Jobs and the Environment Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-174 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
International Union ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Emission Controls ◽  
Service Employees International Union ◽  
Environment Service ◽  
Special Responsibility ◽  
The U.S

Noting that the U.S. is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) declares that the nation therefore “has a special responsibility to lead the way on emission controls and new investment in green technologies that can be adopted worldwide.” The union has pledged to do its part and passed a resolution on the issues, incorporated here, at last year's annual convention.

Evolving Organizational Growth through Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-271
Author(s):  
Ira Yermish
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
International Union ◽  
Organizational Growth ◽  
Delaware Valley ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
Union Local ◽  
Service Employees International Union

This case study describes the gradual evolution of the use of information technology, first to support basic transaction processing, and ultimately to support the strategic issues that such an operation faces The Service Employees International Union, Local 36 Benefits Office, provides service to over 3,500 union members in Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley area by the Service Employees International Union, Local 36 Benefits Office, which provides service to over 3,500 union members.

Microsized Graphite Sensors for Potentiometric Determination of Cyclobenzaprine Hydrochloride in Pure Powder, Tablets, and Plasma

2011 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1807-1814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesrin K Ramadan ◽  
Hala E Zaazaa ◽  
Hanan A Merey
Keyword(s):  
Polyvinyl Chloride ◽  
International Union ◽  
Electroactive Material ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Intact Drug ◽  
Sensitivity And Selectivity ◽  
Ph Range ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Chloride Matrix

Abstract Two cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride (CZ) microsized graphite selective sensors were investigated with dibutylsebacate as a plasticizer in a polymeric matrix of carboxylated polyvinyl chloride (PVC-COOH) in the case of sensor 1, based on the interaction between the drug and the dissociated COOH groups in the PVC-COOH. Sensor 2 was based on the interaction between the drug and ammonium reineckate, which acted as anionic electroactive material in the presence of polyvinyl chloride matrix. The two sensors were constructed by using 2-hydroxy propyl β-cyclodextrin as an ionophore, which has a significant influence on increasing the membrane sensitivity and selectivity of both sensors. Fast and stable Nernstian responses of 1 × 10–5–1 × 10–2 and 1 × 10m–4–1 × 10–2 M for the two sensors, respectively, with slopes of 58.6 and 55.5 mV/decade, respectively, over the pH range 2–4 were obtained. The proposed method displayed useful analytical characteristics for determination of CZ in its pure powder form with average recoveries 99.95 ± 0.23 and 99.61 ± 0.34% for sensors 1 and 2, respectively, and in plasma with good recoveries. The sensors were also used to determine the intact drug in the presence of its degradate and, thus, could be used as stability-indicating methods. The obtained results by the proposed methods were statistically analyzed and compared with those obtained by the U.S. Pharmacopeia method; no significant difference for either accuracy or precision was observed. Results obtained with the two electrodes revealed their performance characteristics, which were evaluated according to International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recommendations.

Deceptive Advertising and Taking Responsibility for Others

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Extended Form ◽  
Deceptive Advertising ◽  
Consumer Autonomy ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Special Responsibility ◽  
The U.S

This chapter considers how the U.S. law of deceptive advertising embeds within it an extended form of responsibility, making advertisers sometimes responsible for consumers’ mistakes. The chapter justifies this pattern of liability as a division of moral labor that bolsters consumers’ ability to trust the quality of the food supply and the representations made about it. It answers worries about paternalism, arguing that the law is not predicated on distrust of consumers, but facilitates consumer autonomy, permitting consumers to direct their scarce time and energy to projects of their own choosing. The chapter also answers freedom of speech concerns about restricting advertisers’ ability to make factually true representations. It emphasizes that commercial speakers have a special responsibility to ensure accurate uptake by consumers because property law affords commercial producers the ability to exclude consumers and their representatives from verifying speech about speakers’ products for themselves.

