The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is planning a major campaign to recruit members and counter political pressure on public-sector unions. The campaign—called Fight for a Fair Economy—will focus on mobilizing mostly low-wage minority workers in 10 to 15 cities, including Cleveland, Milwaukee, Miami and Detroit, according to an internal memo leaked to The Wall Street Journal. The SEIU wants the effort to peak in the summer of 2012, with events at primaries, town-hall meetings and other campaign venues, according to the memo. The memo also revealed that the SEIU will work to persuade the NLRB to to compress the time frame between when a union files for an election and when the election takes place. The union wants to shorten this time period to 10 days. SEIU spokeswoman Inga Skippings declined to confirm that the memo contained “final” plans.
