To get members and dues for their political purposes, the SEIU has used illegal tactics over the years. They have been taken to court many times, yet they persist every chance they get. The reason they do this is to gain more and more power, along with grabbing as much money as they can from the members to use for political purposes. They have already stated how they are using all of this in the article I recently wrote, which means people need to know what is happening.
Kaiser Permanente
The SEIU and Kaiser Permanente worked together to force employees to join the union before 2006. Both were taken to court and smacked down. Here is what occurred, via a National Right to Work release.
In a victory for employee free choice, a group of workers aided by the National Right to Work Foundation have forced Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 49 officials to renounce their monopoly bargaining power over employees of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (a component of the national Kaiser Permanente health network) after union organizers, with the company‘s help, used coercive tactics to force unionization on the employees.
The settlement of the employees’ unfair labor practice charges states that Kaiser will immediately terminate its voluntary recognition of the union as monopoly bargaining agent. Additionally, both the union hierarchy and Kaiser must issue notices to employees alerting them of their rights – including the right to refrain from formal union membership – and informing workers that the company will not bargain with union officials unless the employees so choose through the less abusive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) secret ballot election process.
Kaiser unlawfully granted recognition to the SEIU union in October 2005 based on the results of a “card check” scheme – where union organizers browbeat employees to sign cards that are then counted as “votes” for unionization – even though an agreement between the company and union specifically stated that recognition would only be granted after a secret-ballot election determined that a majority of workers support the union. Workers reported that union officials explicitly told them that signing the “cards” was not a vote for unionization, but instead was a request to hold a secret-ballot election and to receive more information.
Janitorial Company
In 2016, the SEIU was told by courts their actions were illegal in working to force a janitorial company to unionize. Here is what occurred, via the American Society of Employers.
Despite all the regulatory protections provided by pro-labor Washington administration and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Service Employee’s International Union (SEIU) still managed to take things too far. The SEIU is known for its aggressive tactics and has practiced a scorched earth strategy against targeted employers for over a decade with its “Justice for Janitors” campaign.
In a case out of Texas, a Houston Janitorial service company sued the SEIU. The SEIU tried to force the company to sign a neutrality agreement as an initial step toward organizing that company. They also targeted the workers of five other building services companies that were similarly forced into neutrality agreements in the Houston area. The SEIU recruited the company’s employees to file wage and hour claims against their employer; filed multiple unfair labor practice claims with the now pro-labor NLRB; and attempted to defame the company through the publication of fliers, letters, and website postings. They protested stating that the company had violated numerous employment laws when in fact only one of many claims actually stood up to review with the agencies they were brought to.
As a result of these claims, the SEIU caused at least twelve of the company’s customers and suppliers to stop doing business with the company. In one case protesters entered the customer’s building and occupied her conference rooms to protest her relationship with the company.
Having had enough of this union bullying, the company sued SEIU Local 5 in 2007 stating its thuggish tactics caused it to lose business. For nine years the SEIU used every tactic it had to stall the litigation. This delayed the trial almost 10 years until August, 2016. After a four week trial the jury found the SEIU had engaged in a reckless disregard for truth in its communications inciting workers and other parties against the company.
Through union e-mails it was found that the union’s goal was to force the company to lose enough business that it would lose its market or capitulate to the union.
Illegal Dues
Via the Freedom Foundation, here is information about how the SEIU took dues illegally from home care provider workers.
This week, Service Employees International Union Local 775 (SEIU 775) agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in federal court brought by individual provider home care aides (IPs) who had union dues deducted from their wages without their consent.
Although it represents just a fraction of the money illegally seized from the wages of thousands of IPs, the settlement agreement in Routh v. SEIU 775 is one of the biggest losses yet for a union that has grown powerful because of legally questionable practices.
IPs provide home-based care to Medicaid-eligible elderly clients and those with disabilities who need assistance with activities of daily living. The state pays IPs directly on clients’ behalf.
After IPs were unionized in 2002, SEIU 775 and the state of Washington agreed to force IPs to pay union dues or fees as a condition of caring for Medicaid clients. The state deducted the union payments from IPs wages and forwarded the funds to SEIU 775. This practice continued until 2014, when it was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional in Harris v. Quinn.
Listening to mainstream media, the unions are supposed to be forces for good, but this proves that they are more interested in stealing from workers and forcing them to join. It is time that we end this, as it is harmful to companies and the employees needing their money.
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