Posted by
Warner Todd Huston on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:40:49 PM
-By Warner Todd Huston
F. Vincent Vernuccio had a great
piece in the Washington Times a few days ago revealing the the
handbook written by the SEIU that teaches union thuggery to union operatives.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has a
70-some-page manual that came to light in a recent court case.
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.
Vernuccio explained that the most recent efforts of the SEIU
to push businesses to the edge of bankruptcy so that they are vulnerable to
being taken over by union operatives even going to the point of secretly
getting the businesses to agree to work with the SEIU to
prevent other unions from trying to contact its employees.
The manual is meant to guide the SEIUs thugs to win the
battle.
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.”
Mr. Vernuccio goes on to give several examples of how the
SEIU has used the tactics in the manual. But what we have here is the perfect
example of the thuggery perpetrated by the SEIU.
Now, we have to remember one other thing that is important.
The SEIU is one of the biggest government employee unions, too. These same
thugs are running our government through the back door with their union rules
and contracts.
Also, don’t forget that the SEIU was one of the biggest
supporters of President Obama, too.
This
is why government unions should be made illegal like they used to be.