Re: SEIU membership
On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Mark Rickling wrote:
Looking at your time frame, on December 31, 2000 SEIU had 1,402,798 members, while on June 30, 2006 SEIU 1,740,022 members. These numbers are rigorous in the sense that they’re based on per cap membership assessments. Also, increases in membership are not the same as the number of workers organized.
Oone might greet self-reported numbers with some degree of
skepticism. Various religious denominations always claim more members
than show up in independent surveys. Still, let’s give SEIU the
benefit of the doubt - then 42% of the growth, rather than 70%, from
2000-2006 came from the homecare/childcare workers. That’s not
traditional organizing in any sense. And what was the growth by
merger/acquisition? Any numbers on that?
Since much of SEIU’s cred is based on its claimed organizing
successes, this obviously matters quite a lot.
Doug