Disillusionment at Its Finest
Posted by Sonya Jones - April 29, 2008The SEIU has endorsed Gov. Gregoire. Big surprise. Not only that, but their members are heralding her successes over the last four years:
“Most of our members - who are janitors, security officers and other building service workers across our state – are barely able to make ends meet. Governor Gregoire stands up for the needs of our hard working families,” said security officer and SEIU 6 member David Miles.
Let me get this straight:
1) Your union, Mr. Miles, does such a poor job representing members’ interest that you are severely underpaid? Maybe if the SEIU spent more resources truly representing their members in negotiations related to their employment and less resources on campaign contributions….
The unions want control of the negotiation process with the state agencies that employ their members by getting union-friendly politicians elected. Gov. Gregoire gives the unions that control. And, she gets their endorsements and campaign contributions.
“Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark”…or Washington.
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NWconservative said on Apr 29 2008 at 6:28pm
More control for the union goons -- and $8.50 per hour for SEIU members. When will they wake up?
Debbie Terry said on Apr 30 2008 at 1:49am
Well of course!
There are just following the example of the WFSE. After their Campaign Contribution, they were able to force AFH into unionization with her signing HB2111. The SEIU has it's sights on the unionizing of all caregivers in the AFH. The go about it in sly ways. Saying that the caregivers are not well trained, have less training than hair stylists, you have probably seen the ads. The real story is they want to not control the training of all the caregivers by requiring that they all be unionized. This year the bills did not pass. WSFE, while telling the AFH they were against the unionization of caregivers, were telling the legislatures out of the sides of their mouths that the bills were good, the timing was just off.
It is great that there are so many good people in the State of Washington because it is going to take all of us to get this State government turned around.