SEIU Boss Cooperates with Feds
Another day, another SEIU (Service Employees International Union) scandal.
SEIU Apparatchik Resigns
A high-ranking Midwest officer of the Service Employees International Union [SEIU], who had been serving as trustee of a financially troubled local, has resigned after being accused of billing the labor organization for $9,000 in personal expenses. The Chicago-based…
Scandal Stopped Big Labor Payoff
From the Wall Street Journal: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was preparing to issue an executive order prior to his arrest last week [December 9, 2008] that would have allowed union organizing of home-care workers that could have benefited a…
And Now for the Video
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has released a new video. According to the Foundation’s release: The Fox affiliate in Chicago investigated disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corrupt relationship with the powerful Service Employees International Union (SEIU). We’ve…
Big Labor Blago
The website Pro Publica that offers “Journalism in the Public Interest” peeks behind the curtain and reveals a long co-dependent relationship between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Union Corruption
It’s not often the New York Times opens its eyes and gives its readers a headline like this — “Union Linked to Corruption Scandal.”…
SEIU Mentioned in Blagojevich Criminal Complaint
The governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, has been arrested, and it’s no surprise that union activists appear to be involved in the scandal. On page 69 of the criminal complaint against the Governor, government pleadings mention discussions with an “SEIU…
Card Check Quandary
The controversial Card Check Scam Bill is causing a “quandary” for Barack Obama, according to his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. Calling the bill one of the “thorniest issues his administration will face,” Obama is being squeezed between his union…
Chicago Union Garbage Men: Paid to Do Nothing
Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman has found that the city’s unionized sanitation department is riddled with fraud and abuse of taxpayer monies. The Sun Times reports: Laborers and truck drivers whose movements were eyeballed and tracked by undercover investigators were…