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The Service Employees International Union could have written the book on how to get corporations to surrender. In fact, it has written the book. Lawyers for Sodexo USA, a subsidiary of France-based food services and facilities provider Sodexo Inc., recently revealed as much during the discovery phase of the company's federal racketeering suit against the union: an SEIU manual on how to intimidate employers. By applying extreme pressure, the monograph argued, a union can extract concessions from management on virtually any issue. Section Three of the text, fully 88 pages, can be downloaded from www.workplacechoice.org. The lawsuit, filed in March,...

St. Francis Hospital and Advocate Health Care have each proposed new hospitals in the Tinley Park –Orland Park area. It’s expected that the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board will decide within the next few months whether to approve either proposal. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has mounted an aggressive campaign to influence public opinion against the Advocate facility. It sent out a mailing to area residents last week asserting, "If Advocate comes to town, our health care may be at risk." The union’s brochure claims that if Advocate is permitted to construct a new hospital in the area, patients...