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Only days
before a jury trial was set to begin in Alameda County (Calif.) Superior Court,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b> reached a secret deal to settle a lawsuit by a former
SEIU-UHW staffer alleging sexual harassment, discrimination, battery, defamation
and gender violence, according to court records.</div>
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The
tentative deal, reached last month, appears to have been finalized in recent days.
On February 5, the plaintiff’s attorney submitted a formal “Request for
Dismissal” of the lawsuit known as Sturge vs. SEIU-UHW, according to court
records.</div>
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The lawsuit,
filed in 2018, exposed jaw-dropping allegations about Regan, SEIU-UHW Vice President
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stan Lyles</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chokri Bensaid, Marcus Hatcher, Greg Pullman </b>and other SEIU-UHW officials, according
to court records. </div>
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Seven
current and former SEIU-UHW members and staffers gave sworn testimony alleging
that Regan was drunk on the job and repeatedly engaged in sexually
inappropriate behavior towards women staffers and union members. More details
are below. </div>
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How much did
SEIU-UHW pay to settle the suit?</div>
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At this
point, the terms of the settlement are secret. However, the settlement likely
carries a hefty price tag.</div>
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SEIU-UHW likely
agreed to pay for all of Sturge’s legal expenses and attorney’s fees for the
past two years. Plus, Regan likely authorized payment for compensatory and
punitive damages, which were demanded in the lawsuit</div>
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Who’s
footing the bill?</div>
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Even though violations were allegedly carried out by officers of SEIU-UHW, the union’s
members ultimately pay the bills. Regan is reportedly telling SEIU-UHW staffers
that the union’s insurance policy will cover at least some of the settlement.
But just as your auto insurance premiums go up if you’re a bad driver, Tasty
believes that SEIU-UHW will now likely face higher insurance costs – which are
paid by the union’s members. </div>
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On top of
that, SEIU-UHW must pay all of the costs associated with its legal defense
during the past two years. SEIU-UHW’s General Counsel <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bruce Harland</b> and two other attorneys have been involved in trying
to defend SEIU-UHW against the allegations. Given that the attorneys probably
charge $300-$500 per hour, the total bill is likely very large.</div>
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What kind of
allegations have emerged from the lawsuit?</div>
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Seven
current and former SEIU-UHW members and staffers gave sworn testimony to the
court alleging shocking behavior by Regan, Stan Lyles, Chokri
Bensaid and Marcus Hatcher. Hatcher and Bensaid served on SEIU-UHW’s Executive
Committee and Executive Board when the alleged violations took place. Regan, in
addition to being the president of SEIU-UHW, also serves as a Vice President of
SEIU in Washington DC.</div>
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Here are
some of the details from the sworn testimony:</div>
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One SEIU-UHW
member alleges she was fired from her job at Kaiser Permanente after she
refused Marcus Hatcher’s “repeated” requests to go out with him. Hatcher allegedly told
her he would retaliate against her if she refused his romantic overtures. During
her official termination hearing at Kaiser, Hatcher allegedly told her, “You
are paying for turning me down.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When she got
a new job at another hospital, she says she tried to “lay low and not be
noticed by anyone at UHW.” Eventually, she ran into Hatcher on the job, according to her testimony. She
alleges: “The very next day, I was told I was being investigated. Mr. Hatcher
told me, ‘It’s following you.’” She says she made a written report of these
incidents to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greg Pullman</b>, Dave Regan’s
Chief of Staff, who allegedly never responded. </div>
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Another
woman, also an employee of Kaiser Permanente, attended a multi-day SEIU-UHW training
for Kaiser employees in 2017. She alleges that Regan, who “was very intoxicated
– and not for the first time,” attended a gathering of women union members
during the meeting and “went around asking the women if he could sniff their
panties.” Later that year, she attended another SEIU-UHW event where Regan
allegedly “had his face in the breasts of a steward and was clearly drunk,”
according to her sworn testimony. </div>
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A third woman,
also a union member, testified that Stan Lyles allegedly sent photos of his
penis to her, and later cornered her in a hotel room in a scene that is eerliy like the ones described
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harvey Weinstein</b>’s criminal trial.
She testified: “He closed the hotel room door and stood in front of it and
started taking off his belt. He said something like, ‘I know you want it.’ I
was so scared – I thought I wouldn’t get out alive.” Lyles allegedly told her: “I
like big assess.”</div>
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According to
a fourth woman who served on SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board, Lyles allegedly “stuck his hand
under my shirt and groped my breast” on an elevator inside SEIU-UHW’s office in
Commerce, California. </div>
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A former
male staffer at SEIU-UHW alleges that he saw “Dave Regan drunk in meetings,
including brainstorming meetings relating to the Get Healthy California
Campaign that UHW was involved in. I saw Mr. Regan reach under or into his desk
for a liquor bottle. He used to keep a liquor bottle in his desk.” </div>
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He also alleges that Regan “is a notorious ‘boob gazer,’ meaning he would stare at women’s breasts.
One member, [name deleted], told me that she had to tell Mr. Regan, ‘Dave, my
eyes are up here’ when he would be staring at her breasts.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">More details to come. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-29255124657295256602019-12-11T20:04:00.000-08:002019-12-11T20:16:52.059-08:00Article: Dave Regan’s sexual harassment was constant; SEIU-UHW’s president made drunken requests to sniff women’s panties at union events<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan</td></tr>
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Today, a journalist published a jaw-dropping article
detailing the alleged sexual harassment and assaults carried out by multiple top
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU</b> officials. </div>
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Half of the alleged offenders are top officers at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>, including President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> and Vice President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stan Lyles</b>. </div>
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In preparing the article, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mike Elk</b> at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PayDay Report</i>
reportedly conducted exclusive interviews with dozens of union staffers and
reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents. (Mike Elk, “<a href="http://paydayreport.com/seiu-prez-knew-of-sexual-misconduct-and-personally-promoted-staffer-anyhow/">SEIU
Prez Knew of Sexual Misconduct and Personally Promoted Staffer Anyhow</a>,” <i>PayDay
Report</i>, December 11, 2019)</div>
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What did he find?</div>
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The term “jaw-dropping” doesn’t do it justice. </div>
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Check out the following excerpts from Elk’s reporting on just one of the six officials, SEIU-UHW President
Dave Regan. (Regan also serves as a Vice President of DC-based SEIU and is a member of SEIU’s International Executive Board). More to follow in Tasty’s next
posts.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Regan… stands accused
by multiple women of sexual misconduct. Indeed, SEIU has even permitted Regan
to use his union’s funds to defend himself against sexual misconduct
allegations.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…Interviews with
scores of SEIU staffers, past and present, and sworn testimony obtained by
Payday Report, accused Regan of making it clear that he would promote women
from the rank-and-file of the union who were willing to engage in sexual
relationships with him.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Veronica Lowery, a
contract specialist at UHW, said she once was at a conference when she
overheard Regan and others talk about the physical appearance of a rank-and-file
member walking by them.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“‘The only way she is
getting a job [with SEIU-UHW] is if she sucks my dick,’” Lowery recalls Regan
said in an affidavit obtained by Payday Report.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At a training in
October of 2017, Regan is reported to have shown up drunk to a meeting and
asked women if he could smell their panties.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I was at a gathering
of some of the other women contract specialists, and Mr. Regan went around
asking the women if he could sniff their panties,” said contract specialist
Carla Grossman in an affidavit obtained by Payday Report. “At one point,
another woman’s cell phone rang, and it was that woman’s husband. Mr. Regan
took the phone from her and said, ‘I’II smell your panties, too,’ or words to
that effect into the cell phone.”</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women like Mindy
Sturge say that the sexual harassment from Regan was constant. In one meeting,
Sturge says that Regan asked her if “Does the carpet match the drapes?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in reference to her pubic hair.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In another meeting
with others present, Sturge says that Regan asked her, “What would you do for
some jewelry?”; an advance that she took as a sexual proposition. Sturge says
it appeared that Regan was drunk.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scores of SEIU-UHW staffers interviewed by
Payday Report say that Regan was frequently seen drunk in the office and at
union events. Regan was known for getting drunk at union conferences or outings
where there was dancing and “grinding” on a woman’s backside on the dance
floor. At one union conference, he “grinded” on Sturge in a way that she felt
was sexually inappropriate.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It was embarrassing,”
said Sturge.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With so many men at
the top of SEIU-UHW creating a workplace of sexual misconduct, some men, who
had gotten in trouble at other SEIU locals, found ease in getting employment
with SEIU-UHW.</i></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">More to follow.</span></div>
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SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-45398621043612731962019-11-22T19:07:00.003-08:002019-11-22T19:07:59.313-08:00Lawyers Drop Bombshell in Suit against SEIU-UHW and Dave Regan <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave Regan</td></tr>
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Here’s the latest from the lawsuit filed by a former staffer
who alleges that SEIU-UHW president <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave
Regan</b> and other top officials created a culture of sexual harassment and
discrimination that led to an assault against a women staffer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The case, known as <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/09/press-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit-filed.html">Sturge
vs. SEIU-UHW</a>, is being heard in Alameda County Superior Court. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In a recent court filing, Sturge’s lawyers dropped a bombshell.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Remember <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chokri
BenSaid</b>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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He’s Regan’s right-hand man and at one point was rumored to
be Regan’s heir apparent. Regan placed him on SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board and
Executive Committee, and also appointed him to direct the union’s Hospital
Division. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, witnesses testified in sworn depositions that he’s a
vicious stalker and harasser of women, according to records filed by Sturge's attorneys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And it gets worse. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Top SEIU-UHW officials hired him just weeks after he was fired
by SEIU for sexual harassment, according to court records. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Which SEIU-UHW officials knew about BenSaid's history of sexual harassment? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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General Counsel (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bruce Harland</b>) and Regan’s Deputy Chief of Staff (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Triana Silton</b>), according to court
records.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why is this bad for Regan and SEIU-UHW?</div>
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Sturge’s lawyers allege that Regan and Co. fostered a
workplace culture of sexual harassment and discrimination against women. Obviously,
it doesn’t look too good if Regan and Co. hired, and then promoted to one of the union's highest positions, a person with a known track record of sexually harassing
women. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What did BenSaid allegedly do to women at SEIU-UHW?<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to sworn testimony, he propositioned them, stalked them, retaliated against them, harassed them…<o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/10/lawsuit-testimony-seiu-uhws-dave-regan.html">one
person testified</a> he referred to a woman co-worker as a “whore” and a “bitch,”
stalked her, and caused her to resign her job. He allegedly exchanged texts
with a co-worker like:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I think I might
want to f*ck Georgette first.” “Just like to spin her on my d*ck lol.” Another
testified that he propositioned an SEIU-UHW organizer and when she turned him
down, he called her a bitch and told her to “f*ck off.” And he allegedly had inappropriate
photos of women on his cell phone.</div>
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Given the broader social awareness brought by the MeToo movement, it's hard to imagine that SEIU-UHW's hiring, promotion and treatment of BenSaid will not look devastatingly bad to a jury.</div>
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It’s heading to a trial. Last Friday, the judge scheduled the start of the trial for January 27, 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay tuned.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-60257308780468756172019-10-25T12:28:00.000-07:002019-10-25T12:28:37.881-07:00Lawsuit Testimony: SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan and Stan Lyles Propositioned, Groped and Demeaned Women <br />
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More
shocking news is emerging from legal proceedings surrounding allegations of
sexual harassment by SEIU-UHW officials (<a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/07/former-seiu-uhw-staffer-names-dave.html">Sturge
vs. SEIU-UHW</a>).</div>
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Recently, the
lawyers representing a former SEIU-UHW staffer filed documents in Alameda
County Superior Court containing excerpts from sworn testimony delivered by a
variety of SEIU-UHW staffers during court depositions. The staffers include Regan’s
Deputy Chief of Staff <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Triana Silton </b>and
former Kaiser Director <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marcus Hatcher</b>.
