SEIU’s Reliance on Pro-Card Check Profs: It’s Only Academic

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 by admin

It wasn’t so long ago — in fact, it was only in June — that the Service Employees International Union was making its case for the troubling and horrifically misnamed Employee Free Choice Act by crowing that 155 academics had signed a letter calling on Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter to support the bill.

So professors clamoring for a law must be a pretty big deal, right? Well, even if you think so, SEIU and its allies must think so, right? Well…

The wonderful PerezStern blog has found some internal emails from SEIU and its advisers discussing how to deal with professors who have recently weigh in with concerns about how that union is interfering with another. Here are some interesting notes:

  • Referring to academics, Javier Morillo of SEIU 26 wants to respond with a letter that “Shames them just a little bit for signing onto something without knowing all the facts” (no one from the employer community made such an effort when academics pushed EFCA, but that’s a different story)
  • Jo-Ann Mort, a would-be adviser, says of the academic group: “most of these academics really are not worth it-but spamming them sounds like what they deserve!!”
  • Michelle Ringette, a frequent flack for SEIU boss Andy Stern, wrote: “I know these aren’t high value targets, but I firmly believe people shouldnot be permitted to do drive bys. They are all getting a letter this am and they all bought spot on our spam list.”

Hmm. This may be worth remembering next time labor leaders trot out supposedly important professors. Labor thinks they don’t know what they’re signing, most really are not worth it, and they aren’t high value targets.

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2 Responses to “SEIU’s Reliance on Pro-Card Check Profs: It’s Only Academic”

  1. July 29th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Shopfloor » Blog Archive » Card Check: ‘I Think I Can, I Think I Can.” Or Maybe Not… says:

    [...] “Specter: I’ve Been Perfectly Consistent On EFCA” The Truth About EFCA, “SEIU’s Reliance on Pro-Card Check Profs: It’s Only Academic” Fargo Forum, Letter to the Editor, “Free Choice Act changes no help,” from Dave [...]

  2. January 26th, 2010 at 9:07 am

    It’s All Academic: Profs Push NLRB Nomination | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] Sixty-six academics is a pretty powerful thing, right? A collective call to action that we should all do a coffee spit-take, stop what we’re doing, and take action, right? Each reader can place his own weight on the importance of comments by professors, but it’s worth going back to our previous post and noting the view of academics by some inside organized labor: [...]

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