Check out Dave Regan’s leaked memo, first
described in a June
17th article in the San Francisco Business
Times. Tasty has pasted it below.
In the memo
-- "Who’s Gonna Bell the Cat? The Tyranny of the Majority: Ethics and
Values in SEIU?” -- Regan catapults himself to new heights of hypocrisy by tearfully
condemning SEIU's decision to transfer 65,000 SEIU-UHW long-term care workers to a
new statewide union.
In 2009, Regan
not only supported this transfer, he was a top SEIU staffers in DC who designed,
promoted, and executed the plan to carry out the transfer of these same 65,000
workers. Later, SEIU President Andy Stern rewarded Regan for his political
hatchet job by appointing him to head SEIU-UHW after its pro-democracy leadership
had been removed.
As far as
Regan's hypocrisy, the president of a consumer rights organization describes it
this way in
a piece published yesterday in the Huffington Post:
Regan has "issued one of the more hypocritical memos ever written... In a long, dressed-up whine about his fate, he complained about payoffs, gag clauses, and everything being for sale, including souls. These are the very strategies Regan made his bones with in the union movement."
In Dave’s
delusional memo, Regan tries to reinvent himself as a crusader for union
democracy, transparency, and worker rights. Regan pretends to leap onto the stage as a hero
who’s being victimized by a tyrannical despot. Cloaked in self-righteous armor,
he climbs atop his high horse and tearfully moans and groans about the horrific
crimes and injustices that, uhh, he himself actually perpetrated against these
same workers.
And in case that’s
not enough, Dave heaves another steaming shovelful of bullsh*t atop his dungheap
of hypocrisy.
Remember the
recent revelations about the gag clause that Regan secretly signed with the
California Hospital Association?
Well, Dave
didn't blink an eye when, with the stroke of his pen, he gagged more 80,000 hospital
workers from reporting patient-care violations to government investigators. But
now,
he's crying crocodile tears over an internal SEIU gag rule (which he
reportedly agreed to) that's supposed to stop him, a graduate of Cornell
University, from airing SEIU's dirty laundry with the outside world.
Cry me a
river, muthafuka!
And spare me
your morally righteous bullsh*t.
As Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, noted in his
Huffington Post article:
In the labor movement, there are two kinds of leaders -- those who fight big corporations, and those who collaborate with them. The poster child for the collaborators just had half his membership taken away.
David Regan, head of United Healthcare Workers West, who inked sweetheart deals with California's largest HMO, Kaiser and its hospitals, to keep quality of care problems hush-hush, and only fought for corporations' political goals, lost 70,000 of his 150,000 members recently.
It's a fitting fate for one of labor's biggest corporate sellouts.
Here's the
full piece:
