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*'''Security Services''' – SEIU is the largest security union, representing Securitas Security Services USA, which employs 1,800 security officers at Kaiser medical facilities in five states.<ref>[http://www.standformasecurity.org/pdfs/12-08-08-RatifiedSecurityContract.pdf Ratified Security Contract (PDF)], December 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://security.sys-con.com/node/1025682/mobile Union Leaders Misrepresent Facts in Contract Talks for Security Guards], Sys-Con Media, 2008.</ref> The motto for the SEIU security union is, "Stand for Security," accompanied with their very own SEIU security logo.<ref>[http://www.seiu.org/images/Stand%20for%20Security_sm.jpg Stand for Security], SEIU logo and motto.</ref>

*'''Security Services''' – SEIU is the largest security union, representing Securitas Security Services USA, which employs 1,800 security officers at Kaiser medical facilities in five states.<ref>[http://www.standformasecurity.org/pdfs/12-08-08-RatifiedSecurityContract.pdf Ratified Security Contract (PDF)], December 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://security.sys-con.com/node/1025682/mobile Union Leaders Misrepresent Facts in Contract Talks for Security Guards], Sys-Con Media, 2008.</ref> The motto for the SEIU security union is, "Stand for Security," accompanied with their very own SEIU security logo.<ref>[http://www.seiu.org/images/Stand%20for%20Security_sm.jpg Stand for Security], SEIU logo and motto.</ref>

[[Barack Obama]] has pledged to give the SEIU more power and strength, as well as the power to eventually "Paint the nation purple." Obama's hope for giving the SEIU more power as a civilian army, in his words, is because "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."<ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543822,00.html Barack Obama's Civilian Army], ''[[Fox News]]'', August 27, 2009.</ref> Obama and the SEIU's most recent move to control more power as a national security force was seen on February 11, 2010, following an incident in [[Seattle|Seattle's]] Transit Tunnel after security personnel watched a 15 year old girl get beaten and mugged. The SEIU quickly jumped on the opportunity to try and take advantage of a poor 'security' policy by taking over security in general.<ref name=seiulocal6>Derek Erwin. [http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-seiu-shock-troops-on-patrol.html Obama's SEIU Shock Troops on Patrol], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', February 11, 2010.</ref> The ''Seattle Times'' reported, "The Service Employees International Union Local 6 issued a statement Wednesday framing the attack as a reason SEIU should represent the Olympic guards. It already represents Securitas."<ref>Mike Lindblom. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011039499_tunnelcrime11m.html After tunnel beating, Metro wants guards to do more], ''The Seattle Times'', February 10, 2010.</ref> SEIU researcher Emily Sokolski made the following statement.

[[Barack Obama]] has pledged to give the SEIU more power and strength, as well as the power to eventually "Paint the nation purple." Obama's hope for giving the SEIU more power as a civilian army, in his words, is because "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."<ref>[[Glenn Beck]]. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543822,00.html Barack Obama's Civilian Army], ''[[Fox News]]'', August 27, 2009.</ref> Obama and the SEIU's most recent move to control more power as a national security force was seen on February 11, 2010, following an incident in [[Seattle|Seattle's]] Transit Tunnel after security personnel watched a 15 year old girl get beaten and mugged. The SEIU quickly jumped on the opportunity to try and take advantage of a poor 'security' policy by taking over security in general.<ref name=seiulocal6>Derek Erwin. [http://derekerwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/obamas-seiu-shock-troops-on-patrol.html Obama's SEIU Shock Troops on Patrol], ''A 1-In-100 Blogger'', February 11, 2010.</ref> The ''Seattle Times'' reported, "The Service Employees International Union Local 6 issued a statement Wednesday framing the attack as a reason SEIU should represent the Olympic guards. It already represents Securitas."<ref>Mike Lindblom. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011039499_tunnelcrime11m.html After tunnel beating, Metro wants guards to do more], ''The Seattle Times'', February 10, 2010.</ref> SEIU researcher Emily Sokolski made the following statement.

{{cquote|Security guards this week have mentioned their frustration at standing back. [Metro guards] don't have the tools to intervene, at this point. They don't have self-defense training in how to intervene in a physical altercation. They would not only be in danger, but they would be in danger of losing their jobs.<ref name=seiulocal6/>}}

{{cquote|Security guards this week have mentioned their frustration at standing back. [Metro guards] don't have the tools to intervene, at this point. They don't have self-defense training in how to intervene in a physical altercation. They would not only be in danger, but they would be in danger of losing their jobs.<ref name=seiulocal6/>}}

SEIU is strongest in [[California]], where its United Healthcare Workers-West is one of California's largest unions at 150,000 members. The head is Sal Rosselli, who is locked in a bitter battle with Stern and the national headquarters.

SEIU is strongest in [[California]], where its United Healthcare Workers-West is one of California's largest unions at 150,000 members. The head is Sal Rosselli, who is locked in a bitter battle with Stern and the national headquarters.

==ACORN Connections==

==ACORN Connections==

* Accounting irregularities involving ACORN affiliated charities – ACORN received large amounts of money from its nonprofit affiliates while giving significantly less back in return, suggesting wide-spread subversive accounting practices. Based upon ACORN affiliates’ tax-exempt disclosures, there are substantial discrepancies between ACORN’s own audits and what has been officially reported to the IRS.  Nearly 40% of the disbursements from three of ACORN’s 501(c)(3) affiliates to ACORN’s national organization come in the form of gifts and grants for which no real reason is given for the transfer of funds.

