Posted on April 15, 2008 at 1:16 am by WTH

Well, it was funny seeing the SEIU and the CNA squaring off for a battle royale, but now things are really getting serious and at this point even a staunch anti-unionist has to say that things are getting out of hand.

The folks over at LaborNotes.org brings us the story of SEIU members being bussed in six, count them SIX, busses to invade and disrupt a conference being attended by California Nurses Association members in Dearborn, Michigan last weekend. Reports are that people were injured as the hundreds of bussed in SEIU members forcibly broke into the conference to disrupt the proceedings.

The ridiculous thing is that the conference was supposed to be about “democracy” in unions put on by Labor Notes Magazine.

This escalation of violence by SEIU members is a disturbing trend that really does make the lie to the claim that SEIU prez Andy Stern is interested in legitimate representation, but is more interested in coercion and intimidation.

Rose Ann DeMoro , president of the CNA told reporters that, “There is an ugly pattern here of physical abuse and tactics of intimidation that have no place in either our labor movement or a civilized society.” She has a point, too.

Deborah Burger of the Huffington Post has a longer report on this unabashed thuggery by the SEIU.

It looks like the SEIU is turning into the lowdown sort of actors that we are used to seeing from union thugs everywhere.

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4 Responses to “SEIU/CNA Fight REALLY Getting Physical Now!”

Kris Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Thanks for posting this. I’m sure some SEIUers will come on here saying none of it happened. I was there. It did. They rushed the ballroom and pushed, shoved and hit everyone in their path. Thank god for the good labor folk who defended the internal door and formed an arm link chanting si su puede to keep SEIU out. It was SEIU initiating and perpetrating violence, not LaborNotes or CNA. Go to http://www.calnurses.org for a video interview about what happened.

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