Posted on 06/27/2009 6:58:04 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
We have been reporting on the clash between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and it's California subsidiary the United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We have talked of the battle between the two, how the SEIU has strong-armed or dismissed the elected members of the UHW board, and how at last thousands of members of what was the UHW are attempting to leave to start a new union to rival the SEIU.
But, it appears that the SEIU is a tad unhappy that so many of its California members would quit to form a new union. And so, in order to stop the rival union's birth, the SEIU is using what the L.A. Times is snickeringly referring to as "anti-union tactics" to stop the bleeding.
For years, the powerful Service Employees International Union has played a lead role in the campaign for a landmark federal law that would allow workers to join a labor organization simply by signing petitions.
Now, as part of a high-stakes battle in California, the union is urging federal officials to throw out petitions signed by tens of thousands of its own members who have asked to be represented by a rival upstart group.
The irony is rich, isn't it? Maybe not irony. Maybe just straight out hypocrisy...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
The SEIU is a bunch of sleazebags.
Union versus Union. This should be interesting to watch.
The Lexicon of Union Extremists.
This is an interesting bit of internecine warfare. The SEIU (feh!) versus members trying to form a competing union. I wonder if they will battle it out in court.
I wonder if they will battle it out in court.
I’m wagering both physical and court battles.
Let the games begin
Well, the court battles will have the added benefit of draining their coffers.
Service Employees International Union is the defacto government in the State of California.
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