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Labor Union
The Fast Food Workers Committee (FFWC) is a labor union organized by and almost entirely funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of the Fight for $15 minimum wage and union organizing campaign.
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Person
Christine Owens is the former executive director of left-leaning pro-labor union think tank National Employment Law Project (NELP), a position she held from 2008 until 2019. She was previously a senior policy analyst for “workplace equity issues” and the director of public policy for left-leaning labor federation the
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Person
Jonathan Westin is a left-of-center political activist and community organizer who has led the organizing group New York Communities for Change (NYCC) since 2014. Westin previously worked as a community organizer for the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and has worked for NYCC since
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Non-profit
Civic Ventures is a Seattle-based 1 left-of-center policy advocacy group of “political troublemakers” that attempts to “build social change” 2
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Labor Union
The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union representing agricultural workers, mostly in the state of California. Cesar Chavez, a Mexican-American organizer and leader of the Chicano movement, founded the union; Chavez would become one of the best-known leaders of labor unionism in the 20th century through
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Labor Union
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1 is an affiliate of the controversial and left-wing SEIU labor union, claiming to represent more than 50,000 workers in Chicago and ten other cities in the Midwest. 1
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For-profit
The New York Times (NYT or Times) is a newspaper and digital media brand published by The New York Times Company. Founded in 1851, the Times has long been one of the most prestigious and highest-profile newspapers in the world.
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Labor Union
The Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is a local labor federation and affiliate of the left-leaning AFL-CIO labor union federation. The organization claims to represent more than 250,000 workers who are members of affiliated local AFL-CIO labor unions. It supports a pro-union and broad left-leaning policy agenda at
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Labor Union
Change to Win (CtW) is a federation of labor unions and “strategic organizing center” closely associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). It was initially created in 2005 when seven former AFL-CIO affiliated labor unions defected to form their own
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Non-profit
The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Institute is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes left-of-center, redistributive policies such as government-controlled healthcare, rent control, increased taxation on businesses and wealthy individuals, decreased privatization of public services, and opposition to charter schools.
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Labor Union
32BJ SEIU (“32BJ”), founded in 1977, is the nation’s largest union of property service workers, with over 150,000 members in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
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Labor Union
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (UHE; sometimes styled SEIU Local 1199 or just 1199) is a large local union of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representing employees of hospitals throughout the northeast United States. The union wields a great deal of political power in New York State and
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Non-profit
Organize Florida was an Orlando-based tax-exempt social welfare organization. It trained community activists and regularly organized protests in the Central Florida and Tampa Bay areas to advance social, economic, and environmentally left-of-center agendas throughout the influential Tampa-Orlando “I-4 corridor.” It had satellite offices in Tampa and Kissimmee, and frequently coordinated
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Other Group
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest demonstration that took place in lower Manhattan, from September 17 through November 15, 2011.1 The New York “occupation,”
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Person
Mary Kay Henry serves as the international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Henry worked for the union almost continuously since 1979, 1 holding 18 different
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Government Agency
Also see National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Legislation) The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency consisting of a five-member Board appointed by the President with (by convention) three members of the President’s party and two members of the opposition party and a nominally independent General Counsel
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For-profit
BerlinRosen (also styled Berlin Rosen) is a for-profit public relations and campaign communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City that works for Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofit organizations, and labor unions, with a focus on New York. Founded in 2005 by former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Non-profit
New York Communities for Change (NYCC) is a New York City-based labor and community organizing group. NYCC is a key agitation force behind the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) “Fight for $15” union organizing efforts, and has received over $7 million from SEIU and its local unions alone
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Non-profit
The Working Families Organization, founded in 2006, is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Working Families Party, a union-funded and union-aligned far-left political party1 with power centers in traditionally hard-left localities and states, such as
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Other Group
The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of Americans who earn more than $1 million per year and advocate for left-wing economic policies. They were organized by longtime Democratic and left-wing strategist Erica Payne with help from trial lawyer and major Democratic donor Guy Saperstein in 2010, who recruited
