(Washington Post) -- The Washington Post reports that even "as it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country's fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off." The Service Employees International Union "has notified the union that represents about 220 of its national field staff and organizers that 75 of them are being laid off. ... In return, the workers' union (the Union of Union Representatives) has filed unfair labor practices charges against SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board."
The staff union's leaders say that SEIU is "laying off workers without proper notice, contracting out work to temp firms, banning union activities and reclassifying workers to reduce union numbers." Staff union President Malcolm Harris said the direction the SEIU seems "to be moving in is union-busting."
