SEIU’s “Flirt-to-Convert,” Round Three

Sascha Eisner with unnamed woman

Remember SEIU’s famous effort to recruit workers’ votes by sending female organizers in mini-dresses to parade through hospitals? Well, SEIU has apparently launched another flirt-to-convert campaign at Northern California’s Seton Medical Center, where workers will be voting tomorrow in an NLRB decertification election.  

This time, however, Tasty hears it’s SEIU’s Sascha Eisner who’s strutting the floors of the hospital, flirting with female workers, and inviting them to join him for “drinks and dinner” – courtesy of SEIU!

In January, Seton’s workers launched a rebellion against SEIU after Purple Palace officials negotiated cuts to their benefits, let the company lay off dozens of workers, and then simply failed to return workers’ phone calls for months and months.

As soon as workers filed their decert petition, SEIU-UHW flooded the hospital with as many as 18 organizers per day, while many more purple-clad staffers banged on workers’ doors at home.

So who’s Mr. Flirt-to-Convert? Eisner was formerly the “Organizing Director” of SEIU’s Service Workers United (SWU), where he helped cut a secret deal with two multi-national conglomerates, Sodexo and Compass Group. The deal, which bears Eisner’s name, prohibits SEIU’s members from conducting “strikes, demonstrations, leafleting, informational campaigns of employer or clients anywhere in the world.” (emphasis added)  It also gives the bosses the exclusive power to select which workers are permitted to unionize.

The agreement was supposed to have been cloaked in permanent secrecy by one provision, which SEIU apparently borrowed from a James Bond movie. Here's what it says:

"The agreements are confidential and it is critical to the success of SWU that we honor the confidentiality and not publicly disclose the existence of these agreements."

Hmm... SEIU-styled democracy at its best!

From what Tasty can tell, SWU has completely collapsed in recent years. And that forced Sascha to move back to California, where he's now attempting a different sort of back-room maneuver with female workers. 

And... it looks like Sascha's flirtatious offensives haven't been too successful (too much of that Old Spice aftershave?). His most recent attempt at flirt-to-convert produced only a single vote for SEIU in the election!

SWU Can't Even Get One Friend!

And Tasty thought Santa Rosa was embarrassing!


You can't go lower than ZERO!!

Last night SEIU lost another NLRB election - this time by the count of 38 (NUHW) to 0 (SEIU). The votes were cast by dietary workers at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles.

The workers, who are employed by Sodexo, had been members of SEIU's Service Workers United (SWU) for several years... until they were finally allowed to vote and chose NUHW!

What are the SEIU Zombies doing out there that they can't get ONE SINGLE VOTE? They should have to pay the members back for the cost of their salaries!

SWU is the Kip Drordy of unions.

I guess ONE vote is better than ZERO?

Today, SEIU got just ONE vote in an NLRB election among housekeeping and dietary workers at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, a 172-bed hospital in Southern California. These workers, employed by Sodexo and have been represented by SEIU's Service Workers United (SWU) for several years, filed a petition to join NUHW in February of 2009. SEIU's EFCA-killing attorneys blocked workers' election for 15 months while SEIU sent multiple staff from New York, including SWU office jockey Sascha Eisner, to campaign for SEIU.

Well, today workers finally got a chance to vote and delivered the final word to SEIU. SEIU got just ONE vote. Here are the tallies for the two units:

Dietary Unit: 12 (NUHW), 0 (SEIU-SWU), and 6 (No Union)
Housekeeping Unit: 11 (NUHW), 1 (SEIU-SWU) and 8 (No Union)

Guess workers can't wait to get the hell out of SWU? Sorry Sascha...