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The details
are stomach-churningly revolting. Regan has apparently decided to model himself
after <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Donald Trump</b>. Here are some details
from staffers’ sworn testimony:</div>
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One staffer
testified that, “Regan asked a group of women if he could sniff their panties.”</blockquote>
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SEIU-UHW
Vice President Stan Lyles “sent photos of his penis to a UHW member, cornered
and propositioned her in a hotel room.”</blockquote>
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“Lyles
groped a member’s breast.”</blockquote>
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“Regan and
Lyles discussed picking up ho’s while on business in Arizona, and commented
that the ho’s in UHW’s office ‘were ugly.’”</blockquote>
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“Regan is a
notorious ‘boob gazer’ who would comment to attractive women (‘you’re lucky I’m
a married man’).”</blockquote>
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"Directors Bensaid and Hatcher texted lewd remarks about women coworkers ('I think I might want to f*ck Georgette first'; 'Just like to spin her on my d*ck lol.')"</blockquote>
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More details
are below in a two-page excerpt from the court filing. Tasty blanked out the
names of some of those who testified in order to protect their identities.</div>
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The lawsuit
is about to get more interesting. Trial is set to begin on November 25. And
Regan reportedly has been deposed by the plaintiff’s attorneys. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-16581391702285926752019-10-11T18:19:00.002-07:002019-10-28T13:18:49.145-07:00Controversy Brews over Allegations of a Stealth “Partnership Tax” by SEIU-UHW <br />
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Controversy
is still brewing over <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>’s
tentative agreement with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kaiser
Permanente</b>. Membership votes to ratify the agreement are underway and will
continue next week.<br />
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What’s the
controversy?<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Tasty
<a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/09/coalition-of-kaiser-unions-reaches-ta.html">reported earlier</a>, SEIU-UHW president <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave
Regan</b> was pushing to impose a new 25-cents-per-hour-worked “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">partnership tax</b>” on SEIU-UHW’s members
at Kaiser. All of the tax revenues -- approximately $26 million per year –
would have helped fund a new training academy controlled by Regan, which his internal
critics called a “slush fund.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In response
to workers’ criticism of the new “partnership tax,” Regan pulled a “switcheroo”
on SEIU-UHW’s members, according to internal critics. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the final
version of the tentative agreement, Regan removed the partnership tax and allegedly
replaced it with a stealth funding mechanism that nonetheless requires SEIU-UHW
members to foot the bill. According to critics, Regan agreed to have SEIU-UHW
members forgo 2% in wage increases offered by Kaiser so those funds could
instead be steered into Regan’s training fund. Tasty doesn’t have access to
sufficient information to independently corroborate these allegations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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See more
details in the leaflet below, which comes from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Duff</b>, a retired Kaiser worker who formerly served on
SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-72265283312277318242019-09-27T18:02:00.003-07:002019-09-27T18:02:34.803-07:00Coalition of Kaiser Unions Reaches TA as Controversy Brews over Dave Regan’s New “Partnership Tax”<br />
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On
Wednesday, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Coalition of Kaiser
Permanente Unions</b> announced it reached a tentative agreement for a new
contract with Kaiser. Details on the deal are still sketchy at this point. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, anger
is brewing among <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b> members over
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b>’s effort to jam a 25-cent-per-hour
tax down workers’ throats. </div>
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Why? </div>
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According to SEIU-UHW members, Regan is trying to fold the tax into the
contract ratification vote rather than letting workers vote on the tax as a separate item. See this <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/09/dave-regan-is-pushing-new-partnership.html">earlier
post</a> for more details. <o:p></o:p></div>
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During a
recent negotiating session with Kaiser, Regan reportedly attacked a member of SEIU-UHW’s
Bargaining Committee, according to a retired Kaiser worker who formerly served
on SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board. In a leaflet circulated among SEIU-UHW members, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Duff</b> writes:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“At the last bargaining session, Dave Regan
ended up screaming at Vallejo member, and long-time leader, Ollie Allen. What
was Ollie’s crime? He had the nerve to ask for a separate vote on the 25 cent
tax.” </i></blockquote>
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Regan reportedly opposes a separate vote on the tax because he knows that workers would vote it down. The tax would cost each full-time SEIU-UHW member an estimated $1,020 per year.</div>
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Duff’s
leaflet -- along with three others (see below) -- were circulated among Kaiser
workers before SEIU-UHW reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser earlier this
week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The leaflets
refer to Regan as “Takeaway Dave Regan” and “the Donald Trump of union leaders”
-- apparently due to Regan’s reported bullying of union members for requesting a separate
vote on the tax. Duff says the tax will generate millions of dollars a year
that will be steered into a “slush fund” controlled by Regan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here are the
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-22880300108340353232019-09-13T18:01:00.001-07:002019-09-13T18:01:55.253-07:00Dave Regan Is Pushing a New “Partnership Tax” on SEIU-UHW’s Members at Kaiser<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> is facing criticism from rank-and-file members at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kaiser</b> for pushing a new “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">partnership tax</b>” on SEIU-UHW members at
Kaiser. Regan is trying to slip the new tax into a contract he’s negotiating with Kaiser.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How much is
the tax? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Beaucoup bucks. </div>
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Each
SEIU-UHW member would be taxed 25 cents for every hour worked, according to a
description issued by SEIU-UHW (see below). </div>
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For a full-time worker (2,080 hours
a year), that translates into $520 per year. Together, SEIU-UHW's members at Kaiser would pay an estimated $26 million per year in taxes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In response,
SEIU-UHW members at Kaiser are circulating this leaflet:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course,
the new proposed tax would come on top of SEIU-UHW’s current “partnership tax,”
which is approximately 9 cents per hour worked. (SEIU-UHW and Kaiser officials reportedly
boosted the tax during their last contract negotiations.) </div>
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Some SEIU-UHW members are asking: </div>
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<i>Why are we even paying the current tax to fund our 'partnership' with Kaiser even though Kaiser is forcing us to go out on strike?</i> </blockquote>
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Not a bad question. </div>
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See below
for SEIU-UHW’s effort to win support for its proposed new partnership tax. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Tasty's humble opinion, SEIU-UHW’s
arguments don’t make much sense. </div>
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For example, SEIU-UHW says that by expanding California’s
workforce of trained health care workers by 10,000 workers per year, it will
improve current union members’ power to win better wages, benefits and
retirement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But that
doesn’t follow the logic of supply and demand in labor markets, right? <o:p></o:p></div>
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For example,
if there’s a shortage of Respiratory Therapists or Rad Techs in California,
those workers have greater power to command higher wages. In fact, hospitals
often negotiate mid-contract wage increases designed to prevent these high-in-demand workers
from leaving to take jobs elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How will
expanding the supply of trained workers by 10,000 per year improve the power of
SEIU-UHW members at the bargaining table? <o:p></o:p></div>
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And here's another question that deserves attention: Who pays and who benefits?</div>
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Kaiser stands to benefit from having a steady supply of newly trained workers.</div>
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But under Regan's proposal, Kaiser would only pay half the costs, with SEIU-UHW's members picking up the other half. Why not let Kaiser pay the full cost of training its own workforce? </div>
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Plus, Kaiser pocketed $5.2 billion in profits during the first six months of this year. Kaiser should pay, not workers.</div>
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Interestingly, as far as the tax proposal, there's one person who wouldn't pay <b>any </b>taxes under the proposal: Dave Regan.</div>
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Sounds
like someone is selling snake oil.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-53391574403514852942019-09-06T16:32:00.001-07:002019-09-06T16:32:57.556-07:00SEIU Local 73 Must Re-Run Officer Election after Feds Find Fault<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Next month, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU
Local 73</b> will re-run last year’s internal officer election after a federal
investigation found that SEIU-backed candidates improperly used union resources
during the campaigning. The “re-run” election will be conducted under government
supervision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">SEIU Local 73, which represents approximately 25,000 public-sector
workers in Illinois and northwestern Indiana, entered into a “voluntary
compliance agreement” with the feds to re-run the election, <a href="https://www.dol.gov/olms/regs/compliance/volun_agree_2019.htm">according
to the federal Office of Labor Management Standards</a>:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">OLMS entered
into a voluntary compliance agreement with Service Employees International
Union (SEIU) Local 73 (located in Chicago, Ill.), concerning its October 23,
2018 election of officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The union
agreed to conduct new nominations</span>…</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, a new election, and installation for the offices of
president, secretary-treasurer, two executive board vice presidents, five vice
presidents,</span> and</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">
</span>[8]</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">
executive board members</span>…</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> under OLMS supervision on or before November 22,
2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The investigation disclosed that
union resources were used when a candidate obtained the union’s membership list
and used it to purchase members’ phone numbers to campaign via phone bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The agreement follows an investigation by the
OLMS Chicago District Office.</span>”<o:p></o:p></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The announcement was cheered by the “<a href="https://www.membersleadingmembers.com/">Members leading Members</a>”
slate, whose complaint prompted the government investigation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Last year’s election </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">came after a
two-year trusteeship </span><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2016/08/purple-palace-imposes-trusteeship-on.html">imposed
by</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> SEIU President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary
Kay Henry</b> </span>as well as</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> a </span><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/12/seiu-members-sue-purple-palace-as.html">2017
court battle</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> launched by Local 73 members to
bring an end to the trusteeship. SEIU’s trusteeship featured a cast of
well-known characters, including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eliseo
Medina</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">SEIU’s trustee, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dian
Palmer</b>, won last year’s election for president of Local 73 <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/11/at-seiu-local-73-controversy-follows.html">by
just 375 votes</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">.</span> The “Members leading Members”
slate, which campaigned on returning control of the union to its members, won
eight of 30 seats on the union’s Executive Board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Since the election, SEIU leaders have faced <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/04/members-democracy-is-under-fire-at-seiu.html">a
variety of criticisms</a> over salary increases for top officials, changes to
the union’s constitution that eliminated four annual membership meetings, and the
arrest of the local’s former president,</span> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christine Boardman</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, for allegedly “trespassing” when she attended </span>a
