{"id":1099,"date":"2016-08-25T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2016-08-25T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:15:44","slug":"obama-approved-union-group-abusing-janitors-its-time-to-clean-up-union-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/08\/obama-approved-union-group-abusing-janitors-its-time-to-clean-up-union-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama-approved union group abusing janitors: it\u2019s time to clean up union corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.5% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BIlAaw8hyKF\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">A photo posted by Kuniko (@kunikonyc)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-01T19:42:57+00:00\">Aug 1, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, unsuspecting tourists might see 25 foot tall inflatable rats hovering over the historical buildings like hideous floats in a parade. \u00a0These rats \u2014 with sharp, buck teeth, menacing eyes, festering stomach sores, and their own Facebook page \u2013 are strategically placed next to businesses which don\u2019t use union labor. The message is clear: unions will not make life easy on you when you don\u2019t comply with the union\u2019s demands.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">New shenanigans in Texas make you wonder when America will tired of the unions being such bullies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professional Janitorial Services (PJS) of Houston, Texas is a private company which cleans offices for organizations in their area. But the nation\u2019s second-largest union, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) figured out the janitorial service wasn\u2019t union, and they weren\u2019t happy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the SEIU placed its giant rats and held rallies outside the locations cleaned by PJS employees, they also wrote to local civic and political leaders, falsely accusing PJS of breaking the law and treating its employees poorly. After trying unsuccessfully to force the janitorial company to join the service employee\u2019s union, they settled instead for merely bullying the company and tarnishing their reputation. PJS says that SEIU filed false complaints on behalf of its workers with the National Labor Relations Board and leaked those \u201ccomplaints\u201d to the cleaning service\u2019s customers. This included accusations of wage violations and employees filing class-action lawsuits. The SEIU also had a habit of surprise inspections, bringing with them employees from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). These visits, clearly meant to intimidate, were directed by Obama\u2019s Department of Labor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And boy do they have the influence. \u00a0It just so happens that SEIU, has a powerful ally in President Barack Obama. Before he was president, Obama was an organizer for SEIU Chicago Local 1. \u00a0As a senator, he helped get SEIU into the Houston area with one goal at the time \u2014 a mission shared with the National Democratic Committee \u2014 \u201cTurn Texas Blue.\u201d Later, when then-Senator Obama was campaigning for the presidency, he promised continued support to the union\u2019s efforts after he made it into the White House. \u00a0(I guess that\u2019s one promise he kept!)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And that\u2019s the real problem with unions. \u00a0When unions were created, employers really exploited workers without any safeguards against share cropping, child labor, dangerous mining conditions, or even slavery. \u00a0Unions combatted these deplorable conditions and fought for the American worker. \u00a0But times have changed, in part because they were successful. They served their purpose. Now, with (thankfully) less need, people stopped joining them. To combat shrinking membership rolls, unions got political, eventually becoming an unofficial arm of the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">SEIU\u2019s agenda is pretty plain. \u00a0Through appeal after appeal, SEIU has used its political influence to continue abusing PJS for the past nine years. (Lawyers have a joke, \u201cIn America, you always have your decade in court.\u201d) Thankfully, the Texas Supreme Court denied the union\u2019s final appeal to avoid a defamation suit by PJS that could destroy the union, and the trial is moving forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the end, it appears as though PJS has a strong case against the federal union\u2026 plus they have common sense and just plain ole math on their side. \u00a0Turns out, labor unions are costing American taxpayers dearly. \u00a0Their politics and extraordinary demands have already ruined the American auto industry, public education, and more. \u00a0When it comes to a choice between excellence and protecting the union\u2019s interests, they choose against both employers and their employees every time. \u00a0It\u2019s downright un-American to prohibit companies from managing their own employees, when the employees themselves make it clear they want no part of the union. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As this case proceeds to trial, expect some very ugly facts about union behavior to become public. \u00a0The union has fought hard, all the way to the Texas Supreme Court to try to prevent disclosure of their thuggish tactics and bullying. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s time to free both workers and employers from SEIU thuggery. \u00a0That\u2019s why every American should be pulling for the janitors in this case: it\u2019s time to clean up this union corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama-approved unions are thugs, plain and simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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