Here’s the
latest.
Last Friday
(April 28), SEIU President Mary Kay
Henry implemented an “emergency trusteeship” on 9,000-member SEIU Nevada, according to an
announcement on the union’s website and a formal order pasted below. The action
removes the local union’s Executive Board and suspends its constitution.
Friday’s
action came two days after Henry
removed SEIU Nevada’s President Cherie
Mancini and Executive Vice President Sharon
Kisling and asked the local union’s Executive Board to meet hours later with
two of her representatives, Neal Bisno
and Deedee Fitzpatrick.
According to
the Las Vegas Review-Journal, here’s
what happened during that private meeting on Wednesday night (Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Nevada
SEIU asks parent union to take control of operations,” April 27, 2017):
SEIU Local 1107’s executive board voted Wednesday night to request an emergency trusteeship be imposed, SEIU International spokeswoman Janet Veum said. A source with direct knowledge of the vote said it was 17-to-7, with five executive board members abstaining…
Typically, the international union would conduct a hearing and have a vote of its international executive board before imposing trusteeship, Veum said. But because SEIU 1107 made an emergency request, international president Mary Kay Henry could expedite the process by imposing the trusteeship before the hearing is held.
Who’s
running SEIU Nevada now?
Henry appointed
Lisa Blue and Martin Manteca to serve as “Trustee” and “Deputy Trustee,” respectively.
Blue was the “Chief Elected Officer” (CEO) at SEIU Local 521 in California until May of 2016, when Henry
appointed her as one of SEIU International’s seven Executive Vice Presidents. Manteca
is the Director of External Organizing for SEIU
Local 721 in Los Angeles.
Here’s Henry’s
trusteeship order:
