What to do if you are a heartless employer in tough times? Why, lay them off, of course! Especially if they are unionized. That’s the usual complaint we are bombarded with by the media. Funny how they are not reporting on this one. The latest “heartless employer”?
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
“How do you spell hypocrisy? SEIU!”
That was the chant today in front of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The SEIU “broke their union contract,” and laid off 75 unionized staff members. Those workers picketed the union today with slogans like “EFCA’s First Violator Who? SEIU” and “Stop Union Busting.”
So the union laid off the union workers it employed? This is not, apparently, news as far as the media is concerned? The cone of silence has descended.
Maybe it’s because it’s nothing new. A friend of mine, many years ago, worked for a small union that did health & retirement work for the UMW. When it became cheaper for the UMW to outsource the work, the little, captive union was busted flat.