membership</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> meeting and handed out </span>a</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> leaflet</span>. Boardman said she had</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> a right to attend the meeting since she’s a retiree.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Next month’s elections will be conducted by mail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-17500016198225137112019-08-23T16:20:00.001-07:002019-08-23T16:21:29.891-07:00SEIU-UHW Staffer: ‘Whistleblower Was Correct about Dave Regan’<br />
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Remember when <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>
President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> sued one of his
union’s organizers after she spoke to a publication about Regan’s alleged
sexual misconduct, drinking on the job, backroom deals with employers, illegal
electioneering and other misconduct?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Regan fired the 42-year-old woman organizer, and <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/07/seiu-uhws-dave-regan-goes-to-court-over.html">then
sued her</a> for allegedly defaming his character.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Will check this out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Her attorneys submitted a sworn declaration from another
SEIU-UHW staffer, who backs up everything she said to the media. A copy is
below.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Tasty earlier reported, the organizer did not backed down
about the truthfulness of what she told the press. And she filed a motion in
court to knock out Regan’s lawsuit and require him to pay for any court and
legal costs she’s been forced to fund.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s the affidavit:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-53399543033340335202019-08-08T16:37:00.000-07:002019-08-08T16:37:23.424-07:00Union Leader to SEIU’s Any Stern: “Good riddance and thanks for the clarity”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sara Nelson, AFA's President</td></tr>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">How is the US labor movement reacting to news that SEIU’s
President Emeritus <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andy Stern</b> <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/07/seius-andy-stern-has-new-gig-fighting.html">has joined a billionaire-funded group</a> that’s dedicated to
battling teachers unions?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Here’s what </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sara Nelson</span></b>, International President of
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Association of Flight Attendants</b>
and a former Flight Attendant at United Airlines, told <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splinter</i>:</span></div>
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<i>“It’s always good when people can finally be
themselves. The labor movement doesn’t need climbers or people who think they
are owed something. We need serious leaders. Good riddance and thanks for the
clarity. The rest of us have serious work to do right here with the people who
do the real work that makes this country, this world, run. We know which side
we’re on.”</i></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">SEIU’s reaction?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">They were initially silent. But in response to a
journalist’s inquiry, </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SEIU spokesperson <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dan O’Sullivan</b></span> issued a written
statement that included this excerpt:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We are all
indebted to Andy for his leadership as SEIU president. We respect Andy’s desire
to contribute to improving working people’s lives now that he is no longer SEIU
president. We won’t always agree with Andy, and his views are his own—he does
not speak on behalf of SEIU’s members.”</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">Hmm. Why are SEIU officials allowing Stern to use his official title of "SEIU President Emeritus" in the WalMart family-funded organization's public materials?</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">First, he took a page out of Trump’s playbook by tweeting
something that was totally contradicted by the facts, according to journalist </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hamilton
Nolan</span></b> at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splinter</i>. He then
asked Nolan for more time to reply to his questions about why he joined the
billionaire-funded</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> pro-charter school group</span>. Nolan
added this note:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">I don’t
believe there is any reason the questions can’t be answered now. I will publish
Stern’s further comments if and when I receive them.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hamilton Nolan</span>, “<a href="https://splinternews.com/the-union-world-is-not-happy-with-andy-stern-1836850109">The
Union World Is Not Happy With Andy Stern</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splinter</i>, August 1, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-73086806314019099352019-08-02T17:22:00.000-07:002019-08-02T17:22:14.466-07:00Another Former SEIU Official Is on Uber’s Payroll<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">It turns out that SEIU President Emeritus <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/01/andy-sterns-newest-gig-high-paid.html">Andy
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Laphonza
Butler</span></b>, the former President of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU
Local 2015</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU California
State Council</b>, is advising and representing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Uber</b> in secret talks with SEIU, according to an article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloomberg</i>. (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Josh Eidelson</span>, “<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-25/union-splits-from-uber-and-lyft-on-california-worker-rights-law">Teamsters
Union Splits From Uber and Lyft on California Worker Rights Law</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloomberg</i>, </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">July 25, 2019</span>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Butler, a close ally of SEIU President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Kay Henry</b>, also served until on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU International Executive Board</b>. Last December, she <a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/12/top-seiu-official-to-leave-at-end-of.html">resigned
her position</a> at Local 2015 to take a job as a consultant and partner at </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SCRB
Strategies</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, a California-based business and
political consulting firm</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">During the secret talks, covered in <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/07/seiu-is-trying-to-cut-backroom-deal.html">this
earlier post</a>, SEIU discussed plans to support Uber’s request for an
exemption</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> from a groundbreaking new California</span>
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bill </span>(Assembly Bill 5)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> that would force </span>Uber</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> to hire drivers as employees rather than exploit them as
independent contractors.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">On the good news front, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bloomberg</i>
reports that leaders of the Teamsters union in California are now saying they
oppose exemptions for gig companies following a public backlash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">According to Eidelson:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">If the</span>
[gig]</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> industry can’t win over the Teamsters, firms could
still hope to find compromise with other prominent unions that companies have
met with, which include the Service Employees International Union and the
United Food & Commercial Workers.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">One asset for
Uber is Laphonza Butler. She was president of one of the SEIU’s largest local
unions until last year and is now a partner at SCRB Strategies, a
California-based business and political consulting firm. There, Butler has
advised and represented Uber in its dealings with organized labor on employment
issues and also serves as an adviser to the presidential campaign of Kamala
Harris, the Democratic senator from California. An Uber spokesman said Butler
brings a valuable perspective to the company’s efforts to improve work for
drivers, and a spokesman for Harris declined to comment. Butler and her firm
didn’t respond to requests for comment</span>…</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">More
recently, SEIU California circulated a summary of potential alternative
legislation. The proposal would provide “flexibility to platform companies and
platform workers,” according to the memo. It would create systems for
collective bargaining, “portable benefits” accounts and minimum pay guarantees
but would allow companies that meet certain criteria to seek “flexible alternative
standards” in place of those covering other employers in areas such as
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approach alarms some drivers. Cutting a deal that deprives app-based workers of
full employee rights “will absolutely damage the future for workers,” said
Nicole Moore, a Lyft driver and organizer with the advocacy group Rideshare
Drivers United in Los Angeles. She said any kind of special arrangement would
reverberate far beyond ride-hailing and food delivery. “Workers can be deployed
from apps in any industry,” Moore said.</span></i></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In public,
union leaders have taken a hard line. Mary Kay Henry, international president
of the SEIU, said in February that the union intends to “reach an agreement
that’s not a concession.” Henry discussed the issue in a recent meeting with
Newsom’s chief of staff.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bob
Schoonover, president of the SEIU’s California State Council, said Thursday
that the group “has not and would not support any third classification or
interpretation of employee classification that would undermine employee status
and protections” granted by last year’s court ruling and the proposed law. SEIU
intends to help workers “maintain and expand upon” those protections instead,
he said in an emailed statement. Schoonover described the memos exploring
potential compromises on employment rights as “ideas and concepts” that “should
not be construed” as something more significant.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">What kind of deal is SEIU discussing with Uber?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">It goes something like this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">n exchange for</span> SEIU</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> backing the</span> gig companies’ exemption from the
California bill, the gig companies </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">would </span>designate
SEIU as their </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">official “association” </span>representing</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> independent-contractor </span>workers</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, according to articles in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times</i> and other publications.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">This would allow SEIU to collect dues money. But it would deprive
the workers of the right to strike. And… it would deny gig workers basic legal
protections that come with regular employment status: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">minimum wage, sick leave, overtime pay, meal and rest
breaks, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, workers’ compensation,
parental leave, family leave</span>,</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> and
contributions to Social Security and Medicare.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">If Andy Stern and LaPhonza Butler are on gig companies’
payroll, are there others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Most likely. Tasty wouldn’t be surprised if <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/02/seius-david-rolf-joins-andy-stern-in.html">David
Rolf</a></b> is pocketing gig company cash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-69955553866632574882019-07-26T16:17:00.000-07:002019-07-26T16:17:09.540-07:00SEIU’s Andy Stern Has a New Gig Fighting Teachers’ Unions<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">As teachers mount the biggest wave of strikes in recent US
history</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, </span>SEIU’s President E</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">meritus </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/01/andy-sterns-newest-gig-high-paid.html">Andy
Stern</a></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span>has jumped onto the side of
anti-union forces backed by billionaires. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">That’s the news from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hamilton
Nolan</b>, a Senior Writer at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Splinter
News</i>. </span>Earlier this week, he published a piece detailing Stern’s
latest move. (Hamilton Nolan, “<a href="https://splinternews.com/high-profile-labor-leader-has-a-new-gig-fighting-agains-1836597318">High
Profile Labor Leader Has a New Gig Fighting Against Teacher's Unions</a>,” <i>Splinter</i>, July 23, 2019.)</div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Earlier this year, Stern became an official advisor to a “front
group” that’s pushing for the privatization of public schools and is driven by “virulently
anti-union elements,” according to an article by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maurice Cunningham</b>. (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Maurice
Cunningham</span>, “<a href="http://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2019/04/22/keri-rodriguez-goes-coastal-with-plans-for-national-parents-union/">Keri
Rodrigues Goes Coastal with Plans for National Parents Union</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MassPoliticsProfs</i>, April 22, 2019.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The front group -- called the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">National Parents Union</b>” -- is funded by the right-wing billionaire
family that owns <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wal-Mart</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Here are some details from Nolan’s article:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The most
prominent and powerful American labor actions of the past year were the
teacher’s strikes that swept the nation, from West Virginia to California.
