Thread: SEIU hears from the staff at La Raza Centro Legal

SEIU hears from the staff at La Raza Centro Legal
by La Raza Centro Legal
Thursday Jun 28th, 2007 5:07 PM
June 27, 2007

Service Employees International Union

Andrew Stern, International President
Anna Burger, International Secretary-Treasurer
Mary Kay Henry, Executive Vice President
Gerry Hudson, Executive Vice President
Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President
Tom Woodruff, Executive Vice President

1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036

RE: We oppose our International Union’s support of the Senate immigration bill.
Dear Brothers and Sisters of SEIU:

We are writing as members of SEIU Local 1021 to declare our outrage over your support of the immigration reform bill currently pending in the US Senate. Please be informed that you do not represent us when you support this human rights abomination.

The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Senate bill 1639, will separate families, implement an exploitative guestworker program, cause more suffering and deaths at the border, and deny immigrants basic due process rights. Moreover, the bill provides no realistic way for the vast majority of undocumented immigrants to gain permanent legal status. This bill moves away from a permanent, family-based immigration system toward a temporary employment system. As an immigrant rights organization, we cannot in good conscience support it. And we are appalled that our International Union would even consider supporting it, especially without consulting us.

We join the majority of immigrant rights organizations across the country, as well as the AFL/CIO and SEIU 1021 (formerly 790) in denouncing temporary worker programs and the further criminalization of our communities.

We urge you to retract your support for Senate bill 1639 and join us in organizing immigrant workers and rank-and-file members in order to achieve a fair and just immigration reform law.

Sincerely,

The staff of La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco

Cc: Senate leaders
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
SEIU, Local 1021
Various press outlets

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/0 ... 431578.php

When are American citizens who have suffered discrimination from groups like SEIU, La Raza, Unite Here, Change to Win, etc. going to file suit? I've had enough of their bull-c--p to last a lifetime.

our communities

Where's the melting pot in that? All for them, none for anyone else. That is discrimination and not pc!

A few years ago, I was hired as a union organizer for SEIU. What an eye-opener! This was before I knew about illegal aliens being in our nation or that SEIU supported them.

Here's how they work. They go out and do what they call "aggitating". That is to say, they, sometimes with good reason, go out and talk to people in their homes or wherever about their jobs and how unfairly they are being treated and try to get them pissed off. It was our job to stir sh$t up.

They know perfectly well that the most vocal workers trying to help "organize" will likely be fired. I guess they're considered an acceptable loss for the good of all or something. Of course, SEIU does nothing to help those workers or their famlies!

Here's some more interesting stuff that made me walk off the job after one day. Because I had cancer 3 years before I took the job, they wouldn't insure me...for anything. Having no medical coverage was another thing we were supposed to aggitate other people about.


So, if I was riding around in my car, helping SEIU line their pockets with new dues paying members, and got in a wreck, I would have no coverage. I could have understood it if they didn't want to cover me if the cancer had returned, but I made it a point to ask if it was only cancer they wouldn't insure and they made it plain as day I would be covered for nothing.

Then, another thing we were supposed to aggitate people about was working over time with no time and a half...and yet the organizers got NOT ONE PENNY for overtime...not even straight time!

We were to have been on the road, sharing a motel room with a complete stranger, for as much as a month at a time...with no overtime being paid, mind you. We were to put in 10-12 hour days, six and seven days a week! We got paid salary.

We were to work weekends as well. And when they had some political "action" that needed to be beefed up with people, we were expected to attend those on our weekends off...again with no pay.

They pay itself was so low to begin with, the only reason I even considered the job was because I had no job at all at the time. Low pay, however, was another thing we were to 'aggitate' potential union members about!

Since the pay was so low, I thought I would use part of my per diem to keep up my house payments and bills at home (in case I got home 2 whole days a month). My plan was to shop for food at a local grocery store and cook in my room (so I could use the rest of the per diem for my bills) since they were all to have been the type of rooms that had a small kitchenette. I was told instead that I 'had' to go out to eat dinner (and drink like a fish) with the rest of the group because, "we eat as a team"...I learned to handle tableware years ago and didn't feel I needed a "team" for support in this 'event'.

So there's a quick rundown on SEIU. I left there after one day, telling myself on the way out and many times since then that the union organizers needed a union of their own to help protect them from unfair treatment from the union.

SEIU sucks out loud. They have organizers who are getting treated worse than the people they're organizing because they're being treated unfairly!!


I don't know about other unions, but SEIU is one hypocritical organization.

Well thanks for the first hand information from your experience. Good thing you left after one day, that is terrible! Hope your health is doing well these days.

Originally Posted by Captainron

When are American citizens who have suffered discrimination from groups like SEIU, La Raza, Unite Here, Change to Win, etc. going to file suit? I've had enough of their bull-c--p to last a lifetime.

Great point!! I'm very sure we aren't alone in the thought but I've often wondered about this myself.

For way too long, we have been held almost hostage to legal action, or even the mere threat of it, these groups have employed to manipulate, intimidate, and otherwise bully, this country and we citizens.

Maybe part of fixing the unacceptable status quo would be for legal action being directed at these groups, employers, etc. brought by those most harmed.........US!!!!