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union hypocrisy and betrayal of its membership ... a series of loopholes that cut union workers out of the very pay increases their leaders have championed. ... written into the fine print of wage ordinances in a dozen California cities at labor leaders’ urging. San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Santa Monica have all adopted union waivers in their most recent minimum wage laws. L.A. city officials are expected to indicate whether they will include such an exemption in their own $15 minimum wage at a hearing next week. ... Thanks to the “union waivers” agreed to by union leaders,...

The so-called Service Employees International Union represents government employees and has grown while other unions have shrunk. The fact that it claims to represent workers apparently doesn't affect how it treats its own workers. The union actually behaves like the sort of abusive corporate slave-master that organized labor claims dominate the workplace and must be resisted. Reports the Washington Post: As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country's fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off. The Service Employees International Union, considered...