In March, as the Service Employees International Union put its full support behind Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the “Fight for $15” minimum wage, president Mary Kay Henry said “you can’t go smaller in this moment.
“You have to go bigger,” she said.
Now that America has elected Republicans to control all branches of the federal government, and many state governments, Henry is rethinking the union’s strategy.
The big labor boss spelled out what the current situation means for a union that’s almost exclusively backed Democrats for decades in a memo sent out to SEIU’s roughly 2 million members earlier this month.
The bottom line: SEIU is slashing its budget by 30 percent, including a 10 percent reduction to start 2017, Bloomberg reports.
“Because the far right will control all three branches of the federal government, we will face serious threats to the ability of working people to join together in unions,” Henry wrote in the Dec. 14 memo. “These threats require us to make tough decisions that allow us to resist these attacks and to fight forward despite dramatically reduced resources.”
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