Public school teachers have, more than anyone, been the most visible engine of
recent union militancy. And as all of that was happening, here is what Andy
Stern did: in April of this year, he was announced as an official adviser of
the National Parents Union, an education reform group with deep ties to the
Walton Foundation, the charitable arm of the family of Walmart heirs, the
single richest family in America. (Charter schools are a major focus of the
Walton Foundation; the NPU’s board members are affiliated with a variety of
groups that have received significant Walton Foundation funding, and its
co-leader is an executive at Green Dot Public Schools, a charter group funded
in part by the Waltons.)</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The National
Parents Union—which, in the release containing the news of Stern’s appointment,
said that it seeks to “define the education conversation in the 2020 election
cycle,” using the language of “empowering families” to erode support for the
public education system—is not an actual union. Quite the opposite. It is a
classic astroturf-style vessel created for the purpose of giving a political
campaign a sheen of grassroots respectability. Its advisers and “Founding
Members” are a grab bag of prominent charter school advocates. Andy Stern’s
name stands out—his listed title is not from an educational group, but rather,
“President Emeritus, SEIU.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Stern is
lending his union-world credibility to a group that says this in its organizing
document: “In the same manner that teacher strikes and mobilization are
commanding headlines, we have a vision of having parent rallies and
mobilizations in the spotlight, redirecting the conversation from one about
adults to one about students. The teacher unions currently have no countervailing
force. We envision the National Parents Union as being able to take on the
unions in the national and regional media, and eventually on the ground in
advocacy fights.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In other
words, the former head of one of America’s most politically active unions is
using his resume in organized labor to support a group that explicitly aims to
undermine teacher’s unions—at a time when teacher’s unions have done more to
revive militancy in organized labor than any other group. It is a testament to
the contempt in which Andy Stern is already held by much of the labor movement
that his involvement in the NPU, which was revealed three months ago, has not
yet caused a louder uproar. (It is also a testament to the fact that there
seems to be no evidence that the NPU has accomplished anything of note so far.)
Stern did not respond to emails seeking comment on his role with the new group.
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">If you’re curious, here’s <a href="http://nycparentsunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/Walton_AstroTurf_NewOrg.pdf">the
NPU’s press release</a> identifying Stern as SEIU’s President Emeritus and describing
him as an “Adviser” to the Wal-Mart family-funded organization. On the second
page, it states:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The teacher
unions currently</span> </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">have no countervailing force. We envision the
National Parents Union as being able to take</span> </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">on the unions
in the national and regional media, and eventually on the ground in advocacy</span>
fights… </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">We see a
significant need for a national body that provides centralized</span> </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">technical
assistance and encouragement and also harnesses the collective power of our
efforts in</span> </i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">important
national fights where teachers unions have a monopoly on the conversation.</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The press release criticizes teachers for opposing the NPU’s
privatization agenda, which it calls “education reform.” And it describes NPU’s
plan to organize an “aggressive earned media strategy” to broadcast the “NPU
message” via national media outlets, targeting those states where teachers have
mobilized for improved funding, limits on classroom sizes, investment in school
facilities, and livable wages for teachers and school staff. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">So what does SEIU President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Kay Henry</b> say about this? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">After all, SEIU represents tens of thousands of public
school staff, including teachers’ aides, cafeteria workers, school bus drivers,
maintenance staff and others. And SEIU is trying to unionize instructors in
higher education across the nation. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Do SEIU’s top officials endorse Stern’s use
of the union’s name to support an anti-union agenda backed by right-wing funding sources?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">SEIU officials refused to comment, says Nolan. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Without some sort of clarification, SEIU's silence appears to indicate its support for NPU’s agenda as well as Stern's use of SEIU's name to back the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Nolan got a response from </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Randi
Weingarten</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, the head of the American Federation
of Teachers</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“There must
be some misunderstanding for a respected labor leader, who spent a good part of
his life helping working people, to embrace a Walton-funded group dedicated to
attacking them,” she told Splinter via a spokesman. “I urge Andy to take
another look at what exactly he’s got himself into.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Tasty’s reaction?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Andy Stern is a foul-smelling piece of fecal matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">We should count our blessings that progressive forces in the
US labor movement, including California healthcare workers led by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sal Rosselli</b> and hotel workers at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HERE</b>, took on Stern’s pathetic sell-out ass more than a decade ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-68757371031494262112019-07-16T17:56:00.000-07:002019-07-16T17:56:36.584-07:00SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan Goes to Court over Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Retaliation and Other Charges<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan</td></tr>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>
President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> is headed to
court tomorrow to face allegations that he’s using an illegal lawsuit to try to
silence a former SEIU-UHW staffer who spoke to the media about Regan’s alleged
sexual misconduct, drinking on the job, backroom deals with employers, illegal
electioneering and other misconduct. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The courtroom action, emerging at the same time that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jeffrey Epstein</b>’s arrest brings renewed
attention to the #MeToo movement, will be heard on July 17 in Riverside County
(Calif.) Superior Court, according to court records.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Here’s what’s going on:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">On March 1st, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday
Report</i> published <a href="http://paydayreport.com/exclusive-seiu-vp-dave-regan-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-retaliating-against-whistleblowers/amp/">an
article</a> quoting an SEIU-UHW organizer who said Regan has had sexual
relations with SEIU-UHW members and staffers, often drinks on the job, and
carries out campaigns of retaliation against staffers and union members who
raise criticisms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Days later, Regan’s Chief of Staff <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greg Pullman</b> reportedly interrogated the 42-year-old woman
organizer and fired her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Next, on March 21st, Regan used SEIU-UHW’s money and lawyers
to sue the former staffer, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Njoki Woods</b>,
for allegedly defaming him through her comments to the press, which Regan says
are false. Regan calls on the court to force Woods to pay an unspecified amount
of punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and court fees to Regan. See a copy of the lawsuit below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">On June 11, Woods filed a motion asserting that Regan’s
lawsuit is an illegal attempt to retaliate against her for exercising her right
to free speech. She defends her earlier statements to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report</i> as truthful. See a copy of the motion below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">How could Regan’s lawsuit be illegal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Woods says it violates a California law called the “Anti-SLAPP”
statute (“Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation”). The law is intended
to prevent powerful people from using their money and lawyers to silence
members of the public by tying them up with groundless, expensive lawsuits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">In her anti-SLAPP motion, Woods says her statements to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report</i> are “true statements of
facts and opinion she made to a reporter. The reporter published an article
based on her statements and now Plaintiffs [Regan and SEIU-UHW] are retaliating
against Defendant [Woods] for exercising her freedom of speech.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Woods’ motion says “it was understood to be common knowledge
that Plaintiff Regan and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marcus Hatcher</b>,
director of Plaintiff SEIU-UHW’s Kaiser Division, had sexual relations with
members and staff of the Union…” The motion references a second lawsuit (<a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/07/former-seiu-uhw-staffer-names-dave.html">Mindy
Sturge v. SEIU-UHW</a>) that makes similar allegations of sexual misconduct by Regan
and other top officials at SEIU-UHW.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Her motion continues:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Defendant [Woods],
throughout her employment for SEIU-UHW, had personal knowledge that Regan drank
alcohol while serving his duties as president of the Union. This was evident by
sensing, through smell, the odor of alcohol on his breath, and by vision, by
frequently exhibiting a flushed face, red, bloodshot, watery eyes. He also
slurred his speech, made inappropriate comments, amongst other visual signals
of abuse of alcohol.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">In her motion, Woods offers additional details to back up
her comments to the press. For example, she describes how her direct
supervisor, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grisell Rodriguez</b>,
rewarded one of Woods’ coworkers for engaging in a sexual relationship with him.
When Woods raised concerns about his actions to Regan and the union’s leaders,
they did nothing, she says. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Woods, who is African-American, also describes how her
supervisor and other staff subjected her to racist comments and treatment.</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Woods “spoke only the
truth, based on her personal experience and knowledge. Woods witnessed the
following: employees getting promoted due to the sexual relations those
individuals had with other employees of SEIU-UHW; Plaintiff Regan exhibiting
symptoms of drinking alcohol while serving his duties as president of the
Union; Plaintiff Regan addressing the Union membership, stating that SEIU-UHW
would ‘go after’ members who made allegations against the Union while flashing
the phone numbers of attorneys in plain view of those in attendance; being
called a ‘black bitch’ by co-workers Bustamante and Saldana and her supervisor,
Rodríguez; being segregated by race by being told by her supervisor to ‘go sit
with your peers’ meaning the other black people; and being told that she had to
give money and campaign on her personal time for Plaintiff Regan and his
candidates.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Therefore,
Plaintiffs’ [Regan’s] claim for defamation must fail because Woods merely
stated the truth based on her personal experiences and knowledge while working
for Plaintiffs.” (pp. 7-8)</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Woods’ motion says Regan fired her and sued her to “chill
her right to free speech.” In order for Regan to prevail in his defamation
case, he must show that Woods’ statements were made with knowledge that they
were false or with reckless disregard for the truth. If Woods wins, Regan will
have to pay all of her attorneys’ fees and any costs associated with the suit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">One thing is clear: Regan’s decision to target Woods with a
lawsuit has only focused more attention on the allegations surrounding his
behavior and SEIU-UHW’s inner workings. Stay tuned to </span>Regan’s legal misadventure as more details are sure to
spill out like so many maggots from freshly disturbed roadkill.</div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-91831534902146158572019-07-03T16:08:00.001-07:002019-07-03T16:08:33.115-07:00SEIU Is Trying to Cut Backroom Deal with Uber and Lyft in California<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU</b> officials in
California have been engaged in secret discussions with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Uber</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lyft</b> around a scheme
to exempt the two tech giants from a groundbreaking new bill in California that
would force the companies to hire their drivers as employees rather than exploit
them as independent contractors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">SEIU, in exchange for backing the companies’ political play
in the Capitol, would be designated as the companies’ official union-lite “association” for
their independent-contractor drivers, according to articles in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> and other publications. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">(Johana Bhuiyan, “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-dynamex-contractors-ab5-20190623-story.html">Treat
workers as employees? Uber, Lyft and others are scrambling for a compromise</a>,”
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times</i>, June 23,
2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Noam Scheiber</span>,
“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/business/economy/uber-lyft-drivers-unions.html">Debate
Over Uber and Lyft Drivers’ Rights in California Has Split Labor</a>,”</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times</i>, June 29, 2019.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The news has been met with outrage by drivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out this tweet from <b>Rideshare Drivers
United-LA</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We won't work with any union that's in talks with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Uber?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Uber</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lyft?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lyft</a> to accept money from them and limit our full rights as employees. We represent the direct voice of the drivers who want & deserve better. Collective bargaining and a seat at the table.<a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> should know this. <a href="https://t.co/Fiy3zbZpUr">https://t.co/Fiy3zbZpUr</a></div>
— Rideshare Drivers United - LA (@_drivers_united) <a href="https://twitter.com/_drivers_united/status/1145336355519488001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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What’s causing SEIU officials to leap into bed with gig
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Opportunism on SEIU’s part. And desperation from the tech
execs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">California’s legislature is poised to pass a bill that would
require Uber, Lyft and other gig companies to hire their drivers as employees.
