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.
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SEIU chapter charges that Tyrone Freeman misappropriated dues to enrich himself and his relatives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His reporting prompted the firing of the union local’s president and sparked FBI and congressional inquiries.
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers asks state officials to conduct elections at 64 facilities where it says a majority want to join.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Three activist members of the SEIU monitor events as the union pledges to enforce broader ethical reforms.
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The SEIU local calls the annual tournament a fundraiser for the nonprofits, whose financial reports show no specific income from the event since 2004.
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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.
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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.
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The Service Employees International Union also orders Tyrone Freeman to repay more than $1 million that it says he misappropriated from the labor organization.
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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.
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The IRS granted the break, retroactive to 2004, after questions were raised about the nonprofit Long Term Care Housing Corp.
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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.
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Service Employees International Union removes head of Michigan local who has been tied to spending probe of L.A. chapter.
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The new Labor Department rules are designed to root out corruption.
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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.
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After Republican charge of stalling, George Miller says his committee is simply taking care not to interfere with criminal investigation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leaders of the two organizations are skeptical of union president’s proposal.
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The SEIU’s top state officer takes a leave of absence, and her ex-boyfriend is ordered to repay thousands of dollars.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SEIU takes action after The Times reports payments to firms owned by local leader’s relatives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
