Fox News had what could only be described as a professional point misser as their analyst on the story about the SEIU union advertising to hire someone to lead a team of law breakers in support of their ends.

Time and again, the anchor attempted to get him to make the obvious point that the union which in 2009 was viewed as the most influential in Washington, DC, is now looking to engage in an active campaign of civil unrest and law breaking. Yet, somehow, the guest prevailed by repeatedly talking around the edges and failing to make the salient point.

For those who missed the SEIU call for law breakers, the introduction to the employment advertisement might as well read, “Looking for a job? Sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street Movement? Have a healthy disrespect for the law? The SEIU may have a job for you!”

And while it isn’t that direct, here are some excerpts from the actual job listing: “SEIU Healthcare 775NW is hiring a Lead internal Organizer to lead a team of eight organizers who are focused on leadership development, the “Leaders In Action” field team, working with public and private sector home care workers. This team develops leaders and builds networks to take action in a variety of campaigns. The LiA team does not handle traditional representational duties, such as contract enforcement or bargaining.”

These non-traditional duties extend beyond normal SEIU positions indeed. Once you start looking at the duties and responsibilities of the organizer, a definite pattern emerges: “Train and lead members in non-violent civil disobedience, such as occupying state buildings and banks, and peaceful resistance… [And] [p]lan and execute strategic direct action field plans including banner drops, bank takeovers, and capitol occupations with membership, other local unions, and coalition partners.”

The essential qualities SEIU is looking for is a willingness to break the law, and create whatever disruption to targeted businesses that you can. However, a certain amount of caveat emptor to the potential job seeker — there is no mention if bail money will be approved on the successful applicant’s expense report. (more…)

Former president of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern, recently wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal lauding China’s economic model as superior to that of the United States. No, really. China.

The current debates about China’s currency, the trade imbalance, our debt and China’s excessive use of pirated American intellectual property are evidence that the Global Revolution-coupled with Deng Xiaoping’s government-led, growth-oriented reforms-has created the planet’s second-largest economy. It’s on a clear trajectory to knock America off its perch by 2025….

The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model-so successful in the 20th century-is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century. In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA’s results-a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a trade deficit, a shrinking middle class and phenomenal gains in wealth but only for the top 1%-are pathetic….

While we debate, Team China rolls on. Our delegation witnessed China’s people-oriented development in Chongqing, a city of 32 million in Western China, which is led by an aggressive and popular Communist Party leader-Bo Xilai. A skyline of cranes are building roughly 1.5 million square feet of usable floor space daily-including, our delegation was told, 700,000 units of public housing annually.

The sheer irony of the former labor head advocating for the U.S. to emulate China’s economic model is astounding. China’s economy may indeed be on the rise, but their widely-criticized record of human rights abuses comes in sharp contrast to the labor rights Andy Stern claims to have fought for in his term at SEIU.

Undoubtedly, the labor situation for the workers on the ground is far worse in China than it is here. Even with mandated improved wages for Chinese factory workers, the wage is only $0.75 per hour. Compared to US wage average for the manufacturing industry of $21.96 per hour, this is ridiculous. (more…)

This is the second of our guest posts from our associates at NetRightDaily.com.

By Rebecca DiFede — A firestorm has erupted in Michigan over revelations that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has manipulated the system so it can profit from the Medicaid checks sent to families caring for children with cerebral palsy.

As reported recently on NetRightDaily.com, in a disgusting display of greed a defunded quasi-government organization in Michigan known as the Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3) with the help of the SEIU, found a way to involuntarily take money out of a caregiver stipend that parents of sick children receive.

In a brazen money grab, the purple shirted SEIU tyrants had thousands of parents receiving Medicaid for the care of their adult children with cerebral palsy reclassified as care givers, thereby automatically putting them into the SEIU as dues paying members.

This means that for every family receiving aid for their loved one’s debilitating condition, $30 a month is being automatically deducted by the state to fund the SEIU.

