Cockroaches, Harassment, & Extortion: Food Company Sues SEIU Over Bully Tactics
- Posted on March 22, 2011 at 2:57pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Cockroaches, bugs, mold, and flies. These are just some of the props and rumors allegedly employed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) against the American unit of French catering company Sodexo. And the company’s had enough.
Fed up with tactics that include intimidation, extortion, and yes, sabotage that apparently includes plastic cockroaches, Sodexo filed a lawsuit against the SEIU last week under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
“We work constructively with unions every day but the SEIU has crossed the line by breaking the law,” Robert Stern, general counsel for Sodexo USA, said in a statement. “We will not tolerate the SEIU’s tactics any longer.”
SEIU has been fighting to represent 80,000 hourly Sodexo employees, which is above and beyond the 180,000 hourly employees who are already union members. The union regularly stages protests against the company to make its point, like this one last fall on the campus of George Mason University. The video alleges SEIU bused in protesters, who can be heard chanting, among other things, “As long as it takes, whatever it takes, we’ll be in your face!”
Another video purportedly shows former SEIU president Andy Stern being arrested outside Sodexo’s Maryland headquarters last April:
That’s also the same protest that saw actor Danny Glover arrested in an act of pre-arranged civil disobedience:
“This is about protecting the Company’s business and the rights of our employees to vote freely about union representation,” Sodexo’s Stern added. “Their campaign jeopardizes our Company and our employees’ jobs, and ultimately would rob our employees of their right to vote.”
Sodexo’s complaint, filed in federal court in Alexandria, VA, alleges acts of SEIU blackmail, vandalism, trespass, harassment, and lobbying law violations designed to steer business away from, and harm, the company.
And just what exactly might those acts look like? Sodexo gives the details:
- Throwing plastic roaches onto food being served by Sodexo USA at a high profile event;
- Scaring hospital patients by insinuating that Sodexo USA food contained bugs, rat droppings, mold and flies;
- Lying to interfere with Sodexo USA business and sneaking into elementary schools to avoid security;
- Violating lobbying laws to steer business away from Sodexo USA, even at the risk of costing Sodexo USA employees their jobs; and
- Harassing Sodexo USA employees by threatening to accuse them of wrongdoing.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the SEIU and its executives, as well as monetary damages to be determined by the court.
This isn’t the first story to feature SEIU this week. Not only did video surface of union members storming a bank headquarters in Pennsylvania, but The Blaze uncovered one former SEIU official’s plan to collapse the U.S. economy.
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Comments (387)
tarpon
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:20pmLooks like your standard racketeering to me.
Report Post »GABBYHAYES
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:18pmI was a union member for 15 years. Now I’m in for busting every one of them. They brought it on themselves.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:00pmI was once a union member also. But after being threatened by the union numerous times for working too hard, I will never work for another union again.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:09pmTaxPayer:
That’s hilarious and reminds me of the scene in Big where Jon Lovitz tells Tom Hanks, “You trying to get us all fired? Slow down!!!”
Even though that type of thing never happens in white collar work (like the movie attempted to portray (intentionally or unintentionally), it was still funny to me because I put it into a more accurate perspective by attaching the skit to union work.
Report Post »Chasvs391
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:18pm“SEIU’s issues have been my issues”! “I’ve been with you since before my campaign”. “I am SEIU”
Report Post »Barack Hussein Obama! Union THUG in Chief!
danfinrud
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:16pmI wish the company can catch the people doing this. ANd TERMINATE them. Sorry you no longer work for us. You represent out company. Not your union. If you hurt the name of the company. Even if you have seniority you are fired. I would love to see people held accountable for thier actions.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:16pmHow long will it take Holder to make sure that lawsuit is thrown out?
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:49pmThose wheels are already in motion
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:14pmit’s time for companies to stand up to these thugs! Though I doubt they will get much help for bo’s Dept. of INjustice!
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:11pmsue for every nickel, and all their childrens and grandchildrens nickels
Report Post »en2deep
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:11pmHow can you have employees if there is no business. To say “up with the workers down with Sodexo” is foolish,you can’t have one without the other.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:10pmLooks like EVERYONE is getting fed up with the Unions and their dirty tricks and harassment!
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:10pmIt’s high time someone do this, company or not.
These commie enemy within Unions have to go- at the least be diminished as much as possible with their grasp on power.
Fight back we all must…enough is enough!
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 11:18pmIf people would stand up to these thugs they wouldn’t have a chance. Too many just bury their head in the sand and hope these thugs will go away, and that is what they are counting on. We the people have to stand up for freedom and civil rights or they will be taken away by communists like SEIU or whatever they happen to call themselves that day.
Report Post »Blazer334
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:10pmHmmmm…So this is how the “Employee Free Choice Act” works….
Report Post »Big Toe
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:07pmBut these unions are here for YOUR benefit. Aren’t they great. Look how nice they act when you don’t want to see their way. These are thugs, communists and thieves. And these same “Jackwagons” are actually running our country. This is why they will ultimately lose a great amout of workers. Can’t wait till these fecal matter slugs DIE.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:06pmWhat a pile of losers, huh?
When I see these types of people ranting and carrying on, it reminds me of a third world nation. Pretty sad because I never thought ever say something like that.
Report Post »suran
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:06pmThrow these creeps in jail too – that‘s all they’re good for. Lowlifes.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:06pmrofl … about time someone pushed back isn’t it!
Report Post »DRAGONSEED
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 3:52amYes.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:05pmHow much longer are we supposed to tolerate these sort of tactics? SEIU has gone beyond the pale with their actions. I hope SODEXO prevails and forces the union to stand down. Unfortunately the costs of this action are being paid by the Union members. I wonder how many of them support their unions despicable actions and howmany are just being used??
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:05pmGood for them (the company). If we don’t soon stand up to these outrageous, duplicitous COMMUNIST UNIONISTS, the country is DONE! Let’s do it…..NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:04pm.
