[lbo-talk] SEIU membership

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 2 16:26:41 PDT 2007


On Apr 2, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Mark Rickling wrote:


> Affiliations of already existing public sector units accounts for some
> of this growth, but not most of it.

Any idea how much?


> That would be homecare and
> childcare -- approx. 142,000 newly organized workers in the time span
> below.

That's almost 3/4 of the 201,185 gain from 2000 to 2006. That was done mainly with political contributions and connections and not traditional organizing, right?

Doug



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