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SEIU
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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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SEIU Stylebook
Reference copy heldTerms citing this source
“African American [no hyphen]”
: p. 6: A-to-Z word style
- AsianUse
“Oriental [Do not use.] Correct: Asian”
: p. 22: A-to-Z word style
“Oriental [Do not use.] Correct: Asian”
: p. 22: A-to-Z word style
- BlackUse
“Black [note capitalization] Correct: We represent many Black workers. … African American [no hyphen] … anti-Black”
: pp. 6–7: A-to-Z word style
- ChicanxNon-preferred
“Chicano[a] — Use Latino[a], avoid chicano[a] unless the specific individual or organization uses it.”
: p. 8: A-to-Z word style
- ColoredAvoid
“color, persons of, workers of Never: colored persons”
: Alphabetical entry: color, persons of / workers of
- DisabledAvoid
“disabled Correct: people with disabilities”
: D entries, alphabetical stylebook
“DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]”
: p. 11, Stylebook → D
- EquityUse with care
“equity (not the same as equality)”
: Bilingual term list (English–French equivalents), "equity" entry
- GayUse
“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
- HispanicUse
“Hispanic [always capitalized]”
: p. 17: A-to-Z word style
- HomosexualAvoid
“gay people [not homosexual (adj.) or homosexual(s) (n.)].”
: G entries, alphabetical stylebook
“Latino [always capitalized], Latina [if we know the person is female]”
: p. 19: A-to-Z word style
- LatinxUse
“Latino [always capitalized], Latina [if we know the person is female] … Hispanic [always capitalized]”
: pp. 17, 19: A-to-Z word style
“color, persons of, workers of — Never: colored persons”
: p. 10: A-to-Z word style
“disabled Correct: people with disabilities”
: Stylebook A–Z entry: disabled
- RacismUse 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
“sexual orientation [Not: sexual preference]”
: S entries, alphabetical stylebook
- Sexual PreferenceAvoid
“sexual orientation Not: sexual preference”
: Alphabetical entries, "sexual orientation"
- TransgenderUse
“transgender [not transgendered]”
: T entries, alphabetical stylebook
- TransgenderedAvoid
“transgender [not transgendered]”
: T entries, alphabetical stylebook
- VictimAvoid
“AIDS victim [Do not use] Correct: people with AIDS, people living with AIDS”
: Alphabetical glossary, "AIDS" entry