SEIU Watch

by | Jan 20, 2011 | Labor Relations Ink

SEIU, along with a few of its bully friends, is again going about the business of threatening a private citizen at his home who is simply trying to his job. Walmart is attempting to build a store in D.C., and Pratt Development is leasing land to the company for the store. The union group is circulating a flier with the home address of the head of Pratt Development, to send people to his home to intimidate him – and included on the flyer is a gun range style target. SEIU also put a halt to the building of an assisted living facility in Falmouth, MA. SEIU Healthcare represents the over 200 Falmouth residents working at Falmouth Hospital, Cape Cod Hospital and the Marine Biology Lab in Wood’s Hole, and the SEIU-driven Campaign to Improve Assisted Living is designed to pressure assisted living centers. In yet another display of intimidation and pressure tactics, SEIU released a harassment campaign against a hospital CEO. The union represents about 600 of the hospital’s employees. The union set up a robocall that played a pre-recorded messaged designed to incite the person who answers the phone against the hospital. The message also encouraged the listener to press a number to be transferred to the hospital CEO’s extension. King’s Daughter Medical Center is suing the union, indicating that the hospital’s call logs identified the hundreds of the calls as originating from only one phone number, believed to be used by SEIU. Joyce Gibson, a union spokesperson, said, “We’re prepared to defend the suit. It’s nothing new; we’ve done this before.” In a somewhat absurd move, the SEIU is attempting to sandbag a poll to promote eliminating the American flag from public schools. Out in California, which seems to be rife with SEIU misconduct, another group of hospital employees made their wishes known to boot the union, and SEIU-UHW member Sophia Simms has accused UHW official Dave Regan of election violations in an upcoming UHW officer election. Sims sent an email to SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, stating in part, “The remedy is to have [Regan] withdraw now, if you don’t then we get the Office of labor-Management Standards to do an investigation. Can SEIU really afford another scandal, I DON’T THINK SO.” Sims was careful to cc an official from the DOL on her complaint. There also appears to be a little saber rattling from SEIU’s old nemesis, the California Nurses Association. This flyer put out by the CNA contrasts the union’s recent bargaining gains against SEIU contracts. After taking a two-year hiatus, is the battle between these two aggressive unions about to escalate again? In Philadelphia, the SEIU has picked its next organizing target: private security officers at the cities colleges, corporate offices, and other institutions. Local 32BJ, which holds over 120,000 of the cities janitors in its clutches, claims there are 18,000 such officers in the city, and that as more municipalities try to trim police forces, the ranks are swelling. This explains the SEIU Facebook advertisement we mentioned above aimed at security guards.

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