BB&T -- SunTrust -- Bank of America/Countrywide -- Wachovia/Wells Fargo -- PNC Bank/National City -- Citigroup `` Please let me know and if you have other suggestions , I 'd love to hear them . '' Skippings referred questions to a union spokeswoman , who confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail and that the union is considering targeting the banks for unionizing . `` We believe there is special responsibility for companies who receive taxpayer dollars to ensure their workers have a voice on the job , '' SEIU 's Lynda Tran said . `` And those workers should have a seat at the table at the companies where decisions that impact the future of their families and the companies that employ them '' are made . `` We are talking to workers really broadly in banking , '' she said . SEIU is the fastest-growing trade union in North America , according to its own Web site , with a membership of more than 2 million , including health-care industry workers and state and local government employees . It also represents guards and janitors who work in commercial and residential properties . And its clout continues to grow .
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The powerful Service Employees International Union has decided that , because of the $ 700 billion financial-system bailout , it wants to organize bank workers . Banks that get taxpayer money need to `` ensure their workers have a voice , '' a union spokeswoman says . In an e-mail dated November 12 and obtained exclusively by CNN , a member of SEIU 's Private Equity Project outlined initial discussions to organize bank workers `` since the banking industry is now being infused with billions of taxpayer dollars . '' The e-mail was written by SEIU 's Inga Skippings to the director of the Washington office of the Association of Community Organizing for Reform Now -LRB- ACORN -RRB- , a longtime ally and partner of the union . `` We need to get a handle on who these workers are , working conditions , etc. , '' Skippings wrote . `` Do you have ACORN members who work for banks or Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae ? Is there anyway -LSB- sic -RSB- you could check ? The banks we 're most concerned about are : -- Fannie Mae -- Freddie Mac -- Chevy Chase/B . F.Saul --