SEIU Wages War on Progressives

This author needs to put up a disclaimer on all his articles about SEIU: He is a Boss at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) where the workers are under SEIU 1021. In fact, he is a progressive boss, every year he gets worse and targets the workers at the THC.

When will the Labor dispute with Shop Steward Nate Holmes and Tenderloin Housing Clinic be resolved? It has been over 1 year since Nate was fired and yet this matter is not settle. I am an employee at Tenderloin Housing Clinic and even our union here fails to even keep workers informed as to what is happening with Nate's case. This does not speak good for our union nor does it speak well for Shaw. Shaw had his Human Resources Director send out a memo stating that if we would have any dealing with Nate we would be disciplined and several months later the Human Resources lady is no longer at THC. Our union still just let serious violation of workers rights go unnoticed. Randy Shaw is a big hypocrite but no here does anything for fear of retaliation.

The new bylaws for SEIU 1021 allow for the grievances to go through rank and file Members. We've been stuck in a set of bylaws where Union Staff get to decide (competently or incompetently) how to handle a lot of our Union grievances and terminations.

Nate Holmes's case is well-known in SEIU 1021. The Union staff dropped the ball. I would like to say the staff was incompetent and missed the deadline. However, Nate Holmes was under attack from Randy Shaw's deranged mind (he doesn't like being criticized for being a Boss asshole "Progressive") and threatened with being fired on a similar incident one year earlier. Back then, Union 1021 staff made a backdoor deal with Shaw when the THC members made a lot of noise and were fighting back. That was when Shaw was buddies buddies with Andy Stern.

Right around the time that UHW was trusteed and NUHW formed is when Nate Holmes' case should've been processed for arbitration. Maybe Randy benefitted one last time from his old connection to SEIU because he is now enemies of the upper white men echelons of SEIU now that he is more buddies with the white men upper echelons of NUHW.

No excuse for SEIU 1021 dropping Nate's case. It's a fucking shame. But that's how bad trusteeship is with Andy Stern-appointed leadership (Damita Davis, etc.). No accountability to the members.

As a rank-and-file member of 1021, I look forward to having officer elections in the next few months and getting rid of the people who haven't served us. Bring back the power to the members!

What is most amazing is that Shaw can continue to parade as a "friend of labor". With friends like these, who needs enemies?

__ Where do you'll stand on the '' Stern Gang '' ? If you say that Shaw and Rosseli are ''just as bad'' you must be living in a parallel universe !

Randy Shaw is really a piece of work... he's a liar, a crook, and a hypocrite and his so-called "journalism" is nothing more than propaganda which bears little relationship to reality. He's on a mission against SEIU because he's a "progressive" who believes in union democracy? Sure... that's why he has been the biggest partisan for HERE, who doesnt even allow for the election of shop stewards. Sounds like he has some personal axes to grind (and some financial interests) in slandering the union that represents his employees... then he criticizes SEIU for being in bed with the bosses? He is the boss (and a crooked, lousy one at that). What a jackass.

Thank you to the commenters on this story. I have long been wondering what the deal was with Randy "More-Progressive-Than-Thou" Shaw. Now I know. Hands not quite so clean after all, eh?

Hey, rank and file1021, I wrote a couple articles about the contract deal back in May when the leadership said that the members that voted against a concessionary contract were "confused". I'd be interested in talking with you. Could you drop me a line?