* Accounting irregularities involving ACORN affiliated charities – ACORN received large amounts of money from its nonprofit affiliates while giving significantly less back in return, suggesting wide-spread subversive accounting practices. Based upon ACORN affiliates’ tax-exempt disclosures, there are substantial discrepancies between ACORN’s own audits and what has been officially reported to the IRS.  Nearly 40% of the disbursements from three of ACORN’s 501(c)(3) affiliates to ACORN’s national organization come in the form of gifts and grants for which no real reason is given for the transfer of funds.

==Political Agenda==

==Thuggery==

At the outset, Stern told members that he expected "every leader at every level of this union -- from the international President to the rank-and-file member -- to devote five working days this year to political action."  In effect, this became the mandate for the union leaders to work in support of the [[Democratic Party]]. Stern sits on the Executive Committee of America Coming Together funded by [[George Soros]]. SEIU is a major component of the "Shadow Democratic Party," a network of more than five-dozen unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks with the agendas of the left and which campaigns for Democrat candidates and causes. Because they are a "527 organization", SEIU is not registered as a "political organization" with the Federal Election Commission, and collects "soft money" with no limits on how much it may receive. This money, in turn, is given to Democratic candidates, political action committees, and other "527" groups promoting the same agendas.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535 Service Employees International Union (SEIU)], DiscoverTheNetworks.org.</ref>

On August 7th 2009 three SEIU members were seen attacking a black conservative protester outside a Saint Louis Townhall meeting.<ref>[http://www.tcotreport.com/eyewitness.html Eyewitness Account of Union Thugs Beating Tea Party Attendee in St. Louis], [[The TCOT Report]], August 7, 2009.</ref> The forum on aging called by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Democrat, drew an overflow crowd in a school gym in south St. Louis County, Missouri. Dozens of people, some with signs about the health care debate, were kept out. Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist, was attacked as he handed out yellow flags with "Don’t tread on me" on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him. Mr. Gladney was attacked by people wearing dark blue SEIU t-shirts as the video that surfaced shows. <ref>[http://sweetness-light.com/archive/seiu-thugs-beat-up-town-hall-protester SEIU Thugs Beat Up Town Hall Protester], ''Sweetness & Light'', August 07, 2009.</ref>

 

In the last two decades a great deal of consolidation happened in the union movement. The garment workers union<ref> The successor to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Its membership is shrinking but it has a large treasury.</ref>  and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union), merged in 2004 to create a new union UNITE HERE, with 450,000 members. Then UNITE HERE formed a coalition with the Teamsters, SEIU, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Laborers, and the United Farm Workers (UFW) to form '''Change to Win''' in 2005. It sought to displace the well-established [[AFL-CIO]]. Stern became the spokesman for Change to Win and he challenged AFL-CIO president John Sweeney for national attention.

 

Recently Stern's SEIU has been raiding members from UNITE HERE, thus creating a deep division in the Change to Win coalition.  In 2008 Bruce Raynor of UNITE, the co-president of UNITE HERE declare the UNITE HERE merger a failure, and tried to take UNITE (and its bank) into SEIU. The other co-president John Wilhelm of HERE protested loudly, and the internecine battle was on. Stern He financed and, with Raynor, created a new hotel-restaurant-casino union called 'Workers United" that is part of SEIU and is now openly trying to sign up HERE members.  Raynor resigned from UNITE HERE, becoming president of Workers United and executive vice president of SEIU.

 

Meanwhile the turmoil has given conservatives in Congress another good reason to fight [[EFCA]] (a card-check device that would replace secret union elections), because it would be used in factional fights.

==SEIU Thugs==

==Crime==

On August 7th 2009 three SEIU members were seen attacking a black conservative protester outside a Saint Louis Townhall meeting.<ref>[http://www.tcotreport.com/eyewitness.html Eyewitness Account of Union Thugs Beating Tea Party Attendee in St. Louis], [[The TCOT Report]], August 7, 2009.</ref> The forum on aging called by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Democrat, drew an overflow crowd in a school gym in south St. Louis County, Missouri. Dozens of people, some with signs about the health care debate, were kept out. Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist, was attacked as he handed out yellow flags with "Don’t tread on me" on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was awaiting treatment for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him. Mr. Gladney was attacked by people wearing dark blue SEIU t-shirts as the video that surfaced shows. <ref>[http://sweetness-light.com/archive/seiu-thugs-beat-up-town-hall-protester SEIU Thugs Beat Up Town Hall Protester], ''Sweetness & Light'', August 07, 2009.</ref>  

According to papers filed with the King County Superior Court in [[Seattle]], [[Washington State|Washington]], criminal charges were filed against a member of Service Employees International Union, Local 775 NW for submitting allegedly forged signatures in support of Initiative 1098, a measure to allow [[Income tax|income taxes]] in the state of Washington.<ref>Scott "The Piper" St. Clair. [http://www.libertylive.org/blog_main/post.php?post_id=2298 Criminal charges filed against SEIU member for submitting bogus I-1098 signatures], ''The Official Blog of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation'', September 16, 2010.</ref>

==Barack Obama's Aide==

==Barack Obama's Aide==