Report Post »Saul Alynski would be proud of the SEIU
JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:54pmI think we should seriously think about digging up ole Saul and kicking his ass for good measure. That ***** has left a legacy of crap forty feet high.
Special message to those who hate this country
Here is an inner tube, pick an ocean and get out
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 7:18pm@johnQ
Ya made me laugh! Great mental imagery. And I agree….kick his boney arse just on principle.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 1:02amSaul isn’t the author of such tactics…it comes from their common boss…Satan
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:04pmNearly all unions today are in violation under RICO laws.
Report Post »MAJORMINOR
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:16pmAgreed…AFL-CIO, Teamsters, IBEW, and how many more can we think of?
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:03pmOh these people have to go. I don’t know how much more of this crap I can take. I don’t know if we will be able to survive another year of the Obamanuts and their regime of socialist, marxist community organizing hooo haaaa. Please God deliver us from this nightmare.
Report Post »DRAGONSEED
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 3:55amAmen.
Report Post »jhonjhonson1
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:03pmGet a life , losers!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:42pmLearn to spell your name!
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:02pmAnd it took the French??????
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:09pmYou know that it has to be bad when the French are ready to go to war…….
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:09pmEven the French have more leadership than the USA these days… ow, that stings.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:17pmThe French have been doing a lot recently haven’t they. Might they have actually grown a pair?
Report Post »NRABIBLETHUMPER
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:17pmSeems were behind the French these days, huh? France 2 USA (under Obummer) 0.
Report Post »justice
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:02pmLooks like Andys eating well at the white house. His gut looks good from the side. Bunch of Morons. America is up to your Corruption ways. You **** roaches cannot hide from us anymore Morons.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:05pmJUSTICE
You are correct!
The right has been too decent and polite for so long. Now that SEIU,Jessie Jackson,Al Sharpton, and all the other “Usual Suspects” are getting blowback from the “POLITE” Right…,they do not know what to do.
They look like total asses as they undergo their death throes! UGH!
Report Post »It’s all about the COHONES and the CHUTZPAH!
I hope the Republican candidate for 2012 has BOTH!
RedPillPatriot
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:10pmThis makes me wish Evolution was real, Oh well God will take care of all of these dopes!
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:00pmSEIU should be investigated for violation of the RICO act but Holder and Obama will interfere.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:08pmRight !
Report Post »123gone
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:16pmHolder and Obama should be listed as co-conspirators.
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:25pmThe only passionate speech I‘ve heard out of Obama’s hole was when he was speaking to SEIU members telling them he will always fight for them and pledged his allegiance to the group. I wonder what this country is going to look like by the end of the year?
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:09pmWell what do we expect from these two in the WH.
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Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 2:59pmSEIU…breaking the law? How can this be?
HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:04pmBecause, as we all know, the best way to achieve fairness in balanced civilized negotiations over benefits is to toss cockroaches at the other side…
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:05pm.
Report Post »Saul Alynski (Rules for Radicals author) would be proud
CatB
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:05pmAbout time .. people should start suing them .. keep them in court 24/7 for the tactics and out and out illegal activities of these thugs!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:07pmThrow them in jail, and disband the union. These people really suck.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:08pmAdd insult to injury, Sodexo is still going to be forced to pay wages and benefits to 180,000 unionized employees. I hope this lawsuit opens the door for them to attempt to deunionize it’s entire workforce. These SEIU thugs would get what they deserved, if in trying to add 80k to thier bankroll, they lost more than double that amount.
HillBillySam1
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:12pmIntimidation. Extortion. Sabotage. Look for the Union Label……..
Report Post »ClassicalLiberal
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:13pmShowing their corrupt practices the best route for exposing these thugs and the beauty of free speech is that you can tell the good guys from the bad. Let them speak and we will expose!
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:15pmCmon they are innocent… NOT!
Yeaaa go after them at least one organization has the guts to take the fight to the radicals. Sodexo stepping up to the plate and going after SEIU civil within the rule of law, is a shining example of what must be done against these radical organizations in the US.
They could have done similar acts but where would it get them other than a “they said they said” situation. SEIU was more than likely looking for a fight but Sodexo stood their ground and said okay lets play ball and sues them! This is how you get to these guys legally and go after their wallet! More companies being treated like this need to speak up and go after the SEIU’s of the nation. SEIU once again delivers more proof of how the unions have outlived their usefulness.
Its time to disband the unions AND create laws that protect workers rights and cover all the good that unions have done over time. I know many will say unions have done good, and they have but in this day and age it isnt about the worker, product, service etc. Its all about “ME” what the union must have or else. That isnt what they were created for, that arent here to bully and “setup” other companies organizations, attend radical rallies, or as we have recently learned (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-the-lefts-economic-terrorism-playbook-the-chase-campaign-for-a-coalition-of-unions-community-groups-lawmakers-and-students-to-take-down-us-capitalism-and-redistribute-wealth-power/) to plot the demise of the US economic system.
I think if lawmakers would just smarten up and pass new laws to protect workers it would eleiminate the needs for unions. Look at it this way, its like an assembly line it works better and more efficiently in some instances with a robot vs a human!!! Its time for the “robot”,aka new legislation, to come in and do what the unions use to do!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:15pmI don’t think that I have EVER had anything good to say about the French. In fact I know I haven’t. I am glad the company is fighting the thug union. I hope they win but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the white flags all over corporate headquarters.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:20pmWhat amazing video of Mr Stern (Workers of the world unite) being led away in cuffs. Ahhh the cupids and harp music……
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:26pmI will NEVER and I mean NEVER purchase anything with a Union Label
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:33pmStill should be called the S.C.U.M.
Socialists
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Unrest &
Mayhem
Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:36pmI heard about this on the radio last night. That is so low that it doesn’t even deserve a “50-cent word,” as my daddy used to say. So, I’ll just say that their behavior just pure SUCKS!
The SEIU should have KNOWN they were going to get the dog crap sued out of them!
