Remember Dave
Kieffer? He’s the high-paid SEIU official from Washington, DC who was
appointed by the Purple Palace to run SEIU’s multi-million-dollar lobbying operation in California,
which is called the “SEIU California
State Council.”
The last time Tasty caught up with him, Kieffer
was hanging onto his job by the skin of his teeth after the State Council’s
board of directors deadlocked on a vote to can Kieffer. The vote came after
Kieffer, who’s known for his oversized arrogance, offended the California’s newly
elected Democratic governor.
Well… Tasty hears that Kieffer’s job is (once again) on the
chopping block after the same Democratic governor vetoed two bills that
were SEIU's top legislative priorities in 2011. First, the Governor
vetoed Assembly Bill 101, which would have given SEIU the right to “unionize”
nearly 80,000 childcare workers who work out of their homes as independent
contractors. The San Francisco Chronicle described SEIU as “devastated.”
Next, the Governor
vetoed Senate Bill 408, a key legislative priority for Dave Regan. The legislation
targeted a hospital chain that withdrew
recognition from SEIU-UHW as the union for workers at a hospital in Redding,
California. The workers had previously been members of SEIU-UHW, but when a
majority of them signed petitions saying they no longer supported SEIU after
the trusteeship, the company simply stopped recognizing SEIU-UHW in January
2011.
Tasty hears that SEIU's twin legislative defeats are raising alarm bells in Sacramento and Washington, DC. Some insiders
are pinning the blame on cocky Kieffer’s bone-headed blunders, which apparently
have damaged SEIU so badly that it can’t even pass legislation in a state where
Democrats control the Governor’s office along with both chambers of the state legislature.
According to insiders, Kieffer’s days are numbered…
