{"id":268,"date":"2008-05-23T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T11:39:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:17:02","slug":"what-s-with-this-love-affair-academics-and-journalists-are-having-with-seiu-s-andrew-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/what-s-with-this-love-affair-academics-and-journalists-are-having-with-seiu-s-andrew-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s With This Love Affair Academics and Journalists Are Having With SEIU&#8217;s Andrew Stern?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA writer for the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-lichtenstein22-2008may22,0,3126404.story\">piece<\/a> up on Andy Stern,  president of the powerful Service Employees International Union (<a href=\"http:\/\/seiu.org\/\">SEIU<\/a>). Stern has been a driving force behind the SEIU&#8217;s expansion since the mid-80s,  and the article plugs his organizational success. What the article fails to do, like so many others, is grapple with the controversies and anti-employee freedom bent that has colored Stern&#8217;s tenure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConsider the following passage:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t&quot;Stern&#8217;s ambition is to transform and revive American unionism. In 2005, he led several big unions, including the SEIU, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, out of the AFL-CIO. In their new coalition, known as Change to Win, Stern pushed each of the unions to devote a qualitatively large proportion of their resources to organizing, even if it meant reducing the number of staff who &#8216;serviced  existing members.&#8217; He insisted that unless unions such as the SEIU achieved a far higher degree of &quot;density&quot; in specific industries, such as healthcare, they wouldn&#8217;t be strong enough to raise wages and working conditions for everyone.&quot;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAlthough the article does highlight the <a href=\"\/blog\/video-nevada-nurses-decry-unaccountable-seiu-union-hierarchy\">considerable<\/a> <a href=\"\/blog\/pomona-nurses-seeking-kick-out-unwanted-seiu-union\">internal<\/a> <a href=\"\/blog\/video-inter-union-scuffle-erupts-elderly-woman-knocked-ground\">dissent<\/a> provoked by Stern&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/seiu-dissident-ads-decry-top-down-leadership\">&quot;growth at any cost&quot;<\/a> policies, the author glosses over the ugly truth behind the SEIU&#8217;s recent expansion. Stern&#8217;s strategy has been so successful in part because it emphasizes <a href=\"\/neutrality\/info\">coercive<\/a>, top-down union organizing <a href=\"\/blog\/seiu-low-down-dirty-tactics\">drives<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/lead-advocate-coercive-card-check-union-organizing-consolidating-power\">card-check<\/a> campaigns that disenfranchise employees, and vicious corporate PR broadsides that <a href=\"\/blog\/union-bosses-goal-more-forced-dues-dollars\">blackmail <\/a>businesses into collaborating with SEIU organizers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGiven Stern&#8217;s ambitious national strategy to build a larger political machine, it&#8217;s no surprise that workers increasingly question the union hierarchy&#8217;s desire to pursue the interests of workers. \n<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nA writer for the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-lichtenstein22-2008may22,0,3126404.story\">piece<\/a> up on Andy Stern,  president of the powerful Service Employees International Union (<a href=\"http:\/\/seiu.org\/\">SEIU<\/a>). Stern has been a driving force behind the SEIU&#8217;s expansion since the mid-80s,  and the article plugs his organizational success. What the article fails to do, like so many others, is grapple with the controversies and anti-employee freedom bent that has colored Stern&#8217;s tenure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConsider the following passage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s With This Love Affair Academics and Journalists Are Having With SEIU&#039;s Andrew Stern? - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/what-s-with-this-love-affair-academics-and-journalists-are-having-with-seiu-s-andrew-stern\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s With This Love Affair Academics and Journalists Are Having With SEIU&#039;s Andrew Stern? - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A writer for the Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece up on Andy Stern, president of the powerful Service Employees International Union (SEIU). 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