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Service Employees International Union

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    December 23, 2010

    Return to Sender

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  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Welcome to Arizona

    Judge who helped BP went on junket party on their tab.

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    HISD's Breakfast Was Pop Tarts and Animal Crackers

    Photo courtesy Orell Fitzsimmons​The upcoming cost-savings cutback in hours for cafeteria workers in the Houston ISD brought union leader Orell Fitzsimmons over to two HISD elementaries this week and when he looked in on the actual breakfast being served, he was not amused."Milk, juice, Pop Tarts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Dueling LULAC Press Conferences Over CEP, HISD's Alternative School For Troubled Students

    Photos by Margaret DowningMary Almendarez, first vice president for LULAC Council 402, leads off the press conference Monday, in support of terminating the Houston ISD's contract with Community Education Partners.​It was one of those great, if little noticed moments in Houston history, as separate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    The Pitch Forks Come Out Near The Galleria

    Photo by Blake WhitakerHolding a pro-union demonstration near Voss and San Felipe, a short distance from the epicenter of frou-frou that is the Galleria, seems likely to elicit a less-than-enthusiastic response from passersby. But economic trouble has turned things around a bit, and local activists ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    A Piece of the Pie

    A summer spent reallocating funds, helping everyone to a bit of the American dream

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    On Second Thought

    HISD isn't laughing now about a breakfast program

  • News

    November 4, 2004

    Eating It Up

    Are HISD and Aramark cooking the books to feast on federal breakfast subsidies?

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    On the Case

    Our new TV series is ready to roll

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Friends Like These

    Hermann Park vendors are begging the city: Take us back!

  • Film

    June 7, 2001

    Norma Rosa

    L.A.'s working class looks to serve itself in the pro-union Bread and Roses

  • News

    January 16, 1997

    Minimal Theories

    Despite the rhetoric, evidence on the minimum wage initiative isn't conclusive either way

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