Re: [Marxism] CNA SEIU dispute from an insider

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think CNA does a little more than pass resolutions. But right now I'm
not getting into that side of the debate.

I was at the LN conference right behind the door your SEIUers were
trying to storm through.

There is absolutely no excuse for what SEIU did and frankly the only
honest thing for you to do as a staffer is to resign from the
organization in protest. Only the members will be able to change the
unions course at this point, we all know that union staffers serve at
the mercy of the guy on top.

Jon Flanders



On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 22:43 -0400, Paul Cooley wrote:
> There are many problems with SEIU, it definitely deserves criticism, as 
> someone on the inside I know (I'm an SEIU staffer).
> But.....
> The CNA is a elitist union, and have resorted to union busting plain and 
> simple.  As one of the previous post pointed out, 

> they prevented 8,000 hospital workers from having a union in OH.  
> Additionally, they are against industrial unionism.  

> They are craft union and use racist code words to campaign against SEIU.  I 
> believe if the members of their union really 

> knew that Rose Ann Demoro was preventing hopital workers from having a union 
> they would be appalled.  It was outrageous 

> to say that SEIU got a sweetheart deal the CHP in OH.  In the recent past, 
> unionized SEIU members went on strike at one of their hospitals.  
> 
> Regarding the event at the Labor Notes convention.  It was several hundred 
> mostly members, (I'd say 25% staff 75% members)

>  (70% black ) protesting not Labor Notes, but the CNA and Rose Ann Demoro for 
> being union busters.  
> 
> Check out http://www.shameoncna.com/
> 
> Of course I'm partisan, but I've been disappointed with our (SEIUs) short 
> comings for a while, but regarding the CNA/SEIU dispute -- 

> I don't understand how anyone can side with the CNA.  It's pathetic if people 
> are siding with them because pass resolutions against 

> the war and for single payer health insurance.  
> 
> R. Paulson
> 
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