SEIU-style democracy will be on stunning display at the
upcoming convention of SEIU’s National
Association of Government Employees (SEIU-NAGE).
In September, NAGE -- a union of 31,000 mainly government
employees headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts -- will be holding a three-day
convention at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas where delegates will elect
NAGE’s president and Executive Board.
This democracy-fest will be guided by the steady hand of David Holway, who’ll serve as the
master of ceremonies. Holway is a notoriously corrupt member of SEIU’s International Executive Board
and is also the president of NAGE.
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| Tyrone Freeman and David Holway |
When Holway opens the convention with a ceremonious blow of
his gavel, will democracy break out like a horribly infectious case of poison
ivy?
Not exactly.
Check out the list of candidates who are standing for the 47 positions that make up NAGE’s top officers and Executive Board. Below,
Tasty has posted the list of candidates, which comes directly from NAGE’s website.
As you'll see, virtually every single candidate is part of the
"Holway Slate," meaning that David
Holway personally selected them to
run. |
| Holway loves his golden nuggets |
Unfortunately for NAGE’s members, this means the next Executive
Board won’t be doing any performance reviews of Holway or re-thinking his ridiculously
bloated salary. Last year, Holway pocketed $265,909 for being the president of NAGE’s
31,000 members.
That's not all.
Holway is infamous for finding “innovative” ways to
supplement his SEIU paycheck.
In addition to holding a full-time job as the
president of NAGE and serving on SEIU’s International Executive Board, Holway
somehow managed to simultaneously hold down another high-paying job as the
Executive Director of the Massachusetts
Thoroughbred Breeders Association… where he worked tirelessly to encourage more horse racing in
Massachusetts!
For this horse-racing gig, Holway pulled down an additional $100,000 per year and also pocketed 7.5% of the revenues from a racetrack
called Suffolk Downs, according to the Boston
Globe.
It's no wonder that workers have fled SEIU-NAGE so they can
join other unions. During the past five years, NAGE has lost roughly one-third
of its membership, according to records from the U.S. Department of Labor. Just
20 months ago, 2,300 ambulance workers decertified
NAGE and joined AFSCME.
Go figure.
