Sodexo sues union under federal racketeering statute

Reuters ^ | 3/17/11 | Jeremy Pelofsky and Jeff Roberts

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON - The American unit of French catering giant Sodexo SA on Thursday filed a civil racketeering lawsuit accusing the Service Employees International Union of engaging in illegal tactics in its efforts to unionize workers. The company levied numerous charges accusing the union of threats concerning employees and company property, engaging in illegal tactics to steer business away from Sodexo and attempting to publicly tarnish its reputation. The lawsuit is the latest twist in a fight over a bid by SEIU to represent some of the 80,000 of Sodexo's hourly employees who are not union members

[Nachum]

Watching this one

[Marty62]

About damn time!

[FlingWingFlyer]

They should have filed in a French court or that goofy “world court”. The “judges” in this country all belong to the other side. They won’t allow anything bad to happen to the SEIU.

[buccaneer81]

Sodexo operates my company's cafeterias and caters for our meetings, etc. If they went union, we would dump them and find another food service contractor in a heartbeat.

We don't like unions where I work ;-)

[Christian Engineer Mass]

I’m surprised Reuters didn’t headline it “RICO” which most people don’t know instead of spelling it out, or even just “Sodexo sues union”

[Freddd]

I’m with you.

[thecabal]

I hate SEIU, but I say eff Sodexo as well. Because of their exclusivity agreement with a former employer, we couldn't even have a freaking employee BBQ out in the lawn. They had to be the official caterer and we had to pay for them to do it. No potluck was allowed if there was a hint that any employee might cook something on-site.

I know, kind of a stupid thing to get riled up about, but it shows that Sodexo isn't above the stupid little games that the unions play. They can all rot in hell for all I care.