More signs of desperation are emerging from inside SEIU-UHW.
Last week, Dave Regan reportedly ordered all of the union’s
back-office staff to work full-time on SEIU-UHW’s door-knocking campaign -- including
all of the union’s accountants, secretaries, clerical staff, administrative assistants,
book keepers, etc. Sources say the union’s offices are a virtual ghost land.
These back-office staffers join an estimated 700 people that
SEIU-UHW had already assigned to knock on Kaiser Permanente workers’ doors. They include
hundreds of out-of-state organizers who parachuted into California… and homecare
and nursing home workers who are being paid $900 per week, hotel, and $40 a day for
food to knock on workers' doors as so-called “volunteers.”
Also, workers report that SEIU is using increasingly
desperate and illegal tactics. SEIU’s door-knockers are reportedly telling workers
to fill out their ballots while the organizers watch each stroke of their pens.
And SEIU's organizers -- who one worker calls “Pushy
Purple People” -- are telling workers to give them their completed ballots “so
we can mail it for you.” In some cases, SEIU has asked workers to drop their
ballots inside purple fabric bags that the organizers are carrying.
Of course, all of this is strictly illegal! Workers’ ballots
are secret. It’s illegal for anyone to pressure voters to show them how they’re
voting. And it’s a violation for SEIU to even touch workers’ ballots.
Check out this report from a Kaiser worker in Southern
California:
Was JUST told by a SEIU shop Steward that they where told in their last meeting that starting Monday they where going to start going door to door and tell ppl to not only vote SEIU but to make them show their ballots and mark it for them....!!!!! This Shop Steward says he told them NO and he just told me He's Done With SEIU.
How low is SEIU willing to go?
One reader reports that
an SEIU organizer knocked on her door when she wasn’t home, and then tried to
convince one of her children to search the house for her ballot and bring it to the door. WTF!
What's next?? “Hey Timmy, do you see mommy’s credit card
lying around?”
As they say... desperate people do desperate things.
