DETAILS ABOUT THE SEIU LOCAL CHAPTER 521 ELECTION
20 Reasons to Vote NO!
The SEIU has been accused by its members of using ineffective tactics that do not benefit the union’s membership.
1. The union is at our company to try to force our employees to pay dues to the union of approximately $86 per month just for you to keep your job plus initiation fees according to the Center of Union facts in Wash. DC.
2. If you sign a union card or vote YES for the union, the union will want our facility to enter into a contract that has a union security clause in the contract to force you to pay dues after 30 days of work. If you do not pay your dues, the union will ask our facility to terminate your position.
3. The money you pay to the union in dues goes to pay the salaries of 10 of their international union officers and all the other business agents in union in the US. The International union agents are making from $183,993 -$279,044 according to the Center of union facts in Washington, DC.
4. The president, Mary Kay Henry, of the International union, makes over $279,044.
5. The approximate number of members in the union in 2018 in the US decreased from 1,962,022 to 1,838,295 or a loss of 10% of their members according to the Center of union facts in Washington DC.
6. In fact, since the union’s membership has decreased by approximately 10%, this is the reason they are at our facility to get you to pay for their union agent’s $200,000 salaries and union expenses.
7. The reason why employees do not want to pay union dues is union dues are too expensive and they do not want the union to make decisions about their work place. The employees wants to be able to make their own decisions about their Employer.
8. Approximately 9 union officers went to jail for theft of union funds or employee dues according to the Center of union facts, in wash. dc.
9. There has been approximately 526 decertification’s throughout the us (union voting the union out of their facility) since the employees did not want to pay union dues according to the center of union facts in Washington, DC.
10. According to the center of union facts in Washington, DC, there has been approximately 2000 unfair labor practice charges filed against the union at the National Labor Relations Board for failing to represent employees, bargaining in bad faith, and many other reasons.
11. According to union facts in Wash DC, it takes approximately 180 new members to pay one of the international union officers’ salary per month if your dues are $86 per month.
12. SEIU 521 pays NO strike benefits. If the Union did pay strike benefits, this might happen if the union tried to force our employees on strike. This might happen our facility did not agree to union’s agreement at the end of negotiations. This might or might not happen at our facility.
13. The International union spent approximately $64,385,837 of your dues to pay for political activities to the (democratic party) or for lobbying.
14. The International union spent approximately $3,044,054 on gifts to different entities.
15. The employees who were working at the facility Finley Hospital Health Care and Social Assistance in Dubuque, Iowa, in July 2006, were on strike for approximately 340 days. These employees might not have received any strike benefits but the union agents were still getting paid their own $200,000 salary and benefits. Ask the Union if the employees received any strike benefits.
16. Get the union to give you a guarantee in writing that they could force our facility to increase your wages or benefits at the end of negotiations.
17. Ask the union if they fined any of their employees for violating their union’s bylaws.
18. Get the union to sign a guarantee that at the end of negotiations, that wages and benefits will go up.
19. Get the union to sign a guarantee that they will get an increases in wages to cover your dues.
20. Many times during the card signing process, the union might state if the union can get 30% of the employees to sign union cards. they will get a contract. Get the union to sign a guarantee that they can get you a written contract after a possible election.
- Remember these 20 Reasons about the Union before you Sign a Union Card or Vote for the SEIU. Employees have the right to sign or not Sign a Union Card or Vote for or against the Union.