ela atua na prefeitura de Santos e realizou pesquisas sobre o atendimento a pessoas com risco de suicídio em um CAPS. O texto também fornece estatísticas sobre suicídio no Brasil e no mundo e discute mitos e fatores de risco associados ao comportamento suicida.
The document provides a history of the development of NGOs in the Philippines from the 1960s through the 1980s. It discusses the emergence of different types of NGOs like development NGOs, traditional charity organizations, and funding agencies. It outlines key events that influenced the sector such as the rise of social movements in the 1960s-1970s, the declaration of martial law in 1972, and the People Power Revolution in 1986 that ousted the Marcos dictatorship. The document also discusses the proliferation of NGOs after 1986, as well as challenges around coalition building among different organizations.
The document summarizes key events in the civil rights movement and Vietnam War era from 1960-1968. It discusses the 1960 presidential election between JFK and Nixon, major civil rights events and legislation under JFK and LBJ, the rise of black power movement, and growing US involvement in Vietnam. It also covers social programs under LBJ's Great Society and the urban unrest in later 1960s challenging racial equality goals.
The document summarizes the struggles for equal rights by various groups in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, including women, Latinos, American Indians, Asian Americans, disabled Americans, gay Americans, and older Americans. These groups drew inspiration from the African American civil rights movement and organized efforts to fight discrimination in areas like employment, education, healthcare, and housing. Key events and leaders in each group's movement are highlighted.
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Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980 to provide funding to social entrepreneurs working to address social problems. As of 2010, Ashoka had sponsored over 2,000 fellows across 73 countries. Many of these fellows went on to start their own social ventures and charitable organizations. Drayton was inspired by experiences in India and figures like Ghandi and Jefferson to pursue social entrepreneurship and change on a large scale. He has received several awards for his work through Ashoka promoting social entrepreneurship globally.
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Domestic workers, who are mostly women, perform vital roles in households but remain an invisible workforce without rights in many countries. In New York City, the National Domestic Workers Alliance organized domestic workers to campaign for legal protections. In 2010, they succeeded in passing the first bill of rights for domestic workers in the US, providing rights to overtime pay, holidays, and protection from discrimination. However, ensuring employers comply with the law remains an ongoing challenge.
1) Labor Day has lost its meaning as a celebration of workers, but issues facing unions like lack of rights for independent contractors and domestic workers remain or have been exacerbated by the recession.
2) Federal and state laws have not kept up with the changing workplace and do not provide protections for the estimated 42 million independent contractors in the US, including three-quarters of a million in New York State.
3) Two women labor leaders, Ai-Jenn Poo and Sara Horowitz, have organized and advocated for independent workers through the Domestic Workers Union and Freelancers Union, achieving some successes like recovering unpaid wages and portable health benefits.
The document summarizes some of the key issues and reforms of the Progressive Era in the United States from 1890 to 1920. Progressives focused on addressing problems created by industrialization and urbanization through reforms like regulating large businesses, improving working conditions, and expanding women's rights and civil rights. Some of the major reforms included stricter regulation of food and drugs due to works exposing issues like The Jungle, establishing the Federal Reserve and antitrust laws under Roosevelt and Wilson to regulate big business, and women gaining the right to vote through suffrage movements and the 19th amendment.
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Introduction
The study of social movement reflects the social issues in different periods have faced. This work will focus on the Abolition Movement and the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements. Social movements are a result of general public consensus towards dealing with major social issues in the community.
I will discuss the historical background and ideals that supported the development of the Abolition Movement and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Social Movement. This is intended to show the correlation between their emergence and the key social issues that the community faced.
The Abolition movement
The Abolition movement was jumpstarted with the effort of ending slavery in America. It held that all people are created equal, and hence the practice of slavery was unacceptable. This movement existed in the 19th century when many people started publicly displaying dissatisfaction for the slavery practices in the country. It placed more pressure on the authorities to outlaw slavery (Martos, Wilson & Meyer, 2017). It would allow for increased debate about segregation and discrimination.
Slaved men and women worked on large agricultural farms as maids. Their life was brutal; they were subject to severe punishments and strict racial rules and policies. With time they opposed slavery through daily acts like antislavery movements. The basis of this movement was that all men were created equal and hence, the effort to emancipate slaves (Martos, Wilson & Meyer, (2017).
