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| Total Assets: | $ 174,665,810 |
| Members: | 1,575,485 |
| Employees: | 995 |
| Employees earning over $75,000: | 224 |
| ULPs Filed Since 2000: | 3,821 |
| Decertification Petitions Filed: | 504 |
National Headquarters
1313 L STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) represents 1.7 million employees in the U.S. Its president, Andrew Stern, is credited with (or blamed for) leading dissident unions to split away from the AFL-CIO in 2005 to create the Change To Win coalition.
Few Americans know much about the SEIU, but they should. Here's why:
- Andrew Stern has called the AFL-CIO the Democratic Party's bank -- but his own union is regularly a top political spender, most recently through its powerful "527" committee, which gave millions to political candidates. In 2004, Stern spent at least $65 million of his members' money, much of which supported his favored (but ultimately unsuccessful) presidential candidates. A powerful local of Stern's SEIU budgeted another $35 million of its members' money on political advocacy in 2004, according to union activist and lawyer Nathan Newman.
- SEIU Local 880 (which represents workers in Illinois) and Local 100 (representing New Orleans, Texas, and Arkansas) are both run by the often-in-trouble "community group" ACORN -- an organization that has been tied to government fraud, Teamsters election fraud, and recurring voter fraud. Local 100 is run by Wade Rathke, ACORN's head organizer and a chief strategist in the multi-union PR campaign attacking Wal-Mart.
- The SEIU seeks to unionize just about anyone. In 1997 Local 790 organized strippers from the Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco.
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Membership Total Membership: 1,575,485 |
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Financial Disbursements
| Representational Activities ( 85.0%) | $ 135,824,343 |  |
| Political Activities & Lobbying ( 16.6%) | $ 26,571,992 | |
| Contributions, Gifts & Grants ( 6.0%) | $ 9,655,197 | |
| General Overhead ( 18.0%) | $ 28,699,607 | |
| Union Administration ( 10.6%) | $ 16,894,133 | |
| Strike Benefits ( 2.3%) | $ 3,708,134 | |
| Total Compensation ( 26.8%) | $ 42,879,194 | |
| Per Capita Tax ( 6.2%) | $ 9,930,403 |
Locals & Other Affiliated Organizations
Top 10 Locals (by Members)
| Local | Members |
SEIU Council (Sacramento, CA) |
476,838 |
| SEIU Local 1199 (New York, NY) |
321,985 |
| SEIU Council (Chicago, IL) |
113,082 |
| SEIU Local 32 (New York, NY) |
78,965 |
| SEIU Joint Council 45 (Harrisburg, PA) |
50,000 |
| SEIU Local 503 (Salem, OR) |
44,015 |
| SEIU Local 434 (Los Angeles, CA) |
42,531 |
| SEIU Local 660 (Los Angeles, CA) |
39,627 |
| SEIU Local 1 (Chicago, IL) |
37,842 |
| SEIU Joint Council 35 (Detroit, MI) |
34,261 |
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Leadership
Top 10 International SEIU Leaders & Staff (by Salary)
Source: Department of Labor, Office of Labor Management Standards LM filings
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