In the past decade, unions have become increasingly desperate to obtain new dues-paying members. An example of how desperate can be found in a 70-plus-page intimidation manual from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which only recently came to light in a pending court case.
The new union tactic is to use pressure on corporate boardrooms as a means of organizing entire companies nationwide rather than recruiting workers on a site-by-site basis; in short, to organize employers rather than employees. To create this pressure, unions attempt to push businesses to the edge of bankruptcy, with little regard for the welfare of employer and employee. They attempt to strong-arm businesses into agreeing to take away the secret ballot for employees in union-organizing elections via card check. They also try to force employers to restrict their own speech on union issues so that workers will not get both sides of the story on unionization. Among the SEIU’s demands is that employers agree to bargain only with it, to the exclusion of all other unions, regardless of what workers want.
SEIU is in federal court defending itself against charges of racketeering and extortion filed by one of its unionizing targets, the catering company Sodexo Inc.Sodexo’s court discovery recently revealed an SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” on “Pressuring the Employer.” Union pressure is nothing new, but what SEIU recommends is not limited to organizing drives and strikes. Rather, the pressure takes the form of a so-called corporate campaign, whereby the union allies itself with outside third parties to raise intimidation to a new level.
SEIU’s manual details how “outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.” The union advises using legal and regulatory pressure to “threaten the employer with costly action by government agencies or the courts.”
It details the use of community groups to “damage an employer’s public image and ties with community leaders and organizations.” SEIU recommends going after company officials personally. Not mincing words, SEIU states, “It may be a violation of blackmail and extortion laws to threaten management officials with release of ‘dirt’ about them if they don’t settle a contract. But there is no law against union members who are angry at their employer deciding to uncover and publicize factual information about individual managers.”
The “dirt” includes charges such as “racism, sexism, exploitation of immigrants or proposals that would take money out of the community for the benefits of distant stockholders.” SEIU recommends “[l]eafleting outside meetings where [targeted managers] are speaking, their homes, or events sponsored by community organizations they are tied to are some ways to make sure their friends, neighbors, and associates are aware of the controversy.”
Putting this into practice, in May SEIU drove 14 busloads of protesters to the quiet suburban home of Bank of America’s deputy general counsel, Greg Baer. Fortune magazine’s Washington bureau chief, Nina Easton, Mr. Baer’s neighbor, reported on the “hordes of invaders” shouting into bullhorns and waving signs. Ms. Easton wrote that “a more apt description of this assemblage would be ‘mob.’ Intimidation was the whole point of this exercise.”
Can’t say I blame them, really. The whole point of political correctness has always been control, intimidation, and silencing dissent from the leftist agenda. That the union thugs are using it in a more localized and aggressive manner is to be expected.
That is, one couldn’t expect them to use the tactics so elegantly and gracefully as, say, a Senator Schumer, or a Harry Reid, or even a Gloria Alred; those folks, and the host of academics who’ve “educated” them and others like them, and who continue to do so, are the polished font from which such rhetoric initially flows.
Naturally it’ll become a bit more dirty and coarse once it makes its way down to the “blue collar” boys.
Marxism is here. We’ve just decided to pretend otherwise. And have for years. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
“Nice company you got there.
Would be a shame if something bad were to happen to it, y’know?”
– SEIU Organizer
Link to the manual. pdf-file.
if you buy American shitmobiles or shop at union-thug-infested Kroger or Ralph’s or if you use a slow inefficient anti-American shipper like UPS instead of scrappy nimble competitor FedEx you are part of the problem
I was part of the problem this weekend but that was just cause of Ralph’s had a deal where you could get 10 2-liter bottles of diet dew for 89 cents – I was gonna go back sunday for more but I didn’t get around to it but I’m a see if they still have the deal on my way home
also their cherries are very tasty right now and I need some baby limas
Wrong verb tense.
well yeah especially cause of I’m going back for more tasty dew but it’s only at ghetto ralph’s not porn star Ralph’s
I would be unshocked if you were going the tasty dew route at porn star Ralph’s.
porn star Ralph’s is where I usually go but see here you can see about the value at ghetto ralph’s they’re also practically giving away watermelons
Diet soda of any sort is bad stuff. If you’re diabetic, I can maybe–maybe–see allowing it on occasion, but you’re better off either: A) getting the real stuff, with real sugar; or B) drinking non-sweetened beverages like tea or water.
Oh, and is anyone surprised that SEIU has written a manual on thuggery? I’m just surprised that they haven’t decided to flog it to a major publisher.
I didn’t know they could read.
speaking of fascist intimidation-tactic users MADD in California is Pissed Off that… sober people might be driving
YOU KNOW WHAT GIVES ME A “Boehner”?
