Posts Tagged ‘SEIU’
SEIU Chief Will Push For Card Check, Sort Of
The SEIU’s Big Boss man is mad as Hell and he’s not going to take it anymore! Or he’s tired and fed up and wishes those crazy kids would get off his lawn. Frankly, Andy Stern’s position is a little tough to discern from this item by the Financial Times.
First, this on timing for pushing the Employee Free Choice Act, the number-one priority of SEIU’s Stern, who’s a number-one visitor to the White House:
Andy Stern, the powerful head of the Services Employees International Union, will push US senators for a vote on far-reaching reform of labour law in
SEIU: “Ruining” Card Check “For The Whole Labor Movement”
Great find by LaborUnionReport.com, which points to a blog highly critical of executives for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
We’ve pointed out many of the worst points of hypocrisy of SEIU when it comes to the sanctity of ballots, allegations of coercion, and more, but this list of SEIU’s Top 10 Bloopers is great.
Number nine is of particular interest:
9. Ruining EFCA for the whole Labor Movement. The boss tactics, the bullshit legal challenges, firing leaders, threatening loss of benefits if workers vote for the union–a cornucopia of violations. It would merely be embarrassing if it weren’t about to play a starring role in 2010′s national debate on labor law reform. You think the Chamber of Commerce hasn’t already cut some ads on this? Andy, Tasty hopes you are smarter than you appear and there is a super secret plan at work on this one!
It’s probably far too late to come up with a “super secret plan” that distracts Americans from EFCA’s unpopular aspects — effectively eliminating secret ballots and imposing federal bureaucrats to set labor contracts for small businesses.
SEIU has indeed played an important role in the debate over card check — as a cautionary tale.
SEIU, The Reason We Don’t Do the Employee Free Choice Act
Courtesy of BigGovernment.com, which has more details here.
SEIU, Armies of 60, and Card Check
Mike O’Brien at the Hill has a great post with a quote from SEIU Generalisimo Andy Stern on making the violently misnamed Employee Free Choice Act a priority in 2010:
“The Democrats really have a historic and decisive moment, for anybody who runs a business there are moments where you sort of make big choices,” Stern told the audience. “They have 60 votes for the first time and probably the last time they’re gonna have it. They have to decide if they are an army of one or an army of 60.”
It’s interesting (again!) at labor leaders’ language of aggression tied to the issue of card check, which is really kinda the point, ya know?
It’s all the more interesting when one continually reads about allegations of — shall we say — zealous union tactics even as they claim that there will be no problems of coercion under a card check world.
The latest allegation comes from California, where a report says “NUHW supporters from UNITE HERE Local 11 were also targets of eggs and water bottles, with reports that one organizer was
SEIU’s Case Against Card Check Continues To Grow
BigGovernment.com has more on the biggest black eye for proponents of the tragically misnamed Employee Free Choice Act — the Service Employees International Union
