SEIU, ACORN, et al. -- A Look at Organizing at Its Finest -- Using Intimidation & Corruption

[Elizabeth Parella]

This was found on a site, National Right to Work, which e-mails me various and sundry items. You may all find this to be of interest. It harkens back to the intimidation of ACORN, Jessee Jackson, Al Sharpton, and community organizers and unions in general.

It is interesting, isn't it, that the SEIU is so desperate? They spent MILLIONS getting "The One" elected and now they're starved for member-paying dues....

I have quoted the majority of the article below.

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In the groundbreaking new book The Devil at My Doorstep, family business owner David Bego explains “How I Survived a Three-Year War with Big Labor and Protected My Employees and Business.” Please read on to learn how you can get your free copy...


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“We like conversation, but we embrace confrontation.”

That’s the mantra of Andy Stern and his radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and a new book highlights just what Stern and his union goons mean by “confrontation.”

In The Devil at My Doorstep, David Bego details the vicious three-year “corporate campaign” waged by militant SEIU organizers against his employees and his company.

I want to rush you a copy of this eye-opening book FREE. It tells an amazing story of how forced unionism is crippling our economy…

Twenty years ago, Bego launched a new company providing cleaning services to businesses, colleges, and other organizations in Indianapolis. Due to his hard work and perseverance, Bego expanded his business to other cities and now provides jobs to hundreds of workers nationwide.

Most importantly, Bego knows that his company is nothing without its employees.

Together, employees and management co-existed in our little corner of the world with wages a dollar an hour more than the union was providing its members and benefits fair to everyone. We did our best to do a good job for our customers and used the money we earned to pay our bills, educate our children, provide for our families, and help those who were experiencing difficult times. A simple situation, really, with management and employees happy and carefree, living at least what many would call the American Dream. But that dream soon became a nightmare.

Bego was surprised a few years ago when an SEIU organizer contacted him, and he quickly learned what the SEIU wanted at any cost: for Bego to sign a so-called “Neutrality Agreement” to submit his employees to an ugly card check organizing campaign.

But Bego knew that he treated his employees well and told the SEIU organizer he wouldn’t take away his employees’ right to a secret ballot election. If his employees wanted a union, they could vote for unionization in private, free from the intimidation of union bosses.

But that wasn’t good enough for the militant SEIU.

Over the next few years, the SEIU ran a vicious campaign against Bego and his employees. Their goal was to use every tactic imaginable to shame Bego in the press, on the streets, and even in his own neighborhood to get him to concede his employees’ ability to have a secret ballot election. They tried to run him out of business with a wide array of tactics:

Paying the homeless to pretend to be exploited workers after organizers couldn’t find enough of Bego’s actual employees to picket;

Filing a series of patently false charges of worker safety violations and unfair labor practices;

Getting children to hand out union boss propaganda while they trick-or-treat on Halloween.
These outrageous tactics are standard operating procedure for the union bosses who are finding it increasingly difficult to convince workers to unionize on the merits.

As SEIU czar Andy Stern revealed in his memoir, his union operators will quickly abandon “the power of persuasion” for “the persuasion of power.”

And if the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill -- the union boss power grab that would eliminate the secret ballot in unionization drives -- is enacted, the outrageous tactics used against Bego and his employees will become even more widespread.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix
President
National Right to Work
Legal Defense Foundation

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