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Union boss under fire: A Times Special Report
Full coverage of The Times investigation into the Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union.
SEIU chapter charges that Tyrone Freeman misappropriated dues to enrich himself and his relatives.
The union officer gets more from the nonprofit, run from his home, than from his full-time San Francisco transit job. He's also paid for use of the home and his son is on the charity payroll.
Annelle Grajeda resigns after a probe into whether she played a role in payments to her ex-boyfriend. That inquiry found no wrongdoing. She will take a different job with the union.
With a labor-friendly administration in Washington, labor's long-sought legislative goals are finally in reach. But union divisions threaten to derail that agenda.
The shift would be a major coup for a newly formed healthcare bargaining unit, created as a result of a long-running feud with United Healthcare Workers West.
His reporting prompted the firing of the union local's president and sparked FBI and congressional inquiries.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers asks state officials to conduct elections at 64 facilities where it says a majority want to join.
At a time when workers nationwide stand to make big gains under the Obama administration, the newly formed National Union of Healthcare Workers is seeking alliances with rivals of the powerful SEIU.
Former labor secretary finds UHW guilty of financial mismanagement regarding a nonprofit fund, but recommends against trusteeship as long as the local cooperates with SEIU's planned merger.
Feds say the regulations to require most unions to publicly report most compensation for officers will help expose the kind of scandal allegedly found in the SEIU's L.A.-based local.
Planned branch pulls many members from Local 521 and United Healthcare Workers West and all members from Local 6434. UHW members threaten to disaffiliate with the international union.
Union members and President Andy Stern helped put Obama in the White House. But a former top California leader is under federal investigation and a Bay Area local is feuding with the top brass.
Three activist members of the SEIU monitor events as the union pledges to enforce broader ethical reforms.
The SEIU local calls the annual tournament a fundraiser for the nonprofits, whose financial reports show no specific income from the event since 2004.
The charity was founded by a scandal-ridden Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union. Its stated aim was to provide housing to low-income workers.
SEIU is investigating whether Local 721 chief Annelle Grajeda helped Alejandro Stephens, who had headed a local that merged with hers, stay on the L.A. County payroll. She denies wrongdoing.
The Service Employees International Union also orders Tyrone Freeman to repay more than $1 million that it says he misappropriated from the labor organization.
SEIU aims to create one massive local representing the entire state, saying it will give all members a bigger voice. Leaders of one local are waging a sophisticated opposition campaign.
The IRS granted the break, retroactive to 2004, after questions were raised about the nonprofit Long Term Care Housing Corp.
Tyrone Freeman, head of SEIU's largest California union local, ordered employees of a charity he ran to campaign for candidates, some ex-workers allege.
Service Employees International Union removes head of Michigan local who has been tied to spending probe of L.A. chapter.
The new Labor Department rules are designed to root out corruption.
By Paul Pringle
An SEIU spokeswoman says there's nothing improper about the payments.
September 26, 2008
An SEIU spokeswoman says there's nothing improper about the payments.
September 26, 2008
Tyrone Freeman has been removed from the union's payroll after an internal report alleges improper spending practices similar to those revealed by The Times.
After Republican charge of stalling, George Miller says his committee is simply taking care not to interfere with criminal investigation.
Howard McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) suggests that the House labor committee chairman has delayed an inquiry because of the union's political support for Democrats.
Two government lots were sold for $1 each to a housing corporation that lacked the tax-exempt status it claimed. The group was founded under the direction of Tyrone Freeman, head of the local.
The Service Employees International Union says two lower-ranking staffers have lost their jobs because of allegations that others in the Los Angeles local were retaliated against.
Leaders of the two organizations are skeptical of union president's proposal.
The SEIU's top state officer takes a leave of absence, and her ex-boyfriend is ordered to repay thousands of dollars.
House committee joins other federal officials investigating six-figure payments made to firms owned by relatives of the chapter's president. The spending practices were reported earlier by The Times.
U.S. authorities are examining hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by the union and a related charity to firms owned by relatives of the Los Angeles local's president, sources say.
Rickman Jackson, former official in Los Angeles chapter, takes leave of absence from Michigan local. Action comes after Times reports of payments to firms owned by L.A. leader's family
SEIU takes action after The Times reports payments to firms owned by local leader's relatives.
President of California's largest local says it will be placed under a temporary trustee after Los Angeles Times stories reported payments to firms owned by his wife and mother-in-law.
The SEIU local allegedly made it nearly impossible for others to compete with the slate of leader Tyrone Freeman, whose financial dealings have drawn scrutiny.
Caregivers' advocates react to report on United Long-Term Care Workers and its chief, Tyrone Freeman. With 160,000 members, the local is the largest in California.
A TIMES INVESTIGATION
The video production and day care companies are owned by the wife and mother-in-law of the head of the SEIU local, which represents low-wage home healthcare workers.
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