This would finally give drivers the basic legal protections that come with
employment status, including: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">minimum wage,
sick leave, overtime pay, meal and rest breaks, unemployment insurance, disability
insurance, workers’ compensation, parental leave, family leave and
contributions t</span>o Social Security and Medicare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The bill was triggered by a unanimous 2018 decision by the
California Supreme Court known as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dynamex</b>
decision. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">To save money, Dynamex -- a same-day courier service -- converted
all its employees to independent contractors. A former employee sued the
company. The case ultimately landed in the state Supreme Court, which ruled
that company executives had misclassified the workers as contractors. The court
set up a new test to determine whether workers are independent contractors or
employees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Earlier this year, California Assemblymember <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lorena Gonzalez</b> introduced <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Assembly Bill 5</b> to put this new
standard into California law. If it’s not in state law, workers’ only solution
is to sue every time a company violates the Supreme Court’s new standard. AB 5 was
approved by the Assembly by a vote of 59 to 15, and it’s now in the State Senate.
It’s sponsored by the California Labor Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The bill would affect 100,000 drivers at Uber and Lyft, as
well as an estimated 1.9 million additional California workers who are currently
misclassified as independent contractors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Tech companies are going batsh*t crazy over AB 5. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">If they can no longer exploit workers as independent
contractors, their profits will decline. So they’re pulling out all the stops
to try to defeat or gut the bill… including trying to cut backroom deals with
unprincipled union officials at SEIU and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Teamsters</b>. Here’s how the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los
Angeles Times</i> describes it:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In recent
months, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates and other companies have been in
discussions with officials at two labor unions — including local chapters of
the Teamsters and Service Employees International Union — over a possible
legislative alternative to Assembly Bill 5, now working its way through the
state Senate. The proposal, details of which are still in flux, would allow the
firms to continue to treat workers as independent contractors while providing
them some benefits and protections typically reserved for employees. (The
California Labor Federation, which represents most of the state’s unions,
remains committed to obtaining full employee status for on-demand workers.) At
least two of the companies, Postmates and DoorDash, have also commissioned
surveys to feel out how such a deal would play with Californians.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">According to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vox</i>,
the deal would require the tech companies to pay the unions to “advocate for
the drivers.” Sounds like a company union. (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alexia
Fernández Campbell</span>, “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/7/1/20677095/uber-lyft-labor-unions-ab5-california">Secret
meetings between Uber and labor unions are causing an uproar,</a>” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vox</i>, July 1, 2019.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>
cites two unnamed people who attended a meeting of SEIU officials during the
past two weeks during which <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alma
Hernandez</b>, the executive director of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU California State Council</b>, reportedly talked about SEIU’s discussions
with the tech companies. It also cites <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David
Huerta</b>, </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">president of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">United Service Workers West</b></span>, as saying he “</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">attended internal and external meetings about gig workers
with Ms. Hernández.</span>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="MsoHyperlink">Drivers have also filed class-action lawsuits to recoup
money and rights stolen by the gig giants. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">In March,
Uber settled </span>a</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span>class-action lawsuit</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"> with 13,600 Uber drivers, agreeing to pay them $20
million, but without changing their status as independent contractors.</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vox</i>’s </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alexia Fernández Campbell</span> points out that the tech
companies are not just exploiting workers, they’re also shifting billions of
dollars of taxes onto the backs of regular people. She writes:</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The state estimates it
loses about $7 billion a year in payroll tax revenue due to worker
misclassification that could be supporting schools, roads and other public
services. And by avoiding unemployment insurance taxes and workers’
compensation premiums, businesses shift the burden to the state when workers
get laid off, get sick or get injured on the job.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“These billion dollar
companies can complain but we have to ask ourselves as taxpayers: Should we
subsidize their business by subsidizing their workers?” said Assemblywoman
Lorena Gonzalez, a former labor organizer from San Diego who is author of AB 5.
“That’s what happens when you don’t adequately compensate workers.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">This is not the first time that SEIU’s top officials have
been caught doing dirty deals with tech titans and gig giants. In 2017, SEIU President
Emeritus <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Andy Stern</b> <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/01/andy-sterns-newest-gig-high-paid.html">began
working</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> as a highly paid consultant for tech
businesses</span> to help them pass a law in the New York state legislature so tech
companies could continue to treat their workers as independent contractors. It’s
unclear whether Stern continues today in that consultant role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andy Stern and David Rolf</td></tr>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Also in 2017</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">, Stern co-authored
a proposal with a right-wing D.C. political operative calling on the
Republican-controlled U.S. Congress and White House to grant “waivers” to
states to allow them to do an end-run around federal labor laws. The waivers
would be a boon to tech companies, which are facing dozens of class-action
action lawsu</span>its from workers alleging they’</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">re owed millions in back pay after being misclassified as
“independent contractors.”</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Stern’s proposal, entitled “<a href="https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/how-to-modernize-labor-law">How
to Modernize Labor Law</a>” and co-authored with </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eli Lehrer</span></b>
(P</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">resident of the right-wing “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">R Street Institute</b>” in Washington DC</span>), was published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National Affairs</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">In 2018, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David Rolf</b>
(then-President of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU Local 775</b>
and a member of SEIU’s International Executive Board) <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/02/seius-david-rolf-joins-andy-stern-in.html">signed
an open letter</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi</b> and </span>venture capitalist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nick Hanauer</b> calling for the passage of
Washington state legislation that reportedly would consign gig workers </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">to a second-class status as independent contractors</span>.
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The uber-wealthy plutocrats atop tech companies want to keep
sucking as many profits as they can from their workforce. The top three execs
at Uber and Lyft have a combined worth of over $1 billion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Garrett Camp</span></b>
-- a multi-billionaire “Tech tycoon” who co-founded Uber -- just paid a
record-breaking </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">$72.5 million for a brand-new estate</span>
in Beverly Hills, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2019/dirt/real-estate/beverly-hills-home-sale-record-price-uber-co-founder-1203257003/">an
article</a> published yesterday in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Variety.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uber cofounder and billionaire Garrett Camp</td></tr>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="MsoHyperlink">Camp’s purchase has sparked anger from drivers in Los
Angeles. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the <i>London Guardian</i> published yesterday (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">Sam Levin</span>, “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/02/los-angeles-mansion-sales-homelessness-increase">Uber
co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for
wages</a>,” <i>The Guardian</i> (London),
July 2, 2019.):</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“This is a
perfect example of the 1% stealing from the rest of us,” Nicole Moore, a
ride-share driver in Los Angeles, said of Camp’s $72.5m purchase. “Drivers are
living in their cars. We’re fighting for fair wages. At least share that wealth
with the people who have actually built your company.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…</i></span> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">“This guy is
buying lavish houses with our money, our hard-earned money that they are
unjustly taking from us,” added Karim Bayumi, another Los Angeles Uber driver
and organizer. “It’s exploitation.”</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Hey <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Kay Henry</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.</b>.. Your thoughts? Will
SEIU and Teamsters officials perform intimate love acts with these tech
billionaires? Or defend exploited workers against greedy corporations?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">It looks like some of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave
Regan</b>’s chickens are coming home to roost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Observers have long critiqued Regan for</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span>negotiating terrible labor contracts that
dismantled the defined-benefit pension plans covering more than 20,000 of SEIU-UHW's members at California hospital chains like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2011/12/purple-lies-seiu-pushed-217-million.html">Dignity
Health</a></b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2012/05/more-info-on-seiu-uhws-cuts-at.html">Daughters
of Charity Health System</a></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Observers predicted that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kaiser Permanente</b> would eventually demand the same concession from
Regan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">And that’s what happened earlier this week during negotiations
between Kaiser and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Coalition of
Kaiser Permanente Unions</b> at the InterContinental Hotel in Downtown Los
Angeles. Here’s an e-mail that SEIU-UHW sent to its 50,000 Kaiser members on
Tuesday:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">From: <strong><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Verna
and Georgette</span></strong> <<a href="mailto:voice@seiu-uhw.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">voice@seiu-uhw.org</span></a>><br />
Date: Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 7:02 PM<br />
Subject: CONTRACT ALERT: Kaiser's offer to us</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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still in the middle of bargaining but this can’t wait. We all know Kaiser’s
been making record profits — but they opened this session complaining that
“hard times” are ahead for the company. They followed up with a
disrespectful contract proposal that demands big cuts from us,
including:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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increases to $20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outsourcing and automation of our jobs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pay and elimination of pensions — starting with new hires, then we’d be
next<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Apparently, Kaiser -- despite its massive profits -- is
proposing the lowest pay increases in decades as well as the elimination of defined-benefit pension benefits for new hires covered by SEIU-UHW. Instead, new hires would get a
cheap 401(k) plan. That’s what Regan allowed Dignity and Daughters
of Charity to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">How will SEIU-UHW respond?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">The union's leaders are calling on members to prepare for votes during the summer to
authorize a possible strike later in the year. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">That’ll be interesting.
