And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

His mother Sue lives in Colorado. Stern is unapologetic about targeting private equity firms shaming business leaders and competing to build SEIU's membership: “We like to say: We use the power of persuasion first. SEIU contributed $65 million to the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry.

SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada after the National Education Association. Growth in SEIU in 2008—88926 members--accounted for nearly 21 percent of the national union membership growth. "Andy" Stern (born November 22 1950) is the former president of the 2.