Talk:SEIU 775

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It would be good if the article defined what SEIU meant, or stood for. It would also be beneficial to bring the choice of wording to be more encyclopaedic. -- Ratarsed 12:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

edits to SEIU 775

I'm not sure i understand the comment on what SEIU stands for. The stub does spell it out as Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

The stub was edited to put the mission statement in quotes and describe it as the stated mission of the organization.

Removed cleanup and neutrality notations

Article is now properly sourced with news references to key events. Jdlawson (talk) 17:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hardly a neutral or unbiased POV

The last two paragraphs of this article are heavily biased -- a violation of the neutral POV requirement.

The first is sourced from the Freedom Foundation, the conservative, anti-union organization that is currently advocating to Washington union members, and specifically SEIU Local 775 union members, that they drop their union membership (ie, paying dues) but continue to demand that the union represent them (ie, incur costs). Freedom Foundation is currently engaged in similar campaigns in other states. This is not a neutral source, but one that has a very strong interest in spinning the story a certain way. (see the Freedom Foundation website for their self-definition: https://www.freedomfoundation.com/) Even worse, the paragraph in the Wiki article misrepresents what the Freedom Foundation story actually said, converting what was a claimed probablity into a factual assertion. The statement from the Freedom Foundation story is that during a single month SEIU had "likely the largest membership decline in SEIU 775's history."

The second is not only sourced from Fox News, a conservative, anti-union media organization, but blatently biased in its very language.

Both of these should be removed. An equivalent to the first could be used if from a neutral source, and if written to be meaningful. For example, what was and is the membership of SEIU Local 775 before and after Harris v Quinn? If the historic shifts in membership shifts were near zero, then a drop of a dozen memberships out of a total membeship of tens of thousands would be "the biggest in history" but nonetheless meaningless. A further issue would be how many people renewed their union membership after dropping it, once they realized the implications of their actions. In some of the other union locals whose members Freedom Foundation has targetted, a substantial number (but not all) of the people who had dropped their memberships did just that.

Decline in Union Membership and Union Dues

In light of the Harris v. Quinn decision, individual providers now that the right to opt-out of the SEIU775 union and SEIU775 experienced the biggest membership drop in history

The union has been doing it's best to keep caregivers in the dark about their right to opt out in order to keep the union dues coming in. Now SEIU775 leadership is furious that members are starting to opt-out of the union

24.20.217.112 (talk) 17:46, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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