SEIU's New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Mary Kay Henry

(BigGov Link: SEIU's Mary Kay Henry: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss - Big Government http://goo.gl/oHSW)

SEIU Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry became the union's New Boss shortly after Andy Stern abruptly resigned.

Some claim this indicates an SEIU shake-up; actually it is nothing more than an SEIU insiders' game of musical chairs resulting in little change.

The atmosphere surrounding Henry's coronation masks serious concerns about her and SEIU's ongoing agenda: including massive mobilizing around ObamaCare and SEIU's forecast for 21.1 million forced unionism healthcare worker conscripts.

Mary Kay Henry's own desires to push government imposed forced unionism forward seeps through the underwhelming speech that she gave after officially becoming SEIU president.

However deficient Mary Kay Henry's oratory skills may appear; her intentions to further radicalize the union movement and the American economy are clear. With hundreds of millions of dollars in union dues and fees flowing into SEIU's treasury, she clearly has the financial fuel needed to fund her mission.

As Andy Stern may have sensed, there is trouble on the horizon because SEIU's preferred method of forced unionism and membership growth is being challenged by several victims and their attorneys from The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation.

If Foundation attorneys prevail in their recently filed legal suits exposing and challenging the fraudulent practice of requiring non-state employees to pay union fees, then tens of thousands of homecare providers who were forced into labor unions by gubernatorial and legislative fiats may soon have relief and SEIU may have a bigger problem -- revenue losses.

A New York Times headline touted Henry's accession as: "Grass-Roots Choice Leads Race for Top Union Post;" But, the Times never bothers to investigate the real truth; and, that is that SEIU is not a grassroots friendly organization and its growth cannot be attributed to feel-good organizing drives.

Mary Kay Henry may get credit for SEIU's membership growth over the last 10 years; but, that growth did not come from the grassroots -- it was forced from the top down.

For example: From 1996-2007, SEIU claimed 900,000 "new members" and Mary Kay Henry's healthcare division accounted for almost all of this growth. Perhaps, this earned her the recent press accolades referring to her as a "grassroots" organizer, etc...

But, looking at the underlying sources of SEIU "membership" growth provides an excellent picture of how SEIU organizes -- and more proof that SEIU and the Lavender Labor Boss are in reality antithetical to the customary meaning of grassroots: [show chart on screen as numbers are read]

• Nearly 200,000 of SEIU's 900,000 new members came through a 1998 merger with a pre-existing union, an old New York hospital union Local 1199

• Another 200,000 that SEIU counted as new recruits were not members, but were actually federally forced agency fee payers to SEIU

• SEIU included 35,000 "members" who were actually retirees; and,

• Almost 500,000 of SEIU's touted "new members" were home care, home childcare, and similar quasi-public workers previously treated as independent contractors.

More than half of SEIU's growth resulted from redefining and forcing 500,000 non-state-employees into SEIU unions by governmental fiat. Another 200,000 members came from a merger with a preexisting healthcare workers' local in New York.

Former Illinois State Senator and now-President Barack Obama is one such politician obligated to SEIU. In his book, The Audacity, Obama proudly boasts of his SEIU obligation. [play clip read in BHO's voice]
["The Leaders of several of the largest service workers unions the Illinois Federation of Teachers, SEIU, AFSCME, UNITE-HERE chose to endorse me [for U.S. Senate] over Hines ... so I owe those unions. When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away. I don't consider this corrupting in anyway. I don't mind feeling obligated toward a bunch of home healthcare workers' [union bosses]."]

Don't let SEIU's new shade of lavender and laces fool you; Henry is as rough as any other Big Labor boss. She has played major roles in expanding forced unionization and she will continue using SEIU's radical methods unless politicians, taxpayers, and the very workers that Henry claims to represent pushback against SEIU's extreme agenda against individual workers and their rights.

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[javy926]

Union YESSSSSSSSS

[Minionuup]

Smash the SEIU!

[mcap52]

Tell em to bring their fascist tails to SE Virginia.We have some hospitality for them.

[Flametopology]

The time to organize is now! Yeah...against globalist/communist traitors like this POS woman!

[irisojects]

Ohh great another communist, progressive,organizer.