Eliseo Medina, Who Reshaped Labor and Immigrant Rights Movements, Retires from SEIU

Eliseo Medina, Who Reshaped Labor and Immigrant Rights Movements, Retires from SEIU

Mary Mata October 1, 2013

By Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron Monday was Eliseo Medina’s last day as the Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU International. Medina is retiring from his job, though not from immigrant rights activism, after […]

Thomas E. Perez Expected to Face Tough Questions over Past Record

Mary Mata April 18, 2013

By Latinovations During his confirmation hearing today, Secretary of Labor nominee Thomas E. Perez is expected to face tough questions from Republican critics about his tenure as head of the […]

OPINION: The Supreme Court Will Decide And So Will Voters

Mary Mata April 23, 2012

By Eliseo Medina For two years, we have been living with the consequences of state level racial profiling laws that violate our basic human and civil rights. These laws — […]

Alabama’s Law Backfires, Creating A New Civil Rights Movement

Mary Mata March 1, 2012

By Eliseo Medina, SEIU Alabama’s show-me-your-papers law, HB56, threatens to turn the clock back to a time when hardworking men and women were persecuted because of the color of their […]

2.1 Million SEIU Members Endorse President Obama In 2012

Mary Mata November 17, 2011

By SEIU While bleak job growth plagues working families across the country, the Latino community continues to suffer disproportionately from unemployment with a devastating 11.4 percent rate of joblessness. By […]