The Union Label Blog

-By Larry Seale

Poor ole’ Andy Stern, the iron-fisted boss of the oft scandal ridden Service Employees International Union (SEIU) just can’t catch a break – he puts SEIU right in the middle of all the feudin’ in the break-up of the 2004 marriage between Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE); next, SEIU rising star Byron Hobbs, former Chicago based SEIU Local 20 President, SEIU Local 2000 trustee, SEIU mega-union “Healthcare Illinois-Indiana” Executive VP and SEIU national board member, gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

Hobbs “resigned” in February, 2009, after it was reveled that he had charged $9100 in personal expenses to his Local 20 credit card. SEIU states that Hobbs has since repaid the money and that SEIU is auditing Local 2000, where Hobbs served as a trustee.

Perhaps SEIU ought to audit Local 20, now merged into Healthcare Illinois-Indiana, and Healthcare Illinois-Indiana as well -who’s bright idea was it to give him a credit card to begin with?

You can read “The Rest of the Story” on the First Transit Employee Right Blog.

Larry Seale is 62, a former member of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001 and he lives north of Denver where he was employed as a Regional Transportation District sub-contractor bus driver until a serious illness forced his “partial retirement” in January, 2009.

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