03/18/2011

SEIU Sued for Racketeering

The American unit of French catering giant Sodexo SA on Thursday filed a civil racketeering lawsuit accusing the Service Employees International Union of engaging in illegal tactics in its efforts to unionize workers. The company levied numerous charges accusing the union of threats concerning employees and company property, engaging in illegal tactics to steer business away from Sodexo and attempting to publicly tarnish its reputation.

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September 25

Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations

Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”

September 23

Representative Government Gets Head-Butted

According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.

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Stealing With ‘Absolute Hubris and Entitlement’

On June 5, a federal jury in Kansas convicted former Boilermakers President Newton Jones, who had headed the union from 2003 until 2023, his wife, Kateryna, and two other IBB bosses of embezzling millions of dollars in union dues extracted from workers as a condition of employment.

SEIU Sued for Racketeering

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