Abolitionists managed to integrate religion and moral movement, that focused on the acceptance that everyone was equal before the eyes of their creator and later on became political. Antislavery societies were formed by various churches to create awareness of evil effects of slavery (Lysack, 2012). American Colonization Society (founded 1817) was first movement to abolishing slavery but was greatly opposed since it was seen as unfair to send Black Americans from their motherland to Africa.
The American Antislavery Society was founded in 1833 by prominent leaders, such as William Lloyd Garrison David Walker and Frederick Douglass (Black Abolitionist) strongly opposed slavery in their publications (Pepin-Neff & Wynter, 2019). These publications disputed against slavery as anti-social and immoral and repeatedly used illustrations of African -American literatures and other accomplishments to outline that the Africans and their offspring had ability to learn like Americans, if granted freedom.
The abolition movement was politicized. The Native American Party opposed slavery as well immigrants. Thus, other parties like Free Soil and Whigs did so. They merge together in 1856 leading to election of Abraham Lincoln as president in United States (Lysack, 2012).
The abolitionists continued to pressurize the administration of Lincoln to terminate slavery. It to ...
The document provides an overview of the history and roles of civil societies in Kenya. It discusses how civil societies first emerged in the 1920s to fight colonial oppression and advocate for citizens' rights. They played a key role in Kenya's independence movement and transition to multiparty democracy. Today, civil societies address a wide range of issues like fighting disease, advocating for disabled peoples' rights, and promoting peace. However, tensions sometimes arise between civil societies and the government, which sees some as anti-government. The document also profiles one social entrepreneur working to promote employment for youth with disabilities.
This document provides information about an upcoming All School Day event at USC that will discuss immigration issues. The event will feature keynote speakers from the California State Assembly and USC faculty who will discuss state immigration laws and their impact. A community panel will also discuss legal issues facing immigrants and immigration policy. The event aims to facilitate discussion across differences on how to better communicate on issues of diversity and inclusion.
The document discusses the social and political upheaval in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Key events and movements included:
1) The emergence of the New Left consisting of college students inspired by the civil rights movement and seeking social change. Groups like SDS and protests like those over People's Park polarized campuses.
2) The growth of counterculture movements like hippies that rejected mainstream society and embraced liberal views on drugs, sex, and alcohol.
3) The rise of activism for minorities' rights, including the formation of groups like AIM fighting for Native American rights and the occupation of Wounded Knee, and Cesar Chavez organizing farmworkers.
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The document summarizes the early history of SEIU, tracing its origins to 1902 when janitors in Chicago organized one of the first unions of service workers. It details their struggles to gain recognition and bargaining rights amid employer opposition. By the 1910s, unions had formed for various building service occupations in multiple cities. However, intense anti-union persecution during WWI hampered their growth. Nonetheless, led by William Quesse, the unions continued organizing and fighting for wage increases and better conditions. This laid the foundation for SEIU, which was officially chartered in 1921.
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Much of this growth came about in response to the cost-cutting and restructuring that occurred beginning in the late 1990s under managed care programs. Large health- care chains fought unionization efforts with intimidating one-on-one meetings with employees, mandatory “captive audience” sessions with larger groups, and an onslaught of literature that sought to mislead workers about the union.
Cette croissance est une réponse aux réductions des coûts et autres restructurations qui ont commencé dès le début des années 1990. Les grandes chaînes de soins hospitaliers ont combattu les tentatives de syndicalisations avec des entretiens un-à-un intimidant les employés, des sessions magistrales obligatoires, ainsi que divers documents destinés à tromper les employés dans leurs perceptions d'un syndicat.
This document lists the credits for all photos and artwork contained in the book. It provides the photographer/artist name, chapter number and page number where each photo/artwork appears. It also notes that efforts were made to credit all media but some early records were incomplete. The document encourages contacting the publisher to provide additional credit information for future editions.
President Obama called SEIU President Andy Stern to thank union members shortly after the House of Representa- tives voted 219 to 212 to pass healthcare reform despite every Republican voting against the legislation. On March 23, 2010, at the White House signing ceremony, President Obama told Stern the century-long battle to achieve nearly universal health- care could not have been won without SEIU members’ hard work on its behalf.
