Coach is Right, Friday Short Stories

Coach is Right ^ | 4/17/15 | John C. Velisek USN (Ret.)

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1.) Who’s Fighting For 15? Workers Or Big Labor.

A nationwide minimum wage protest planned for Wednesday is being called out by critics who claim the self-proclaimed grassroots movement is actually just a paid stunt by big labor. “This is an orchestrated effort,” Ryan Williams, media advisor for Worker Center Watch, said during a press call Monday. “The union has invested upwards of $20 million.”

Additionally, as sources for The Daily Caller News Foundation point out, the SEIU has spent $637,243 in strike benefits to some groups involved despite them not reporting any members. The concept refers to when a union pays compensation and benefits to striking workers adding to earlier speculation that some of the protestors are being paid to be there as opposed to actually being industry workers demanding a higher wage.

East Bay Organizing Committee, Fast Food Workers Committee and the Los Angeles Workers Organizations Committee are 3 of the 8 reported groups to have received strike benefits without reporting any members.

“The vast majority of these protestors are not fast food workers,” Furchtgott-Roth noted. She points to email and text alerts as ways the SEIU is able to get people out to the protests, even if they are not industry workers. “Many of these demonstrators are bused in, many are paid,” Williams added.

Throughout the fast-food protests the SEIU has been criticized by some for using the Fight for 15 protests as a way to bypass labor laws to more easily unionize fast food workers. Additionally, according to a report from Union Facts, a minimum wage increase would benefit the SEIU directly while hurting non-unionized SEIU competitors.

MY OPINION: Should I feel sorry for the union lackeys, and the Socialist SEIU? They need to find new members...