The powerful, elbow-throwing, semi-tyrannical, and definite corporate suck-up head of the Service Employees International Union is stepping down, and, I won't really miss him.
I know thousands of California nurses definitely won't.
Showing posts with label Stern (Andy). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stern (Andy). Show all posts
April 13, 2010
March 21, 2009
Starbucks OK with EFCA alternative; SEIU involved?
In fact, the Seattle coffee giant is actively exploring a legislative option to the Employee Free Choice Act, thereby drawing the fire of pro-business groups like the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Vice President Stefan H. Gleason called Starbucks' position “totally unacceptable.”
The story says Starbucks is “engaged in dialogue” on the possible alternative, but doesn’t say with whom.
Off the top of my head, I guess Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union. Given that he has a history of being employer-friendly, and a parallel history in being aggressive in seeking out new union turf, this would be his type of move.
Update: It turns out the Starbucks option ain’t much of an option, from a labor POV. Even Andy Stern can’t be short-sighted enough to sign off on something like this, either.
The story says Starbucks is “engaged in dialogue” on the possible alternative, but doesn’t say with whom.
Off the top of my head, I guess Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union. Given that he has a history of being employer-friendly, and a parallel history in being aggressive in seeking out new union turf, this would be his type of move.
Update: It turns out the Starbucks option ain’t much of an option, from a labor POV. Even Andy Stern can’t be short-sighted enough to sign off on something like this, either.
January 28, 2009
Andy Stern extends SEIU heavyhandedness
I didn’t really even have to click on the headline link to know what union it was that Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern had placed into trusteeship.
Unable to control, intimidate or beat down United Healthcare Workers-West, he got former Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to be his toady to force the trusteeship issue.
Big corporation suckup Stern is going to wind up destroying the labor reform movement that he spearheaded a decade ago; he moves further down that road all the tiem.
Unable to control, intimidate or beat down United Healthcare Workers-West, he got former Labor Secretary Ray Marshall to be his toady to force the trusteeship issue.
Big corporation suckup Stern is going to wind up destroying the labor reform movement that he spearheaded a decade ago; he moves further down that road all the tiem.
May 05, 2008
SEIU buys ads tells lies
The Service Employees International Union is now claiming the California Nurses Association is antiprogressive.
If ANYBODY is antiprogressive, it’s SEIU, as exemplified by his head, Andy Stern. Stern reminds me of Jimmy Hoffa, cutting backroom deals with right-wing corporations while pretending to be a real labor leader.
Instead of signing the lying petition, contact SEIU and tell the union Stern is full of shit.
If ANYBODY is antiprogressive, it’s SEIU, as exemplified by his head, Andy Stern. Stern reminds me of Jimmy Hoffa, cutting backroom deals with right-wing corporations while pretending to be a real labor leader.
Instead of signing the lying petition, contact SEIU and tell the union Stern is full of shit.
February 18, 2008
Andy Stern: Union browbeater, when not a squish
It seems that the Service Employees International Union head, far from being a brave new post-AFL-CIO union head, is actually a squish when he’s not being a union politics nutcutter.
More on Stern’s union political hackery here.
So, basically, at least in this case, the “New Unionist” movement is as much a crock as the “New Democrat” one.
More on Stern’s union political hackery here.
So, basically, at least in this case, the “New Unionist” movement is as much a crock as the “New Democrat” one.
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