Health and Safety Programs Scraped by SEIU

According to Jordan Barab, a former Labor Department official under President Obama and longtime union staffer, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is scrapping its health and safety program.

The SEIU—America’s largest labor union and one of its most politically active—is laying off its last health and safety official, Mark Catlin, next month. As Barab notes, Catlin “has been [the] SEIU’s lone health and safety staffer for many months.” It’s a curious personnel decision, given the SEIU’s marketing shtick. Like many unions, the SEIU often touts the “pivotal role” it plays “securing legislated labor protections and rights such as safety and health, overtime, and family/medical leave and in enforcing those rights on the job for all workers.” SEIU President Mark Kay Henry frequently positions herself as an expert on “health and safety.”

While the SEIU’s many locals are still representing healthcare workers, the SEIU’s national department that was known for lobbying the Labor Department and other federal agencies to enact stricter workplace regulations is no more.

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