seiu, the service employees international union, is the largest property service workers union in the country. local 32 bj organized more than 2,000 janitors in the philadelphia suburbs and in delaware in 2006. in 2012, the union organized more than 2,800 security officers working in universities, hospitals, and commercial offices in philadelphia. and just this year, local 32 bj organized more than 1,400 subcontracted airport workers at philly international. joining me now are gabe morgan, the vice president of local 32 bj for pennsylvania and delaware, and derrell vereen gibbs, a union member who works as a security officer. thank you both for being with us. so, gabe, tell us more about the diversity of your membership. gabe morgan: well, 32 bj, which is the largest private sector union in philadelphia, and as you said, the largest private sector union in the world, has--we have members who speak 17 languages. we represent the majority of workers who clean and maintain and guard buildings from providence, rhode island, all the way to northern virginia, and out west to pittsburg. so,

members of seiu healthcare illinois will see raises 40% or more over the life of their new, three-yearcontract. and in new haven, connecticut, eight unionized graduate students at yale have entered their second week without food, in a hunger strike aimed at forcing their university to the bargaining table. graduate students in eight different departments voted in february to join unite-here local 33, but yale administrators are contesting the results. the hunger striking students fearar they could bebe strippedf their ununion memberership if ye dedelays long g enough for prest trump to appoint conservative members to the national labor relations board. the appointments could mean the nlrb will overturn a ruling last year that classified graduate student teachers as employees eligible to form unions. -- to join unions. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. republicans in washington have moved one closer to repealing obamacare. on thursday, the house narrowly approved a move to repeal parts of the afforda

well as animals...t we should be welcoming because for one race the human racethe president of the seiu local 87 that represents janitors says many of the immigrants here are the ones that clean the homes and office buildings....and raise of the children of the workers in those office buildings.....this administration has been attacking us since before they were the administration, and the people that of come out today with every step they took were claiming we are here and we're not going anywhere. natsafter the march there was music and dancing in civic center....those here saying this was not just a protest...but a celebration of what immigrants bring to the table.maureen kelly kron4 news (grant) and in san jose -- the collective may day message centered around unity, resistance and defiance... a message that was no doubt aimed right at president donald trump. this year's gathering was a unique from year's past. coalition of labor, immigrants, women's rights groups , l.g.b.t. activists and others. (steve) in los angeles.... a large may day protest turned tense when labor and immigrat

well as animals...t we should be welcoming because for one race the human racethe president of the seiu7 that represents janitors says many of the immigrants here are the ones that clean the homes and office buildings....and raise of the children of the workers in those office buildings.....this administration has been attacking us since before they were the administration, and the people that of come out today with every step they took were claiming we are here and we're not going anywhere. natsafter the march there was music and dancing in civic center....those here saying this was not just a protest...but a celebration of what immigrants bring to the table.maureen kelly kron4 news ( steve ) other news now. a 15-year-old boy is dead following a shooting in san francisco's sunset district. officers say the call came in at about noon today about gunfire near sunset boulevard and kirkham street. when they arrived... they found the victim. the investigation is in its early stages, but police say the victim may have been driving at the time of the shooting. we do have this video of the sce

where the unions are simply trade- based or other ones that operate across industry, like--like i'm an seiu member, for example, rright? or are they just t sortf anachronistic, sort of workers' vanguard spectacles that we can just kind of throw aside? >> good. wonderful question. let me try to answer. and again, rather than my spinning out my owown thoughts abouut that, let me start from a concrete example.e. the steelelworkers un here i in the united states, one of f the largest ununions in the afl-cicio, here, stunned the wod of american labor two years ago whenen they isissued a press ree announcing the formal alliance-- i'll use their words--ththe forl aalliance betweeeen the steelworkers union of the united statates, which-h--i don'tt know many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big union--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems asas though there was discussion, obv