SEIU neoliberal unionism gets RICO-ed

SEIU has a long history of playing nice with businesses in exchange for getting favors in return, even if those favors are more illusory than real. I don't think it's as bad as that, post-Andy Stern. Maybe that fact is why Sodexo has filed a RICO lawsuit against it.

Sodexo accuses SEIU of the following, among other things:

• throwing plastic roaches onto food being served by Sodexo USA at a high profile event;
• scaring hospital patients by insinuating that Sodexo USA food contained bugs, rat droppings, mold and flies;
• lying to interfere with Sodexo USA business and sneaking into elementary schools to avoid security;
• violating lobbying laws to steer business away from Sodexo USA, even at the risk of costing Sodexo USA employees their jobs; and
• harassing Sodexo USA employees by threatening to accuse them of wrongdoing.

Certainly, if Stern were still in charge, this would be a full-fledged schadenfreude alert post. But, it wouldn't be because of any praise or love for Sodexo, which has connections to military privatization, prison privatization and more, both in the U.S. and abroad. But, Google and Blogger, whether for reelz for cuz national security state, claim my original link was malware, so you google.