On February 25, we noted a story by Ben Smith of Politico about the newest troubles in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its President Andy Stern. Stern is attempting yet another hostile take over of yet another union in his attempt to gain iron-fisted rule of all unions in the country — no less than that is his ultimate goal.
It looks like Politico has another note in that battle.
SEIU chief Andrew Stern’s backing of a divorce for UNITE HERE, and his offer to merge with that union, has provoked off-record grumbling on the HERE side of the divided union. Today, it brought an an on-record shot from a division of the AFL-CIO, which SEIU and UNITE HERE left to form Change to Win.
“A guiding principle of American trade unionism is and always has been that one union or federation of unions must not interfere in the democratic processes of another union or federation,” said Building and Construction Trades Department President Mark Ayers in his memo. “The fact that one large international union has chosen to insert itself into the affairs of UNITE HERE is deplorable and arrogant.”
It has to be said that “deplorable and arrogant” are Andy Stern’s guiding principles!
It also must be pointed out that Stern is a close pal of Barack Obama and was one of the culprits involved in the selling of Obama’s Senate seat with Illinois ex-governor, Blagojevich.
Andy Stern is nothing if not “deplorable and arrogant”!
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The SEIU is a disgusting entity aiming at
phxg (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 11:00AM EST (link)the inclusion of any “person” working in the service industry. Their blog page gives an adequate representation of their intentions and support of Card Check and retaliation upon any candidate they elected who does not follow the SEIU’s philosophy.
One of my current businesses is under attack by the SEIU to unionize the class of worker I employ (non-medical home care workers). I have 167 of these employees and if card check or the SEIU is successful at least 40% will HAVE to be laid off if benefits become mandatory.
I offered benefits to one office of the employee pool (80 people) and only 3 took them. Of that group the lowest paid is at $10.75/hr the highest at $16.45/hr. These are better then competitive wages in this market.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle