Service Industry Unions

[Max Sawicky]

The assertions below are highly questionable, to say the least, for anyone
interested.  The president of SEIU is Andy Stern, and he is no "gangster."
Neither is Sweeney.  SEIU in fact focuses on low wage workers, particularly
in health care, as someone else mentioned, and as even this post indicates
re: the West Coast.  Jobs of the home care workers in California who just
joined the SEIU are as unstable as anyone's.  I'll leave the story of their
expansion to someone expert in the history.  Maybe Eisenscher will indulge
us, if he has a minute.  [EPI is funded by both the AFL and SEIU.  If
anybody wants to make something of that, go right ahead.]

mbs


> SEIU is run by the gangster who is now running the AFL, John
> Sweeney. Their
> main approach to organizing was to takeover independant unions that had
> been organized by rank and filers, and subsume them--and to engage AFSCME
> and other public worker unions in turf battles.. That's how they showed
> growth. They are not interested in low wage workers because they know the
> jobs are unstable, hence so are the dues. The declaration that organizing
> health care workers on the west coast is tantamount to the Flint Strike
> victory in 1937 indicates Sweeney's bankruptcy.
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