Posted on 12/17/2008 7:39:26 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
A pattern has emerged concerning the expansion of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and that is one of rushed contracts that supposedly "give too much away" to the employers. Of course, I won't comment of the supposed "giving too much away" aspect, but one thing that I will comment on is the propensity of the SEIU to get their contracts by hook or by crook.
This plan is of a piece with SEIU President Andy Stern's quest to make the SEIU the biggest union in the nation. His has been a plan to simply glom onto as many new contracts and new members as possible no matter what else is going on. His avarice to gain new members and for adding locals by gobbling up lesser unions is so strong that he hasn't paid much attention to the specifics of the contracts being signed. This sort of slipshod, barreling forward despite the specifics of the actual contracts has angered many of his membership.
The anger has grown quite a bit over the last year especially. Union members complain that they are being sold down the river and that the SEIU national is too cozy with management. And, since the SEIU is being operated as a top down concern, the local members have no power over themselves and their own contracts.
But, and I have said this before, it's all a bait and switch. Who can doubt that Stern is operating in the long term here? His obvious intention is to give management favorable contracts now to cajole them into allowing their places of business to be unionized. And, as he placates businesses, he rampages across the country gobbling up smaller unions and killing them off by absorbing them gaining amazing size and growing power over the workforce as he grows. At some point, however, Stern has every intention to paralyze the businesses he now has sway over by holding over the heads of management the sheer size of his membership as newer contracts come up for negotiation. These businesses are signing their own death warrants by imagining that the SEIU has any long term interest in working with management...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
SEIU is the illegal alien union too. They will be pushing hard for amnesty.
No word from UAW & Teamsters AFL-CIO
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