SEIU Watch: More workers revolt against power-grabbing Purple Shirts
Good news: The “persuasion of power” is losing its potency.
Most Frequent White House Visitor Andy Stern, head of the radical SEIU, has waved around his brass knuckles for years with impunity. No more.
In October, I reported on the parental revolt among home-based health care workers against the SEIU’s invasive, membership roll-boosting strategy in Illinois (a strategy that had gone unopposed in many other states). The remarkable grass-roots opposition to SEIU in the land of Daley, Blago, Rahm, and Obama prevailed; SEIU’s bid to unionize home-based health care workers went down in flames.
Now, workers in Kitsap County WA are standing up to SEIU’s thuggery:
The National Labor Relations Board may ultimately decide whether workers at Kitsap Mental Health Services still are represented by the Service Employees International Union.
While one employee said there is some division among staff over the current status of the SEIU, many said Tuesday they want no part of it. The union has represented KMHS employees since about 1991 under two locals, including the present one, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.
SEIU leaders recently sent a letter to high-ranking legislators accusing KMHS of union-busting and misuse of state-appropriated funds. A day after that news was published in the Kitsap Sun, KMHS employees gave their perspectives on the story.
Some employees aren’t ruling out other union representation in the future.
“I felt like the union wanted me to believe that the management was bad and that I needed the protection of the union,” said therapist David Secrest. “I want a union that communicates and works with management without an adversarial relationship.”
Said clerk Jackie Fitzgerald, “I think we can do this ourselves.”
Agreed Tina D’Astoli, an office coordinator, “We’re going with no union … We can always bring in another union; we could even be our own guild.
“It was anything but SEIU.”
There’s your bumper sticker of the month, straight from workers’ lips: “It was anything but SEIU.”
The Purple Shirt’s corrupt and corrupted reputation is finally getting around. Keep spreading the word:
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Great news!! And on that note, good night to all.
At last the folks are starting to wake up, not only with regard to SEIU but to the whole Obamanation scam.
Therapist David Secrest, clerk Jackie Fitzgerald, and office coordinator Tina D’Astoli all better watch their backs now. The Service Employees Intimidation Union will be after them.
Would you like a nice hot cup of tea with your beat down …
Why does this word keep coming up when corruption is mentioned?
Why does this word keep coming up when corruption is mentioned?
Hey Soap–Illinois is the Gold Standard for corruption. Dead people vote in every election, sometimes twice. Just sayin,
Since unionization in the private sector results in companies that can’t compete (see General Motors), the only place for unions is where the workers least need them, government.
I see union membership as being an extension of membership in the Demonratic Party, and like the USSR and the Nazis, party membership will be required for the better jobs.
There’s one of organized crime’s rackets right there.
How coincidentally appropriate that “On the Waterfront” was on TCM last night!
ACORN is based in New Orleans, I think Louisiana gives Illinois a good run for its money, corruption wise.
JIndal is trying to drain the swamp, but there are a lot of snakes and gators.
And always remember:
“When you’re up to your a$$ in alligators, it’s hard to remember that the job you came to do in the first place was to drain the swamp>”
(A photocopied home-made-type poster-drawing I saw on an office wall ~25 or so years ago!)
Speaking of thugs
Obama/Holder Justice Department fires the man who dared recommend charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
Oh, he wasn’t fired, just dismissed from his post and reassigned to the boondocks.
That’ll teach people not to mess with Obama’s storm troopers.
I smell a lot of fraud and outright intimidation in 2012…
S.E.I.U.
The one-I‘d four-lettered lying Purple Freedom Eaters
There really is no end is there?
I am still waiting for them to fire Bush and move on…
Keep pounding these people into the dirt.
Ahh, the good news of the day. And this is the money statement IMHO:
Well that is something that the SEIU knows about.
LOL; if ever there was a union which needed to be looked into by the federal “justice” division, it is seiu. but wait, there’s more, the “justice” division is run by eric “i can do anything i want” holder. don’t hold your breath on justice in america, 2012 is a long way away.
It has to do with Illinois’ two term program:
)
One term in office
One term is prison
Governors:
*) Otto Kerner, a Democrat 1973 conviction
*) Dan Walker, a Democrat pleading guilty in 1987
*) George Ryan, a Republican convicted 2006
*) Blago, a Democrat
Judges:
*) Top Chicago judge convicted of graft
*) Cook County judge convicted of DUI
*) McDonnell, 54, the 15th judge convicted in the Operation Greylord investigation of Cook County court, Chicago Sun-Times. (I guess in Cook County the judges report to THEIR probation officers
Friends of Mayor Daley:
December 22, 2009-A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Mayor Richard Daley’s former Streets and Sanitation commissioner Al Sanchez.
A pattern of convictions seems to be developing there so they have moved the operation to DC and took SEIU with them.
Good One!
Good for the employees at KMHS.It is great to hear about unionized workers quetioning the unions,and there tactics.I hope what these folks are thinking becomes the new standard for unionization.
Having been a member of two major unions during my working years,I can say that if these big unions ever represented the workers,that representation ended long,long ago.Ever since I began working,the unions existed only for the sake of the unions themselves,not the workers.
I am not anti-union because I do believe workers need protection from unscrupulous managers,but not all companies take unfair advantage of their wokers.
The KMHS workers have the right idea-communication with managment,and(if neccesary)act as an independent guild.Not only will the wokers fare well,they will no doubt perform their jobs better,making the company more profitable.Win-win.
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Oh boy fun SEIU fun in my own stomping grounds. Time to hit the online comments section of the Sun and watch the fireworks(and maybe stir the pot,seeing as I’m registered to comment there).
More and more of the/us common folks are directing the changes. These KMHS workers make great role models.
Regular folks stepping forward – our only hope in 2010 and onward.
OK, just checked the online comments and it so far it looks like no help is needed, pretty much all the comments are against SEIU.
Bravo, Kitsap County! Perhaps the large Navy presence contributed to the attitude adjustment.
Gotta love those unions.
I just read this one.
I thought it was funny that the union made excuses for the sleeping guard and condemned the one that took the picture.
We really are in Bizarro world.
Perhaps one day Andy Stern will become a permanent part of some concrete flooring stucture for a football stadium or high-rise building.
Old-school style.