Shedding the Light on the SEIU: Were it not for the internet, you might never know about America’s most notorious union

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 28th at 04:15 PM  | 

Prior to the beating of Kenneth Gladney, the Service Employees International Union (or SEIU) flew under the public’s radar. Many Americans’ had never heard of then-SEIU boss Andy Stern and his merry band of purple goons*. Since the Gladney beating, however, the SEIU has earned the reputation once held by such notorious unions as the once mafia-controlled Teamsters or Longshoremen. Now, with the internet replacing the | Read More »

Andy Stern. Scab for the Chinese.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 1st at 11:00 AM  | 

Before you ask: I was raised in a union household.  I know precisely what that word means, and I am using it precisely as my late father the local union president would have used it if he had lived to read this Wall Street Journal article by former SEIU boss Andy Stern.  Let me summarize said article: I, Andy Stern, am a cheap date* who | Read More »

SEIU Endorses Barack Obama, Steals #OWS Slogan, & Descends Into Banality

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 16th at 04:30 PM  | 

On some days, there must waves of nostalgia that wash over the SEIU rank and file for former-SEIU-boss-turned-corporate-insider Andy Stern and his cohort Anna Burger. At least, prior to Stern’s company doing questionable drug deals with the Obama administration, as a union boss, Stern was more creative than his successors. Take, for example, the SEIU’s endorsement of Barack Obama for next year’s election. That, in | Read More »

Obama administration gives $433m no-bid contract to Democratic donor.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 12th at 11:17 AM  | 

The last time I checked, didn’t the Left call this sort of thing ‘crony capitalism?’ Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire | Read More »

SIGA’s stocks more than double since SEIU’s Andy Stern was hired on board

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 1st at 07:00 PM  | 

Former SEIU boss Andy Stern doesn’t quite deserve all of the credit. After all, SIGA Technologies’ scientists did come up with ST-246 (a smallpox vaccine) long before Stern was brought on board to pitch the company to his friends in Washington. However, hiring Andy Stern (who happened to have a key to the back door of the White House) was most assuredly a good investment | Read More »

A House Divided: Andy Stern’s Ex Slams UAW’s King Over South Korean Sell Out

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 6th at 06:00 AM  | 

Incredibly, there are people who are further to the left than former-SEIU boss Andy Stern. One of them happens to be Vladimir Lenin his ex-girlfriend, Jane Hamsher (former Hollywood producer and current proprietor of the ultra-left blog Firedoglake). Purportedly, Jane dumped Andy when he backed down from the public option in ObamaCare. Some months later, after Andy left the union movement and got a job as a | Read More »

As Debt Commission Plan Fails, Unions Have a Solution: Spend MORE money!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 3rd at 02:30 PM  | 

It’s official: Obama’s debt reduction commission has failed. Not surprisingly, former SEIU boss Andy Stern was among those who voted against the plan. The closely-followed US debt commission failed to pass its deficit reduction plan Friday, once more pushing back hard choices about America’s ballooning national debt. Only 11 of the group’s 18 members backed the plan, three short of the 14 required to send | Read More »

ObamaCare: The Chickens Come Home to Roost…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 15th at 05:15 AM  | 

By now, most Americans know how hard union bosses pushed, tugged, bullied and threatened, using tens of millions of their members’ money on advertising and lobbying, all to get health care reform passed.  Most Americans also remember (though many did not believe) the promises that health care reform would make health care “affordable for all.” And no one can forget how the legislation was sold to Americans: | Read More »

“Economic Treason” & the Confiscation of America

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 11th at 06:00 AM  | 

YOU are the ONLY thing in the way of them fulfilling their agenda. Over the last year (and longer), we’ve written on the union push to nationalize America’s retirement system and how important the $165 billion union pension bailout bill is to union bosses and their lackeys in the Democratic Party. Moreover, for two years, we’ve written how America’s health care system will be socialized medicine within three | Read More »

Just days before Socialist Saturday, unions remind Americans of Obama roots

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 27th at 02:45 PM  | 

Aesop, meet Obama. Just days before Socialist Saturday (see #hashtags below), a series of union-related events are beginning to become large enough of an embarrassment to the Obama administration that they may be hard for the media to ignore any longer. With the abrupt departure of SEIU über-boss Andy Stern, the rejection (and subsequent departure) of his hand-chosen successor, Anna Burger, the President’s friends at | Read More »