Sources describe an escalating war between SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan.
At a January meeting in Puerto Rico, Henry and the SEIU International Executive Board (IEB)
ordered
Regan to transfer SEIU-UHW’s 65,000 nursing home and home care workers to SEIU Local 6434.
Regan successfully
pleaded with the IEB to postpone the transfer until this summer.
In recent weeks, however, Regan changed his tune... and delivered
a new response to Henry’s order:
“Hell No!”
In fact, Regan reportedly told Henry she
will face “a war” unless she reverses the decision.
That's not all. Regan threatened Henry by saying his war will be bigger than anything experienced
by SEIU… ever!
Way to go, Dave!
So what's going on?
Regan is reportedly maneuvering behind the scenes to oust
Henry from her presidential suite at the Purple Palace during SEIU's 2016 elections, which are held at SEIU’s once-every-four-years convention.
In response, Henry has rallied her supporters on the IEB to get
Regan to transfer SEIU-UHW’s 65,000 nursing home and home care workers to SEIU Local
6434. By transferring the workers, Regan will lose the "delegated
votes" of these 65,000 homecare members during the 2016 elections… and the
votes will instead be cast by Henry's ally, Laphonza Butler (the president of Local
6434).
Back in January of 2009, Henry’s predecessor (Andy Stern) manufactured the order as a pretext for ousting his internal critics and pro-democracy reformers
-- Sal Rosselli and his team -- from
SEIU.
After removing Rosselli and thousands of rank-and-file stewards and elected
officers, Stern and Mary Kay Henry conveniently ignored Stern’s order -- essentially acknowledging it was nothing more than a blatant political ploy.
Now, fast-forward six years… and Stern's long-neglected “transfer”
order has been resurrected once again because it's found a new political purpose inside
the Machiavellian machinations that swirl inside the dark corridors of the Purple
Palace.
Quite a story, right?
More to follow…
