SEIU crook of the day
Continuing my series of posts on the bottom-up revolt against SEIU corruption…
Reader M, an SEIU member in New Hampshire, sends along a story on the Big Labor crook of the day. The NH State Employees Association is SEIU Local 1984. They’ve just put their president on ice, via WMUR. It’s a slap on the wrist, but it’s a start:
A panel of the union representing most of New Hampshire’s state workers has reprimanded its president, saying he unfairly denied others access to a delegate voter contact list.
The Concord Monitor reported that before Gary Smith was re-elected president of the State Employees’ Association in 2008, two other candidates for the job filed a complaint. They said Smith denied their requests for home phone numbers and e-mail addresses for the union’s voting delegates, even though Smith himself contacted delegates, seeking their support.
The union’s Charge and Trial Board found Wednesday that Smith violated ethics. The board imposed a two-week suspension.
Reader M adds:
The SEIU is a stain on the reputations of the hardworking government employees (some do exist!) they purport to represent.
I am an SEIU member who works for the State of NH. I’m not required to be a union member, but I joined specifically so I could vote AGAINST as much of the SEIU agenda as possible. Even if I hadn’t joined the union a portion of my paycheck would have been siphoned to SEIU for collective bargaining purposes, so I figured it would be better, as they say, to keep my friends close and my enemies closer.
Here in NH, State employees are given the option of telling the SEIU, “No, I do not give you permission to use my dues to support political actions and endorsements,” and you can bet your bottom dollar I checked off THAT box with a big, black, heavy-handed checkmark. Of course, I have no real way of checking to make sure that the SEIU isn’t using my money anyway. There was a time I might have been gullible enough to believe that an organization as big as the SEIU would have at least SOME accountability, but those rose-colored glasses got crushed under reels of bureaucratic red-tape years ago.
It makes me sick — and more than a little embarrassed — to be associated with the so-called “purple shirts.” I’m ashamed to tell people I work for the State. I am grateful for the job — I know what it’s like NOT to have one — and I try to use what little power I have as a union member to keep the SEIU from running roughshod over my fellow New Hampshirites.
Hang in there, M — and all the other watchdogs looking out for us from the inside.
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My home state, that will always be “home”!
Live Free or Die, indeed!
So he gets a two week (very likely paid) vacation and this is punishment?
Gotta love them union perks huh?
Okay, I’m still not clear on why we need a union for government employees. Who is the union protecting their members from?
It reminds me of the public schools/teachers union. A few years back my daughter was in middle school and got caught cutting class. Their punishment was a 3 day suspension from school. I asked the principle why because not being in school is not a punishment. After talking and haggling, I finally convinced him that she and the other kid should have to come to school on the next teacher “work day” and pick up trash, wash windows or anything else constructive. It finally worked. Keep picking at them the way they are trying to do to us.
Making Orwell proud…
Speaking of unions, thefoxnation.com has a fed appeals court blocks Pratt & Whitney from closing its Cheshire plant because 1000 union members couldn’t be moved. The union filed suit against the business. I will tell you something, if this was my company, the doors would be locked and a out of business sign would be put up. Just think about this, a court tells a business they can’t move because of union members! I guess nothing should surprise me with the bho and team, but this takes the cake!
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What, only ONE crook a day? I am sure they can do better than that….
Unfortunately, even if they were halfway honest (snicker), they would just take double from those that didn’t check it, so it would average out.
Once upon a time, long, long, ago, management had the right to run the business. That has now dissolved into a fairy tale. If I were P&W, I would file bankruptcy, negate the union contracts, and move the assembly overseas.
There was a story a few years ago about jet engine mechanics that were having to work as bread deliverymen, Walmart stockers, etc. It seemed they worked for an airline at a refurbishment facility where they would perform the annual maintenance/refurbishment. They were so good at cost and turn around, that the airline was able to contract their service to other airlines. Contract time came and the union wanted a 200% wage increase ($25/hr to $50/hr). The airline said the increase would put the operation in a loss, so the union went on strike. The airline closed the facility and contracted the work overseas.
The company I worked for, the union went on strike for 3 weeks and settled for a $.04/hr increase. The members would never make back the wages they lost during the 3 weeks over the life of the contract. I would hate to tell you the money the company banked from not having to pay wages and benefits over that 3 week period. Unions have lost all concept of working for the betterment of their members, now it’s how much money they can donate to a campaign fund and how large a pension the officers get.
Bienvenido a Hermosillo, Mexico
Pratt & Whitney Corp. Plant
“Making engines Americans won’t make”
Their evil employers – the taxpayers.
Unions, especially SEIU, are dangerous and generally corrupt. They are not concerned about the company (or, if govt)the agency. It is ONLY about the money…they will fight for huge pay raises and then wonder why the company shuts down. Their leadership forces members to vote their way….or, if you choose not to, your life is made a misery at your workplace and your home.
Does any parasite ever worry that it might irreversibly weaken, or even kill, its host?