Here are a couple of selected Rosselli’s videos and his resignation letter from SEIU’s executive committee (written a year ago). See both videos and then read the letter. Last month, Andy Stern finally got away with removing Rosselli from UHW. Stern and Rosselli, both, talk the talk (Democracy) but only one walks the walk. The evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of Rosselli. Stern can’t afford real union democracy in SEIU. Rank-and-file members can’t afford fake SEIU unionism.
Sal Rosselli’s excerpts from the 2007 Leadership Conference
Sal Rosselli at the SEIU Puerto Rico Convention 2008
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Resignation Letter of Sal Rosselli from SEIU Executive Committee
February 9, 2008 (A year ago)
Andrew L. Stern, President SEIU
1800 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington DC 20036
Dear Brother Stern:
Like you, I take great pride in the recent growth of SEIU and the prominent position our union holds in the labor movement and in public policy debates of critical importance to working families. I was honored four years ago when you appointed me to your executive committee. During the previous eight years, we had worked together constructively to help hundreds of thousands of health care workers in California and beyond join our union and change their lives.
In United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), we have always believed that our international union should be about more than numbers and headlines. Over the past two years, a stark difference has evolved between SEIU’s projected image and its real world practices. An overly zealous focus on growth – growth at any cost, apparently – has eclipsed SEIU’s commitment to its members. As labor leaders, we are obligated to place the needs of our members first and to uphold democratic principles not only in the workplace, but also in our union. That is increasingly being blocked, circumvented and manipulated.
It is said that “democracy dies in the darkness.” It is with deep disappointment and great concern that I have watched dark shadows fall upon SEIU, diminishing our hopes for revitalizing the labor movement. Let me shed some light on the undemocratic practices we in UHW have experienced firsthand: Read the rest of this entry »
