Posted on 03/03/2011 11:32:54 PM PST by buccaneer81
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SEIU District 1199 - Dennis Rivera's NY local
Remember that name. Rivera wields a big stick in SEIU
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Anybody else noticing just how out of hand the opposition party has become lately (and supported by the MSM) Seems that we have reached a peak here where everything is okay if done by the Democrats (yes, none of this would be acceptable by the Republicans).
Either this is fast becoming the norm via the MSM or we are becoming a third world country...neither is a good sign.
He’s probably a spy for them.
So the disruptress-in-chief is married to a “top researcher with the Ohio Republican Party”? Um, I’d say it was time to let him go. He’s married to a union thug. Who knows what kind of sensitive pub party info could fall into her hands? I think she needs some repurcussions for her actions. A little unemployment pain in the pocketbook for the family might be just the thing.
Strangely, I was thinking along those lines. One of my lurid fantasies.
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THE DEALMAKER - A UNION BOSS WITH HUGE POLITICAL POWER, DENNIS RIVERA MADE THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AGREEMENT POSSIBLE. OBSERVERS SAY HE’S A SKILLED MEDIATOR — BUT HE CAN PLAY HARDBALL.
Buffalo News, The (NY) - Sunday, April 7, 2002
Author: TOM PRECIOUS and CHARITY VOGEL - News Staff Reporters
EXCERPT
He started his life and his union career in Puerto Rico. Back then, Rivera went by the name Dennis Hickey — using the last name of his Irish father.
In Puerto Rico, he honed his organizing skills as a Vietnam War protest leader and started two unions. In 1977, he moved to New York City, where he began his life’s work of organizing health care workers. Along the way, he took on his mother’s surname — Rivera . Today he cites his Puerto Rican roots as a major factor in his success.
“I come from a very small town where we basically have grown accustomed to listening to people,” Rivera said. “I think that’s it.”
In New York, Rivera started out at the bottom of the union food chain: as an organizer, a job with little glamour and little pay but, especially in New York City, a job that demands street smarts and maybe even a bit of hustling.
Rivera rose through the ranks. In 1989, just 12 years after he arrived from San Juan, he gained control of what today is Local 1199 of SEIU , the Service Employees International Union. That union includes 210,000 members — orderlies, cafeteria workers and clerks — who are some of the industry’s lowest-paid workers.
Rivera is also president of the New York State Council of SEIU , a 325,000-member umbrella group that includes 1199 Upstate, which represents 17,000 health care workers from Buffalo to Albany. He makes $103,000 a year — modest by the standards of downstate labor bosses.
Along the way, as Rivera rose to power, politicians learned all about his importance — especially those who relied on his help to make it into office.
In that category are former President Bill Clinton, New York City politicians, and U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer.
“If you want to have one guy in your corner,” Schumer said, “he’s probably the one.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/business/27union.html
Dennis Rivera Leads Labor Charge for Health Reform
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: August 26, 2009
“They gathered as a group and waited until they had about 10 people before they caused a disturbance.”
A shotgun blast to the face stops a lot of that.
where’s the crocodile tears now, Nancy??? why are you so quiet, Madam Minority leader??? Are you and the big Zero enjoying all this??
This is their game. They’re ready for it.
These aholes will escalate this to the point of tragedy and then the PC Police will come in for calm and civility and our hopes will die.
MSM is in lock step with Democrat Party and Obama (their man). Sort of a liberal Democrat run media when Dems are in - or out - of control. Charged with supporting Dems blindly when they’re in power, and charged with attacking Republicans blindly if they’re ever perchance in power.
The Owner should press charges but he's got to buck the Unionized Police to do so. This is where we're at, as the Police are not going to interfere with their Union brethren......
I wonder how many (real) middle-class workers at that resturant lost money that night because these thugs disrupted their business? The only class they care about is the Union Thug Class.
I agree . Get rid of the husband.He probably tipped her off and she set this up.
SEIU Ptooie.
Fire the husband. How else did she know where they could be vulnerable to attack?
Megabump!!!
Hey pal, dis is a nice restaurant youz got here. Be a shame if sumthin happened to it...
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