“Service Employees International Union” on The Daily Caller

The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed to coordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-union candidates, most of them Democrats. (more)

Free market organizations that are now mobilized against the possibility of a repackaged version of “card check” legislation should remain mindful of administrative actions that could enshrine union favors without congressional approval. With mid-term elections looming, union bosses who spent millions to elect a Democratic president and congress are going for broke to secure transformative policy changes that could reinvigorate their membership rolls. (more)

Public sector unions have a crucial interest in the expansion of government, spending, and by extension, interest in laws that inhibit the free movement of workers and capital. Organized labor has become the antithesis of worker freedom, throwing millions of dollars against candidates and ballot measures that foster choice and competition. More subliminally, public sector unions’ constant advocacy for bigger government crowds out the private sector and erodes states’ free market principles. (more)

The labor community is going to lend its considerable political clout to the effort to get Elizabeth Warren confirmed as the first head of the newly-created Consumer Protection Agency, going directly to the White House official who may stand in her way. (more)

Little does he know, but Hef has a D.C. doppelganger: former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.  While one sports the union bug and the other a Playboy bunny (or three), these big-time bosses have more than just gray hair in common. (more)

On May 5th, 2010 The Missouri NAACP hosted a press conference and rally on behalf of Perry Molens and Elston McCowan, demanding the county prosecutor drop assault charges stemming from an attack outside Russ Carnahan’s townhall in South St. Louis County on Health Care last August. Molens and McCowan were arrested after the staged Carnahan event in August after they beat, kicked and stomped on black vendor Kenneth Gladney. The two Russ Carnahan supporters and SEIU members also called Kenneth the n-word as they bashed him into the cement. (more)

The president’s debt commission is facing plenty of challenges. Washington’s supercharged partisan atmosphere is going to make it hard to find common ground, and the bruising battle over health care has left both parties wary of another full-on confrontation. But the debt commission may also suffer from an unusual problem for a blue-ribbon panel: a lack of credibility. (more)

Last week, Nina Easton, the Washington editor of Fortune, wrote a column about the SEIU and National People’s Action. The two progressive groups had sent roughly 500 protesters to Easton’s Chevy Chase neighborhood on May 16th to picket the front yard of Bank of America’s Greg Baer. Easton had just put her 2-year-old son down for a nap, and stepped outside to ask the protesters to quiet down. They didn’t. Easton wrote a column. And now she’s become the target of the SEIU and Media Matters for America. (more)

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will turn its attention from healthcare to immigration reform ahead of the 2010 midterm elections. (more)

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (more)

The GOP says immigration reform won’t happen this year, but New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and other Democrats unveiled the framework for comprehensive immigration legislation they say can be passed with Republican help. (more)

Once again, union thuggery is on the march. In an effort to expand its influence and enlarge its coffers, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has launched a campaign on university campuses across the nation to unionize the workers of Sodexo food services. (more)

Writing at the Awl, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, formerly of the SEIU, complains that Andy Stern wasn’t ‘brutish’ enough to reform the mega union: (more)

1.) Coming soon to a walk-in clinic near you: Nancy Pelosi — “Imprecise” and “confusing” language in the health care bill may bring an end to congressional participation in the federal employees health care program, writes the New York Times. Apparently, there is an “assumption” in the health care bill “that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.” Oh lawdy, won’t that suck! Such analysis comes courtesy of the Congressional Research Service, which exists for exactly one reason–to make people feel dumb about the life choice they just made. Writes the Times, “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?” HAHA, of course not! (more)

Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union’s board. (more)

Democrats appeared to be closing in Monday on achieving support from enough lawmakers in the House to pass a historic and sweeping health-care reform bill, though the outcome was still far from certain. (more)

Supporters of Obama’s health-care plan on Tuesday staged a last-ditch protest in Washington to buoy the bill limping through Congress, targeting their anger at health insurance CEOs who were meeting at D.C.’s Ritz Carlton for America’s Health Insurance Plans’ (AHIP) national policy conference. (more)

The White House has acknowledged that it is considering a proposal that would significantly alter the way it awards federal contracts, but said the discussions are in early stages and that no immediate policy changes are forthcoming. (more)

President Barack Obama has appointed Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern to a new commission tasked with coming up with recommendations to help reduce the federal deficit. While disappointing, this is not surprising. Stern’s appointment is merely the culmination of a series of appointments by the Obama administration of individuals closely associated with SEIU to government posts. (more)

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Congressman Xavier Becerra (D – CA) responded with incredulous peals of laughter at an immigration rally when a member of Ari Davis for Congress asked to begin the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. (more)