But, then you can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »libbsrnuts
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:38pmConnect the dots:
Report Post »- Obama meets with SEIU Andy Stern more than anyone else – What are they discussing?
- Obama speaks to AFL-CIO Richard Trumpka every day – Why?
- Obama does not consult with the majority of cabinet members in the first two years – Why not?
- Obama creates “alternate” government with multitude of “czars” – Not accountable to Congress.
- Obama’s agencies, like EPA, set regulations voted down by Congress – Doesn’t need Congress
- Obama forces healthcare vote against public will – Doesn’t need the American people.
- Obama’s stimulus “takes over” the student loan program putting 2,500 people out of work – Why?
- The list goes on and on.
When you hear the plans of the unions and tie in so many other decisions, it all makes sense.
abc
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:40pmWhere is the SEIU side of the story? The above posting is mainly taken word-for-word from the Sodexo corporate press release, although the Blaze doesn’t tell you that. Don’t you care that only one side is being presented here? How intellectually dishonest of the Blaze…
Here is the other side omitted by the Blaze:
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a statement by Service Employees International Union on the lawsuit filed by Sodexo:
The suit filed by French company Sodexo is bogus litigation meant to deprive workers of the right to bargain collectively with their employers and undermines the middle class in the United States. It is not about which union represents Sodexo workers, but about whether Sodexo workers can bargain collectively at all.
Collective bargaining and union representation are under attack in the United States. Already, Gov. Scott Walker has severely limited the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin. Conservative groups, such as the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, are financing and running campaigns to undermine unions in the United States and end collective bargaining for U.S. workers. Hunton & Williams, Sodexo’s law firm, is at the forefront of the assault on American workers. Public documents show that Hunton & Williams retained three cybersecurity vendors to run a “dirty tricks” campaign designed to discredit SEIU and others. The proposed tactics included using fraudulent documents to discredit members of the labor movement and using illegal tactics to spy on SEIU and other “enemies” of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Nowhere in the discussions made public did Hunton & Williams question these tactics.
Over the past year, Sodexo has engaged in anti-union activity both here and in other countries to stop their employees from gaining the right to collectively bargain. In Colombia, they failed to enter into collective bargaining discussions with workers despite an order by the Colombian minister of Social Protection to do so by Feb. 13. In the Dominican Republic, they failed to attend mediation called by the Secretary for Labor’s Director of Mediation and Conciliation to establish collective bargaining rights for workers. In Morocco, workers who have spoken out about unfair labor conditions have been fired, interrogated and spied upon.
In the United States, Sodexo recently agreed to settle a free speech case before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Under the settlement agreement, the company is required to issue a new media policy that does not infringe upon the right of workers to speak to the public about their working conditions and workplace issues. Other charges being investigated include an illegal firing, interrogation, surveillance and threats. This activity is the basis of at least five unfair labor practice charges against Sodexo that are pending before the NLRB. In seven other cases, Sodexo—faced with the threat of government action—settled a wide range of charges related to unlawful interference with workers’ legally protected rights.
SOURCE Service Employees International Union
Marylou7
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:46pmThese people are the lowest of the low. There is no way I could ever belong to an organization that resorted to these tactics, disgusting.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:46pm@Ironmaan
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:10pm
“Ooooooo. I love it, hit em in the wallet. Maybe they’ll think twice next time before resorting to these dishonest tactics”
Confucius say………..
“In order for one to think twice, he must first think once”
And we all know that is way over their pay grade.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:55pm@ABC
Think your cut & paste job will really make us feel bad for the poor little working people? You’re wasting your time, go get a job. Do something productive.
Danny Glover……..what a POS Like he really cares……..It’s just the only way he get any face time anymore. So sad
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:02pmI have got a great idea…why Obama has not thought of it….well, he is all high and up there kind of guy, however, since unemployment is high around 9.8%…do like Reagan….fire them…let em go get in their picked lines…..I bet a lot of unemployed all around the country would be glad to snatch up one of those jobs. The company reduces its cost, making it more competitive and everyone is happy. Yeah, sounds a little scabby…but I would not go on strike if I were them……bad timing. Oh, and by the way, let the unions pay their unemployment benefits as part of the deal…they told them to, its their fault.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:04pmTreason is on everyones mind on issues like this. I looked into it when formulating my Call To Action: Soros Is An Enemy of the State
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Treason test pertaining to SEIU:
Under Article 3 Section 3 of the US Constitution it reads:
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.”
No we do not have an act of war by SEIU or those in attendance BUT an act to undermine the US government through the financial system; an attack, and that it what it is, on a major bank which could have a horrific domino effect with other institution (as we have learned since ‘08). Wikipedia reports on treason “However, Congress has, at times, passed statutes creating related offenses that undermine the government or the national security,” it goes on to list examples of sedition and espionage.
Sedition and espionage are not included in Art. 3 Sec. 3 of the Constitution but Congress had the power to try people for those acts under the Article of Treason and some have been found guilty. Wikipedia explains “The Constitution does not itself create the offense; it only restricts the definition (the first paragraph), permits Congress to create the offense, and restricts any punishment for treason to only the convicted (the second paragraph). The crime is prohibited by legislation passed by Congress.”
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~
So could Congress act on this under Treason Act? I say yes….
What say you?
TurnRight
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:06pmI’ve been saying it for a long time. “The only way to get rid of the Unions is to play their game and Sue them”. More business need to get on board, However, unfortunately the Unions have a lot of Judges in their pockets.
Report Post »titan
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:10pmtime to end the unions and kick them to the curb! when is, enough is enough?
