Posted on 07/18/2011 4:37:32 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
In the past decade, unions have become increasingly desperate to obtain new dues-paying members. An example of how desperate can be found in a 70-plus-page intimidation manual from the Service Employees International Union(SEIU), which only recently came to light in a pending court case.
The new union tactic is to use pressure on corporate boardrooms as a means of organizing entire companies nationwide rather than recruiting workers on a site-by-site basis; in short, to organize employers rather than employees. To create this pressure, unions attempt to push businesses to the edge of bankruptcy, with little regard for the welfare of employer and employee. They attempt to strong-arm businesses into agreeing to take away the secret ballot for employees in union-organizing elections via card check.
They also try to force employers to restrict their own speech on union issues so that workers will not get both sides of the story on unionization. Among the SEIU’s demands is that employers agree to bargain only with it, to the exclusion of all other unions, regardless of what workers want.
SEIU is in federal court defending itself against charges of racketeering and extortion filed by one of its unionizing targets, the catering company Sodexo Inc.Sodexo’s court discovery recently revealed an SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” on “Pressuring the Employer.”
Union pressure is nothing new, but what SEIU recommends is not limited to organizing drives and strikes. Rather, the pressure takes the form of a so-called corporate campaign, whereby the unionallies itself with outside third parties to raise intimidation to a new level.
SEIU’s manual details how “outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.” The union advises using legal and regulatory pressure to “threaten the employer with costly action by government agencies or the courts.”
We always knew they were Marxists; and Government regulation their tool.
SEIU intimidation manual
This seemed to be right up your alley.
You can bet all of these leftist movements have similar manuals. We need to be collecting and exposing them.
I never really thought about it at the time but one of the tactics I was encouraged to use back in my union days was “manufactured consent”.
When the union was getting ready to do something that would be unpopular with members, I would be pulled aside for some ego pumping and instruction. I was told how respected I was and how others looked up to me. It was suggested that I should speak in favor of union goals.
What I noticed was that it was always the same group of members trying to convince coworkers with very similar arguments. It turned out that our union leadership was giving the same pep talk to all of us and attempting to use us for crowd psychology.
Since Obama’s election I see it everywhere including in his speeches. (80% support raising the debt limit) You’ll see manufactured consent in letters to the editor in newspapers, in forums, comments after news stories, etc. In fact, if you watch the national popular vote threads at FR you’ll find one poster who is a little too quick with long winded responses that support doing away with our electoral system. (We did some digging yesterday and found one exact same comment posted in over 120 different right/libertarian forums)
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