Since Regan took over SEIU-UHW during the 2009 trusteeship, the union has reportedly conducted only one strike at a small facility during the past decade. Pretty lame, right?</span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Hmmmm. Will SEIU-UHW’s
members even remember what a strike is?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink">Stay tuned!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-3219604513361433152019-06-10T10:14:00.004-07:002019-06-10T10:14:48.762-07:00Consultants Pocketed Millions from Dave Regan’s Ballot Initiatives<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tasty <a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/05/dave-regans-ballot-initiatives-push.html">earlier
reported</a> how <b>SEIU-UHW</b> spent more money in 2018 on ballot initiatives than it
did on organizing and representing its own members on the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So where did
SEIU-UHW spend all of the $37.5 million that went to “political activities and
lobbying”?<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to
the union’s financial report, six political consultants and ballot initiatives
walked away with three-quarters of the total. Here they are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>$14.9
million to Waterfront Strategies (Washington DC)</li>
<li>$4.6 million
to the Fairness Project (Washington DC)</li>
<li>$2.5 million
to Kimball Petition Management (Thousand Oaks, CA)</li>
<li>$2.1 million
to Ohioans for Kidney Dialysis Patient Protection (Ohio)</li>
<li>$1.2 million
to Savvy Communications (Rancho Mirage, CA)</li>
<li>$2.2 million
to Greenstripe Media, Inc. (Newport Beach, CA)</li>
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The biggest
winner, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Waterfront Strategies</b>, is an
advertising purchasing firm that places media tons of media buys for PACs. The
firm’s parent company is headed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim
Margolis</b>, a former media strategist for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential
campaign.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fairness Project</b> is an organization
founded by <b>Dave Regan</b> and principally funded by SEIU-UHW to run ballot initiatives
in states outside of California. The head of the organization’s board of
directors <a href="https://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2013/01/seius-tyrone-freeman-on-trial.html">is
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Steve Trossman</b></a>, one of Regan’s
staffer who was also wrapped up in the Tyrone Freeman scandal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kimball Petition Management</b>, or KPM, is
a petition drive management firm owned by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fred
Kimball</b>, who founded the company in 1984 with his brother, Kelly. Fred
Kimball was profiled in a 1998 article, "<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/key041198.htm">Collecting
Signatures for a Price</a></span>" in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washington Post</i>, according to Ballotpedia.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Regan set up
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ohioans for Kidney Dialysis Patient
Protection</b> to run a 2018 ballot initiative in Ohio. Altogether, Reagan
spent $4.1 million on an effort to collect signatures, but <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/11/seiu-uhws-dave-regan-suffers-41-million.html">forgot
to have his signature-gatherers fill out</a></span> a required state form. As a
result, the Ohio Supreme Court voted unanimously to knock Regan’s initiative on
the ballot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Savvy Communications</b> appears to be
another name for her <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stones’ Phones</b>,
a consulting firm specializing in phone strategies for campaigns.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greenstripe Media, Inc.</b> is an
advertising purchasing firm headed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David
Takara</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And here’s
the punchline: Despite pouring tens of millions of dollars into political
spending in political spending, Regan has no victories to show for it as far as
winning organizing rights for workers and expanding the union’s membership.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-44040188129006208792019-05-24T15:39:00.000-07:002019-05-24T15:39:06.002-07:00Breaking: Feds Order Rerun of Officer Elections at Trustee’d SEIU Union<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The <b>US Department of Labor</b> has overturned
the results of internal officer elections at <b>SEIU Local 73</b> due to misconduct, according to an e-mail and a press
statement from SEIU (see below). </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The federal agency reportedly ordered a government-supervised
rerun of the elections to choose the
union’s president, officers, and Executive Board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dian Palmer</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, who has served as SEIU’s trustee at
Local 73, said in an e-mail sent yesterday to Local 73’s members that the
election was overturned because of “a problem with the conduct of one of our
local union staff who was elected to the local’s executive board in our last
election. The identified conduct was a misuse of union data during the election
campaign.” Palmer says the individual has resigned. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tasty’s sources say the
individual is Organizing Director and Executive Board member <b>Sean McGough</b>. It's unclear whether he is a fall guy and whether others were also involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">During last
year’s elections, two competing slates of candidates battled for votes: one
backed by SEIU’s trustees and the other (“<a href="https://www.membersleadingmembers.com/">Members leading Members</a>”)
supported by former staff and members of the union who called for greater local
control. The now-overturned elections, held in October 2018, saw Palmer elected
as the union’s president. Until then, she had served as SEIU’s trustee since SEIU <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2016/08/purple-palace-imposes-trusteeship-on.html">imposed
its trusteeship</a> in August 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Just days
after the October 2018 election, “Members leading Members” filed a complaint
with the US Department of Labor alleging 13 violations of election rules. For example,
the complaint alleged that SEIU’s trustees used union resources to campaign for
the slate headed by SEIU’s trustees. According to other allegations, thousands
of members did not receive mail-in ballots. Here’s a link to <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a330eb8b1ffb6e54c3f0cff/t/5bd7cda3eef1a1684f5209c4/1540869554227/Officer+Election+Appeal.pdf">the
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election has not yet been scheduled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The action by
the DOL is the latest controversy to wrack Local 73 since SEIU President <b>Mary Kay Henry</b> imposed a trusteeship on
the union nearly three years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">First, a lawsuit alleged that SEIU’s
trusteeship was improper. Then, in January 2018, Trustee Dian Palmer fired
about ten members of the union’s staff after they announced plans to stand as
candidates for the “Members leading Members” slate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Next, in
February 2018, union members filed <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/12/seiu-members-sue-purple-palace-as.html">two
federal lawsuits</a> alleging that SEIU officials had improperly failed to
allow members to retake control of their union through membership elections. With a judge threatening to
order an immediate election, SEIU officials finally agreed to conduct an <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/10/election-begins-at-seiu-local-73.html">election in October 2018</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Local 73, headquartered
in Chicago, represents 25,000 public-sector workers in Illinois and
Northwestern Indiana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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e-mail sent by trustee Dian Palmer to Local 73 members regarding the DOL’s
action. Note that Palmer says SEIU officials are
voluntarily requesting a rerun election. However, Tasty’s sources say a rerun
election was ordered by the feds because of election misconduct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> "Dian
Palmer" <<a href="mailto:info@seiu73.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">info@seiu73.org</span></a>><br />
<b>Date:</b> May 23, 2019 at 1:10:58 PM CDT<br />
<b>To:</b> ><br />
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Important information about last year’s election of
union officers</b><br />
<b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:info@seiu73.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">info@seiu73.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">I am writing today to share important information
related to last year’s election of officers. In recent weeks, the U.S.
Department of Labor has been conducting an intensive review of our 2018
officer elections. Our leadership team is absolutely committed to
ensuring that each of you has a union that operates with integrity and
transparency. To ensure this, we have fully cooperated with the
Department of Labor in their investigation and have responded to each
and every question quickly and thoroughly.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Making this union work for you is our main
priority. This week, we were shocked and appalled when the Department
of Labor informed us of a problem with the conduct of one of our local
union staff who was elected to the local’s executive board in our last
election. The identified conduct was a misuse of union data during the
election campaign. Conduct like this has no place in our union. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We
took this problem seriously, confronted the staff person, and
immediately asked him to leave both his staff position and his office.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">We are focused on doing everything we can to ensure
that you have complete confidence in the democratic processes of this
union. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We intend to cooperate fully with the Department
of Labor and will ask for a re-run of our local union’s election. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">We expect that the Department of
Labor will supervise the election. Rest assured, as we work through
this process, we will continue the work of our union to improve the
lives of all SEIU Local 73 members.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Once we have more information, including details of
the upcoming election, we will share them immediately. You can read the
statement we shared with members of the media by<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.everyaction.com/k/6978578/64843293/1672223724?nvep%3Dew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVlNFSS8xLzE3ODY2IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImJjN2UwMTEwLTg2N2QtZTkxMS1hYmM0LTI4MTg3ODM5MWVmYiIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAid2lsa2VzbUBzYmNnbG9iYWwubmV0Ig0KfQ%253D%253D%26hmac%3DT0PdZWnyE9h7ftGP3f0tjdpOcVnrpEoBgZTs3MJU2TA%3D&source=gmail&ust=1558809420628000&usg=AFQjCNG_yFSexkTXRkrt59UuLnwP27Kcog" href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/6978578/64843293/1672223724?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9BVi9BVlNFSS8xLzE3ODY2IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImJjN2UwMTEwLTg2N2QtZTkxMS1hYmM0LTI4MTg3ODM5MWVmYiIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAid2lsa2VzbUBzYmNnbG9iYWwubmV0Ig0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=T0PdZWnyE9h7ftGP3f0tjdpOcVnrpEoBgZTs3MJU2TA=" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">clicking here</span></a>. In the interim, if you
have any questions, please reach out to your Member Action at 312 787
5868 or email <a href="mailto:mac@seiu73.org" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">mac@seiu73.org</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">In unity,</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Dian Palmer, President</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-80390022801714236992019-05-10T16:19:00.002-07:002019-05-23T18:13:14.444-07:00Dave Regan's Ballot Initiatives Push SEIU-UHW into the Red<br />
Like a snake-oil
salesman, <b>Dave Regan</b> continues to hawk his <b>ballot initiative</b>s to <b>SEIU-UHW</b>’s Executive
Board despite their ineffectiveness and colossal cost.<br />
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How costly
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Last year, SEIU-UHW's spending on lobbying and political activities tripled to $37.5 million from the prior year.<br />
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Regan's ballot initiatives were so expensive they caused SEIU-UHW to experience a $17.5 million loss for the year, according to the union's annual financial report to the
US Department of Labor. (The union took in revenues of
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This may
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Regan's spending also helped SEIU-UHW surpass a disturbing threshold: the union spent more money on “political activities and lobbying” ($37.5 million) than it did on “representational activities” ($36.3 million).<br />
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Tasty
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<b>Political Activities and
Lobbying<o:p></o:p></b></div>
</td>
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<b>Ratio of Spending on Representation
to Pol/Lobbying<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</tr>
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SEIU 2015 (CA Longterm Care Wkrs)</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.25in;" valign="top" width="119"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$16.5 million</div>
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$5.1 million</div>
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3.2 to 1</div>
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SEIU Local 1021 (Northern Cal)</div>
</td>
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$11.5 million</div>
</td>
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$2.0 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.25pt;" valign="top" width="140"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
5.8 to 1</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.65pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
SEIU 1199NY</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.25in;" valign="top" width="119"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$57.0 million</div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.6pt;" valign="top" width="95"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$14.5 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.25pt;" valign="top" width="140"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
3.9 to 1</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.65pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
SEIU Local 49 (Oregon)</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 1.25in;" valign="top" width="119"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$3.4 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.6pt;" valign="top" width="95"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$0.5 million</div>
</td>
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6.8 to 1</div>
</td>
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NUHW</div>
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$6.0 million</div>
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$0.7 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.25pt;" valign="top" width="140"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
