Members of Obama’s Civilian Agitation Force certainly have a lot of time and money at their disposal. Are they full time at SEIU’s command and disposal, or do they have “real” jobs from which they can take leave as needed? Curious.
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The big money that SEIU- and other big unions- come from public sector members, who are legion nowadays.
It doesn’t take much money to arbitrate disciplinary case as public employees are covered under civil service codes that already give them due process and the legislative passed budget tells the politicians how many staff at what rate of pay they can offer.
What else is there to do in public employee unions?
This leaves a decent profit for the union to “invest” in other activities like those at Pocono.
And that’s why the Wisconsin fight over union dues deductions is so personal ( I think if it was just reducing public employees pays, pensions or benefits, there wouldn’t be such a fuss).
A relative of mine is a SEIU member. She insists that all of her dues go into sound investments that will go into her retirement plan. When asked what the investments are, she has no idea - she trusts the union totally. Then she complains that the pension plan isn’t very good. Fool.