{"id":329,"date":"2008-08-21T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:16:10","slug":"quick-hits-seiu-union-boss-corruption-card-check-lies-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/quick-hits-seiu-union-boss-corruption-card-check-lies-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hits: SEIU Union Boss Corruption, Card Check Lies, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA few Right to Work-related updates from around the web:\n<\/p>\n

\n1.) The Heritage Foundation’s Foundry blog helpfully summarizes<\/a> the corruption allegations surrounding Tyrone Freeman, head of California’s SEIU chapter. What’s worse, union mismanagement goes all the way to the top. According to the LA Times<\/i><\/a>, SEIU national brass received word of Freeman’s corrupt practices six years ago<\/i> and still failed to act. (This is the same local union against which Foundation attorneys won a federal court settlement<\/a> securing the return of almost $10 million in illegally seized forced union dues.)\n<\/p>\n

\nRead the whole entry here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n2.) The New York Sun<\/i> featured a great editorial<\/a> yesterday on union bosses’ half-hearted efforts at workplace "representation." Money quote:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut even as unions promote counterproductive economic policies, and push for legislation allowing them to essentially force more workers into their ranks, a look at union finances shows that many unions aren’t looking after the members they already have \u2014 especially their retirement plans.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sheet Metal Workers International Union says prominently on its Web site that "Union Members Have Strong Retirement Plans."\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it turns out \u2014 as disclosed in unions’ mandatory annual financial reports to the Labor Department \u2014 that the Sheet Metal workers’ union pension plan is underfunded and so risks the future pensions promised to its members. Many other union pension plans are in similar straits.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThis isn’t an isolated incident, either. Check out the rest of the article for an in-depth look at the glaring disparity between union bosses’ lavish salaries and the shortfalls facing rank-and-file workers’ pension funds.\n<\/p>\n

\n3.) Townhall.com has an article up on unions’ efforts to ram the misleadingly-titled "Employee Free Choice Act"<\/a> down workers’ throats. The piece also mentions the Foundation’s efforts to hold the SEIU accountable for a questionable political fundraising scheme:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn fact, alleged coercion for political gain is already occurring. Recently, The Wall Street Journal<\/i> reported that the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation asked the Department of Justice to investigate the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The basis for the request centers on this fact:\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe union adopted a new amendment to its constitution at last month’s SEIU convention, requiring that every local contribute an amount equal to $6 per member per year to the union’s national political action committee. This is in addition to regular union dues. Unions that fail to meet the requirement must contribute an amount in \u2018local union funds\u2019 equal to the \u2018deficiency\u2019 plus a 50% penalty.\u201d <\/i>(The Wall Street Journal, 7\/28\/08<\/u><\/a>)<\/i>\n\t<\/p>\n

\tCan you name any other company or organization that could compel its membership to fund political organizations that rank and file membership may or may not agree with?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more information on the Foundation’s efforts to deter illegal union campaign fundraising, check out here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nA few Right to Work-related updates from around the web:\n<\/p>\n

\n1.) The Heritage Foundation’s Foundry blog helpfully summarizes<\/a> the corruption allegations surrounding Tyrone Freeman, head of California’s SEIU chapter. What’s worse, union mismanagement goes all the way to the top. According to the LA Times<\/i><\/a>, SEIU national brass received word of Freeman’s corrupt practices six years ago<\/i> and still failed to act. 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