At least five Monterey County SEIU union members said on Friday afternoon during a press conference that the union is misusing monies intended to represent them during contract negotiations.
Members of SEIU local 521, the union that represent most county employees, said union leaders are not representing the county workers at a time when the county is looking at concessions from unions to help close a $41.6 million budget gap. The members said they want to change unions but SEIU leaders are blocking them.
SEIU denies the charges. The Californian reports that the conflict arose after the merger of several northern California locals.
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A decade ago my father aided my uncle, an SEIU exucitive, as they went after one of the last local SEIU leaders. The SEIU leader and his son siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from that union and attempted to blame my uncle. Their final mistake was messing with my father and my uncle, the corrupt SEIU leader and his son went to prison. Maybe they got some additional janitorial experience out of the deal.
ReplyDeleteOne would think that Democrats could catch on to this ongoiung fraud, but one would be wrong.