On Friday -– just three days before Labor Day –- SEIU offered
an odd tribute to America’s workers when SEIU's members at Luther Manor Nursing
Home were
forced to re-vote a sell-out contract deal that they’d already rejected a
week earlier.
So why did SEIU decide to shred workers’ first vote? According
to SEIU officials, workers simply hadn’t understood the ballot. Hmmm… Too
confusing? ... a “yes” or “no” vote on their own pay and working conditions? Guess
it had nothing to do with SEIU being upset that workers rejected SEIU's concessionary
contract.
So on Friday, SEIU dug deeper into its bag of dirty tricks
to ram through the contract. SEIU dispatched two of SEIU Healthcare Michigan’s
top officers -- Secretary Treasurer Johnnie
Jolliffi and Recording Secretary Sheila
Guinn –- to run the re-vote by the nursing home’s 84 workers.
Like
in San Diego, SEIU pressured workers inside the polling place to accept the
deal. In fact, Tasty hears that Secretary Treasurer Johnnie Jolliffi, who got paid $140,000 from members' dues money last year, resorted to yelling at Luther Manor's workers when they challenged
the misinformation she was feeding them.
But that’s not all… Workers report that SEIU resorted to
old-fashioned ballot stuffing. Jolliffi and Guinn reportedly allowed SEIU
supporters to mark extra ballots for “their friends who couldn’t make it.” And they
apparently let other people vote, even though they weren’t even in the bargaining
unit.
The results? Let's take a look at the numbers. During workers' first vote (that’s the one that SEIU
later shredded), workers rejected the contract by a margin of 36 (No) to 26
(Yes). In the re-vote, the same 36 workers voted “No,” but SEIU miraculously
produced 15 more votes for its side so it could “win” by a tally of 36 (No) to
41 (Yes).
Quite a feat… a 92% turnout of the nursing home’s 84 workers… in just
a two-hour period… even though many graveyard workers were still sleeping.
Tasty wonders if SEIU President Mary Kay Henry happened to share
SEIU’s profound commitment to ballot-rigging and vote-stealing when she joined
Obama today for a Labor Day event in Detroit. Somehow, Tasty thinks that topic probably
didn’t make it into her purple talking points.
