Is President Obama’s pet union trying to pull a fast one on some of its constituents? SEIU, which the Washington Post calls “the most influential union in the nation,” has announced it’s going to can 75 members of the union that represents union members in labor disputes. I am the very model of a union representative / I keep my job and yours as well by being argumentative / I’m not averse to using tricks that some may find agitative / And in the end I always win because I am affricative (with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan). But the Union of Union Representatives has plans of its own, filing “unfair labor practices charges against SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board. The staff union’s leaders say that SEIU is engaging in the same kind of practices that some businesses use — laying off workers without proper notice, contracting out work to temp firms, banning union activities and reclassifying workers to reduce union numbers.” Calling Norma Rae!
