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SEIU Stylebook
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing about two million workers across healthcare, public services, and property services in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Its SEIU Stylebook (January 2020) is an internal communications and style manual; the commons mines only its labor/workers terminology and identity standards — the portions that bear on equity language.
In the commons it is a partial-scope source, contributing labor- and worker-related terms.
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There is no public national SEIU stylebook, so this internal document survives here only as an archived copy held for citation verification (status: offline — no live original to link to). Host posture is private-mirror-link-out; quotes are kept within fair-use limits and attributed to SEIU.
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- African American Use
“African American [no hyphen]”
— p. 6 — A-to-Z word style
- Asian American Use
“Oriental [Do not use.] Correct: Asian”
— p. 22 — A-to-Z word style
- Asian Use
“Oriental [Do not use.] Correct: Asian”
— p. 22 — A-to-Z word style
- Black Use
“Black [note capitalization] Correct: We represent many Black workers. … African American [no hyphen] … anti-Black”
— pp. 6–7 — A-to-Z word style
- Chicanx Non-preferred
“Chicano[a] — Use Latino[a], avoid chicano[a] unless the specific individual or organization uses it.”
— p. 8 — A-to-Z word style
- Colored Avoid
“color, persons of, workers of Never: colored persons”
— Alphabetical entry: color, persons of / workers of
- Disabled Avoid
“disabled Correct: people with disabilities”
— D entries, alphabetical stylebook
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“DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]”
— p. 11, Stylebook → D
- Equity Use with care
“equity (not the same as equality)”
— Bilingual term list (English–French equivalents), "equity" entry
- Gay Use
“gay people [not homosexual (adj.) or homosexual(s) (n.)]. … 'Gay community' should only be used when a similar reference to another community would be appropriate, as in: The union's efforts to promote recognition of labor's contributions to human rights focused on the gay community.”
— G entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Hispanic Use
“Hispanic [always capitalized]”
— p. 17 — A-to-Z word style
- Homosexual Avoid
“gay people [not homosexual (adj.) or homosexual(s) (n.)].”
— G entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Latinx Use
“Latino [always capitalized], Latina [if we know the person is female] … Hispanic [always capitalized]”
— pp. 17, 19 — A-to-Z word style
- Latino / Latina Use
“Latino [always capitalized], Latina [if we know the person is female]”
— p. 19 — A-to-Z word style
- people of color Use
“color, persons of, workers of — Never: colored persons”
— p. 10 — A-to-Z word style
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“disabled Correct: people with disabilities”
— Stylebook A–Z entry: disabled
- Racism Use with care
“interpersonal racism [Interactions and behaviors with other people that are influenced by our private beliefs about race. It's when people act upon their prejudice or unconscious bias, with or without intent.]”
— Bilingual glossary, "interpersonal racism" entry
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“sexual orientation [Not: sexual preference]”
— S entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Sexual Preference Avoid
“sexual orientation Not: sexual preference”
— Alphabetical entries, "sexual orientation"
- Transgender Use
“transgender [not transgendered]”
— T entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Transgendered Avoid
“transgender [not transgendered]”
— T entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Victim Avoid
“AIDS victim [Do not use] Correct: people with AIDS, people living with AIDS”
— Alphabetical glossary, "AIDS" entry