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Posted on 04/21/2011 1:15:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
New Labor plan: Nationwide protests By: Ben Smith April 21, 2011 02:31 PM EDT
In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans to use its giant political operation to try to build a grass-roots movement of public protest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support that overran Madison, Wis., last month.
The SEIU’s ambitious effort is a dramatic departure from its straightforward approach to the 2008 campaign. That year, the union pressed a single-minded and ultimately successful focus on getting Democrats to commit to a health care overhaul. Then it spent more than $32.5 million in independent expenditures to elect President Barack Obama.
SEIU President Mary Kay Henry acknowledged in an interview that the new strategy, which would include aggressive outreach to non-union members, is “a risk.”
“We felt like we were called in this moment to roll the dice and to think about how to use our members resources for the greatest hope for changing members lives,” she said. “I hope what people will see is more of what we all witnessed in Madison. ... more people in the streets making demands about what kind of America we want to see.”
The new plan, revealed in a planning document reviewed by POLITICO and in the subsequent interview with Henry, reflects the widening recognition by labor leaders that the shrinking national ranks of union members no longer carry the political heft they once did. The draft plan, titled “Fight for a Fair Economy” in what Henry said was a preliminary planning document, would reach outside union ranks to focus on “mobilizing underpaid, underemployed and unemployed workers” and “channeling anger about jobs into action for positive change.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
A baseball bat might be more appropriate as the “I”.
Actually I think its a take-off on “The Sopranos” logo.
Appropriate since the mob and unions have been joined at the hip since the days of Big Jim Colosimo......
The janitors are revolting.
At this point they are no longer protesting against evil corporations or wealthy capitalists or mean Republicans but against reality itself.
SEIU President Mary Kay Henry acknowledged in an interview that the new strategy, which would include aggressive outreach to non-union members, is “a risk.”
Come onto my property with your "agressive outreach" and see what it gets you.
Of all the liberal fascist union scum, SEIU is at the bottom of the cesspool.
Yawn.
Had some fat SEIU cows come around to disrupt a tea party gathering. They were chased into a building and locked the doors. They sat inside crying for the cops to rescue them.
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