A top labor union executive and Fight for $15 campaign organizer resigned Monday after he was suspended over allegations of nepotism and sexual misconduct.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry suspended Executive President Scott Courtney last week after he married one of his staff members. Among his female coworkers, Courtney had a reputation of sleeping with staffers then promoting them, according to BuzzFeed.
“There is no place in our organization for conduct that violates our Code of Ethics. Such conduct does not reflect who we are or represent the values that guide the important work we do every day for working people, our families, and communities,” Henry said in a statement.
Courtney was a part of a “broad environment of misogyny” at the union, one former union employee told the Washington Free Beacon.
Two other supervisors reportedly harassed the former employee during her time at the union. She said, however, that nothing was done because the union’s Human Resources department was more interested in “protecting the organization” than its own employees.
Courtney ran the union’s Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign, which also highlights sexual harassment in the fast food industry.
“Four in ten women working in fast food restaurants deal with sexual harassment on the job,” the union’s website says. “This has to stop. WE have to stop it.”
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