Sunday, March 21, 2010

Zombies tell their "truth" about the Fresno slim victory

Desperate to get any attention even if it is easily disputed attention about a long passed election, the Zombies have have made up their own irrefutable (in their eyes) "truth" about the Fresno homecare election. Below is their slant on the Fresno homecare election's pyrrhic victory followed by a line by line dissection of the "truth".

SEIU-UHW was certified as the winner among 10,000 Fresno home care workers by the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service 8 months ago. An NUHW protest of the election had so little merit that it was dismissed without a hearing.
This decision is under review: just look here. 59 pages of complaints replete with several sworn declarations from harassed Fresno homecare workers.

What protest? When? Where?
NUHW waited four months to submit new bogus charges and has done nothing to move them forward. The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has taken no action and it is not even clear that they will consider them.
Well these complaints didn't surface overnight. It took a while for people to work up the courage to speak up. And speak up they did, see the above linked sworn declarations!
Many of the allegations were made anonymously and lack credibility. Some were made by people who were not even eligible voters. The chief accuser vowed to cause “trouble” for SEIU because he was not offered a job after the election.
Does being a witness to intimidation but not eligible to vote by virtue of not holding employment as a homecare worker always automatically discount a complaint 's validity? To put it another way can't I complain to the police if I see someone else being mugged? Must I be mugged to complain about being mugged?
The allegations surrounding threats on immigration are particularly deceitful and malicious. SEIU has more immigrant members than any other union and has helped lead the fight for immigration reform. Hundreds of SEIU supporters and staff in Fresno were themselves immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants, and would not have put up with a strategy that threatened workers’ immigration status.
Yet the Zombies have a record for approaching those who don't speak the language natively, or others who are otherwise easily convinced in the very lopsided arguments put forth by the Zombies. My proof: just look around at who is now on the e-board, are stewards, and contract negotiators. They don't question and likely don't fully understand what is going on, but are all too eager to sign off on the truly dumb decisions made by Zombie UHW and those members who they control with a steady diet of lies, half truths and other propaganda.

If there is one thing I have learned from blogging it's that you can't just say something without backing it up in some credible way. Their statements above don't stand on their own; hopefully, my questions will provoke my readers to seek out the truth the Zombies don't want you to know.

3 comments:

  1. UHW's harrassment of homecare workers in Fresno last summer has been clearly documented by the media, law enforement and leaders such a Dolores Huerta. The UHW scab liars can deny all they want about not having threatened Spanish speaking homecare workers with deportation if they did not vote for SEIU. The facts to the contrary are out there and UHW cannot refute them with a straight face. The Zombie UHW folks have swallowed line and sinker Dave Regan's campagin of lies and fear. The truth is out there and the Zombies cannot hide.

    NUHW RISING! UNITE HERE RISING! SEIU DIMINISHING

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  2. Keyser writes:
    "Yet the Zombies have a record for approaching those who don't speak the language natively, or are otherwise easily convinced in the very lopsided arguments put forth by the Zombies. My proof: just look around at who is now on the e-board, are stewards, and contract negotiators. They don't question and likely don't fully understand what is going on, but are all too eager to sign off on the truly dumb decisions made by Zombie UHW and those members who they control with a steady diet of lies, half truths and other propaganda."

    Hmmm... Isn't this another, nicer, way of saying "immigrants are easily manipulated" (or, worse "Immigrants are dumb")? You sure you want to make that argument? There are so many good arguments against SEIU, there's no need to make up a really bad one like this...

    It's not like native English skills correlate to intelligence. Exhibit 1 = Dubya.

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  3. Well put, and I really should have someone other than me do my proofreading! What I meant to say includes 2 more very important to the meaning of the sentence words: "others who", as shown above.

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