Posted on 02/16/2011 11:10:44 AM PST by jazusamo
AAAN Bump
In 1934, Scalise was installed as the Mafia deputy to the Building Service Employees International Union, its Eastern Representative in New York City, enabling him to take complete control of Bronx BSEIU Local 32E, in 1936. When Lucky Luciano & Meyer Lansky merged the Italian & Jewish gangs on the Lower East Side & then set up the National Crime Syndicate in the early 1930’s, Augie Pisano was certainly involved & also George Scalise. This connection would explain Scalise’s later use of Sam Firpo Abrams & Izzy Schwartz in BSEIU Local 32E in the late 1930’s. It also explains where Local 32E officials Michael Tafuri & George Cammarata came from as well. (see Hubert Albertz – 32E Papers). . .
SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU)
The earliest roots of SEIU date back to 1921, when seven small janitor unions combined to form the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU), whose members were mostly immigrant workers. Over time, BSEIU began to organize other types of service workers as well, including doormen, elevator operators, nonacademic school employees, healthcare workers, public employees, and people employed in such venues as bowling alleys, stadiums, and cemeteries. In 1968, BSEIU changed its name to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). . .
Under John Sweeney, who served as SEIU's president from 1980-1995, the union initiated the use of "Muscle for Money" (MfM), an Alinsky strategy featuring highly aggressive, organized efforts not only to discredit and intimidate opponents, but also to pressure business leaders and public officials to support the union's agendas -- i.e., its desire to unionize additional workforces. MfM campaigns include such tactics as congregating, attending and disrupting company functions like banquets.
Moreover, SEIU parlayed MfM into aggressive "corporate campaigns" -- coordinated assaults, often conducted in alliance with social and religious activist groups, against the reputations of companies resistant to unionization. Such campaigns typically feature boycotts, picket lines, public demonstrations, literature distribution, letter-writing, and negative-publicity initiatives in the media. Corporate campaigns of this sort originated in the 1960s with "New Left" organizations like the Students for a Democratic Society.
SEIU would continue to employ tough, even violent, tactics long after John Sweeney's departure in 1995. In April 2009, California Nurses Association executive director Rose Ann DeMoro condemned the union's "ugly pattern ... of physical abuse and tactics of intimidation that have no place in either our labor movement or a civilized society."
By the end of Sweeney's tenure as SEIU president, the union hierarchy was thoroughly saturated not only with his penchant for ruthlessness but also with his far-left politics. Indeed, as the socialist New Party was becoming established in the mid-1990s, the national newsletter of the Democratic Socialists of America characterized the young organization as essentially the “electoral arm” of ACORN and its allied SEIU locals.
Sweeney was succeeded as SEIU president by the former New Leftist Andrew Stern, who filled the post from 1996-2010. Under Stern’s leadership, the union's membership grew by more than 1.2 million. . .
In 2006, George Soros's Open Society Institute awarded a $100,000 grant to SEIU. . .
In 2008, SEIU spent approximately $60.7 million to help elect Barack Obama to the White House, deploying some 100,000 pro-Obama campaign volunteers who "knocked on 1.87 million doors, made 4.4 million phone calls … and sent more than 2.5 million pieces of mail in support of Obama." During his campaign, Obama told an SEIU audience: “Your agenda has been my agenda in the United States Senate.... Just imagine what we could do together...Imagine having a president whose life’s work was your work...” After Obama's election, the SEIU became an enormously influential force in his administration: and to SEIU. . .
FBI Investigating Former SEIU Leader Andy Stern
The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in their probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union, according to two people who have been interviewed by federal agents.
The two organized labor officials met with federal agents this summer to answer questions about a six-figure book contract that Stern landed in 2006 and his role in approving money to pay the salary of an SEIU leader in California who allegedly performed no work.
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The disclosure about the federal inquiry of Stern — who abruptly resigned as president of the 2.2-million member SEIU in April — comes just weeks ahead of contentious congressional elections in which the union is spending an estimated $44 million to support its favored Democratic candidates.
Tyrone Ricky Freeman, the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Locals 6434 and 434-B, was convicted late this afternoon of federal charges of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the union that represents home healthcare workers.
Several sources rattled off the names of the unions that flex their muscles whenever a wayward politician needs to be brought in line. They include giant healthcare workers union SEIU/1199; the union representing doormen and other buildings staff; the hotel workers union; the teachers union; and the Communication Workers of America District 1, which covers a mix of public- and private-sector jobs. . .“It’s SEIU 1199, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council, the UFT and CWA,” said one veteran operative. “They’re the Five Families.”
In April 2001, Vallario was indicted in a corruption case against officials of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32B-32J. Prosecutors charged that corrupt members of this local enriched themselves through no-show jobs. Vallario pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation. . .In 2002, Vallario was indicted for murder, extortion, loansharking, bribery and illegal gambling. On April 23, 2004, Vallario pleaded guilty to the 1989 Weiss murder.[1] A recycling executive and former city editor of the Staten Island Advance, Weiss was involved with the Gambino family in an illegal landfill scheme. Boss John Gotti ordered Vallario to kill Weiss because Gotti feared Weiss might become a government witness. . .
The FRSO is deeply involved in the present rioting in Kenosha, etc...
bump in light of Trump’s comment about ‘dark forces’
AANS’ Abudayyah also appears in an article on the IRA...
If the FBI sting targeting Mick Kelly, Hatem Abudayyeh, and associates is any indication, federal investigators suspect that the latticework of relationships linking Irish, Muslim, and Colombian terrorists reaches into American left-wing activist communities as well. With the Kelly and Abudayyeh raids timed so close to top-level British moves against a resurgent Irish terror threat, a fuller picture of America’s homegrown foes may be soon to emerge.———Still Killing: IRA Linked to FARC, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Taliban
Pajamas Media ^ | November 8, 2010 | Rick Stanton
Posted on 11/8/2010, 1:27:34 PM by Kaslin
No doubt at all and 0bama is probably one of their biggest supporters.
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