The biggest fraud case of the year involved the SEIU's home-care workers local in Los Angeles.
In addition to its national efforts, SEIU advocates for workers through more than 300 local affiliates.
This has infuriated some regional leaders of the SEIU, notably Sal Rosselli of the California branch.
"This aggressive use of power by the SEIU is indefensible, " wrote Justice Samuel Alito.
About one-fourth of SEIU's 2.1 million members are Hispanic, including many Latin American immigrants.
Although Nevada's local SEIU organization has endorsed Obama, Clinton could still benefit from labor credentials in that contest.
In 2009, both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU jointly released guidelines on an immigration reform package they would support.
Stern broke SEIU off from the AFL-CIO two years ago and has come to epitomize the contemporary union boss.
The SEIU has been at the forefront of taking on Wal-Mart, backing groups critical of Wal-Mart like Wal-Mart Watch.
In 2005, SEIU broke away from the AFL-CIO to form part of a new labor federation, Change to Win.
About 28, 000 current and former workers who were not members of SEIU sued, and the high court supported them.
To see a chart of SEIU's political influence and connections, click here.
She did not belong to SEIU, unlike most of her fellow government workers.
Mr Stern has dramatically increased the membership of his union, the SEIU, at a time when others are contracting.
The building at 101 Sixth recently lost its largest tenant, SEIU Local 32BJ.
This brings the total number of Obamacare-promoting SEIU Obamacare refugees to an estimated 45, 000 workers represented by seven SEIU locals.
Both the AFL-CIO and SEIU are lobbying for an easier path to citizenship than was proposed by the 2007 effort.
No one at the union has been charged with any wrongdoing and the SEIU says it is cooperating with the federal investigation.
Mr. Stern was president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is now a senior fellow at Columbia University's Richman Center.
Mr Stern has raised union membership at the SEIU by targeting low-paid service workers in firms such as those owned by private equity.
The SEIU has organized immigrants in cities including Houston and Los Angeles with the promise of wage increases, paid personal days and vacation.
Andy Stern's Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which represents 1.8 million workers, recently started a private equity campaign featuring a Web site, behindthebuyouts.org.
SEIU, the latest in a line of cases protecting the First Amendment rights of workers who are required by state law to pay union dues.
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The SEIU, AFSCME and other bureaucrats advocate ardently for enlarged entitlements.
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"He's become a very weak mayor, " said Rahaman Muhammad, president of the Newark labor union, SEIU Local 617, a former supporter who is now an outspoken critic.
Stephen Lerner, who is leading SEIU's private equity campaign, says he speaks to Stern daily about the project, which he describes as a top priority for the union.
The SEIU has been at the forefront of taking on Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), backing groups critical of Wal-Mart like Wal-Mart Watch.
But the rebels, led by Andy Stern, the SEIU's boss, want a big chunk of the budget returned to individual unions, for them to spend on boosting their membership.
The former president of the SEIU, Andrew Stern, has called for the repatriation of over a trillion dollars of capital by a (temporary) repatriation tax rate of 5.25% (from 35%).
When Andy Stern, the president of SEIU stands with Lee Scott, the President of Wal-Mart, and they both demand health care reform that covers everyone, you know we're ready for change.
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