SEIU Denying Employee to Vote!

SEIU takes away employees’ rights to secret ballot votes in order to get more union dues.

SEIU’s strategy to unionize a workplace differs from the ideals of a democratic process. Rather than collecting signed petitions to hold a secret ballot vote on whether a majority of employees want to form a union, the SEIU prefers to pressure employers into a so-called “neutrality agreement” through a “corporate campaign.”

Sodexo, a cafeteria company, was targeted by an SEIU corporate campaign in the late 2000s. In response to alleged illegal activity, Sodexo sued the SEIU for racketeering under the RICO Act. Sodexo obtained the SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” that details how a corporate campaign works. An entire section of the manual is dedicated to putting pressure on employers—pressure the SEIU uses to change the way a union is formed by using a neutrality agreement and “card check.”

SEIU card-check campaigns are notorious for employee deception. In July 2006, SEIU was forced to abandon a “card check” organizing drive after a Portland, Oregon employee said union organizers misled her co-workers by claiming that signing a union authorization card “merely expressed her interest for a formal vote.” The SEIU withdrew a petition for election with the National Labor Relations Board amid allegations SEIU Local 509 organizers misled employees into signing union authorization cards by telling them it was a survey from the employer. A California hospital employee filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging improprieties in SEIU’s card check, since employees who signed cards no longer worked in the bargaining unit. After an NLRB regional director found that the card-check did not show a majority, the union, the employer, and the NLRB settled the case by holding a subsequent secret-ballot vote. The election showed the union was not supported…

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