Original Posting: August 7, 2008 - Updated: October 1, 2008

All articles and news links are dated, so check for new items in every category whenever there is a new date on the home page. Informational websites are updated, but many of them continue to add new articles.

EAA provides this information as a service to its members who are being harassed by organizers from SEIU. These SEIU organizers are using deceitful tactics and outright lies to entice EAA members into signing “interest cards”. EAA advises its members not to sign anything, but to read all information placed on the EAA website and available from this page.

All articles and links will be linked here as long as they have relevance.

EAA Website Article Links:

• October 1, 2008 - SEIU Negatively Affects Politics
• September 28, 2008 - Thousands SEIU Members Protest the Andy Stern Kangaroo Court
• September 26, 2008 - SEIU Paid Millions to Companies with Family Ties
• September 25, 2008 - The High Price of Purple Dissent
• September 18, 2008 - FBI Raids SEIU 721, Charges and Fires Freeman
• September 18, 2008 - SEIU Summary by Los Angeles Times
• September 17, 2008 - SEIU Skullduggery
• September 17, 2008 - A House Divided - SEIU internal battles
• September 16, 2008 - SEIU Local Council President Arrested for Child Porn
• September 11, 2008 - EAA Uses Union Printers, SEIU 721 and United for LA Do Not
• September 10, 2008 - Association for Union Democracy Proposes EAA Style Democracy for SEIU
• September 9, 2008 - 4000 SEIU Members March Against Move to Silence Union Reformers
• September 9, 2008 - Mayor Sam Issues August 2008 Ass Clown Awards to SEIU
• September 4, 2008 - AFL-CIO Follows Through on Ultimatum to SEIU 721
• September 4, 2008 - SEIU Suspends Three More for Retaliation in Scandal Aftermath
• September 4, 2008 - SEIU Will Seek Aid From Reformers
• September 3, 2008 - Can SEIU Members Exorcise the Purple Shades?
• September 3, 2008 - Preview the New EAA Magazine Comparing MOU's
• September 1, 2008 - SEIU Local 721 President Leaves in Growing Corruption Scandal
• August 29, 2008 - Congress Investigates SEIU Local in Los Angeles
• August 28,2008 - Michael Hunt and Julius Obembe Examine EAA’s Financial Records
• August 28, 2008 - US Labor Department Joins Investigation of SEIU
• August 27, 2008 - Debbie Cabeza Denounces False Use of her Name by SEIU Supporters
• August 27,2008 - Steve Lopez (LA Times) Reams SEIU
• August 26, 2008 - SEIU Corruption Scandal Continues to Spread
• August 26, 2008 - AFL-CIO Issues Ultimatum to SEIU Local 721
• August 25, 2008 - Confirmed! SEIU Supporters and Organizaers Illegally impersonating EAA Officers
• August 24, 2008 - SEIU Uses Professional Union Busters & Impersonates EAA Stewards
• August 22,2008 - Why SEIU and Some of Your Ex-governors are in Bed Together
• August 21, 2008 - SEIU Articles All Speak for Themselves
• August 20, 2008 - SEIU Funds a 527 Committee Headed by Rockefeller, ties to Chase Manhattan, Goldman Sachs
• August 17, 2008 - SEIU Local 721 Members File Formal Charges Against Their Local 721 Leaders
• August 16, 2008 - No Mandatory Furloughs as Coalition (including SEIU) Agrees to Give-backs on Medical
• August 13, 2008 - SEIU-Butcher Harassing EAA Members
• August 12, 2008 - Low Wage Advocates, Zev Yaroslavsky Call for Investigation of SEIU Local
• August11, 2008 SEIU-Butcher Tries to Screw-Over MCIA Members
• August 9, 2008 SEIU Paid Tens of Thousands to SEIU President's Relatives
• August 7, 2008 SEIU Members Speak Out
• August 1, 2008 SEIU “Boiler Room” Operation Cranks Up
• July 30, 2008 Julie Butcher Rears Her Ugly Head
• July 25, 2008 Know About SEIU, use E-Links
• July 23, 2008 SEIU Lawsuit Against Its Own Members Dismissed in Los Angeles
• July 22, 2008 Just Like the Flu, SEIU Returns to Infect the Lives of EAA Members

