JimmyHiggins

that url is www.reformseiu.org otherwise, completely agree!

the scandal has spread to yet another seiu local. see today's la times story. [color=#006599]http://tinyurl.com/66mr8p also, see this commentary by herman benson, the head of the association for union democracy about seiu's authoritarian centralization under pres. andy stern [color=#006599]http://tinyurl.com/5t3jqc

Friday, August 29, 2008 Stern Allegedly Consistently Ignored Sexual Harassment and Theft at Locals read open letter at http://democracy4seiu.blogspot.com/

LA Times story today... Steve Lopez: Nurse assistant works hard to pay her SEIU dues Spending by local's president hits hard when you are schlepping bedpans for $10 an hour. August 27, 2008 Alba had a smile on her face last week when I arrived at the Los Angeles nursing home where she hustles through long, hard shifts night after night. Hard to believe she'd be in high spirits after changing the diaper of an elderly woman, but she had one thing going for her: She hadn't yet heard about the financial shenanigans of her union president. read rest at http://tinyurl.com/6ng7us

Another SEIU leader has been implicated in the widening SEIU scandal. Plus SEIU dictator Andy Stern is escalating his attacks on the democratic opposition. See http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=9196 also Students protest SEIU betrayal of campus workers http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=9138 Time for Andy Stern to step down.

Commentary from SMART (SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today) Tyrone Freeman Steps Down http://www.reformseiu.org/2008/08/tyrone-freeman-steps-down.html

Update - Tyrone Freeman has stepped down as head of ULTCW SEIU in the wake of the scandal. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/us/21union.html?ref=us http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-union21-2008aug21,0,2162824.story Brian Leubitz at Calitics blog says SEIU pres. Andy Stern will probably find Freeman another job in SEIU to defuse the scandal. http://calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6721

Organizing the organized? A worker at Chicago's Stroger Hospital looks at the latest SEIU raid on the rival CNA union. http://socialistworker.org/2008/08/20/organizing-the-organized August 20, 2008

The LA Times continues its investigation this week of Tyrone Freeman, Andy Stern's henchman in the SEIU international's war against United Healthcare Workers West and other internal critics fighting for union democracy. Freeman is the head of SEIU United Long Term Care Workers. The new story reports on allegations of election rigging by Freeman being examined by the Labor Department. The LA Times also reports allegations of a cover-up by the SEIU communications department of Freeman's financial indiscretions. Supporters of a progressive democratic nurses union movement should be concerned about these scandals hurting labor. Hopefully SEIU will clean itself up, with help from the reform movement. See this diary http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7427 for an earlier story. New story below- read rest at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-union17-2008aug17,0,6560591.story more details about the debate inside SEIU at the reform movement web site http://www.reformseiu.org