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