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\nLast year, Freedom@Work<\/a> reported on<\/a> the allegations of corruption against Tyrone Freeman, former boss of the largest Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate in California. Freeman spent<\/a> nearly three-quarters of a million dollars of rank-and-file workers’ forced union dues on his wife’s and mother’s companies and on a luxurious fat-cat lifestyle. The Los Angeles Times later reported<\/a> Freeman’s SEIU affiliate "charity" failed to spend a single cent on its charitable mission in two of the four years it has been in existence.\n<\/p>\n

\nToday, the Los Angeles Times reports<\/a> another SEIU union official corruption scandal, this time executive vice president of the SEIU’s Illinois-Indiana health care affiliate and national SEIU union board member Byron Hobbs.\n<\/p>\n

\nHobbs is accused of billing the union for $9,000 for personal expenses. The LA Times continues its report by putting the latest scandal in context:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t…[former Freeman Chief-of-Staff] Rickman Jackson, was removed as head of the SEIU’s largest Michigan local, because he allegedly received improper lease payments for his Bell Gardens house.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnnelle Grajeda, president of both a second L.A. local and the SEIU’s state council, has been on leave since August, when the union began investigating whether she had improperly used her influence to keep her ex-boyfriend on the county payroll…\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, the union imposed a trusteeship on an Oakland-based local and fired its officers, accusing them of misusing dues money to wage a political battle against SEIU President Andy Stern.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd of course, who can forget that it was a SEIU union boss who was engaged in<\/a> pay-to-play talks with former [and corrupt] Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich — to allegedly buy Obama’s then-vacant U.S. Senate seat.\n<\/p>\n

\nUnfortunately, the people most hurt by union boss corruption are the rank-and-file workers, especially in forced unionism states<\/a>. Right to work laws allow workers to hold union officials more accountable because workers can cut off union dues if they don\u2019t like union officials’ so-called \u201crepresentation,\u201d politics, corruption, or fat-cat lifestyles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Los Angeles Times later reported<\/a> Freeman’s SEIU affiliate "charity" failed to spend a single cent on its charitable mission in two of the four years it has been in existence.<\/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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nSnakepit of Corruption: SEIU Union Bosses' Scandals Pile Up - 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\/es\/blog\/snakepit-of-corruption-seiu-union-bosses-scandals-pile-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Snakepit of Corruption: SEIU Union Bosses' Scandals Pile Up - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last year, Freedom@Work reported on the allegations of corruption against Tyrone Freeman, former boss of the largest Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate in California. 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