UFCW Local 324 President Andrea Zinder on Albertsons-Kroger merger
Andrea Zinder is president of Southern California’s UFCW Local 324, which represents 15,000 grocery workers in Orange and southern Los...
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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Jeff Burdick
- Jul 31
Midterm roundup: Kiley fundraising off concerns about radical associations
Friday night, South Carolina’s capital newspaper The State reported House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) swung by that state GOP’s...
Ed Millican
- Jun 24
San Bernardino County Democrats unified behind pair of union issues
Ed Millican is an elected member of the central committee of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party and a California Teachers...
Guest essay: To fix nursing homes, listen to nursing home workers
California State Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) has made elder protection a priority in his legislative career. In 2021, he authored...
Jeff Burdick
- Mar 5
SEIU Local 1000 power struggle expands; president suspended
The term “circular firing squad” describes the internal self-destruction of a group or organization. This past week, the power struggle...
Jeff Burdick
- Jan 7
In Local 1000 power struggle, choice of local media clear
A major story involving the largest public employee union in California continues to unwind like a soap opera – though a soap opera with...
Jeff Burdick
- Oct 24, 2021
Fiery SEIU 1000 power fight sucks in Democratic Party
SEIU Local 1000 is by far California’s largest union of state employees with nearly 100,000 represented members and a $46 million annual...
Jeff Burdick
- Sep 30, 2021
Recall roundup: GOP denialism, landslide donors & more
Following the landslide defeat of the $276 million recall, a prominent storyline has been how many state Republicans were in threadbare...
Jack Dean
- Sep 9, 2021
Guest essay: SEIU Local 1000’s anti-democratic cabal
Jack Dean is President of District Labor Council 792 within SEIU Local 1000. He lives in Susanville, Calif., and is a member of the...
Jeff Burdick
- Jun 18, 2021
Update: SEIU Local 1000 finalizes president vote
On Friday afternoon June 18, SEIU Local 1000 emailed its 96,000 state employee members the below update regarding official protests...
Jeff Burdick
- Jun 15, 2021
Serious charges, counter-charges fly at SEIU Local 1000
Richard Louis Brown, 51, has heard it all. He’s been told he’s a black man who is too loud, too angry, too confrontational, too willing...
Jeff Burdick
- Jun 15, 2021
Editorial: Why we published SEIU Local 1000 story
On June 10, The Sacto Politico published a fascinating and informative Q&A interview with in-coming SEIU Local 1000 President Richard...
Jeff Burdick
- Jun 10, 2021
SEIU’s Richard Louis Brown on being agent of change
Later this month, California state employee Richard Louis Brown will be sworn in as president of SEIU Local 1000 after upsetting longtime...
Jeff Burdick
- May 17, 2021
CFT’s Jeff Freitas on recall, pandemic, teacher attacks
Twenty-five years ago, Jeff Freitas began his career as a math teacher in the Carpinteria public school district and most recently was...