Report Post »abc
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:15pmBilly, I do have a job. And statistically speaking, it is likely that I make a lot more than you. So please spare me your put-downs. Even biased sites like this one ought to at least pretend to understand the other side of every argument they seek to make. Otherwise, you look like a fool.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:19pmSEIU is probably the worst of all the unions. There were purple shirts everywhere in Madison, yet they don’t have any dealings at all with what was going on. These guys are the most violent of them all, and that’s saying a lot. This is another great video ahowing their tactics.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpib_kd1ww
BothPartiesAreCorrupt
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:23pm@ABC There are two problems with this article. They don’t address the accusations at all. They claim all these things against Sodexo, but don’t address what they might have done. It’s like a child saying, “but, but, but, YOU DID THIS!” when they are caught red-handed.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:23pmWhat happens when the AMERICAN JUDICIARY forms a Union and insists on Collective Barganing Rights? Don’t laugh; if they were not already able to STEAL sufficient funds to be multi-millionaires,
Report Post »they would already have done it. Chief Supreme Court Judge John Roberts was recently reported to have over TWO BILLION DOLLARS in a Vatican Bank Account. You won’t hear THAT on the Main Stream Media, will you?
jzs
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:26pmSodexo needs a little oversight. Their record shows an indifference to protecting the safety of their own employees in order to increase profits.
•In September 2001, a Sodexo laundry worker at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami was killed after he fell to his death in an elevator shaft while operating a “tow motor”. OSHA later cited Sodexo for serious violation of the OSHA standard on training for handling heavy power equipment.
•In May 2005, 45-year old Derrike A. Carter, a Sodexo employee working at Tuskegee University (Alabama) died following electrocution at the main power plant of the campus. Sodexo was later cited by OSHA for three electrical safety violations.
•In 2005 and 2006, the OSHA issued citations concerning serious health and safety violations for Sodexo laundry facilities in Cleveland, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA, including failure to train workers about deadly infectious disease hazards, toxic chemical hazards or procedures to prevent amputations and other severe injuries from heavy equipment.
•In May 2008, OSHA cited Sodexo’s Buffalo NY laundry for multiple “repeat violations,” for some of the same hazards cited years earlier in Sodexo’s Cleveland and Pittsburgh laundries, including exposure to severe, life-threatening hazards like electrocution, infectious diseases, and being caught in unguarded or unexpectedly energized driers and other machinery. The total penalties were $102,000 (later reduced to $32,000).•In December 2009, OSHA’s inspector returned to the Pittsburgh plant after a worker filed a complaint, and again found violations of OSHA’s standards to protect workers from infectious diseases – a critical issue in factory-sized laundries handling thousands of pounds of contaminated, soiled linen from hospitals. Once again, as in Pittsburgh in 2006 and in Buffalo in 2008, OSHA cited Sodexo for violations such as failing to properly provide exposed workers with the required opportunity to receive essential vaccinations against bloodborne disease. The penalties again involved thousands of dollars.
•From October 2006 to January 2010, California‘s state OSHA program cited Sodexo food service management for violating California’s basic standard on “injury and illness prevention programs” – identifying the same or related violations at four locations — after OSHA inspectors investigated severe worker injuries, including in some cases severe burns from uncovered hot cooking oil and hot water, severe fractures from equipment failures, and exposure to toxic chemicals that can cause asthma attacks.6 In some cases, OSHA also cited Sodexo for failing to provide service workers with even the basic protection like an eyewash station near to sites where workers must handle industrial-strength acids that could cause blindness if splashed into their eyes. Despite the serious hazards linked to these chemicals, Sodexo continues to force its employees to use these chemicals today.
I don’t think the people employed at Sodexo think they are as great as you guys seem to. Neither does OSHA.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:31pmLenin freed criminals to do his bidding, creating the atmosphere for him to clampdown as the accepted totalitarian leader/savior and the masses did not question till it was to late…
Castro did much the same, with his fast response thugs which tamp down any uprisings. They’re almost the model of ACORN/SEIU thug squads, who flood people’s homes or business.
Welcome to the Marxist world, If this is not put a stop to and soon we will head down the road of failed empires…!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:34pmThink Sodexo will get a fair trial? I hope SEIU has to pay millions upon millions.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:36pmTake em down boys!!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:40pmSEIU breaking the law and being sued under RICO? Hopefully they will get smart and start lining up all the unions and their thugs and suing every one of them under RICO.
Report Post »rekindle america
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:42pmI am not shocked or surprised this is what you get from a bunch of low life SEIU members and representatives . They keep trying to create a controversy and problems for people who just don’t want to get involved with them or their tactics .
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:43pm@ABC
Wow, looks like I struck a nerve.
That’s a really big assumption you are making there. I never said how much I make.
If “statistically speaking”, you make THAT much money, and you are so sympathetic to the unions, you most likely are one of the overpaid union thugs yourself. Or you are one of their lawyers.
S.C.U.M.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:45pmGood! I hope they go to jail and I hope the court orders SEIU to pay them a fortune in damages and lost profits.
SEIU are nothing but a bunch of communist thugs trying to gobble up all of America’s wealth.
Now it will be interesting to see WHO the judge in the courtroom will be. If it is a left wing radical legislate-from-the-bench judge, then there could be a problem.
Report Post »HARDWORKPAYS
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:49pmIf these protestors would spend as much energy on creating, starting and running their own businesses, they would be rich in no time. It is still possible in this country….. for now anyway.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:52pmToo funny JZS.
OSHA would cite you for “leaning forward” to much while you typed that up.
Report Post »They are one of the big reasons we don’t make much stuff here anymore.
They should be the next to be de-funded.
vic138
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:55pmI hope they get an honest judge.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:16pm@82dAirborne
Report Post »Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:15pm
I don’t think that I have EVER had anything good to say about the French. In fact I know I haven’t. I am glad the company is fighting the thug union. I hope they win but I wouldn’t be surprised to see the white flags all over corporate headquarters.
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But 82, I’m French….(and Scotch-Irish).
Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:20pm@libbsrnuts
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:38pm
Take a long look at that SEIU logo.
Star and sickle?