8.6 to 1</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 188.65pt;" valign="top" width="211"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
SEIU-UHW</div>
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$36.3 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 76.6pt;" valign="top" width="95"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
$37.5 million</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 112.25pt;" valign="top" width="140"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
0.97 to 1</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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Here’s another interesting comparison.<br />
<br />
Last year, SEIU-UHW spent almost three times more money on lobbying and political activities than did <b>SEIU 1199NY</b>… even though 1199NY had far more members (273,599) than SEIU-UHW (99,268).<br />
<br />
In fact, if you tally up the political spending of the five other unions in the table above, it doesn’t even come close to what SEIU-UHW spent.<br />
<br />
Hmmm, what do you
call a union that spends more money on lobbying and political activities than representing
its own members on the job? Good question.<br />
<br />
A political consulting firm?<br />
<br />
Apparently,
that's Regan’s innovative strategy for “rebuilding the US labor movement.”<br />
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-62642951955562733882019-04-26T18:40:00.002-07:002019-04-26T18:40:50.962-07:00Lawsuit Alleges Another Sexual Scandal inside SEIU<br />
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SEIU
continues to face allegations of sexual misconduct nearly two years after it
grabbed headlines for scandals surrounding SEIU EVP <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/10/scott-courtney-resigns-from-seiu.html">Scott
Courtney</a></b>, several <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/10/details-emerge-on-seiu-staffer-fired-in.html">Fight
for $15</a></b> staffers, a top official at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/12/head-of-seiu-1199-in-massachusetts-is_13.html">1199SEIU</a></b>
in Boston, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In one of
the most recent episodes, SEIU’s second-largest local union was hit with a civil
lawsuit by a former female organizer alleging that three male co-workers
sexually assaulted her during an offsite work event. </div>
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The lawsuit, filed in Los
Angeles Superior Court, names SEIU Local 2015 and three of its male staffers as
defendants. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The suit
alleges that the three male staffers committed assault, battery, intentional
infliction of emotional distress, and defamation in an episode that’s reminiscent
of the infamous one allegedly carried out by conservative Supreme Court Justice
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brett Kavanaugh</b> during a high school
party. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s what
happened at a “work function” in Chicago, according to the lawsuit by the
female SEIU organizer:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Despite Plaintiff’s repeated statements
that she was not interested in sex with him, Defendant #1 grabbed Plaintiff by
the arm, took his penis out of his pants, and attempted to penetrate Plaintiff
with it. Defended #2 restrained Plaintiff and prevented her from escaping while
Defendant #1 attempted to rape her. Defendant #3, a supervisor for Defendant
SEIU, watched the entire incident, verbally encouraging Defendants #1 and #2.”</i></blockquote>
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A source
inside Local 2015 tells Tasty that despite the lawsuit’s allegations, the union
returned two of the defendants to work. And the local hired <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2013/06/latest-news-from-seius-attempted.html">Glenn
Rothner</a></b> -- a lawyer whom SEIU often hires to fight decertification
campaigns -- to defend itself against the suit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rothner
recently filed a motion seeking to remove Local 2015 as a defendant. He argues
that the union should not be held liable “because sexual assault is not within
the course and scope of employment of the employees of unions.” Nice argument.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lawsuit comes
two years after #MeToo scandals forced SEIU President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Kay Henry</b> to appoint an <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/12/head-of-seiu-1199-in-massachusetts-is_13.html">external
advisory group</a> to determine what practices SEIU could enact to stop sexual
abuse within the union. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Hmmm. Sounds
like Mary Kay Henry was not too successful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the suit
comes at roughly the same time that Local 2015 decided to flaunt its impeccable
moral judgment by re-hiring a disgraced former staffer, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/03/guess-whos-back-shady-rickman-again-wtf.html">Rickman
Jackson</a></b>, who was removed from his job in 2008 for stealing $33,500 from
the union’s low-waged members while serving as the Chief of Staff to the union’s
then-president, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tyrone Freeman</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-57979855494201706772019-04-19T18:53:00.002-07:002019-04-19T18:53:29.465-07:00Members: 'Democracy Is under Fire at SEIU Local 73'<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dian Palmer</td></tr>
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Here’s an update from Chicago about SEIU’s trusteeship of <b>SEIU Local 73</b>.</div>
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It turns out that SEIU officials did a real doozy on Local 73’s constitution and bylaws during the <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2016/08/purple-palace-imposes-trusteeship-on.html">trusteeship</a> of this union of approximately 25,000 mainly public-sector workers in Illinois and northwestern Indiana.</div>
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Under the
union’s old rules, Local 73’s officials were required to hold four general
membership meetings each year where members could pose questions to union
officials, introduce resolutions, vote on motions and budget issues, and take
other actions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What changes
did the union’s new constitution bring?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, they eliminated
the union-wide membership meetings and replaced them with one “assembly” per
year… where only delegates are permitted to speak and vote. Members can only be
observers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a <a href="https://www.membersleadingmembers.com/blog/2019/2/13/members-leading-members-newsletter-volume-2-trustees-eliminate-membership-meetings-forever">recent
newsletter</a>, an opposition slate called “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Members leading Members</b>” offers more details:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the most damaging change came when the
trustees eliminated all four annual membership meetings required by the old
constitution. This act alone will completely take the members’ rights away when
it comes to holding their leaders accountable and charting the direction of
their local. Dian Palmer, from the very first day she came in from Wisconsin as
a trustee, hated the membership meetings and the fact that the members were
asking questions. At one staff meeting in June of 2017, Dian Palmer proposed
that we eliminate the question and answer sessions from the membership meetings
altogether.</i></blockquote>
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At a
membership meeting held on February 23, Local 73 officials – including the
union’s current Chief of Staff <b>Tyson Roan</b> -- reportedly called police arrest Local
73’s former president, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christine
Boardman</b>, for allegedly “trespassing” when she attended the meeting and
handed out the leaflet below. Boardman said she has a right to attend the meeting
since she’s a retiree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile,
the “Members leading Members” slate <a href="https://www.membersleadingmembers.com/blog/2019/2/13/members-leading-members-newsletter-volume-2-trustees-eliminate-membership-meetings-forever">reports</a>
that trustee <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dian Palmer</b> -- Local 73’s
new president -- got her salary bumped to $166,000 per year. Union
members reportedly filed charges over the pay increase, alleging it was not
properly approved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-52687072893144769252019-04-05T19:54:00.001-07:002019-04-05T19:54:27.939-07:00Election Brings Initial Loss for SEIU at Kaiser<br />
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SEIU may be
on the brink of losing a unit of 343 Registered Nurses at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kaiser Moreno Valley Medical Center</b> in Southern California.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last Friday,
nurses cast their votes in an NLRB election triggered by members of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU Local 121</b> who requested a formal
vote so they can leave SEIU because they’re dissatisfied with the union. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On election
night, a majority of the ballots supported leaving SEIU. The final vote tally won’t
be finalized until three dozen “challenged” ballots are resolved. According to
the NLRB, the vote tally at the end of election night was the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Union:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>120<o:p></o:p></div>
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SEIU Local
121:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>111<o:p></o:p></div>
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Challenged
Ballots:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>37<o:p></o:p></div>
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SEIU Local 121
appears to be worried it’ll lose the election when the “challenged” ballots are
finally counted. After the vote count, it filed a formal appeal with the NLRB
in an effort to overturn the entire election.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The hospital’s
nurses have been members of SEIU for more than 10 years but have been
dissatisfied with SEIU for a long time, according to an RN who called the
purple union “fear mongers.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The vote
couldn’t come at a worse time for SEIU. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions</b>, which includes Local 121 and
other SEIU locals, will go back to the bargaining table with Kaiser for the
first time on April 17 to negotiate a “national agreement.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since 2009, SEIU
unions at Kaiser have been led by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b>
president <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b>, who has given
away massive cuts in health benefits and retirement plans at hospital chains
across California. Kaiser now appears to be angling to win the same cuts for
its workers. </div>
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Regan has been a big proponent of “partnership” deals with Kaiser
and even colluded with Kaiser executives <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2011/09/kaiser-strike-update.html">to
fight strikes</a> by other Kaiser workers, including statewide walkouts by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">National Union of Healthcare Workers</b>
and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">California Nurses Association</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last year, Kaiser’s
partnership unions <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/03/seiu-uhws-dave-regan-sparks-split.html">split
into two</a> after Regan reportedly attempted to seize more decision-making
power inside the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. The unions fed up with
Regan broke away and formed a new coalition called the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alliance of Health Care Unions</b>, which negotiated a national
agreement of its own in 2018.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-35800578922207771452019-03-29T19:02:00.002-07:002019-03-29T19:02:41.006-07:00Guess Who's Back? Shady Rickman... Again. WTF!?<br />
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In 2008, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rickman Jackson</b> became a household name
across Southern California after the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los
Angeles Times</i> revealed he’d stolen more than $30,000 from the low-wage
homecare members of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU Local 2015</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time,
Jackson served as the “Chief of Staff” of the union’s president, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tyrone Freeman</b>. Together, they stole
thousands of dollars from the union’s members. Jackson personally accompanied
Tyrone on union-funded adventures to “the Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills
for <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2013/09/1308-bill-from-cigar-club-shows.html">$175
glasses of cognac</a>” and other felonious funfests, including Freeman’s union-funded
wedding at a Hawaiian resort.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Freeman was
sentenced to 33 months in a federal prison. And Jackson was stripped of his
union position.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s the
latest?<o:p></o:p></div>
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SEIU Local
2015 -- the scene of Rickman’s corruption -- just hired Rickman as the Director
of its Organizing Department, according to a source inside SEIU Local 2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WTF!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Union
officials reportedly announced Jackson’s hiring during a member conference call
on February 25, 2019. Tasty’s source provides the following details:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His hiring was announced in a member
conference call that takes place every Monday. This particular call, on
February 25, made no mentioned of his hiring until the end of the call, with no
discussion for members. The following week, April Verrett, president of 2015,
discussed the hiring of Rickman where several members stated their opposition
to his hiring because of what happened with Tyrone. Make no mistake, April did
not say what Rickman did and only classified his actions as an error like a
clerical mistake, because Rickman signed something he shouldn't have signed.
She tried to justify his hiring as part of the union's Restorative Justice
agenda, as if Rickman's corruption could compare to racist policies that make
millions of people of color criminals rather than Rickman stealing from home
care workers. Members were also angry there was no transparency because the
executive board did not about this hiring, much less a discussion. April lied
when she said the decision to hire Rickman was also because it was hard to find
a director for external organizing. She said the union had been looking for 18
months for a director to fill the vacancy but the director had actually left around
September 2018. When she was told Rickman had not re-paid the local, she denied
this but did not provide any evidence. She said she would provide the evidence
at a later time and to the member who asked instead of the general membership.</i></blockquote>
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For those
who may have forgotten the details of Rickman’s corruption, reporter <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Pringle</b> described them in a 2008 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> article that detailed the findings of an investigation led by former state Atty.
