It’s also been a busy two weeks for SEIU! 
As we reported last week Sodexo has filed RICO charges on SEIU for a pattern of “illegal campaign of extortion” that includes “blackmail, vandalism, trespass, harassment, and lobbying law violations designed to steer business away from Sodexo USA and harm the company” including tossing plastic roaches in Sodexo buffet lines and arranging to have Danny Glover arrested outside Sodexo US headquarters. In a press release, SEIU responded to the suit by casting Sodexo into a pit of worker hating vipers including the Koch brothers, Scott Walker and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The union also accused Sodexo of hiring operatives to “discredit” SEIU. (Easy work if you can get it.) We also reported on 76% of SEIU members at Pocono Medical Center crossing their own picket line after SEIU took them out on “respect” issues and posted this alarming video of an SEIU protest at ESSA Bank as part of the PMC strike. 
Meanwhile, Ohio State Senator Frank LaRose found out the hard way that reaching out to SEIU doesn’t usually end well. Pro-labor LaRose gave an SEIU official his cell phone number in a show of his openness to discuss Ohio SB 5 that he had voted to support. In return, SEIU put his cell phone number into a robo-call resulting in over 1000 calls to his cell phone, sometimes 30 per hour, that shut down his voicemail and interrupted his phone service. LaRose had been instrumental in behind the scenes negotiations to tone down and even remove anti-union measures from the bill. In Minnesota, the president of SEIU local 26 Javier Morillo blasted the Obama Administration and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for recent I-9 audits where employers are required to show proof of their employees’ citizenship or immigration status. Morillo accuses the government of “systematically pushing hardworking people into the underground economy where they face exploitation” by enforcing U.S. immigration law. And finally, from California and Sternburgerwithfries, two entertaining stories with videos! Mr. Integrity on Regan’s Slate and Kaiser and SEIU on Trial.
