SEIU reviews

The job is very dembanding. There is no respect for their employee what-so-ever. Management will throw you under the bus with lies if they think there is a potential for them to get in trouble. They have unreal expectations and expect you to drop your entire life for them (not the movement). They treat organizer like crap. You have great benefits but they will not give you the time off to see a doctor and if you do they will hold it against you. Also be aware that they use people. The have a reputation of practicing the same union busting they preach against so their organizer union, UUR, is to a degree useless. SEIU even fired the President of UUR for make inroads for organizers. How they treat their employee will come back to bite them and looks really bad on the movement. This is not a union. It is a corporation that waste union dues because of a lack of real communication from Internation to Locals. I would not view this as a serious job.

you are always on edge and scared to lose your job. You are exploited and over worked and people are immediatly fired for questioning anything. The staff union is weak because as a union itself, SEIU knows all the best union-busting and weakening tactics and implements them any time anyone stands up for a day off. Everything is an emergency which means that most time off is forbidden. no work life balance and expect your leads to be staying the the same hotel as you which means they are omni present - even when you are not at work. If you get snowed in - be prepared for training in the hotel meeting room. Also they dont tell you this untill after your hired but the OIT position is only one year long and if you dont get a job at a local you are let go. UUR (the staff union) said that aprox 50-75% of employees are let go before the year ends or do not recieve job offers at the end of the year - basically creating a revolving door of temp employees that they don't have to offer any job security to. Theres a bunch of back info on this why this is but thats a long story.