by Bob Walsh
Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 is I believe the
largest single public employee union in the formerly great state of
California. The membership elected a new president, Richard Louis
Brown, whose primary campaign position was to get SEIU out of politics
and concentrate on representational issues.
Brown
has been the president about two months. His 100,000 members cover an
extremely wide range of civil service employees in many departments and
agencies. His own board (60 people) is now moving to strip him of his
power and replace him with somebody chosen by the board, presumably so
they can keep sucking political donation money from the membership to
support liberal candidates and causes.
If
the move is successful Brown would have no ability to run contract
negotiations, preside over board meetings, hire and fire staff, make
committee appointments or serve as the organization spokesman. All
these jobs would move over to a newly created Chairman, who would be
elected by the board by majority vote.
It
is almost impossible to actually recall the president. They would have
to get 10% of the voting membership, about 55,000 people, within 30
days to recall him. Since less than 8,000 people actually voted in the
election it is unlikely in the extreme they could manage that.
The
board is attempting to force Brown to call a special board meeting to
consider the idea. Thus far he has been supremely uninterested in doing
so. The board is threatening legal action to compel him to call the
meeting
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