Business

Report: SEIU ‘Intimidation Manual’ Uncovered Detailing Union’s Dirty Tactics

Washington Times Reveals SEIU Intimidation ManualAccording to Vincent Vernuccio in the Washington Times, it’s over 70 pages and details how “outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.”

“It” is a new intimidation manual uncovered during a lawsuit against the SEIU*, one of the nation’s largest unions. In it, Vernuccio says, the SEIU’s dirty tactics are explained, including bullying employers by targeting them economically and advocating for breaking the law.

For example, Vernuccio explains the manual openly calls for disregarding the law, using Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi as justification: “Union members sometimes must act in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King and Mohatma [sic] Gandhi and disobey laws which are used to enforce injustice against working people.”

But that’s just the beginning. In addition, Vernuccio points out, it also advocates economic hit jobs.

“It may be a violation of blackmail and extortion laws to threaten management officials with release of ‘dirt’ about them if they don’t settle a contract,” the manual allegedly says. “But there is no law against union members who are angry at their employer deciding to uncover and publicize factual information about individual managers.”

What kind of “dirt?”

How about “[l]eafleting outside meetings where [targeted managers] are speaking, their homes, or events sponsored by community organizations they are tied to are some ways to make sure their friends, neighbors, and associates are aware of the controversy.”

In essence, it seems, nothing is off limits.

Vernuccio explains the tactics in part by saying the union looks “to push businesses to the edge of bankruptcy, with little regard for the welfare of employer and employee.”

That seems to fit the union’s M.O. Earlier this spring, The Blaze exposed SEIU veteran leader Stephen Lerner and his plan to bring down the U.S. economy through an economic hit-job on JP Morgan Chase (see here, here, and here).

In that plan, the union was set to organize its members and others in a massive mortgage strike, meant to collapse the system in order to remake in a way the union best saw fit.

So why does the manual target employers instead of trying to organize employees? Vernuccio offers one possible explanation: “Organized labor is losing members at a rapid rate. In the private sector, union membership stands at less than 7 percent.”

The logic seems to go something like this: if you can’t get employees to unionize, force employers to do it for them.

That raises an important question: Who is the SEIU really working for?

The revelation comes as the National Labor Relations Board decides whether to allow faster elections regarding unionization, a move many businesses say would only serve to benefit unions and stop businesses from adequately informing employees about potential unionization.

Get more information about the SEIU manual over at the Washington Times.

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)

*The lawsuit was filed by Sodexo Inc., a food service company that has been fighting the SEIU (and its tactics) over unionization. We covered that lawsuit back in March.

UPDATE:

Red State has linked to a copy of the manual that it says originated in the 1980s. You can view it here.

Comments (189)

1 2 3 ... 5
  • UlyssesP
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:49am

    I want a copy.

    Report Post » UlyssesP  
  • TelepromoterNChief
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:48am

    This is a roughdraft of what the well-funded trained force Obama wants in place.

    Report Post »  
    • Brontefan
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 2:57pm

      You are absolutely correct! What do you think a community organizer does? He uses intimidation and bullying tactics. SEIU will most likely steal the election for BO, just like ACORN did in 2008. Birds of a feather…

      Report Post »  
    • ItsJo
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 7:40pm

