Highlights from Sen. Barack Obama's speech to SEIU's 2008 Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico via satellite. For more news, photos, blogs and video from the 2008 SEIU Convention, visit http://www.seiu2008. org/
SEIU demonstration 7.17.08 outside McCain for President HQ, calling on John McCain to take action against tax loopholes for corporate buyout tax breaks for people like his supporter, Henry Kravis. http://july17action. org
As the first presidential candidate to take time off from campaigning to "walk a day in the shoes" of an SEIU member and to see what life is really like for working Americans, Sen. John Edwards today experienced the world through the eyes (and treads) of nursing home worker Elaine Ellis.
Speaking before the 2008 SEIU Convention in Puerto Rico, SEIU President Andy Stern pledges that by the next convention, America will join their brothers and sisters in Canada in providing universal health care. For more news, photos, blogs and video from the 2008 SEIU Convention, visit http://www.seiu2008. org
Fred Hicks from UHE Local 1199 opens the 2008 SEIU Convention. For more news, photos, blogs and video from the 2008 SEIU Convention, visit http://www.seiu2008. org
Trade union leaders, academics, human rights attorneys and leaders of prominent British NGOs visited with security workers employed by Group 4 Securicor as part of a fact-finding mission to Southern Africa to investigate charges of abuses at Africa's largest multinational employer.