[lbo-talk] SEIU allows employers to exclude workers from unions

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 22 10:13:31 PDT 2008


On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> Another lovely SEIU union building strategy: allow food service
> companies to decide which of their units will be unionized and which
> will not. Details at http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/22/seiu
> and be sure to look at the "summary of the "Big 3" agreement" in
> para 10. I guess it's easy to build unions--if you sacrifice some
> workers' rights to unionize!

Another charming aspect to the story - the students thought they were organizing workers at UNC didn't know that SEIU had signed an agreement with Aramark saying they'd never organize the campus. I'm sure there's a creative rationale for this duplicity - I'd love to hear it.

Doug



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