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SEIU Eating Their Own Dogfood - Or Not
Winds of Change.NET — I have a dark sense of humor, to be sure...but this is just funny: As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country's fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off. The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of its national field staff and organizers that 75 of them are being laid off. In return, the workers' union, which goes by the ...

Union Employees of the World, Unite! (Whaaaa?)
Deceiver.com — ... I don’t often read the Washington Post. (I’m more of an Onion man…) But this morning I was clicking through the online version over my raisin bran, and this stuck out: ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... Union in labor dispute with its employees: “As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country’s fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off. The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of the SEIU’s national field staff members and organizers that it is laying off 75 of the employees. In return, the workers union, which goes by the somewhat postmodern name of the Union of Union ...

The EEOC Violates Itself, Blames Bush
Weekly Standard Blog — ... EEOC officials and the union representing its employees (hey, is that the same union that represents union workers in their grievance against SEIU?) blame this sorry state of affairs on eight years of Bush administration neglect, when the agency “lost about 25 percent of its staff, including investigators and lawyers who handle the cases . . . and hiring was often at a standstill.” They’re hoping for improvements under the Obama administration. In the meantime, the president's gonna get their cars ...