I'm glad to see this happen. I'm a past chapter president of an SEIU local. This was back in the days when the SEIU was a nuts and bolts, bread and butter union, before they decided that 'social justice' trumped the interests of the members.
They ran off the old time business reps about 13 years ago and replaced them with a bunch of commie fellow travelers. If you want a union obsessed with gay rights, benefits for illegal aliens, reparations and all the rest of the left's touch stones, the SEIU is your kind of place. They are now in a very friendly relationship with ANSWER and the anti-war left.
BTW, these articles seldom mention it, but Sweeney is the past president of SEIU. Stern learned all his double dealing from him. Hopefully they will destroy each other.
Excellent post telebob! You are dead spot on and then some. The SEIU is a Communist organization plain, simple and a matter of fact. George Meany would have kicked the snot out of these pinkos. Not that Unions have always been on the right side of things but they had always been loyal Americans.
Basically, International=Socialist Agenda to change America from Capitalism, and every national union that answers to an International party has to toe the line.
Or, as I used to say:
"I used to be a union democrat when they were the party of the working man."
"Now they are the party of the man who doesn't work."