A union representing some 2 million workers is rejoining one of the largest unions in the country, the unions announced on Jan. 8, days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which left the AFL-CIO in 2005, is merging with the AFL-CIO.
The SEIU has about 2 million workers in sectors such as health care and food services. The AFL-CIO has more than 12.5 million members working in fields such as construction and transportation.
“SEIU members are ready to unleash a new era of worker power,” April Verrett, SEIU’s president, said in a statement. She added later, “We are ready to stand up to union-busters at corporations and in government and rewrite the outdated, sexist, racist labor laws that hold us all back.”…