Re: SEIU
On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
That sfweekly article seemed relatively good, but haven’t got to
read it yet.
How can you say whether it’s good or bad if you haven’t read it yet?
Yeah, but all that said—- winning organizing rights being a
‘muzzling of workers’? Give me a break. Its that kind of nonsense that makes
me glad seiu practices such extreme chain of command leninist message control. People who are off program like that jerome guythink nothin of
rambling on to the journalists of the enemy about how organizing rights are in
fact oppression of workers.
SF Weekly is “the enemy”?
The article reports that the union pledged that workers would not
report infractions to the authorities, and that workers who were not
at boss-approved sites who approached SEIU for representation would
be rebuffed. Did you notice that part? Or this?
“This means the owners set pay rates, pay increases, and incentive
plans. They hire, lay off, demote, discipline, and determine benefits
for workers without union input. The employers may outsource work
performed by union members, and speed up, reassign, or eliminate jobs
at will. The employer may eliminate vacations, or any other time off,
as the employer sees fit.
The agreement also guarantees that workers’ wages will not put an
employer at an “economic disadvantage,” either through employee pay,
benefits, or through staff-per-patient ratios.”
Did you read the UHW critique http://media.sfweekly.com/789842.0.pdf?