      This is MORE of Obama’s Thug Vote Base in action. This maual should be sent to EVERY member in our Congress. This is the Obama-Chicago Way of doing business. He Taught the “Rule For Radicals” by Marxist Saul Alinsky, and is used to ‘bullying, intimidating, cheating and lying to get what he wants’….well, hopefully this next election, people WILL wake from their coma, and oust this Fraud before he turns America into the Marxist nation he envisions for his agenda. Stop this madman
      in his tracks folks. Every member of our congress who does NOT speak up on behalf of this illegal, corrupt, bullying IS as GUILTY FOR ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN IN OUR ELECTIONS. THEY WILL ALL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES IF THIS FRAUD, CHEATS HIS WAY INTO POTUS AGAIN. WE WILL ALL BE OUT IN FORCE, TO INSURE THAT ELECTIONS ARE HONEST, AND NO FURTHER INTIMIDATING LIKE THE ‘BLACK PANTHERS’ IN PHILADELPHIA…..SPEAK OUT, AND DON’T SIT BACK AND TAKE THIS BULLYING ANY LONGER. NO CHEAT IN OUR WHITEHOUSE.
      SEND THIS TO YOUR REPS-ASAP. I HATE THIS CORRUPT REGIME AND CAN’T WAIT TO OUST THEM IN 2012 AND YOU SHOULD ALSO-HE IS DELIBERATELY RUINING OUR NATION, AS HE THINKS OF AMERICA AS “ARROGANT(his words) JUST LIKE HIS WIFE/REV./REGIME. ENOUGH ALREADY. WE NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR REPUBLIC.

      Report Post »  
    • kcinco
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:11pm

      Sounds a little like Hitler’s SS too…

      Report Post » kcinco  
  • fastfacts
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:41am

    JUST MORE STRATEGY TO PUSH DEMOCRATS… WHY ARE UNIONS TAX-EXEMPT?

    The SEIU is in the pockets of the Democrats, there is not question and as they have said in the past: ‘Union workers are God’s people. http://url2it.com/fter

    Report Post »  
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:50am

      It is more like the Democrats are in the pocket of SEIU and the other unions.

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • CatB
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:26am

      And don’t forget that the SEIU and AARP joined forces for Obamacare .. and then got waivers!

      TEA!

      Report Post »  
    • Cruzan
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:38am

      Not only tax exempt. Read ObamaCare again. We taxpayers have been subsidizing the UNIONS share of the higher helth care benefits for the union members so their dues didn’t have to go up. Sweet deaal. Obama gets all the unions to back his deathcare plan, then agrees to pay athe unions share of health insurance premiums and them gives nearly every union a waiver from the health plan. Gotta love it…………….all this for 7% of the workers who are union members, the largest segment being SEIU which are msinly low wage earners and thje government employers (wage grade at least).

      Report Post »  
  • jessieH
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:38am

    I want to read the union’s manifesto. Some of it sounds Sharia compliant.

    Report Post »  
    • Smug
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Agree. Like the sharia, Unions also uses force and intimidation to get what they want. Hmmm wonder how many Union leaders and members are muslim?…………….MSSMUG

      Report Post »  
  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:33am

    I think the bigger story is the unions bypassing the employees and working directly with management to force a union upon the worker.

    This is not what freedom looks like.

    .

    Report Post » cntrlfrk  
  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:17am

    Let us not forget that SEIU was Oblamer’s former employer.

    Report Post »  
  • USAPLISKENXI
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:14am

    Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov.
    Scott Walker doing away with the collective bargaining for teacher’s
    unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a
    $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. Why? It seems
    that the insurance company that provided all the “so-called” benefits
    to the teachers, was an insurance company owned and operated by the
    teacher’s union. Since they were guaranteed to get the insurance
    business from the teachers and the State had to pay for it, and not
    the teachers, they were increasing the annual costs every single year
    to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the
    insurance company was donating millions and millions of dollars to
    their favorite democrat politicians, who when they got elected,
    guaranteed to keep funding the unions outrageous costs. In other
    words, the insurance company was a “pass through” for Wisconsin
    taxpayer money directly to the democrat politicians.

    Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single
    State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are
    taking it away. Now that the State of Wisconsin is free to put the
    insurance contract out for bid, and lo and behold, they have saved so
    much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result,
    none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyon

    Report Post » USAPLISKENXI  
    • Neo Con John
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:37am

      You are correct in this matter, and Beings that I am trapped in California, We have not heard a word of this in the MSM, this type of situation is being played out through out the country by the unions,
      Unions are nothing more than organized crime at it’s best, had Al Capone had the cover that the democrats provide the unions, he would still be in power.

