SEIU is facing a
second lawsuit
over its trusteeship
in Nevada, according to court records.
The latest suit was
filed August 9 by SEIU Nevada’s former president, Cherie Mancini, who was removed
from her position by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry earlier this year. A union
steward from Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican Hospital is a co-plaintiff in
the case.
The lawsuit names SEIU,
Mary Kay Henry and Luisa Blue as defendants.
“This is a power grab
by the international (union),” Mancini’s lawyer told the Las Vegas Review-Journal
(“Former
SEIU president sues to get her job back,” August 25, 2017). “SEIU comes in
and imposes a trusteeship and puts in place the government they want,” Luisa
Blue, appointed by Henry as the “trustee” of SEIU Nevada, dismissed the claims
in the lawsuit.
Mancini’s attorneys
have asked the judge for a temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction against SEIU, according to court records.
Here’s an excerpt
from the lawsuit, which summarizes the violations that SEIU allegedly committed.
A full copy of the lawsuit is below.
After the emergency trusteeship was imposed by SEIU on Local 1107, Defendants breached the SEIU Constitution in the following ways: Defendants failed to hold a trusteeship hearing within thirty (30) days of imposition of the emergency trusteeship; failed to notice the membership, including Plaintiff Frederick Gustafson, in a timely fashion regarding the trusteeship hearing; failed to properly notice the Local 1107 membership once the emergency trusteeship hearing was set; failed to issue a decision regarding the merits of the trusteeship within sixty (60) days; denied Local 1107 due process via a full and fair hearing on the merits of the emergency trusteeship; failed to establish a sufficient good faith emergency basis for the imposition of the emergency trusteeship; failed to address good cause for not adhering to the reasonable time periods for these procedures; and failed to address the legitimacy and necessity of continuing the trusteeship at the trusteeship hearing held on July 13, 2017, seventy six (76) days after the emergency trusteeship was imposed.
SEIU and Mary Kay
Henry are represented by Glenn
Rothner (Rothner, Segall, Greenstone and Leheny), a Los Angeles
attorney who specializes in imposing trusteeships on local unions.