Links to SEIU Informational Websites:

• California Nurses Association: click here
• City of Los Angeles SEIU Members Blog:click here
• Democracy For SEIU: click here
• Go Petition: click here
• Reform SEIU: click here
• SEIU Exposed:click here
• SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today: click here
• SEIU Members for Democracy: click here
• SEIU Watch:click here
• SEIU Voice:click here
• Serving Employers Instead of Us:click here
• Union Corruption Update: click here
• Union Facts: click here

Links to News Sources’ Headlines and Articles About SEIU:

• September 6, 2008 Los Angeles Times: - Compton Probes Sale of Land to Group Tied to Embattled SEIU
• August 29, 2008 Los Angeles Times: - Congress Investigates SEIU Local in Los Angeles
• August 28, 2008 Los Angeles Times: - US Labor Department Joins Investigation of SEIU
• August 26, 2008 Los Angeles Times: - SEIU Corruption Scandal Continues to Spread
• August 24, 2008 Los Angeles Times: - Union Leader's Difficulties Affect Supervisors Race - Parks Attacks Ridley-Thomas Over Ties to SEIU.
• August 8, 2008 San Francisco Business Times: - Stanford Prevails in Unfair Labor Case- Article details the ruling against SEIU stemming from SEIU’s unwarranted merging of various locals against the will of the SEIU members and subsequent reassigning Stanford bargaining units to yet another SEIU local.
• August 5, 2008 Z Magazine: - Will Call Center Servicing Solve Labor’s Customer Satisfaction Problems? – Article about the SEIU California call center that is replacing actual labor representation in their workplaces.
• July 29, 2008 The Union News: - SEIU Politics Are a Shakedown Racket - Article about SEIU spending $150,000,000 of SEIU members’ dues on politics.
• July 29, 2008 Business Wire: - Stanford Hospital & Clinics Forced to Withdraw Recognition of SEIU - Article tells of SEIU local being combined into mega-local, leadership and officers changed to those they do not know, and then their unit reassigned to other unknowns.
• July 16, 2008 Freedom at Work: - Pension Fund Mismanagement Highlights SEIU Corruption- Article about SEIU’s illegal use of funds to the detriment of SEIU members, including those who are counting on their SEIU pensions.
• July 9, 2008 New York Sun: - Holding Up a Mirror to SEIU- Article regarding the SEIU pension plan corruption.
• June 3, 2008 Seattle Times: - SEIU’s New Political Plan- Article relates how the SEIU is diverting ever more of its members dues to national political campaign. In the meantime, SEIU continues to make sweetheart deals with employers.
• June 1, 2008 New York Times: - A Union President Presses for Growth Amid a New Round of Criticisms- Article regarding Andy Stern, the SEIU convention, and the call-center concept of representation.
• May 28, 2008 NYNSA News: - Unions Denounce SEIU Raids- Article about SEIU raids in the eastern US and Puerto Rico and a second article about the “shady dealings of SEIU and its affiliates”.
• May 6, 2008 Reuters: - SEIU Retaliates Against California Caregivers and Democratic Reform Movement – Article about the SEIU International and its attacks on an SEIU California local. Includes description of staged ‘hearings’, top-down orders, and complete indifference to SEIU members’ needs and wants.
• May 4, 2008 The Union News: - SEIU Raids Nurses with Decert Tactic- Article about the typical way SEIU adds to its membership by raiding successful unions instead of organizing the unorganized.
• April 12, 2008 Labor Notes: - SEIU International Attempts Disruption at 2008 Labor Notes Conference- Details the physical intimidation, shoving and fighting by SEIU goons.
• April 9, 2008 San Francisco Bay Guardian: – A Less Perfect Union- Article relates how the emphasis on expansion over service makes SEIU huge, but provides less for its members than ever.
• February 29, 2008 Wall Street Journal: - At Issue is Mr. Stern’s Approach to Unionism- Article details Mr. Stern’s top-down approach including the appointing of the local union officials, combining small local into mega-locals, raiding instead of organizing, and other issues.
• February 29, 2008 New York Times: - Union Grows but Leader Faces Criticism- Article details the fight between Andy Stern and the California local of SEIU.