Le président Obama a appelé Andy Stern, le président de SEIU, pour remercier les membres du syndicat juste après que le House of Representatives ait voté à 219 contre 212 en faveur de la réforme de la sécurité sociale malgré un camps républicain qui était à 100% contre. Le 23 mars 2010, pendant la cérémonie de signature à la Maison Blanche, le Président Obama a dit à Andy Stern que la bataille d'un siècle pour obtenir une couverture médicale presque universelle n'aurait jamais été gagnée sans le travail acharné des membres de SEIU.
SEIU demanded economic reforms following the 2008 financial collapse. The union protested large Wall Street bonuses paid after taxpayer bailouts. SEIU advocated for policies benefiting working families, including healthcare reform and the Employee Free Choice Act. The union also called for regulation of the private equity industry, citing job losses and debt loads imposed on acquired companies.
SEIU has organized nearly 100,000 family child care providers across several states to improve conditions for workers and children. In Illinois in 2005, SEIU represented over 49,000 providers and negotiated a landmark contract worth $250 million that provided wage increases up to 35%, health insurance, and incentives for training and quality standards. SEIU's success in Illinois served as a model for organizing other family child care providers to advocate for better early childhood education.
1) In 1999, 74,000 home care workers in Los Angeles voted overwhelmingly to join SEIU, making it the largest organizing victory since 1941 when over 100,000 autoworkers joined the UAW.
2) Most of the home care workers earned only the minimum wage of $5.75 an hour and had no benefits like health insurance or paid time off. They sought to join SEIU to gain better wages and working conditions.
3) Organizing the isolated home care workers, who each worked in different homes, presented unique challenges. SEIU shifted its strategy to passing legislation that would allow counties to set up home care authorities to bargain with.
The document provides publishing information for the book "Stronger Together: The Story of SEIU" including the author Don Stillman, designer Katerina Barry, additional writers and editors, researchers, and photo researchers. It also lists the copyright holder as the Service Employees International Union and the publisher as Chelsea Green Publishing. The Library of Congress cataloging information is also included.
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Chapter 32 the tough struggle for immigration reform
1. CHAPTER 32
e Tough Struggle For Immigration Reform
SEIU Seeks Legal Path To Citizenship
I n the late spring of 2000, more than 20,000 people gath-
ered at the Los Angeles Sports Arena for what was, at
the time, the largest immigrant rights event ever held in the
serving as a United Farm Workers national vice president be-
fore beginning his work with SEIU in 1986.
ough far larger than most, the Los Angeles rally was
United States. representative of the scores of demonstrations, protests, prayer
One of the major speakers that day was Eliseo Medina, a vigils, and other events that SEIU had begun organizing in the
Mexican American who had risen through the labor movement wake of Reagan-era immigration policies and laws. e 1986
to become one of SEIU’s top leaders. He spoke passionately Immigration Reform and Control Act had been billed as a way
about the injustice of an American immigration system that to punish employers who knowingly hired undocumented
allowed greedy employers to prey upon the vulnerable status of workers. But its practical e ect was to allow some employers
undocumented workers. to exploit immigrants and take advantage of their vulnerable
“Immigrants—documented and undocumented—are legal status.
making enormous contributions to the economic well-being After working for years to pave the way for organized labor
and to the cultural and civic institutions of this country,” Me- to throw its support behind legalization of citizenship for hard-
dina said at the rally. “But what too many receive in return working immigrant workers, SEIU had emerged as a key player
is poverty wages, few if any bene ts, and terrible working in the national movement for progressive and comprehensive
conditions.” reform of immigration laws. e union helped to coordinate
“Our immigration policies no longer protect the working and organize the pro-immigration reform campaign of a broad
people of this country or their ght to form a union,” Medina group of labor, religious, and community allies.