Report Post »JRserious
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:26pm@ ABC,
Report Post »what possible “statistic” would tell you what another person makes?
you seem like a pompous arse to me. we all know what seiu and acorn are about. they are one of the main contributing factors to the current economic woes we are experiencing. their time will soon be over. i used to enjoy seing danny glover in movies, but i can’t stand to look at his face or hear his smug voice anymore. shame when hollywood people can’t keep their mouth shut off camera, it ruins good movies. McCarthy was right, hollywood is stinking with lousy commies.
Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:27pm@abc
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 3:40pm
Where is the SEIU side of the story? The above posting is mainly taken word-for-word from the Sodexo corporate press release, although the Blaze doesn’t tell you that. Don’t you care that only one side is being presented here? How intellectually dishonest of the Blaze…
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Oh, stuff it, ABC!
The SEIE has demonstrated what kind of people they are. They are hostile. They get on busses and travel from state to state IN THEIR TEE SHIRTS PROVIDED FOR THEM and get into people’s faces. The SEIU has shown its BUTT!!! And they got CAUGHT! They’re Communists working for the Communist Democratic Party and partly funded by money-bags George Soros, who has made it his project for 2011 to overthrow the government of the United States.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 5:34pm@abc
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 4:15pm
Billy, I do have a job. And statistically speaking, it is likely that I make a lot more than you. So please spare me your put-downs. Even biased sites like this one ought to at least pretend to understand the other side of every argument they seek to make. Otherwise, you look like a fool.
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Statistically speaking, you probably are on the government dole like the rest of the gimme-liberals.
There is no “other side” of the argument: SEIU stepped over the line and got caught! There is evidence against them. They are going to get the dog mess sued out of them!!
Hahahahahaha! Now who looks like the fool?
Report Post »ROFLMAO!!
swehes
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:15pmThe Unions should be sued. Unions is passed their usefulness. I hope you click on my name and read. :) looking for like minded people with some web skills. (or no skills if that is the case)
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:18pmFYI for you union haters. You’re in good company. Stalin and Hitler also hated unions, because people who get together and speak with one voice have power (like the Tea Party).
Ohio’s Sherrod Brown took the floor of the U.S. Senate and said, “I look back at history,” he said, “and some of the worst governments we’ve ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions. Hitler didn’t want unions. Stalin didn’t want unions. (Former Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak didn’t want independent unions. These autocrats in history don’t want independent unions.”
The statement was rated true by politifact.com:
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2011/mar/08/sherrod-brown/sen-sherrod-brown-says-hitler-stalin-and-mubarek-a/
Congratulations Blazers! You have the political savvy of Hitler and Stalin!
Report Post »UncleBuck
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:27pmWow the French or a Union whose side to take…. I guess anything is better than a Union… Send ‘em all packing!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 6:39pmBreaking the law and sabotaging the company who pays them. How stupid can you be?
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 7:14pmGo on you SODEXO! Time for others to join you in stopping S(hove)E(veryone)I(nto)U(nions)!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 7:14pmThe SEIU is right on this one , one time I bought Sodexo food & I found Andy Stern in it . EWWWWWWWWW YUKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Report Post »heyjms
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 7:20pmIsn’t there a point in life or an age you hit where you grow out of these childish games???
Report Post »Packer-dad
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:01pm@ abc-boho
Report Post »@ jzr-osha no good
grandmaof5
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:05pmI wish all unionized companies would just say “enough is enough” and throw the bums out. The ones who want to work can re-apply and get their jobs back at the same pay and benefit structure and the rest can take a hike. That should keep the unions out of the faces of government and where it should be – doing their jobs (like I think they really work for someone other than SEIU). Cities should raise the fines for arrests and permit prices should skyrocket. If they want to get closer to a balanced budget I’m sure the union thugs would be glad to help spread the wealth.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:08pm@ABC > The Blaze is the ANTIDOTE to the mainstream media who would run only YOUR side of the story. Therefore not giving the SEIU version of the facts is not biased, it’s restorative of balance and truth.
Report Post »@JZS > You provide accusations and point to abuses. I hope all those cases are resolved satisfactorily. However, complaining that the other side did something bad too (for which you show they have already been held accountable) does not excuse bad behavior from your side.
Also, Politifact is missing the single most important and key element of context possible in the Hitler and Stalin situations. It is true that they both spoke out against unions, but HOW they wanted to get rid of them is what’s important. They were both trying to WIDEN unions into a SINGLE NATIONAL union. Any individual unions that wouldn’t go along with collapsing into the nationalized “workers” was hammered upon, but it WASN’T because Stalin and Hitler were anti-union per se. State control of industry, like you are arguing for, is the MOST EXTREME kind of unionism possible.
Your sophistry doesn’t work here on the Blaze, JZS. It just keeps getting exposed. Give up.
mere citizen
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:09pm@JZS, you are quite uninformed actually. Hitler thought unions quite useful as a vehicle to get to his ultimate aims, let’s see what Hitler actually thought of unions and why.
Mein Kampf, volume II, Chapter XII-
THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE MOVEMENT compelled us in 1922 to take a position on a question which even today is not entirely solved.
In our attempts to study those methods which could most easily open up to the movement the way to the hearts of the masses, we always encountered the objection that the worker could never be entirely with us because the defense of his interests in the purely occupational and economic field lay in the hands of our enemies and their organizations.
This objection, of course, had much to be said for it. It was a matter of general belief that the worker who was active in a factory could not even exist unless he became a member of a union. Not only that his occupational interests seemed protected by this alone, but his position in the factory for any length of time was conceivable only as a union member. The majority of the workers were organized in trade unions. These, on the whole, had fought out the wage struggles and concluded the agreements which assured the worker of a certain income. Without doubt the results of these struggles benefited all the workers in the factory, and inevitably conflicts of conscience arose, especially for the decent man, if he pocketed the wage which the unions had won him, but remained aloof from the struggle.
