Service Employees International Union - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Service Employees International Union Index / Organizations Transcripts David Axelrod ...in late February, early March, by the SEIU [Service Employees International Union... ...February, early March, by the SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ] in [Las] Vegas. Came back and said... Kathryn Ruemmler ...of Industrial Organizations] and the SEIU [Service Employees International Union... ...Organizations] and the SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ] and the other big labor unions tha... Neera Tanden ...of 2007. CAP organized a forum with SEIU [Service Employees International Union... ...2007. CAP organized a forum with SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ] in Los Angeles on healthcare. It wa... Michelle Miller ...in 2013, she spent a decade at the Service Employees International Union [SEIU], where she used creative medi... ...Service Employees International Union [ SEIU ], where she used creative media an... ...point? How do you get from there to the SEIU ? So, I'll take you on a little bi... ...was the director of video services at SEIU . So when I saw that, and I saw tha... ...base, and now you're switching over to SEIU : Did it feel like home, or did it fee... ...was an executive vice president at SEIU named Tom Woodruff, who was born i... ...a year before I was born there, as an SEIU hospital. And I was thinking about i... ...weekend, and really saying to myself, SEIU was who was organizing women and car... ...And that is, the years you were at SEIU , the union undergoes some pretty bi... ...to do door knocking and events through SEIU for Obama. And a lovely thing was tha... ...is a critical piece of the work that SEIU was trying to get done. Then th... ...over those years? I mean, from within SEIU , we had a sense that Andy [L. Stern... ...Tell me about the transition from SEIU to Coworker, and how the conversation... ...And I went to Anna Burger, who had left SEIU , and would still talk to me, and ... ...time called Simple Union. So I left SEIU after the convention in June, and too... ... In, like, 2013, I was consulting for SEIU , because I had to consult a lot in th... ...for a while. So I was consulting with SEIU , and we were trying to do thi... ...to—as somebody who started at SEIU in the opposition during the Bus... ...but a lot of them, including the SEIU until its most recent president, wer... Show more... Jennifer Palmieri ...to also have overlap because maybe SEIU [Service Employees Internationa... ...also have overlap because maybe SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ], a labor union, doesn't ostensibl... Rebecca Tallent ...for labor union members. Then you had SEIU [Service Employees Internationa... ...union members. Then you had SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ], who really felt that their union wa... ...in 2003. So we went to the table with SEIU and the Chamber. I remember there was ... Patrick Gaspard ...United Healthcare Workers East, the Service Employees International Union [SEIU] in New York. It is the larges... ...Service Employees International Union [ SEIU ] in New York. It is the largest loca... ...I was making a lot of mischief. The SEIU International had become very close t... ...for John Edwards, and that all of SEIU would be behind him. I came from th... ...the Edwards endorsement inside of SEIU , until it was pretty clear that Barac... Marielena Hincapié ...was really difficult divorce between SEIU [Service Employees International Union... ...really difficult divorce between SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ] and the AFL-CIO [American Federatio... ...was actually the highest priority for SEIU , as well. They were successful i... Ellen Moran ...that were very active in that space; SEIU [Service Employees International Union... ...were very active in that space; SEIU [ Service Employees International Union ] and UFCW [United Food and Commercia... Sharon Block ...AFL [American Federation of Labor] and SEIU [Service Employees Internationa... ...I won't say that the people—the AFL and SEIU split, so there had been sort o... ...you've got somebody who's too AFL, then SEIU isn't happy. And if you've got somebod... ...happy. And if you've got somebody too SEIU , then the AFL isn't happy. But comin... ...face of Fight for $15, you know, the SEIU campaign to raise minimum wage t... ...the president.” So we worked with SEIU to get the money to make contact wit... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism