SEIU has a new President. The union’s executive committee elected health care organizer Mary Kay Henry as SEIU’s first female president today, after now President Emeritus Andy Stern announced his resignation several weeks ago. We haven’t written about the SEIU succession here, but count me as someone who didn’t see this coming at first. It was widely assumed that SEIU Secretary Treasurer Anna Burger would naturally step into the presidency, having followed in Stern’s footsteps for most of her career within SEIU. But the union’s division and local leaders had other ideas. Mark Brenner of Labor Notes – whom I...