It was hard to speak of these problems with the average bourgeois employer. They neither had (or perhaps wanted to have) any understanding for the material side of the question nor for the moral side. Finally, their own supposed economic interests argue from the start against any organizational grouping of the workers under them, and for this reason alone most of them can hardly form an unprejudiced judgment. Here, as so often, it is therefore necessary to turn to outsiders who do not succumb to the temptation of not seeing the forest for the trees. These, with good will, will much more easily achieve understanding for a matter which in any event is among the most important of our present and future life.
In the first volume I have expressed myself with regard to the nature and purpose, and the necessity, of trade unions. There I espoused the viewpoint that, as long as no change in the attitude of employer to worker is brought about either by state measures (which for the most part, however, are fruitless) or by a universal new education, there remains nothing for the worker to do but stand on his rights as an equal contracting party and defend his own interests in economic life. I further emphasized that safeguarding his interests in this way was entirely compatible with a whole national community if it can prevent social injustices which must subsequently bring about excessive damage to the entire community of a people. I further declared that this necessity must be considered to prevail as long as there exist among employers men who, left to themselves, not only have no feeling for social duties, but not even for the most primitive human rights; and from this I drew the inference that, once such a self-defense is regarded as necessary, its form can reasonably exist only in a grouping of workers on a trade-union basis.
And in the year 1922 nothing changed in this general conception of mine. But now it was necessary to seek a clear and definite formulation of our attitude toward these problems. It was not acceptable to content ourselves in future with mere knowledge; it was necessary to draw practical inferences from it.
We required the answer to the following questions:
1. Are trade unions necessary?
2. Should the NSDAP itself engage in trade-union activitv or direct its members to such activity in any form?
3. What must be the nature of a National Socialist trade union! What are our tasks and aims?
4. How shall we arrive at such unions?
I believe that I have adequately answered the first question. As things stand today, the trade unions in my opinion cannot be dispensed with. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions of the nation’s economic life. Their significance lies not only in the social and political field, but even more in the general field of national politics. A people whose broad masses, through a sound trade-union movement, obtain the satisfaction of their living requirements and at the same time an education, will be tremendously strengthened in its power of resistance in the struggle for existence.
Above all, the trade unions are necessary as foundation stones of the future economic parliament or chambers of estates.
Get it? Unions were foundation stones for National Socialism. One can find the entire except easy enough, the upshot is that unions would outgrow their purpose once the state finished the job of making sure all had their needs met. Hitler opposed MARXIST unions that emphasize the class struggle. He does not oppose the purpose of unions. I suggest reading the entire writing. Like all of Mein Kampf Hitler lays his views out quite clearly.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 8:38pmCockroaches, bugs, mold, and flies?
Report Post »Yes I feel the same way about union workers but I am surprised to see a company be so honest about it.
restorehope
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 9:00pmThe SEIU is just like the Mafia or Japanese tongs. They are thugs willing to do whatever it takes to control their territory. They will threaten or destroy anyone in their way, and they choose to ignore the laws of the land. Sue, sue, sue them and tie them up in court for years to come.
Report Post »mere citizen
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 9:20pmAdditionally JZS, one must understand the rather convoluted theories of Marxism to understand Stalin’s views. While fighting with Trotsky regarding the best method in which to utilize workers for the cause, there is a question about using militaristic tactics to get people into unions or to use the methods of persuasion. There is no disagreeement that trade unions are necessary.
From Works-JV Stalin, Our Disagreements
“Our disagreements are about questions of the means by which to strengthen labor discipline in the working class, the methods of approach to the mass of the workers who are being drawn into the work of reviving industry, the ways of transforming the present weak trade unions into powerful, genuinely industrial unions, capable of reviving our industry.
There are two methods: the method of coercion (the military method), and the method of persuasion (the trade-union method). The first method by no means precludes elements of persuasion, but these are subordinate to the requirements of the coercion method and are auxiliary to the latter. The second method, in turn, does not preclude elements of coercion, but these are subordinate to the requirements of the persuasion method and are auxiliary to the latter. It is just as impermissible to confuse these two methods as it is to confuse the army with the working class.
A group of Party workers headed by Trotsky, intoxicated by the successes achieved by military methods in the army, supposes that those methods can, and must, be adopted among the workers, in the trade unions, in order to achieve similar successes in strengthening the unions and in reviving industry. But this group forgets that the army and the working class are two different spheres, that a method that is suitable for the army may prove to be unsuitable, harmful, for the working class and its trade unions.
The army is not a homogeneous mass; it consists of two main social groups, peasants and workers, the former being several times more numerous than the latter. In urging the necessity of employing chiefly methods of coercion in the army, the Eighth Party Congress based itself on the fact that our army consists mainly of peasants, that the peasants will not go to fight for socialism, that they can, and must, be compelled to fight for socialism by employing methods of coercion. This explains the rise of such purely military methods as the system of Commissars and Political Departments, Revolutionary Tribunals, disciplinary measures, appointment and not election to all posts, and so forth.
In contrast to the army, the working class is a homogeneous social sphere; its economic position disposes it towards socialism, it is easily influenced by communist agitation, it voluntarily organizes in trade unions and, as a consequence of all this, constitutes the foundation, the salt of the earth, of the Soviet state. It is not surprising, therefore, that the practical work of our industrial unions has been based chiefly on methods of persuasion. This explains the rise of such purely trade-union methods as explanation, mass propaganda, encouragement of initiative and independent activity among the mass of the workers, election of officials, and so forth.”
When in doubt go to the source http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1921/jan/05.htm
Thing is persuasion wasn’t working very good so by 1932 Stalin instituted new labor rules, particularly regarding how and when people would work, the point was to “tighten labor discipline” read it for yourself-http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/labor-discip.html
I know it’s difficult to actually read a book from original source material, but failing that there’s this search engine called google, and while it may take you going past the first few pages, ultimately one can find what one is looking for. That is if one is interested in the actual historical truth. The reality is that both Hitler and Stalin found unions advantageous until they weren’t, once no longer a part of their path to power or to the overall goals, the unions became disposable.
