A source sent Tasty
this incredible story involving Dave Regan and the Canadian border police.
Here’s what happened.
Recently, the International Association of Machinist (IAM)
held its once-every-four-years convention in Toronto, Canada. Prior to the
convention, SEIU’s Dave Regan hatched a scheme to monkey-wrench the machinists’
convention because of the machinists' support for NUHW
Regan instructed his staff to recruit some unsuspecting
SEIU-UHW members from Kaiser Permanente’s hospitals in California and then send
them to Canada to carry out his secret plot. Regan instructed his staffers to
deliberately keep the rank-and-file workers in the dark about the purpose of
their trip. Instead, workers were told they were going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Canada on behalf
of SEIU.
After arriving at Toronto’s airport, the workers were
asked by Canadian customs officials: “What's the purpose of your trip to Canada?” The SEIU-UHW members responded that, uhh, they weren’t really sure, but their union had sent them there for
some kind of union business. The gracious Canadians kindly allowed their
neighbors from the south to enter the country.
Hours later, SEIU officials broke the news to the Kaiser
workers that they’d been sent there to disrupt the IAM’s convention. The
handful of Kaiser workers -- along with a few staffers from an SEIU local in
Toronto -- were instructed to carry out a hare-brained scheme that has the familiar fingerprints of SEIU staffers Amado David, Greg Maron
and Steve Trossman.
So what happened?
The group of approximately 10 SEIUers valiantly attempted to
assault the convention of more than 2,000 machinists. Apparently, one SEIUer entered
the convention center and made a beeline for the bathroom, where he
courageously tried to hang pro-SEIU leaflets in toilet stalls. Another SEIUer donned
a gorilla mask and unsuccessfully attempted to rush the stage where IAM
officials were addressing the 2,000 delegates.
Not the smartest move.
Soon, the purple foot soldiers were surrounded by machinists
and Canadian police officers on a street corner outside the convention. There,
they were questioned by police about multiple violations of Canada’s
penal code, including trespassing and disrupting a private event.
When it finally came time for the Kaiser workers to head
back to sunny California, they breathed a sigh of relief and made their way to Toronto’s
airport. That’s where they got the biggest shock of their trip.
At the
airport, the Kaiser workers were confronted by Canadian immigration authorities -- the same
ones who’d accepted their not-so-believable story when they first entered the
country.
It turns out that the immigration officials had already been
contacted by the police about SEIU's multiple criminal acts at the convention
center, and that the immigration authorities were none too pleased that SEIU
had taken advantage of Canada’s friendly approach.
So what did they do?
The immigration authorities announced they were banning the Kaiser workers from ever returning to Canada. Ouch!
Tasty hears that by the time they touched down in California, these SEIU-UHW members were
none too pleased with Dave Regan and his deceitful ways. Their “all-expenses trip to
Canada” had become "a lifetime ban" facilitated by healthy doses of lies from Regan and SEIU.
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| SEIU storms Labor Notes conference. |
Once there, SEIU officials told the workers to storm a Labor Notes conference attended by 1,000 union activists and pro-democracy reformers.
Tragically, one of SEIU’s rank-and-file members -- a homecare worker named David Smith -- died of a
heart attack during Regan’s violent assault on the convention. SEIU also sent a 67-year-old conference-goer to the hospital after pushing her to the floor
and cutting open her head.
So, for all you SEIU members out there: If SEIU ever asks you to get on a bus or join them for
an all-expenses-paid trip, you know what to say.
