[Sdalliance] Fw: [Dualcard] SEIU Inks Anti-Union Deal with Maine's Right-Wing Gover nor

[Monty Kroopkin]

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From: "Monty Kroopkin" <mkroopkin at juno.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:46:48 GMT
Subject: Fw: [Dualcard] SEIU Inks Anti-Union Deal with Maine's Right-Wing Governor Fellow Workers, beware of SEIU officials cutting secret back-room deals with management. Across the country, SEIU has earned the bad reputation of being in bed with management, "Serving Employers Instead of Us." SEIU officials care most about their own paychecks (and the union dues that pays them). The only real chance workers at the County have of making sure that SEIU "leaders" don't sell out after pretending to fight the County, is if members REBEL against the SEIU officials and take over the negotiations themselves. It means organizing to fight not only the County, but against any sign of a sell out by the SEIU officials. Form independent committees of County staff to demand that ALL proposed wording in any proposed new contract be disclosed to the union membership BEFORE the bargaining team decides to put it up for a ratification vote. Ride herd over the bargaining team to make sure they are not being duped into stupid concessions by the professional manipulators SEIU has got running their bargaining team meetings! Monty Kroopkin, IWW San Diego branch memberretired SEIU shop steward and former candidate for SEIU Local 221 President

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From: Steve Ongerth <intexile at iww.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:17:58 -0700
To: dualcard at lists.iww.orgSubject: [Dualcard] SEIU Inks Anti-Union Deal with Maine's Right-Wing
 Governor  
  Maine Gov. Paul LePageSEIU is getting sharply criticized for cutting a horrible, anti-union deal with Maine’s extreme right-wing governor that’ll severely undermine unions.  Here’s what’s happening.  SEIU’s Maine State Employees Association (SEIU Local 1989) represents 13,000 largely public-sector workers, including more than 9,000 state workers.  Since 2011, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has repeatedly tried -- and failed -- to pass “right-to-work-for-less” legislation in the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. These bills would have eliminated the requirement that state employees who choose not to join a union instead pay a fee to help cover the costs of the union’s collective bargaining and representation services that benefit them. These cost-sharing fees are called “agency fees.”  Gov. LePage -- who has made racist comments and said this week that taking down Confederate statues is equivalent to taking down 9/11 memorials -- called his failure to implement “right-to-work-for-less” laws in Maine as one of his greatest failures as a governor.  Well, Republican lawmakers may have rejected LePage’s anti-union efforts. But that didn’t stop SEIU from accepting the same deal during SEIU’s recent contract negotiations with LePage’s office.  On Monday, the Bangor Daily News (“LePage’s pay raise offer sways biggest state union to accept ‘right to work’ contract language”) reported that SEIU officials, during their contract negotiations with state officials, agreed to eliminate the requirement that workers pay cost-sharing “agency fees” if they choose not to join their union.  What did SEIU get in exchange for this massive concession?   A 3% pay increase during each of the next two years.  
 If SEIU officials had rejected the “right-to-work-for-less” provision, SEIU members would have received 1% pay increases during each of the next two years.  According to the Bangor Daily News, AFSCME -- which also represents some state employees -- rejected a similar deal from LePage’s administration. An AFSCME representative told the newspaper that: “Right to work is designed to cripple unions and take them out of the game.”  How will SEIU’s horrible deal affect workers? Here’s what one reader said in comments posted below the news article:
 The union leaders just killed the union for 3% a year for two years. The union will now die of suicide.   
    
  
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