Wednesday, February 11 How SEIU treats staff 101
An email Perez got today says:
"The conference call this past Friday with all SEIU International staff who are UUR members where SEIU top brass basically said that the majority of them were getting shit-canned. Massive, massive layoffs. All Organizer 1's, plus a bunch of other organizers, field reps, researchers and communications people. I guess when the choice is paying your staff to do their jobs or paying lawyers to take over a democratically-run local, SEIU knows what side they roll with.
Staff are less-than-pleased with the situation, esp. as the layoffs are not going by seniority."
Didn't The International only just lay off almost all of their probationary organizers? By the way, UUR is International staff's own union, the Union of Union Representatives. Organizer 1's are organizers just past probation, usually in their second year with SEIU.