Puerto Rico’s Teachers Beat SEIU Raid

by E Wayne Ross on October 27, 2008

Labor Notes: Puerto Rico’s Teachers Beat SEIU Raid
— Steve Early

When last seen on the picket line, Puerto Rican teachers were fighting their way through police barricades to appeal to fellow workers from the Service Employees (SEIU) at its lavishly funded convention in San Juan in June.

The message of the Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) was simple: please stop SEIU President Andy Stern from colluding with the indicted governor of the island to replace FMPR with a “company union.”