Yesterday, In
These Times described “previously unreported letters [that] show the
AFL-CIO rebuffing SEIU’s bid for a larger deal to freeze out NUHW.”
According
to the article, SEIU President Mary Kay
Henry wrote to AFL-CIO President Rich
Trumka and proposed a “no-raid pact” that was conditioned on the Machinists
union withdrawing its support for NUHW. Trumka declined SEIU’s offer.
Well, a source sent copies of the correspondence to Tasty! Below are the two letters.
But first, an interesting note about the letter from SEIU's Mary Kay Henry to Trumka: Take a look at the second paragraph, where Henry reports to Trumka that SEIU-UHW was trusteed in 2009
for "refus[ing] to abide by an internal jurisdictional decision of the
SEIU International Executive Board." Her description of the trusteeship
is significant because SEIU officials have repeatedly told workers and
the media that the union's former leaders were removed for supposedly
"stealing millions of dollars" -- a bald-faced lie that Mary Kay Henry
has now documented in black and white! Also notable: today, more than 3
1/2 years after the trusteeship, SEIU officials have STILL not
implemented the "internal jurisdictional decision" that was the stated rationale for SEIU's bogus trusteeship.
Next, here’s Trumka’s letter to Mary Kay Henry shooting down her proposal.
Lastly, here’s more news coverage of SEIU-UHW’s attack on
California’s nurse-to-patient ratio from the website Daily Kos: “California
Unions Battle over Fate of State’s Nurse-to-Patient Ratio Law.”