      Report Post »  
    • kcinco
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:48pm

      @USAPLISKENXI … thank you for that information! Wow! I have been wondering what was going on in WI after the teachers and other demonstrating imposters pathetically attempted to intimidate the governor. We need to get that information out …. !

      Report Post » kcinco  
  • Counter-Culture Revolutionist
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:08am

    WOW! Who wrote this manual, President Obama or SEIU? They both use these tactics of thuggery, deceit and intimidation.

    Report Post » Counter-Culture Revolutionist  
    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:31am

      It time the unions went the way of the horse and buggy. They are useless and out dated. If they showed up on my lawn and scared my kids, the big mouth with the bull horn would end up shot. I don’t care if I went to prison for it ether. its time we treat this kind of crap for what it is, its a threat. Threaten me or my family and you’ll end up in a body bag.

      Report Post »  
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:51am

      Beersnob — I would prefer that we stick them (union leadership) in a cell along with Reid, Pelosi and Obama, Biden and weld the door shut behind them.

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • isobamamadd
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:32pm

      So does sharia

      Report Post »  
  • jakartaman
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:06am

    Unionism = Communism (fact – read history)
    Unions protect the weak and or stupid only.
    This is a fight for the future of America. You are either for our country or a commie union wh-ore against it

    Report Post »  
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:15am

      Indeed, we are fighting for the freedoms and very ideological future of our Republic; will we as a people let her pass into the night, or will we Restore the nation to where she is meant to be – the shining light on the hill to the world.

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • MrObvious
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:18am

      Like almost everything else in this world, there are good and bad unions.

      SEIU is the worst of the worst and needs to be fully investigated.

      Once upon a time unions were essential in protecting workers from corrupt employers.

      Now, the situation has changed; and, honest employers need protection from corrupt unions.

      Report Post »  
    • sWampy
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 1:00pm

      Unions have never been essential, it is never ok to use extortion, collusion, racketeering, and thuggery to get your way, those are the only techniques available to a union.

      Report Post »  
    • Stopit
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:54pm

      Agree, swampy.

      I hate unions!

      Report Post »  
    • Baconeater
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Amen to that!

      Report Post »  
  • SafeguardOurLiberty
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:06am

    Unions have got to go. They have driven so many businesses overseas because of their extreme demands. US Steel was one,which just about ruined our city. SEIU members have caused the rise of prices in our food, clothing, airfare, hotel prices, and anything you can think of where those union people belong. We now have Federal laws that protect all workers from abuse. People do not need unions anymore. They started out as a needed part of workers protection, but now it is just a way to keep union bosses rich and to elect union politicians. I have a BS degree. I know garbage collectors, bus drivers, and numerous others that have no education beyond high school that make more money than I do. Not because they are better than me, but because they belong to a union that bullies companies for pay and benefits that outpace the private sector.

    Report Post » SafeguardOurLiberty  
    • ItsJo
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 7:48pm

      Excellent post Safeguard-at one time unions may have actually helped people, but they have become the Democrat Arm of the Party of Thugs, who Demand from honest taxpayers in paying for their perks. Enough of this, and Obama’s personal Thug Voter Base. He is dishonest and is STILL using Chicago style Thug Tactics to STEAL elections….NOT in 2012-WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR ANY LONGER. DISBAN THESE DISGUSTING UNIONS, AND THEIR THUG ELITES WHO VOTE FOR DEMS TO CONTROL THE MASSES.

      Report Post »  
  • EqualJustice
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:02am

    HAHAHA SO, how will the thugs react to RHAMBO being forced to make cuts? No Republicans around to blame? WIll they take to the streets as they did in WI? http://www.suntimes.com/6525711-417/emanuel-sends-layoff-notices-to-city-workers-in-union-showdown.html HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA CUTS for UNIONS from RAHM? I bet there’s a LOT OF DIRT on him, BUT will they use it in this case?