Our CONGRESSCRITTERS ARE QUADRUPLING THEIR PERSONAL FORTUNES WHILE WE STARVE. And they don’t care! They won’t suck my unit, but they will suck on my wallet – anytime, anywhere, even if it won’t get hard. HARD WALLETS ARE HARD TO FIND IN OBAMAWORLD.
I lose my ass, while they triple their millions, the fucking thieves. They are exempt from all laws they piss – oh, excuse me, – “pass” -but “piss” is more relevant to these fucking crooks. Party be damned! THEY ARE All thieving motherfuckers, out to fill their own cocksucking pockets with OUR money! They are EXEMPT from any insider trading laws, medical care, and they get a pension that would choke your fucking horse – if you had one.
Uh-Oh! TLD is pissed, and about to leave this country. I have investments that are being battered to the ground because of assholes like Boehner and Reid, and Pelosi, but the crown goes to Obama. The most arrogant prick who has ever held the office of president.
I am on the verge of giving up, or am maybe even past it.
These FUCKS are stealing our money faster than we can even track it – or earn it.
When is enough enough?
Register and vote, you idiots! Every illegal that votes cancels one of ours, and no one (except Ann Barnhardt) has the balls to stand up and say – “ENOUGH!”
Yeah. Crazy TLD. I am more scared for my son than for myself. Caring about freedom has become a pretty much futile excersize.
I am just a little bit hesitant to be killed by Brazilians because I am an American.
Go figure….
Jeebus! That sounded kinda like the Daily Kos, huh?
Very different though.
I graduated in 1966, before the Marxists got a firm hold on education. I actually had a class called “Economics 101”! Can’t forget that, no matter how much I want to “go along”…
So far as SEIU goes, their motto is more like “Salt the Earth”.
stupid union whores I went to ghetto Ralph’s and it was all gross and crowded with people waiting in line for their ghetto ralph’s wells fargo-brand financial services and they don’t have any damn diet dew so I ask the customer care guy and he sends another flunky to go check and nope they don’t have any and they don’t even offer me a rain check and you know what I didn’t ask for one cause I just figured I’d try later or not I didn’t want to feel like I was committed to going back
I’m not even sure that place is safe
Ralph’s is, I believe, a Kroger chain. I’m rapidly going sour on Kroger chains.
Moe Lane finds the SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” on “Pressuring the Employer” to seem to be so 80’s it might be old enough to vote. A few of the observations.
“ghetto Ralph’s”
do they franchise with that name?
The Krogers in the Dallas area are quite good. OTOH, I’ve been to a couple Ralph’s while I’m out here in San Diego and they’re much worse…
porn star Ralph’s is very nice they just did a refurb on it and it’s 24 hours but ghetto Ralph’s is small and old and disgusting and you wouldn’t want to go there late at night
porn star ralph’s is where the union whore checker chick got all attitudey cause I bought Ann Coulter’s book
Almost could make us wonder what pays u-w-c-c’s wages, don’t it? She should maybe get up in the face of management for having the gall to sell it instead.
I don’t shop at Ralph’s (Kroger), Vons (Safeway), or Albertsons. Stater Bros. supermarkets’ regular prices are lower than the others’ sale prices. Often by a lot. They are sometimes even cheaper than Food-4-Less, Kroger’s bare-bones discount chain.
As you might have guessed, Stater Bros.’ union employees have a different wage and benefits contract (the medical benefits package is the same, though).
I thought Ralph’s was Tom Thumb.
all I know is Ralph’s is a Kroger one you can tell cause they have lots of Kroger brands
the one I haven’t ever shopped at is Jons International Market… but I will soon cause just cause I live pretty close to it now and it’s just a few blocks further than ghetto Ralph’s but in a better neighborhood what doesn’t get as much ghetto exposure
After reading the tales of grocery stores all I can say is thank god I live in Michigan with Meijer.
I have heard good things about Meijer my little brudder actually thought about going into their management program when he tired of sales but he went back to school instead to be a teacher and he already has a teaching job
I am very proud of him.
I go to Ralph’s when I’m in San Diego to buy bags of red-hot pork rinds to take to the bar when my dad and I go out to drink. I’ll be making that excursion to Ralph’s in 10 days or so. Otherwise, I go to the ghetto Cub Foods in Mpls because it’s closest to where I live. The prices are the same as other Cub foods, but they don’t take very good care of the place. Such is life.
i will look for these pork rinds
you should write a letter about your loser slackadaisical local Cub Foods store management you might be surprised – especially if you use the word ghetto a lot and talk about not feeling safe
It’s fun to reveal to the urban hipsters that Trader Joe’s is just an Aldi’s with a hipster vibe. Which isn’t to say that the place isn’t awesome — I love a lot of their stuff. It’s just that it’s cool to watch the hipsters come to the realization that they’re shopping at Aldi’s.