told the crowd, saying that the deportation of workers “not Prior to the June 2000 rally in Los Angeles, delegates to
only breaks organizing drives, it breaks families. at’s wrong SEIU’s convention held in Pittsburgh in May 2000 had ad-
and we need to do something about it.” opted a resolution calling for repeal of the 1986 law. Taking
Medina had come to the United States from Mexico at the action on that resolution, SEIU leaders including Medina and
age of 10 with his mother and siblings to join their father, who Dennis Rivera, then president of 1199/SEIU, helped to con-
was an immigrant farm worker. His career as a labor activist vene a series of forums sponsored by the AFL-CIO. In New
began when, as a 19-year-old grape-picker, he participated in York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and other locations,
the historic United Farm Workers’ strike in Delano, California. SEIU spearheaded the organizing of the forums, reaching out
Over the next 13 years, he worked alongside the legendary la- to labor, church, civic, and community groups.
bor leader and civil rights activist César Chávez. Medina honed At these forums, workers as well as religious, labor, and
his skills as a union organizer and political strategist, eventually community leaders drove home the point that, rather than
2. 242 STRONGER TOGETHER: THE STORY OF SEIU
sticking with the status quo of policies that end up exploiting
and punishing immigrant workers, the solution was a set of
laws and policies that would:
A ssuming a leading role in the quest for the rights of im-
migrant workers seemed to be SEIU’s destiny. e union
had been founded in 1921 by a small group of immigrant jani-
- tors in Chicago. And from those early days forward, the union
umented—to unite and form unions; had reached out to—and been strengthened by—immigrant
workers from every corner of the globe.
By 2010, with 2.2 million members, SEIU represented
other countries. more immigrant workers than any other union in the United
States. While large numbers of the union’s immigrant work-
ey said it was the only way to ensure that low-wage ers were Latino (and the union’s signature rally cry was “ Sí Se
workers, whether native-born or immigrant, would be able to Puede! Yes We Can!”), members of SEIU came from scores
earn enough money to support their families and pursue the of di erent countries. Languages spoken by SEIU members
American Dream. included Spanish, French, Polish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean,
3. THE TOUGH STRUGGLE FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM 243
cleaning o ces under the gaze of an unscrupulous supervisor.
When she refused his sexual advances, she was red. As she said
in media interviews after her part in the lm, “ ank God,
because we have a union, we have won better conditions.”
O ver the decades, SEIU’s position on immigration re-
mained clear and unwavering. It was simply this: unity,
not division and anti-immigrant hysteria, holds the promise
of a better life for America’s low-wage workers. e failure of
those workers to earn better salaries stems not from competi-
tion from immigrant workers, but from the greed of employers
who pro t from underpaid labor.
Mary Kay Henry, a few months before she became SEIU president, spoke In the spring of 2001, SEIU once again renewed its call
out in favor of the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to become the rst Latina for comprehensive immigration reform, and helped to lead a
Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Key immigration issues, such as
Arizona’s restrictive laws, are expected to be resolved by the Court. national grassroots coalition of religious, labor, and community
groups called “Reward Work!”
Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Japanese, Creole, Hmong,
ere were rallies and demonstrations in the streets of
and Portuguese among others.
Boston; Chicago; Providence, Rhode Island; and Newark, New
And on any given day, a snapshot of SEIU’s members
Jersey. In June 2001, SEIU President Andy Stern joined with
would include people such as Luz Portillo, a Boston janitor
a dozen immigrant janitors in front of the U.S. Capitol for a
who had come to the United States from El Salvador; Ma-
24-hour fast and vigil for immigration reform. At the time,
hira Selimbegovic, a Chicago service worker who had come
President George W. Bush was pushing for an expansion of the
to the United States in 1996 with her husband and two chil-
guest worker program, which created a revolving workforce of
dren to escape the war in Bosnia; and Dr. Lorraine Williams,
underpaid immigrant workers.
a native of Trinidad and Tobago, who joined SEIU during her
“We don’t need a new guest worker program,” Stern said.
medical residency.
“We need a ‘legalized worker’ program for those who are al-
When the English lm director Ken Loach decided in the
ready here.”
late 1990s to make a lm about the struggles of immigrant
At concurrent events, thousands of SEIU janitors marched
workers in the United States, he turned to SEIU for expert as-
and rallied in front of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
sistance. He based his movie Bread and Roses on the work and
Service building in Los Angeles, and hundreds more rallied in
lives of SEIU janitors in Los Angeles. Many SEIU janitors and
front of the Federal Plaza Building in New York City.
organizers were featured in the lm as actors and extras.