    Report Post » EqualJustice  
  • DbleStandard
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:01am

    WOW…notice how this UNION manual admits that advancing the union agenda MAY require that the parent company that employees the union members may need to be destroyed!!!

    SO, in other words the union members are expendable as long as the union itself benefits from thier loss of employment.

    Do you remember the story of the turtle and scorpion?

    Report Post » DbleStandard  
  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:00am

    Break laws, use blackmail and intimidation, sounds like the mob doesn’t it? Just a side note, in the last “stimulus” give-a-way debacle there was a rule that all construction jobs had to go to union contractors effectively cutting out 93% of the contractors in the United States. Our tax dollars going for union payoffs.

    Report Post » Rickfromillinois  
    • Eblaze44
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:12pm

      and one wonders why Florida turned down the big bucks for a high speed rail that would only benefit mickeymouseland – while the rest of Floridians and more than likely the US government would have to subsidize it in the future. Of course – I cannot imagine paying the cost to park, get into mickeymouseland, then stand in long lines in the sweltering sun for a ten minute ride or less, snacks like cool ice cream bars that are around $5. I guess that’s why I see van loads and bus loads of kids with Baptist written on the side of them heading towards their God.

      Report Post » Eblaze44  
  • dizzyinthedark
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:00am

    Well I remain the skeptic as even though SEIU, Trumpka and his whores are exosed for the garbage we all suspected them to be–who in power will actually stand up?

    Report Post » dizzyinthedark  
  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:54am

    Doesn’t this just make you want to “Look for the union label”? Damned unions have destroyed this country.

    Report Post »  
    • DasMouse
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:05am

      Funny you say that–I do look for the union label–and if it’s there I put the item back on the shelf. That includes things that may not have a union label but that I KNOW are made by union labor. I won‘t support the thugs that are trying to destroy this country and haven’t for years.

      Report Post » DasMouse  
    • Tea-Bone
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 7:54pm

      Where can I go to find what union products to avoid like the plague?

      Report Post » Tea-Bone  
  • Cheetosareus
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:50am

    Sounds to me like the SEIU is just like ACORN. Lerner reminds me of the ***** sheriff in Blazing Saddles when he held the gun to his own head and threatened to “shoot the n*****” if the posse didn’t back off. Other than the campfire bean scene, that was my favorite part.

    Report Post »  
  • 9thCommandment
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:49am

    Excellent point. “That raises an important question: Who is the SEIU really working for?” Everything about BHO/Dems Admin is Big Gov, Big Wall St., Big Corp. It is the only way to herd the people & the useful sheep are supporting the plan thinking they are having just the opposite affect.

    Report Post »  
  • grandmaof5
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:46am

    I bet this manual was written in conjunction with a ‘community organizer’. Hmmmm…who would that be? Union members, is this really what you signed up for? It is time for union members make the hard decisions: Get rid of the union thugs or get out. There are many good people in unions who can stand on their own merit – run as fast as you can!

    Report Post »  
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:52am

      Morning — Indeed it is far past time for the union dinosaurs to disappear into the night and the union thugs in leadership position need to be stopped legally; which of course under the current admin will never happen in the least bit. I have to wonder how much of this manual was written by or inspired by ones such as Bill Ayers and the beloved Van Jones?

      I wish you good weather for the heat striken south and for Texas (they need the rain); we may have a bit of rain here today too, and keep the kitties safe (two new ones in my collection if you wish to see them). http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:55am

      Didn’t Obama work closely with ACORN and SEIU. He was some kind of traine/lawyer for them. Could this be his handy work?

      Report Post »  
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:17am

      OldOldTimer — indeed this is a fair portion of his work; also look to the communist and socialistic progressives who he works with as well such as Van Jones and Bill Ayers. This is the core difference in the Republic (all treated equally under the law) and the Democracy (the mass rules, thugocricy soon follows then a repressive tyranny).

