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In the wake of a brutal attack on a labor conference in Michigan Saturday night by staff of the Service Employees International Union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Monday called on SEIU President Andrew Stern to "renounce the use of violence, and stop targeting women, nurses, and working people for threats and harassment."
According to Labor Notes, "a recently retired member of United Auto Workers Local 235, Dianne Feeley, suffered a head wound after being knocked to the ground by SEIU International staff and local members. Other conference-goers-members of the Teamsters, UAW, UNITE HERE, International Longshoremen's Association, and SEIU itself-were punched, kicked, shoved, and pushed to the floor."
With stuff like this link has in it I think that this thread will be closed by certain union members and their threats against you for posting such a lying link as they will refer to it. I guess you and I will have to lie low now hoping they don't threaten to visit us with their legal side arms aboard.
"These are the same tactics that Operation Rescue used to bully and intimidate health care providers at Planned Parenthood to the point where such hatred went beyond disagreement and picketing into stalking us at home and later overt violence directed at providers like me in our own work places. As a nurse practitioner, it is unconscionable to see this level of hatred directed at a peaceable assembly of labor activists and their hosts," Lewis wrote."
Why are you posting an article from Date: 15 Apr 2008 ?
Obviously, this is over by now. What is your point?
did you note the word 'history' in the title?
SEIU is currently in the spotlight for similar acts of violence, in case you haven't been watching the news lately.
Protesters demand justice for man injured at health care town hall in St. Louis - Kansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1373035.html - broken link)
With stuff like this link has in it I think that this thread will be closed by certain union members and their threats against you for posting such a lying link as they will refer to it. I guess you and I will have to lie low now hoping they don't threaten to visit us with their legal side arms aboard.
Lay off the drugs. They're making you and roysoldboy paranoid.
which drugs that i don't take should i continue to refrain from taking?
obama and SEIU pres. stern have a very cozy relationship. interesting, don't you think?
Quote:
The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama, according to the union. Stern said the group deployed 100,000 volunteers during the campaign, including 3,000 who worked on the election full time.
Now in the White House, Obama has continued to derive political benefits from the union. It was the SEIU's health chief, Dennis Rivera, who helped bring industry to the table to start talks on a healthcare overhaul.
"These are the same tactics that Operation Rescue used to bully and intimidate health care providers at Planned Parenthood to the point where such hatred went beyond disagreement and picketing into stalking us at home and later overt violence directed at providers like me in our own work places. As a nurse practitioner, it is unconscionable to see this level of hatred directed at a peaceable assembly of labor activists and their hosts," Lewis wrote."
Do you understand the difference between punching, kicking, pushing, and the like compared to a group of Evangelicals standing across the street from your house quietly praying? If they do something you believe to be illegal, call the police. And NO, praying is not illegal.
Do you understand the difference between punching, kicking, pushing, and the like compared to a group of Evangelicals standing across the street from your house quietly praying? If they do something you believe to be illegal, call the police. And NO, praying is not illegal.
Uh, you didn't read the entirety of a 3-line quote?
"These are the same tactics that Operation Rescue used to bully and intimidate health care providers at Planned Parenthood to the point where such hatred went beyond disagreement and picketing into stalking us at home and later overt violence directed at providers like me in our own work places. As a nurse practitioner, it is unconscionable to see this level of hatred directed at a peaceable assembly of labor activists and their hosts," Lewis wrote."
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