Despite those and other e orts by SEIU and the Reward
Two members who played parts in the lm were Local
Work! coalition, Congress failed to respond to the call for le-
1877 members Maria Ortega and Ernesto Vega of Los Angeles.
gal reforms that would give hardworking, taxpaying immigrant
Some scenes in the movie mirrored Ortega’s hardscrabble life of
workers a pathway to legal status in the United States.
4. 244 STRONGER TOGETHER: THE STORY OF SEIU
And then came September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of eral other students from deportation to countries they barely
that day’s terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the knew. ey had entered the United States as small children,
Pentagon, anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States rose became academic achievers, yet faced deportation because they
to new levels, and the ght for immigration reform became had no path to legalized citizenship. e campaign by SEIU
even more di cult. e years that followed did little to im- convinced U.S. o cials to delay their deportation.
prove prospects for reform. e United States was ghting
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S. economy nearly col-
lapsed in 2008. e uphill battle to win political support for
immigration reform got steeper still.
I n 2010, SEIU joined with faith, labor, and other immigrant
rights advocates to launch the largest and most coordinated
eld operation in the history of the immigration reform move-
But in 2009, with President Barack Obama in the White ment. Holding nearly 100 rallies at district o ces, vigils, watch
House and a Democratic majority in Congress, SEIU members parties, and press events across the country, activists said the
and leaders pushed forward with the union’s decades-long cry time had come, once and for all, to get comprehensive immi-
for immigration reform. gration reform passed by Congress and signed into law.
In April 2009, the union put technology to use, launching e diverse Reform Immigration for America (RI4A) co-
an online campaign to stop the deportation of high-achieving alition—which included law enforcement, faith leaders, labor
immigrant students. e campaign saved Walter Lara and sev-
5. THE TOUGH STRUGGLE FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM 245
“A comprehensive solution would couple enforcement at
the border and in the workplace with a path to earned legaliza-
tion for all hard-working immigrants,” Medina said. “It will
also replace guest worker programs with a system that guaran-
tees immigrant workers full labor and civil rights protections
and a path to U.S. citizenship.
“Done together, these reforms will nally restore the rule
of law and eliminate the informal labor market that drives
down wages and labor protections for all U.S. workers.”
SEIU’s work on immigration reform was guided by the set
of principles that the union’s members and leaders had devel-
oped over the years. As those principles so eloquently noted,
“ e need for comprehensive reform is urgent, not just for im-
migrants, but for all of us. Until it is enacted, the absurdities of
our current system will continue to drag our economy down-
SEIU members and other immigrant rights supporters marched on the White ward and claim an ever-growing list of victims, including work-
House as part of demonstrations urging immigration reform on April 30, 2009.
ers who su er depressed wages...and families separated from
activists, and business—organized an “immigration week of ac- their loved ones.”
tion” in January 2010 to present its vision of the elements of Taking the long-term view of how to x the broken system
successful immigration reform. of U.S. immigration laws, the principles called for expanding
Eliseo Medina, who led SEIU’s ght for immigration re- both the union’s and the nation’s partnerships with immigrant-
form, laid out the union’s view in a response to harsh new anti- producing countries. “ e long-term solution to uncontrolled
immigrant measures in Arizona in May 2010. immigration,” the principles stated, “is to encourage real eco-
He attacked the “enforcement-only mandates” that waste nomic development and sustainable jobs in immigrant-produc-
billions of taxpayer dollars on border walls and worksite round- ing countries, so that workers in those countries don’t have to
ups and divert attention from the practical immigration solu- leave their native country in order to support themselves and
tions America needs. their families.”
He said Congress should enact a balanced, comprehen- As Julia Marroquin, the 19-year-old daughter of a Local 26
sive bill that gets undocumented immigrants into the system member in Minnesota, said at an SEIU-sponsored immigration
and under the rule of law; provides for smart enforcement reform rally in her city, “ is is our moment to put behind us
on the border and in workplaces; and creates a visa system the failures of the past and to reform the U.S. immigration
that protects labor rights and meets the economic needs of system once and for all, so that it supports all U.S. workers and
the future. strengthens this country that we love.”