Don’t think Obama is capable of throwing unions under the bus? Think again, and while you do so you might think at this time time around the Great Leader can‘t simply liquidate you when you’re no longer useful.
Report Post »moojuiceexpress
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 9:40pmIsn’t it illegal to mess with food
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 9:44pmHey BLAZE,…how come there is no ‘report a post’ link attached to abc’s post that is a rant from SEIU?
Every other posting has one
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:05pmbankrupt this unholy ,disgusting moocher union
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:06pmSEIU, mafia, what’s the difference ?
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:08pmOnce again the illegal actions of the unions come to light. Now is the time to abolish them all now and for ever.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:10pmThese are the same tactics Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continually use. There needs to be more companies and corporations willing to step up and take these bozos on. Hopefully, the FBI does an investigation on this and sends them into Federal criminal court under RICO. If found guilty, to which they clearly are, all their assets could be seized. The SEIU, ACORN, AFL-CIO, PROJECT VOTE, MEDIA MATTERS, THINK PROGRESS,and George Soros are nothing but criminal organizations akin to the Mafia or organized crime syndicates. If nothing is done, woe be us and this once great nation.
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:14pm@ ABC –
But did you notice that, nowhere in their release did SEIU DENY THE CHARGES????????????????????
Report Post »Jess Owen
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 10:54pmSEIU stands for Sabotage, Extortion, Intimidation, Union… Doesn’t it?
Report Post »libbsrnuts
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 11:08pmCockroaches?! Those are perfect little mascots for these sorry-ass maggots!!!
Report Post »henryKnox
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 11:13pmIt is obvious that they are being directed at a high level to cause caos. They are coordinating a take down of America and they are all communists so you know where that is heading. Glover worships Hugo Chavez and obviously favors totalitarian rule. I don’t understand what people like him have against freedom since he has benefitted so much from it.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 11:14pmHappyStretchedThin, if you think listing fines leveled against employee for violating the law and sacrificing worker safety in the name of profits is “sophistry” then that word doesn’t mean what you think it means. Maybe you should look it up again.
If I took the accusations in the lawsuit at face value, I’d agree with you. Those acts, if true, deserve a lawsuit and scorn. But let’s look at one: “Harassing Sodexo USA employees by threatening to accuse them of wrongdoing”. Sudexo has a history of wrongdoing, not alleged wrongdoing as in their lawsuit, but convicted wrongdoing: repeated violations of the laws that protect worker safety. The lawsuit says that SEIU is “harassing Sodexo employees” for violating the law. Harassing? Does that mean that the union is telling Sodexo that they continue to violate the law? Is it harassment when an employee complains after being asked to do something that jeopardizes their health or safety?
Your argument that Hitler and Stalin abolished unions in order to have a single, big union really is sophistry. Unions are formed as a check and balance against employers who would otherwise allow unsafe working conditions and undervalue the work of those who work for them. Unions exist only because, left unrestrained, employees would maximize profits at the expense of the health and welfare of those who work for them.
Your idea that Stalin and Hitler wanted one big union doesn’t make sense. Unions exist to check and balance employees who place no value on worker safety and do not recognize the value the efforts of their employees to their business and profits.
The company I work for recognizes and rewards the contributions every employee, and our highest value is the health and safety of employees. In good times we share the wealth, in bad we share the sacrifice. The idea of a union is unthinkable. Management makes a lot of money, but we all share in the wealth the generates, and we all have safe working conditions.
Report Post »WHOAREYOU
Posted on March 22, 2011 at 11:57pmHow can businesses survive this harassment from unions and government unethical policies.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:04am@JZS
You seem to rambling redundantly. Maybe time for a nap?
You work for Ben & Jerry don’t you?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:05amThey could have done similar acts but where would it get them other than a “they said they said” situation. SEIU was more than likely looking for a fight but Sodexo stood their ground and said okay lets play ball and sues them! This is how you get to these guys legally and go after their wallet! More companies being treated like this need to speak up and go after the SEIU’s of the nation. SEIU once again delivers more proof of how the unions have outlived their usefulness.
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Report Post »But, if the courts give entry into their wallets, WHO’S GOING TO FUND THE LIB/FROG/PROG ‘s election campaigns. If the left doesn’t get elected, the judicial activists won’t get appointed! SCOTUS would never let it happen!
Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:07amEdit above to read: You seem to BE rambling redundantly.
This edit was redundant, wasn’t it?
Think I need a nap too.
Report Post »Sooty3250
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:51am@JZS,,,,,
thats quite the long laundry list of Union workers being hurt on the Job, and Sodexo paying massive fines,,,, with so MANY union member being hurt,,,, WTF were they thinking? I am talking about the union members,,,
WHERE was the Union Leaders in having Sodexo making changes to promote the workplace safety?,,, THAT has been the primary job of the Union. Not in Gimmie More for less,,,,,
WHY was there no legitimate strike untill such said defects were fixed?
Who was the INCOMPETENT union members, that broke their own rules,,,, and lacked the common sense to operate in an UNSAFE manner?
How has the Union done anything positive to alliveate this situation and protect is workers?
IT has NOT…. you have made the case that the Union Leaders care nothing about their members any more save for the dues they bring in. I would refuse to work for a union that did not do its job, which was and is to protect the workers in the workplace.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 2:17amEvery company that has ever had a problem with SEIU should join in a class-action lawsuit. Those lawsuits can get CRAZY expensive for the party being sued! In fact, they could be used as a tool to bankrupt SEIU out of existence.
(New) subject…
Report Post »http://www.americasteapartynews.com/tea-blog.php#/news/
Templar Knight
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 4:12amPS:
Don’t drop the soap Andy.
