SEIU Watch

by | Jun 10, 2010 | Labor Relations Ink

Although SEIU pledged to “create WWIII” to drive NUHW out of California hospitals, they seem to be fighting an uphill battle, and losing. 600 USC University Hospital Workers joined the NUHW after the SEIU teamed up with hospital management to run a “no-union” counter-organizing campaign. The integrity of SEIU’s interest in “workers” rings clear, when they would rather employees choose “no-union” over an SEIU rival! In the continued tussle over 47,000 Kaiser Permanente union members, 1,300 mental health workers filed a petition to leave the SEIU for NUHW. The SEIU is also stringing together a run of political failures. First, they failed to get enough signatures to put a third party on the ballot in North Carolina, a measure designed to punish Rep. Larry Kissel, who voted against the health care bill. Their efforts in Arkansas also failed when Blanche Lincoln won her primary. In another interesting “fight,” SEIU and George Soro’s Moveon.org urged their members to support a move to ban the American flag from public schools. Not much more to be said about that one… Although Mary Kay Henry had pontificated about SEIU cleaning up its act, recent activity seems to indicate “same ole, same ole.” Rickman Jackson, who resigned from an SEIU post in disgrace having pilfered tens of thousands in dues money (and was “banished” to Canada for a season), has recently resurfaced in the company of SEIU Executive VP Gerry Hudson. Indicating that SEIU doesn’t intend to diminish its Washington presence, they signed ABC News’s deputy political director, Teddy Davis, to the post of Assistant Director of Communications to work on political campaigns and policy agenda. On the political front in California, the SEIU funded a study designed to criticize Gov. Schwarzenneger’s budget. Finally, though Henry touts to spend $250 million to gain 120,000 new SEIU members this year, most of those appear to be employees who are tied to government funding, or are public employees already. Apparently, the “value” offered by unions cannot stand up in the labor free market.

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