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • PelositheGreat
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 7:59am

      It does look like someone went to the very edge of legality and said to this point its defensable but one step over…..

      Report Post »  
  • daddy warbucks
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:43am

    When Grey Davis was campaigning, he promised prison guards in CA- if they voted for him they could retire at age 50 w/ 90% of their (stacked) last years salary. This practice has gone on for years throughout the public services nation wide, add in private constr. unions & Project Labor Agreements that raises every fed and state const. prjk by 17% (google it) so here we are. Sorry if you live la la land, now the enevitable reality arrived. Politicians+unions= fertile ground for corruption. Public sector unions should be illegal. Too late now – toast

    Public union members make much more than the TAXPAYERS FORCED TO SUPPORT THEM, many taxpayers have NO PENSIONS and NO BENEFITS, politicians can promise them OTHER PEOPLES MONEY FOR VOTES, they SHUT DOWN SERVICES they are contracted to provide to the taxpayers at will. They make it difficult to impossible for the taxpayer to weed out out poor or worse performers.

    From the Casey Report 2/21/11: “If the public employees need unions to protect themselves from the “cruel” government employer, then what protection does the rest of society need? If the government won’t treat its own employees well, how can we rely on the EPA, OSHA and the SEC to do anything for the public good? So in a way, this becomes a circular argument that indicts the public employees themselves.”

    More taxes, always the answer from idiot liberals, which raises another story where has THAT money been going:

    This administration is massively ex

    Report Post »  
  • N37BU6
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:38am

    You can get a lot done when you control masses of angry, uneducated people.

    Report Post » N37BU6  
  • LIBSALWAYSLIE
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:37am

    Unions are full of lawless thugs who will stop at nothing to push their socialist agenda. Rules never apply to unions, They will stop at nothing to bring down the Republic and replace it with socialism. But I have news for them, they will lose. Good wins over evil eventually.

    Report Post » LIBSALWAYSLIE  
  • NickDeringer
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:37am

    Question is “Who will prosecute them for it?” Welcome to Gangster Land.

    Report Post » NickDeringer  
    • Oldbutnotsenile
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 11:38pm

      You can bet Holder wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. Hell, he won’t prosecute the important cases brought before him now and if they are really bad, then BHO signs another executive order to get him off without having to do anything.

      Report Post »  
  • justice
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:37am

    Well, finally it is Written. Oh, Trumpka and Andy and Obama. The Door is finally Opened on your Corruption.

    Report Post »  
    • concealled9mms
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 2:24pm

      I hope they put a copy or something on fox so a majority of america sees what obamma stands for .

      Report Post »  
  • NHABE64
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:34am

    I think I might write the letters SEIU on the bottom of my toilet where it belons. Just a bunch of Obama’s pals doing what they know best, eating crap and bothering people. Cockroaches all!

    Report Post »  
  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:34am

    A lovely bunch of folks, aren’t they? Sheesh!

    Report Post »  
    • Secessionista
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:37am

      What a great group of thugs! I can hardly wait until they run the entire country!

      Report Post » Secessionista  
    • AmeriWoman
      Posted on July 18, 2011 at 8:49am

      Oh yea, things are about to get wild…….. got your popcorn folks??

      I would LOVEeeeeeee to see this manual!

      Great article, thanks Mr. Seidl!

      AW

      Report Post » AmeriWoman  
    • Eblaze44
      Posted on July 19, 2011 at 1:18pm

      remember the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – well, the United States of America are on the road to being the United Socialist States of America. the SEIU will be the Party members of the first part along with the Socialist Democrats. They currently control California, Illinois, New York, Washington DC, and the Federal Government – Atlanta is on the cusp and scheduled to fall to them any day now.

      Report Post » Eblaze44  
1 2 3 ... 5

Sign In To Post Comments! Sign In

Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

Glenn Beck Radio

Listen to Glenn Beck 24/7 Listen Now
Restoring Love