{"id":413376,"date":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/video-true-nature-seiu-40653\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:18:53","slug":"video-the-true-nature-of-the-seiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413376","title":{"rendered":"Video: The True Nature of the SEIU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.10.10 01:30 PM posted by Conn Carroll<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;\/p&gt;There is no entity with closer ties to the Obama administration than the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According to the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/disclosures\/visitor-records&quot;&gt;White House visitor logs SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger visited the White House 58 times in 2009 alone, including 11 meetings with Obama and another with Vice President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The SEIU is popular in the White House because no other union is as politically active as the SEIU. Stern told the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/may\/10\/stern-unplugged-seiu-chief-labor-movement-and-card\/&quot;&gt;Las Vegas Sun, \u0093We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama \u0097 $60.7 million to be exact \u0097 and we\u0092re proud of it.\u0094 Indeed, right after the SEIU spent a fortune of their members&#8217; money to elect Obama; they promptly fired 75 of their national field staff and organizers and redirected that money to &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/18\/AR2009031800709.html&quot;&gt;&#8220;lobbying and communications in Washington to take advantage of Democrats\u0092 ascendance.&#8221;&lt;spanid=&quot;more-28477&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>But as the video above shows, while Stern and his lobbyists meet with Obama and other Washington leftists, they are losing ground in the rest of the country. &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/laborpains.org\/2010\/03\/04\/beating-the-competition-seiu-colors-cameramans-eye-purple\/&quot;&gt;In California, National Union of Healthcare Workers has been successfully beating the SEIU in elections and the SEIU is not happy about.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time you hear some leftist rhetoric about how the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Labor\/wm2764.cfm&quot;&gt;Employee Free Choice Act is necessary to protect workers&#8217; rights, ask yourself if you&#8217;d want this woman standing over you demanding you sign a card in support of joining a union, or whether you&#8217;d* prefer* express your opinion with the safety of a secret ballot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/10\/video-the-true-nature-of-the-seiu\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/10\/&#8230;e-of-the-seiu\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.10.10 01:30 PM posted by Conn Carroll &lt;\/p&gt;There is no entity with closer ties to the Obama administration than the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According to the &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/disclosures\/visitor-records&quot;&gt;White House visitor logs SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger visited the White House 58 times in 2009 alone, including 11 meetings with Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}