Simulation of the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on aerosols and radiation at a global and European scale in CAMS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Pelletier ◽  
Samuel Rémy ◽  
Zak Kipling ◽  
Marc Guevara Vilardell ◽  
Idir Bouarar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Trace Gases ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Atmospheric Composition ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Global Emission ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic struck China in January 2020 and the rest of the world from February 2020 onwards. Public authorities enforced several kinds of lockdowns in order to limit the spread of the pandemic and reduce its impact on the health system: at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, more than one human in two was subjected to a lockdown, with associated disruption in local and international travel, industry, tourism etc. These lockdowns had a profound effect on anthropogenic emissions of aerosol, trace gases and greenhouse gases; in this work we focus on aerosols and a selection of trace gases.<br><br>The Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) of ECMWF is core of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) to provide global analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition, including reactive gases, as well as aerosol and greenhouse gases. In this work, we use two emission reduction scenario with an experimental version of the IFS in its CAMS configuration: a global and a European one.  Global simulations of aerosols were carried out with these two scenarii and compared to a reference simulation without any COVID-19 impact, and to worldwide observations of PM2.5, AOD and trace gases.<br><br>The simulated PM2.5 using the global emission reduction scenario were found to reproduce quite accurately the observed evolution over China, India and United States. Over Europe, the simulated PM2.5 using the European reduction scenario were closer to observations and appeared more realistic. India was the only place where a significant impact on AOD and on temperature and radiation from the COVID-19 lockdowns was simulated. These simulations also provided information on how the aerosol speciation was altered by the COVID-19 lockdowns: over Europe and the U.S., most of the decrease in surface aerosols was simulated to come from nitrate aerosols. Over the U.S., this matched well with observations of speciated aerosols at surface.</p>

My Enemy's Enemy Is My Friend

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Steve Payne
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Political Education ◽  
International Union ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Union Organizer ◽  
Left Movement ◽  
Holding Back

Like many other leftists working in labor or community organizations, I have long struggled to understand the role I can play in building a larger left movement. I have spent nearly a decade organizing for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and have only recently caught a glimpse of what a vibrant and popular leftist practice could look like.&hellp; In this analysis, I take inspiration from Antonio Gramsci's ideas. He described a "war of position"&mdash;a protracted revolutionary effort to create an anti-capitalist hegemony&mdash;as a methodology for anti-capitalists in advanced industrial countries. Counter-hegemony is a process, built by concrete effort both through political education and political action. As a labor union organizer, I have become quite skilled at political action, but not at political education.&hellp;One alignment of organizations in Minnesota&mdash;Minnesotans for a Fair Economy (MFE)&mdash;has the potential to be part of such a counter-hegemonic process. On a day-to-day basis, member organizations of MFE organize people to confront their bosses and banks, as well as the corporations holding back their communities. On a sporadic basis, the member organizations come together to create a new narrative of what kind of a world we want.&hellp; It was in a MFE "week of action" that I first began to understand how the process of creating a counter-hegemony might play out in practice.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-1" title="Vol. 67, No. 1: May 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

Trade union renewal and ‘organizing from below’ in Germany: Institutional constraints, strategic dilemmas and organizational tensions

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Nicklich ◽  
Markus Helfen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
International Union ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Union Renewal

Organizing is widely discussed as a remedy for continued union decline. Originating in the liberal market industrial relations systems of the Anglo-Saxon world, the ‘organizing’ strategy is increasingly discussed in countries like Germany, traditionally known for consensual industrial relations and multi-employer collective bargaining. To study whether and how ‘organizing’ is translated in union organizations operating in a different institutional context, we study the link between organizational transformation and institutions in IG Metall in Germany, which was been influenced by the American Service Employees International Union (SEIU). We find a German variety of organizing rather than a mere copying of ‘best practice’: the union’s approach is based on institutional and organizational structures as a resource and constraint.

9to5

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Windham
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Young Women ◽  
National Level ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
International Union ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Labor Organizing ◽  
Union Local ◽  
New Form

This chapter is about 9to5, an association founded by women office workers in Boston in 1973 who pioneered a new form of labor organizing. The young women built on new consciousness from the women’s movement to use affirmative action suits, public opinion, and novel organizing tactics to win power in Boston’s banks, insurance companies, and universities. In 1975, the women formed a sister union, Local 925, with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They then replicated this dual structure on a national level by the end of the 1970s.

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