SEIU Member's Union Trial Draws Media Attention
Late Wednesday evening scores of workers converged at SEIU Local 221 headquarters to view the trial hearing and to support their fellow union member on trial. This event was attended not just by an estimated fifty supporters but by multiple media organizations as well.
Additional Videos | Latest Video (added Sep. 6th)
[Update: Article about the trial in Today's Local News ]
The "Trial Board" limited to four the number of witnesses each side was allowed to have participate in the trial and imposed a limit on the size of the observer panel to five. These limits left those remaining shut out of their own union office. This left quite a few interview subjects for the press, including the San Diego Union Tribune and Today's Local News, who also were kept out.
Additional Videos:
- Press Kicked Out of SEIU Local 221 Headquarters
- It's a Third World Union
- I just want a full and fair hearing
- No better advocate for the union than Wally
- They keep changing the rules!
- Wally-Be Court
- Background to the story
- Now you know why
- Video will be provided this week [The promise]
- No Video For You [The promise, broken]
The trial concluded after 9pm and the trial board said that they will take ten days before announcing the verdict.
Comments
"Any acts of intimidation or retaliation against our members, staff or leaders are deply offensive to our core values as a union"
- SEIU President Andy Stern
As quoted by L.A. Times' Paul Pringle in today's article on the SEIU scandal in L.A.
Maybe Griffee didn't get the memo.
SEIU Forms Ethics Panel
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The purpose of the committee would be to improve oversight of union leaders.
It also would address complaints that although the union under President Andy Stern has excelled at adding new members and political organizing, it has failed to adequately address issues of ethics and union democracy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122041125395494025.html