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George Soros-backed SEIU laid off 75 workers

All’s Not Well at ACORN-Aligned Radical Union SEIU



George Soros-backed SEIU laid off 75 workers and they demonstrated outside the radical union's offices.

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Sometimes even unions have union problems. Dozens of employees of the Service Employees International Union picketed their own union Friday over its decision to lay off about 75 workers. The staffers marched outside SEIU headquarters in Washington as they yelled into bullhorns, passed out flyers and chanted, "Justice for all, not just some." "This union is supposed to be at the forefront of the progressive movement, but it can't seem to follow its own ideology," said Malcolm Harris, president of the Union of Union Representatives, which represents 210 SEIU organizers and field staff around the country. The UUR has filed unfair labor practice charges and age and race discrimination claims against SEIU. Harris called SEIU leaders "hypocrites" for calling out corporations that shed workers, yet moving to lay off their own employees. [...]
Two of SEIU's locals, 100 and 880, are part of the ACORN network and SEIU is a part of Soros's Democracy Alliance. ACORN, of course, is also a serial violator of workers' rights. Jeremy Lott and I wrote:
For a group that claims to be an advocate for workers, ACORN doesn't treat its workers well. In 2006, $250-a-week Baltimore ACORN intern Sandra Stewart told Baltimore City Paper that the Baltimore chapter hadn't bothered to pay her for her work. Three other former ACORN workers told the paper that the group failed to pay them back wages. The paper also found that the local chapter had a $7,000 civil judgment entered against it for unpaid office rent. Another Baltimore area ACORN affiliate failed to pay its real estate taxes and water bills. The Heartland Institute reported that in 1995 ACORN actually sued the state of California seeking an exemption from the law that requires it to pay its own employees a minimum wage. ACORN, which argued that paying its employees more would reduce their activist zeal for the poor, lost. A 2003 study of ACORN by the Employment Policies Institute found the group paid a wage of $5.67 per hour, which was "less than half the level demanded by many proposed ‘living wage' ordinances that ACORN supports." Although it demands all workers be allowed to organize unions, ACORN doesn't like it when its own workers try to organize. It has tried to block its own employees from signing up with unions, and in 2003 the National Labor Relations Board determined it had unlawfully blocked its workers from organizing. [...]
Here is video footage of the anti-SEIU protest: (Hat tip to Philip Klein at American Spectator)


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