two purse swingers go at it again

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notice how these fey scrappers
actually got the job done better

cause there was contention

and still want to have their anti movement
anti unorged wagery
sector
 exclusionary rights 
   preserved

fuck  the   rotten fruits 

"let a  thousand unions contend "


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 SEIU VS AFSCME :

             OR

WHEN   LACE  PANTY UNIONS COLLIDE 

 
 " on the streets of Chicago
 organizers from the two sides
boosted with staff
 from outside the state
became increasingly confrontational
 and tires of AFSCME organizers
 were even slashed

 SEIU, which had nearly 500 organizers
 of its own from around the country
 brought in nearly 200 organizers
 for a weekend 
from several of its allies 
in the contest within the AFL-CIO
UNITE HERE, 
Teamsters,
 Laborers 
and United Food and Commercial Workers. 

After the election had already started
 SEIU filed charges
 with the AFL-CIO 
against AFSCME
 and quickly won a decision
 that it had the exclusive right
 to organize 
based on its having started 
a substantial campaign 
with a good chance
 of winning far earlier
 than AFSCME

 

 The confrontation between AFSCME and SEIU 
is rooted in a recent history 
of conflicts in Illinois
 but it also reflects 
difficult issues in the debate
 about labor movement restructuring
 and there's a good chance
 that the two big unions
 could confront each other again
 in other states 
unless their leaders 
can work out some understanding

 the complex feud in Illinois
 between two unions
 was triggered
 by the defection
 of one SEIU local 
from a hospital contract coalition 
in 2002
 undercutting AFSCME's bargaining
 But it escalated 
through a series of incidents
 in which each union
 blames the other 
for misconduct 
or sabotaging the other

In 2003 it erupted in a battle
 over AFSCME's decision 
to try to organize home healthcare workers
 where  SEIU Local 880 
had long established a presence

 AFSCME criticized
 the governor's executive order
 and eventual legislation
 which made home healthcare workers 
(and eventually, in a separate order
 daycare workers) 
a distinct type of employee 
of the state 
rather than of an independent commission
 as in many other states

 "With the homecare workers
 we feel that SEIU lowered the standards
 of state employees,"
 "They're the only state employees 
without health insurance or pensions,"

 and were excluded 
from state responsibility 
for workers' compensation. 

SEIU responds that with collective bargaining rights, SEIU was able to raise the pre-existing low standards 
and that now the union 
is fighting to expand 
on its gains to win
 insurance and other protections

 There was no way
 the SEIU  argued
 that the state was politically willing
 at a time of extreme budget pressures
 to make these tens of thousands
 of low-wage workers 
full-fledged state employees immediately.

SEIU leaders say 
that the union delayed filing charges
 with the AFL-CIO 
for a variety of reasons:
 They were surprised by AFSCME's success 
in signing petitions; 
they counted on Sweeney 
to act without formal charges;
 they worried that filing charges
 might delay the election.

 But the decision reflects 
complexities of the current national debate
Despite denigrating the effectiveness 
of the AFL-CIO
 and the procedures 
giving organizing rights
 SEIU quickly won a favorable decision
 after it filed its protest

At the same time
 the decision was made
 on the basis of SEIU's being present first
 and both AFSCME and SEIU 
have argued that the criteria 
should include other considerations
 such as whether 
the workers in question 
are part of a union's 
core jurisdiction 
(which both SEIU and AFSCME 
now claim for childcare workers)

 Also, SEIU and its allies 
have argued that the AFL-CIO
 should prevent contracts 
that bring down standards
 for an industry
 but the SEIU and AFSCME debate
 over standards in Illinois reveals 
how complex that decision can be

While there has been a debate
 over how much money to devote 
to organizing and politics

 AFSCME has argued most forcefully
 that political action 
to neutralize employer opposition 
is the most solidly proven route
 to organizing success

 SEIU in Illinois demonstrated 
how that political strategy can work.

By calling in organizers
 from its labor movement allies
 SEIU's campaign also demonstrated
 how unions can come together
 to help each other win 
large-scale organizing victories

 It's the kind of solidarity
 that is essential 
but nearly nonexistent
 last having shown up 
nearly a decade ago
 in support 
of an only partly successful
 United Farm Workers campaign 
to organize strawberry workers
 Unfortunately
 it took a fight between two unions
 not a fight with an employer
 to revive such solidarity this time.

The Illinois victory 
was a great triumph for unions 
in hard times
 a reflection of long and hard organizing work
 and a critical political victory

 It opens a door 
to future victories but also
 unfortunately
 to the potential 
of future conflict between 
at least SEIU and AFSCME 
over childcare workers 
in other states
 unless top union leaders 
can figure out a way to work together

 "I hope these issues can get resolved,"
 says Balanoff
, "and we can all be working 
toward building the labor movement 
       and working together."