Report Post »farmerpat42
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 5:13am@ABC/Billy –
I thought all republicans wave money and use it for toilet paper, so how would a neoliberal “statistically speaking” make more than a conservative? That doesn’t really fit the party image that I keep reading on these union signs
Report Post »bread and circuses
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 6:13amABC and JZS are hufPOS trolls and i usually skip their posts……….usually
Report Post »They spend a lot of time spouting lies and half truths which promptly exposed.
@ABC — The people with money do not brag about it, you, on the other hand, is obviously not in that group, unless you consider your “want fries with that?“ job ”statistically” above the welfare recipients’ income level.
bread and circuses
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 6:23amCORRECTIONS: …..which [are] promptly…., is = are
ABC and JZS love to get their loincloths in a bunch correcting posts.
Report Post »HEHE, beat you 2 trolls to it.
1chancey1
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 6:25amYeah, ABC, you got a job. It pays by the word doesn’t it?
Report Post »bread and circuses
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 6:47am@ABC
Report Post »your posts are very similar to Yahoo’s stock charts, missing critical information.
In 1990 i bought 2,000 shares of DELL @$2.00
If you look at the current price of DELL, you will see that DELL is now @$14.71, which appears to be a reasonable return on investment.
The MOST important information, however, is missing
DELL has split 8 times
you can do the math……………unless, as i suspect, you never graduated 5th grade.
2smart
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:07amI think what ABC is saying in his post way up there is; The Blaze is biased in their reporting and not giving the other side of the story, so go to this biased website that I like and agrees with my agenda and get the other side of the story. Is that how you think ABC? Do you really believe that we are all a bunch of uneducated hillbillys and can’t see the reality from the story from The Blaze? I am sure that you will answer in the affirmative which also tells us uneducated hillbillys that you have a large character flaw. But having read a number of your posts over the last few months us uneducated hillbillys are not as ignorant as you would like to believe…….
Report Post »Jmcaul
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:43amI think CATB hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what I was thinking. One of the progs favorite strategies is to wear down their target with multiple, repeated lawsuits. Even if the lawsuit has little to no chance to succeed, they have accomplished their goal if they can keep their target directing time and financial resources to dealing with these lawsuits. This is exactly how they neutralized Gov. Sarah Palin in AK.
Report Post »What would such a course of lawsuit bombardment against SEIU look like? Who would be in a position to start taking them on this way? Any ideas here?
hologram5
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:53amRound them up and put the FEMA camps to good use.
Report Post »Bill in Texas
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:29pmI totally agree CatB
Report Post »The more they spend on legal defenses the less they have to donate to the Dumbocrat aka Socialist party.
airwingmarine7075
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 2:57pmthis must be a conspiracy to defame the chosen one, the truth is always there to anyone willing to see it
Report Post »ProudToBeAmericanNeverForget
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 5:40pmThis happened to me when I worked at a hotel with a local hotel union. They ruined so many people’s weddings and conventions its not even funny. These Union People are the lowest of the lowest – they are like the mob,
Report Post »AngryMobOfOne
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:11pm80K employees represents tens of millions of dollars per year in the Marxist revolutionary purse. I‘m just surprised they haven’t started killing people yet.
This civil RICO suit against SEIU could lead to half the sitting administration. I look for it to be killed quickly and quietly.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:06pmJZS = persistent inability/unwillingness to read carefully (malliteracy, a term coined by me to describe liberals/progressives who just can’t allow clearly stated arguments to penetrate, and refuse delivery on facts that don’t fit their worldview)
YOU made a list of accusations against Sodexo. I replied that IF Sodexo is guilty of wrongdoing they should be punished according to the law.
Report Post »THEN I made a separate point, which is to say that the Blaze’s article is NOT about Sodexo abuses, and therefore your post is not strictly relevant, since it amounts to a “well, they’re worse than us” argument which doesn‘t touch the substance of Sodexo’s complaints against the union.
Read carefully.
And now you think Hitler and Stalin weren’t trying to force all their citizens into a single mega-union? What does the slogan “workers of the world unite” mean if it’s not about organizing into one huge union? What does “dictatorship of the proletariat” mean if it’s not about rule by the national-level mega-union bosses. It is incontestable that they were both trying to galvanize the workers of their nation into a single political body representing them all. What is that, if not unionization?
Read carefully.
You want to claim that a union is NOT a political body, and that it is narrowly defined as a collection of workers from a similar trade whose only purpose is to bring fairness to the bargaining table with management. You’re both naive, and a wannabe sophist to make such an argument. Unions ARE political organizations, and have always been involved in swaying elections and influencing politicians, NOT just in negotiating with management. But beyond that, we’re talking about totalitarian states here–what do you think happens to unions when the only employer is the state? The state ALSO claims to be the only UNION, that’s what happens! The very impulse for those who hold relatively little property to unite so as to better coerce property concessions from those who hold relatively more property (and thereby to avoid earning it or producing it for themselves!)–which is the TRUE nature of the union impulse (not a mere check and balance as your poor attempt at convincing sophistry would have it)–is precisely the impulse of the Hitlerian National Socialist movement AND that of Stalinist Communism. It makes perfect sense to all those who are able to read carefully.
Malliteracy is curable. I have hope for you.
Oh, and about your job. I’m happy for you. Interesting that you don’t seem to need a check and balance where you work. Because labor didn’t feel the need to try to coerce concessions from management there, management was free to be as relatively equitable as was already its nature, understanding as it does, that the best motivation for its workers is a feeling of shared ownership in the success of the company as a whole. Makes the best anti-union argument yet, it seems to me.
If you were capable of reading carefully, I might suggest the long and erudite Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt.
HappyStretchedThin
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:11pmp.s. JZS,
Report Post »I noticed you completely skipped Mere Citizen’s posts, which thoroughly refute you with the very words of Hitler and Stalin.
Maybe malliteracy is not the accurate term for you. Maybe it’s “selective literacy”
jblovesAmerica
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 12:27pmSodexo needs to hire ex-seals for security purposes.
Report Post »Many i’m sure would work for free.
Fight fire with fire.
Take pictures and publish them for all to see.