We know that the SEIU has endorsed the president’s reelection campaign but does the endorsement really speak for the members of the union? According to Mary Kay Henry, the boss of the union, all SEIU members now endorsed Obama. There are no dissenters! Sounds more like an election in North Korea.
For those SEIU Watchers wondering when SEIU’s longtime number two Anna Burger is going to step down, the wait is over. Answer: Wednesday August 11, 2010 according to BNA:
Anna Burger, the long-time secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, and chair of the Change to Win
federation, Aug. 11 announced her retirement from both positions effective immediately.
In a statement, Burger said she is “committed to building a permanent and sustained progressive majority,” adding, “we need a coordinated progressive infrastructure that protects our American values of fairness and justice, and I intend to be part of that work.” (more…)
Big Labor ‘Organizing’ Strategy Reliant on Washington, D.C.
Nationwide unemployment hovers near 10%. (U.S. DOL reports unemployment rate of 9.9% for April 2010) Across America today, there is widespread hardship resulting from most businesses’ lingering inability to hire more workers profitably even as the country emerges from the 2008-2009 recession.
What is the response of Big Labor politicians in Washington, D.C.? Sadly, they appear determined to make matters worse.
Last month, union-label U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) admitted to the Hill, a D.C. Beltway publication, that she and other members of her chamber’s Democratic majority were working behind the scenes to concoct an “alternative” version of the mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act” for floor action this year.
In its current form, this legislation (S.560/H.R.1409) is designed to help union bosses sharply increase the share of all private-sector workers who are under union monopoly control by effectively ending secret-ballot elections in union organizing campaigns.
However, the National Right to Work Committee and its allies have mobilized massive public opposition to the measure, greatly lowering its prospects for passage in its current form.
Monopoly Unionism Negatively Correlated With Private-Sector Job Growth
In response, as Ms. McCaskill recently acknowledged, Big Labor politicians and union lobbyists are now concocting new legislation designed to accomplish the same objective through somewhat different means. (more…)
The May 2010 issue of The National Right To Work Committee Newsletter available for download in an Adobe pdf format for your convenience to read and share. It is the Committee’s official newsletter publication that provides an excellent monthly overview of ongoing battles against forced unionism.
May’s issue contains the following headlines:
Police/Fire Union Scheme Prepped For Floor Vote – Bill Would Herd Now-Independent ‘First Responders’ Into Unions
Iowans Again Defeat Forced-Union-Fee Scheme – But Hawkeye State’s Popular Right to Work Law Still Under Fire
New Jersey’s ‘Day of Reckoning Has Arrived’ — Government Union Monopolists Have Brought State to Brink of Ruin
Why Is Big Labor ‘Out of Touch’ With Workers? — Forced-Unionism Privileges, Not Fat Paychecks, Are the Root Cause
Forced-Unionism Expansion, by Hook or Crook — Big Labor ‘Organizing’ Strategy Reliant on Washington, D.C.
Fewer Bidders = Higher Costs For Taxpayers — White House Federal-Contract Policy Rewards Big Labor Patrons
To view these and other recent Committee Newsletter articles online, click here to go to the Committee’s “Newsroom” section where the 20 most recent newsletter articles can be easily viewed.
