The SEIU Charm Offensive Continues

Since SEIU has a pretty significant problem in Michigan they have sent a load of SEIU staff out there to "calm" the workers.

So the workers have gotten used to seeing SEIU staff at their facilities. Olga Vasquez, CNA, from Luther Manor is a NUHW supporter, and she wasn't surprised to see SEIU supporters and staff in her facility trying to stop workers from choosing NUHW...but she was surprised when one of SEIU's staff FLIPPED HER THE BIRD!

Nice, SEIU.

Dolores Huerta Visits CPMC

On Friday, Dolores Huerta visited workers at San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center to voice her support for NUHW. Huerta is the co-founder, along with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers union and a nationally recognized civil rights leader. As one worker said: "SEIU brought an Easter bunny. And NUHW brought Dolores Huerta."

That pretty much says it all!

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BYEEEE Bruce.

It's Official: Raynor is out.

According to Ben Smith ( http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0411/Raynor_out_at_SEIU.html) SEIU will make a formal announcement on Brucie's departure today. The noise you hear is the murmur of pity from working America.

Bruce--

You really got played by Andy, Anna and MK. Thanks for the laughs.

Your pal,

Tasty

In more Michigan News...Maybe another Trusteeship?

From a reader,"Apparently Marge Faville isn't indespensible. In an attempt to get Techs to engage with them, SEIU organizers have begun telling them that the SEIU is considering getting rid of Marge. I wonder if Marge knows. I doubt that this is an honest statement, though I'm sure SEIU would throw Marge under the bus to avoid an all out exodus to NUHW."

SEIU's Michigan Corruption -- Round II

In case you're wondering why healthcare workers in Michigan are organizing to join NUHW, check out this leaflet (see below). Union members say they can't get a return call from SEIU Healthcare Michigan, but that's because the local's president, Marge Faville, is so busy hiring all of her relatives and putting fistfulls of cash in her pockets.

First, there's the $160,000 in pay she got in 2010. Then there's the union-paid SUV that costs $47,242. On top of that is the union-paid corporate apartment that cost $17,600. And then there's the $163,732 that the local paid to Marge's daughter, son and neice last year. Not a bad year for Marge, who also sits on SEIU's International Executive Board.

Of course, it wasn't such a good a year for the local's members: more than 75% of the local's 55,000 members are homecare workers who earn only $8 an hour.

Looks like Marge has followed in the famous footsteps of her predecessor, Rickman Jackson. Readers might recall that Rickman was ousted from the local's presidency after the Los Angeles Times revealed he'd stolen more than $33,000 from low-waged homecare workers in California.
 

B/t/w, while Rickman was in Michigan, Tasty hears he was a big spender with the local's credit card. Tasty wonders if Marge, too, will soon be assigned to a high-paying job in the Purple Palace in DC! Is there room for another desk in the Secretary-Treasurer's office??

 Marge Faville Compensation[1]

It's Love!

Jonpaul's countless pleas for "love" have finally been answered!

A reader sent this photo from San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center showing SEIU staffer Jonpaul McLellan parading through the hospital with an Easter Bunny in a matching purple shirt. Congrats!

The Easter Bunny is SEIU's latest and lamest attempt to win support from workers who'll start voting next week in an NLRB mail-in ballot. The NLRB will mail the ballots on April 25 and the vote count is scheduled for May 10. Hospital management has thrown its full support behind SEIU and has let SEIU flood the facility with organizers and "lost-timers" from across the state. Meanwhile, SEIU is bombarding workers with purple mailers, robo-calls, email blasts, leaflets... even candy from a f*cking bunny.

Workers have been waiting for this election for a long, long time. SEIU, which claims to be an advocate for "employee free choice," has blocked the election for more than two years because it didn't have workers' support. Right after the trusteeship, SEIU organizers teamed up with the hospital's H.R. officials to target its own members, suspending the union's Chief Steward because she supported NUHW.

Tasty predicts that Jonpaul will soon have lots of time to experience all the thrills of riding public transport with his furry friend.