How anyone could support this blatant disregard for humanity is unconscionable, and Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government (ALG) had something to say about it: “This theft of funds from families with children suffering from cerebral palsy is deplorable. It just goes to show how greedy the SEIU can be when given the opportunity.”

The concept of an SEIU state enforced automatic dues deduction is despicable enough, but to deliberately rip off disadvantage families who have already been stricken with hardship goes to an even lower circle of Hell. (more…)

This is the first of a pair of guest posts from our associates at NetRightDaily.com.

By Rebecca DiFede — In a disgusting display of greed a defunded quasi-government organization in Michigan known as the Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3), with the help of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), found a way to dupe parents of sick children into giving them some of their much needed healthcare stipend. These tyrants reclassified thousands of parents receiving Medicare for the care of their adult children with cerebral palsy as care givers, thereby forcing them to join the SEIU and pay dues.

This means that for every family receiving aid for their loved one’s debilitating condition, $30 a month must be paid to the SEIU as dues for being a medical caregiver, reducing their government sanctioned benefits. How anyone could support this blatant disregard for humanity is unconscionable, and Bill Wilson of Americans for Limited Government had something to say about it: “this theft of funds from families with children suffering from cerebral palsy is deplorable. It just goes to show how greedy the SEIU and their allies on the “compassionate” left are when it comes to rounding up government funds.”

Misappropriation of funds is despicable enough, but to deliberately disadvantage families who have already been stricken with hardship, so much so that they need help from the government to pay for their loved ones medical condition, is sickening. The purple shirts at SEIU should hang their heads in shame, but instead they are likely just looking for their next mark.

As anyone who has ever experienced it can tell you, there are few things in the modern world that can make you feel so powerless and compromised as having someone else steal your identity. The exposed feeling one gets when that someone else has been making purchases as you, racking up charges on your account, creating credit cards in your name, leaves people feeling violated and may take years to recover from-both in terms of credit ratings, and in emotional damage.

Unfortunately, that was exactly what happened to at least 300 Kaiser Permanente employees, and on a significant level. It appears that it wasn’t a vulnerability of the employer, but a member of the SEIU that committed the fraud:

Mia Garza was an employee of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers Union in 2007 when she took home a computer file containing the personal information of 29,500 Kaiser Permanente employees. Garza then went on a spending spree using the stolen identities of at least 300 victims. Items included a $1,000 pair of shoes, Gucci bags and a mail-order Yorkshire terrier.

Fortunately, justice prevailed, and Ms. Garza was apprehended. And in quite a compromising state as well: (more…)

As a result of Sodexo’s lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union, a subject covered often by this website, the Washington Times has uncovered a very interesting document- the SEIU’s Contract Campaign Manual.

You can view the SEIU’s Contract Campaign Manual online here.

This manual is a treasure trove of information about the SEIU’s tactics in pressuring employers in labor disputes. Furthermore, it is proof of endemic hostility to employers, with the end goal being results at any cost.

But don’t take our word for it- according to the manual-

…Outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.

The manual doesn’t stop with merely advocating legal means to pursue their agenda. It suggests that illegal actions may be necessary:

Union members sometimes must act in the tradition of Dr. Marin Luther King and Mohatma Gandhi and disobey laws which are used to enforce injustice against working people.

It even goes so far as to suggest how to blackmail employers- legally: (more…)

Bruce Raynor, former SEIU Executive Board member, has been removed from his position after it came to light that he had submitted $2,300 in false meal receipts (for 10 meals no less!).

Raynor had claimed they had been for dinners with SEIU atteorneys, but it was later uncovered that he had shared them with another female SEIU Executive board member.

Yet these receipts are laughably small compared to the $15 Million a judicially-sanctioned panel found he had misappropriated from another union in violation of SEIU standards.

However, even after the continued examples of fraud and abuse, Raynor still sits at the board of the labor-owned Amalgamated Bank, worth $4.5 Billion in assets, and is the chairman of other union-affiliated insurance and pension funds such as the Amalgamated Life Insurance Company.

It seems in the world of SEIU Executives, one is not retired but is merely shifted.