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A Smoking Gun. Is the SEIU in Control of Senate Democrats’ Agenda?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 10th, 2010 at 12:15 AM  | 

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As the smoke clears on the bi-partisan blockage of SEIU-radical attorney Craig Becker to a seat on the “independent” National Labor Relations Board, an e-mail sent from a SEIU staffer to Senators on February 3rd is worthy of closer examination as it reveals just how much control the purple behemoth of a union has over the Democrats in Washington.

Last week’s e-mail was sent from an SEIU “legislative consultant,” Alison Reardon who, according to the SEIU’s financial reports, spends 100% of her time on “political activities and lobbying.” 

In other words, Ms. Reardon is a lobbyist representing a powerful special interest–the SEIU–in trying to get one of her colleagues confirmed on a federal agency that has jurisdiction over nearly every private-sector workplace in America.

What is surprising about the e-mail is the controlling tone she takes with the senators, as well as the information she divulges.  Or, rather, the source of her information, the Senate Majority Leader himself, Harry Reid.

From: Alison Reardon [mailto:alison.reardon@seiu.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:29 PM

Subject: HELP Ex Session 10:00 am 2/4

Senator,

Your attendance is crucial to appointing Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board(NLRB) Please attend Thursday’s HELP Ex Session to report out President Obama’s nomination of Craig Becker for Senate confirmation. This is the highest prionty for organized labor, and Majority Leader Reid will file Cloture on Friday 2/5, and has assured us that Senate will vote to end debate at 5 p m Monday 2/8.

Please contact me if you have any questions, and to confirm Senator’s attendance on Thursday, at 10 00 a.m  [Emphasis added.]

Alison Reardon
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Legislative Consultant

202.330.1020 (c)

Again, this is a lobbyist who is lobbying to get a colleague seated as one of five members of a federal agency that has jurisdiction over nearly every private-sector workplace in America.

What is wrong with this picture?

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  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com/index.cgi IronDioPriest

    … that it is clear that organized labor (read; organized crime) is in power at the highest levels of the Democrat party.

  • JadedByPolitics

    what they are supposed to be an that is an “elected” official. The Democrats get votes from the people and install as their puppetmasters the heads of unions. I think any person running against Democrats could have a great commercial showing how the Unions have all the power of the supposed “elected” official while the Democrats they send to Washington get their marching orders from SEIU etc. and NOT WE The People!

  • javsnyc

    In his budget, Paterson proposed a number of new taxes, the closure of facilities and other measures to suit a political agenda. With the end of his tenure well within sight, what is to come of these initiatives and the outside agencies that support them?

    It is hard to believe that the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) 1199 will simply allow the two million dollars investment in the soda tax simply fall to the wayside. We know whom the SEIU had in their pocket. And how that black-handed, double-dealing agent worked out for them.

    So who will be the new face of the SEIU

  • renny

    on the tiny voucher program in DC ($2.5 million) that demanded the Sen. disallow the scholarship experiment with the blatant warning that the NEA would take note of who voted for children’s educations and who voted to maintain the pipeline of members’ dues to Sen. campaigns. So, PRESTO, in a stimulus bill so enormous it surpasses flying back and forth to the moon several times in numbers, immediately the tiny DC program was axed.
    The best thing about the recent Sup. Ct. ruling on corporate voice in elections is the counter point it may bring to the previously monotonal clamor of the unions for Dems.