SEIU President
Mary Kay Henry is placing yet
another local union under trusteeship.
On April 26,
2017, Henry removed SEIU Nevada’s top two officers -- President Cherie Mancini and Executive Vice President
Sharon Kisling -- from office,
according to a two-page
internal letter signed by Henry and an announcement on SEIU Nevada’s website.
Also on April 26, two SEIU officials (Neal Bisno and Deedee Fitzpatrick,
Henry’s Deputy Chief of Staff) met privately with SEIU Nevada’s executive board
at Henry’s request. The next day, April 27, SEIU Nevada’s website announced
that its board had voted to place the local union under trusteeship. Here’s an
excerpt:
Last night, our executive board met with representatives of SEIU to consider the future of the local… After a thoughtful and extensive discussion, the executive board voted to ask SEIU to help return our local to those roots by taking Local 1107 into trusteeship. The local’s request is now pending with International President Mary Kay Henry and we expect a decision soon.
Henry’s
April 26 letter also announced the appointment of two of her representatives (Steve Ury and Kathy Eddy) to serve as “monitors” of SEIU Nevada.
On Wednesday,
the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on the developments and posted a copy of
Henry’s internal letter. (Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Top
2 elected officials removed from Nevada service union,” April 26, 2017)
In earlier
posts, Tasty has chronicled the pathetic history of this affair, which has
allowed one of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital companies to strip 1,000
nurses of union presentation.
- December 16, 2016: SEIU Officials Perform Three-Ring Circus in Vegas
- April 13, 2017: SEIU Nevada Performs Circus Act as Employers Feast at Banquet Table
SEIU Nevada
is the fourth SEIU local union to be placed in trusteeship or under “monitorship”
in recent months.
In August of
2016, SEIU imposed an emergency trusteeship on SEIU
Local 73 in Chicago. In December of 2016, Henry removed the
president of Los Angeles-based SEIU
Local 99 and placed the union under the control of an SEIU-appointed “monitor,”
Eliseo Medina. On February 14, 2017,
Henry placed SEIU
Healthcare Michigan under an “emergency trusteeship” amid allegations of
financial corruption.
More to
follow.
SEIU Memo by Las Vegas Review-Journal on Scribd