Gen. <b>John Van de Kamp</b> and an SEIU
audit.</div>
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Freeman
steered vast amounts of union money into union-created nonprofit organizations,
which then used fake transactions to deposit cash into the pockets of Tyrone
and others. One of these nonprofit organizations -- the Long-Term Care Housing
Corp -- made lump-sum payments to Freeman while also paying Rickman $2,500 a
month to supposedly “lease” Rickman’s personal home to serve as the
organization’s offices. All told, Rickman pocketed $33,500 from this scam.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Paul
Pringle, “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-union18-2008sep18-story.html">SEIU
accuses local union leader of misusing funds</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los Angeles Times</i>, September 18, 2008.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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In October
of 2008, SEIU stripped Rickman of his position and “exiled” him to Canada <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2010/06/guess-whos-back-back-again-shady.html">while
keeping him on payroll</a>. (Paul Pringle, “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-union15-2008oct15-story.html">SEIU
leader loses post over scandal</a>,” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2008.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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What idiot
at SEIU would hire someone who stole tens of thousands of dollars from the
union’s own hard-working members?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Its mind
boggling, right? <o:p></o:p></div>
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SEIU’s
leaders are clearly pathetic, but this level of corruption and disdain for its
members is shocking even to those of us who’ve waded neck-deep through purple
muck and mire for years.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-74521572895165741472019-03-15T18:09:00.004-07:002019-03-15T18:09:39.782-07:00Staffer: SEIU-UHW and Dave Regan to Face Lawsuit over Harassment and Retaliation<br />
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Here’s the
latest on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b> staffer who,
during <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/03/seiu-uhw-staffer-dave-regan-slept-with.html">an
interview published on March 2, 2019</a>, made explosive allegations that SEIU-UHW
President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> has had sexual
relations with SEIU-UHW members and staffers, is often drunk on the job, and
carries out campaigns of retaliation against staffers and members who raise
criticisms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On March 6,
SEIU-UHW fired the staffer, Njoki Woods, “less than 24 hours after [she] was
interrogated by SEIU Chief of Staff <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greg
Pullman</b> about her interview with Payday Report,” according to a new article
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PayDay Report</i>. </div>
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(Mike Elk, “<a href="http://paydayreport.com/seiu-sexual-misconduct-whistleblower-fired-after-interview-with-payday-report/">SEIU
Sexual Misconduct Whistleblower Fired After Interview with Payday Report</a>,” Payday
Report, March 6, 2019.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The article
continues:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Woods says that she intends to sue over her
firing. She says that she has plenty of witnesses that can back her story of
retaliation.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Since the publication of her interview with
Payday Report, she says additional people have come forward to her with stories
of abuse within SEIU-UHW. Woods says that she intends to help organize folks to
fight back against what she says as a toxic culture within the union.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I am doing exactly what they trained me to
do, I am standing up for myself,” says Woods.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For years, Woods says that she has suffered
health problems, nausea, and anxiety attacks as a result of the abuse she says
that she suffered within SEIU, but this morning when she woke up expecting to
be fired, the symptons all of a sudden disappered.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I feel good. I feel like I have broken away
from this abusive household and I don’t have to keep abuse hidden and that
feels really good” says Woods. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
thought that I would be afraid. I thought I would be nervous and I don’t feel
like that. I feel like I have freed from myself from an abusive father or an
abusive husband.”</i></blockquote>
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Readers’
comments posted alongside the article expressed support for Woods, a
42-year-old woman who began working as an organizer for SEIU-UHW in 2015. One
comment reads as follows:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I personally worked alongside Njoki, she is
a great organizer and a sweet person. The internal staff motto of UHW is “UHW
is where great organizers go to die” – and they sure live up to it. Glad I got
away. Stay strong Njoki!!!!!!</i></blockquote>
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Another states:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As a former employee of the organization I
think it’s far past time to file a class action suit sexual discrimination
sexism racial discrimination racially disparaging remarks as a former organizer
with in the organization I can attest and be would be more than willing to I’ve
worked at UHW for over 10 years</i></blockquote>
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If Woods
files a lawsuit, it will be the second one featuring allegations that connect
Regan to sexual misconduct and retaliation against whistleblowers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Will Mary
Kay Henry do the right thing by taking action against Regan, who also serves on
SEIU’s International Executive Board?<o:p></o:p></div>
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One would
hope so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the
#MeToo movement emboldened SEIU staffers to step forward with their own stories
about sexual harassment and misconduct inside the purple union, Henry was
forced to remove a number of staffers following investigations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In late
2017, Henry announced the formation of <a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2017/12/head-of-seiu-1199-in-massachusetts-is_13.html">an
external advisory group</a> that was supposed to determine what practices SEIU
can enact in order to stop sexual abuse within the union. She recruited
high-profile women to make up the advisory group, including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cecilia Muñoz</b>, former White House
Domestic Policy Council director; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fatima
Goss Graves</b>, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center; and
employment attorney <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Debra Katz</b>,
founding partner of law firm Katz Marshall & Banks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time,
an SEIU spokesperson announced:</div>
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<i>“SEIU is deeply committed at every level of our
union to ensuring that our workplace environment reflects our values, and that
all staff is respected, their contributions are valued and their voices are
heard.”</i></blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile,
SEIU has rightfully criticized big businesses for turning a blind eye to sexual
harassment inside the workplace. For example, SEIU is working with fast-food
workers to confront sexual harassment. SEIU worked with women fast-food workers
who recently stood up in silent protest during a presentation by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">McDonalds</b> chief communicator at an
event sponsored by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Politico</i>. Meanwhile,
women janitors in commercial office buildings have staged protests against
sexual harassment and assaults they suffer on the job.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Will Mary
Kay Henry “walk the talk” by launching an investigation into the allegations about
Regan?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or will
Henry and her panel of experts turn a blind eye to allegations against one
of SEIU’s own board members?<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-24423749957426435922019-03-12T19:05:00.000-07:002019-03-12T19:05:38.643-07:00Workers at Purple Palace Vote to Strike<br />
Check this out. Earlier today, Dave Jamieson, a reporter from the <i>Huffington Post</i>, reported the following on <a href="https://twitter.com/jamieson">his Twitter feed</a>:<br />
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<i>Wow. Workers at @SEIU headquarters have authorized a strike against the union. They say SEIU is outsourcing union work to non-union contractors (!). The workers are represented by @OPEIU</i></blockquote>
A couple of hours later, Jamieson reported this:<br />
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<i>More on this: Shop steward David Hoskins tells me SEIU wants to impose a two-tier system in which new hires would be easier to lay off. Union also wants to retain ability to contract out work. Employees voted down SEIU's contract offer 87% to 13. 92% voted to authorize strike</i></blockquote>
This afternoon, he published an article on <i>Huffington Post</i>. Here's a link: Dave Jamieson, "<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/union-employees-authorize-a-strike-against-their-own-union_n_5c881359e4b0fbd7661e9bce?hq">Union Employees Authorize A Strike Against Their Own Union</a>," Huffington Post, March 12, 2019.<br />
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<br />SternBurgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12145256236424627084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550808341707916149.post-3944593174155643422019-03-02T12:47:00.003-08:002019-03-02T12:47:45.131-08:00SEIU-UHW Staffer: ‘Dave Regan Slept with Union Staffers and Members, Bullies Critics’<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan</td></tr>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report</i> yesterday published explosive
allegations that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEIU-UHW</b> President <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Regan</b> has had sexual relations
with SEIU-UHW members and staffers, is often drunk on the job, and carries
out campaigns of retaliation against staffers and members who raise criticisms.
(Mike Elk, “<a href="http://paydayreport.com/exclusive-seiu-vp-dave-regan-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-retaliating-against-whistleblowers/amp/">EXCLUSIVE:
SEIU VP Dave Regan Accused of Sexual Misconduct & Retaliating Against
Whistleblowers</a>,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report</i>,
March 1, 2019) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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She also
says SEIU-UHW officials make backroom deals with management and sometimes
instruct Union Representatives, who are supposed to defend the rights of
workers on the job, instead to work in the interests of companies and bosses. </div>
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For example, she alleges that SEIU-UHW officials pressured her to be
soft on employers. If SEIU-UHW officials consider a rank-and-file worker to be
too militant or if the worker criticized SEIU-UHW’s leadership, then SEIU-UHW
leaders work secretly with the worker’s boss to have the worker fired, she says.
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The allegations
in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report</i> article are made
by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Njoki Woods</b>, a 42-year-old woman
who joined SEIU-UHW’s staff in 2015 after having been a rank-and-file member of
SEIU-UHW for a decade. Woods formerly was a Certified Nursing Assistant and
Unit Secretary at Riverside Community Hospital. According to the article, she
remains on the union’s staff today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In other
direct quotes in the article, Woods describes a toxic, corrupt, and “cultish” culture
inside SEIU-UHW. Conformity is valued by SEIU-UHW officials and those who report
abuse or who express criticism are targeted with retaliation and bullying, she
says. In addition, she describes a culture of sexual favors where people have
sex with union officials in order to get ahead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woods’ allegations
mirror those of other members and staffers. For example, Regan is a named in
<a href="http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2018/09/press-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit-filed.html">a
lawsuit</a> in Alameda County (Calif.) in which a former SEIU-UHW staffer, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mindy Sturge</b>, alleges that Regan and
one of his top staffers, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marcus Hatcher</b>,
carried out sexual misconduct and retaliation against union staffers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The
following are excerpts from yesterday’s article in <i>Payday Report</i>. Here’s a link to <a href="http://paydayreport.com/exclusive-seiu-vp-dave-regan-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-retaliating-against-whistleblowers/amp/">the
full article</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Payday Report has learned that not only has
Regan been accused of covering up sexual misconduct, but he is now being
accused of sexual misconduct himself and retaliating against whistleblowers.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It was widely discussed amongst members
that he had sexual relations with members and staff,” says Woods.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Woods says that the example set by Regan’s
frequent drinking and personal sexual misconduct created a toxic culture where
many felt pressure to have sex in order to get ahead.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s a sexual culture—it was all okay,”
says Wood. ”The culture at the time was everybody was having sex with
everybody. That’s just the culture—sexual favors—that’s how people got ahead
there”…</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“He drinks all the time, everybody knows
it,” says Woods who says she smelled alcohol on Regan’s breath many times
during the work day. “He was always drunk—it was just the norm.”</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SEIU-UHW did not immediately respond for a
request for comment when reached late on Thursday…</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Many say that the toxic workplace culture of
SEIU-UHW stems from the hostile takeover of the local union by Regan and
engineered by the top leadership of the international D.C. headquarters of SEIU
in 2009.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s a cultish type environment. When you
go in, you feel great, you feel like you are a part of something big,” says
Woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You feel really good until you
start getting into these robotic type of conversations, there is nothing
genuine. It’s these robotic type of conversations meant to conform you…Its like
they want to program you, you have to be as a mean as them”.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…Woods says that she felt pressure from SEIU
not to fight management too much and that sometimes SEIU would even instruct
her to get a member fired if they questioned SEIU’s lack of militancy;
instructions, which Woods says she refused.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After getting hired by SEIU in the spring of
2015, she says she felt herself getting bullied almost immediately…</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She says some union staffers also mocked a
union staffer Mustafa “Hawk” Tahjuddin, who committed suicide in 2012 after
leaving a note saying that pressure from the union pushed him over the edge….</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In December of 2017, Woods says that Regan
warned staffers at an executive board meeting against speaking out against
sexual misconduct after one of Regan’s top staffers, Marcus Hatcher, was fired
as a result of sexual misconduct allegations.</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Dave Regan was standing on the stage and
they put all these numbers to these attorneys and he said ‘if you have an issue
of sexual harassment then you can contact these attorneys, but you better damn
well know that if you bring up allegations against us, you are coming up
against a million dollar organization and we will come after you’,” says Wood…</i></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I thought the organization believed in the
labor movement and that’s not the case,” says Woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s not about the labor movement for Dave
Regan, it’s about power and control or Dave Regan. It’s not about members and
I’m not comfortable with that because I am lying to these people.”</i></blockquote>
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