Ex-SEIU Boss Blames Upstart NUHW Supporters for Fake FBI Investigation Story
September 29th 2010 · 0 Comments
According to ex-SEIU boss Andy Stern, the media story about a DOL and FBI investigation into potential corruption is false and an election tactic being planted by supporters of the NUHW insurgency which is challenging the SEIU for 42,000 members.
Former SEIU President Andy Stern on Wednesday dismissed reports that he’s under scrutiny in a federal corruption probe, calling the allegations “completely false.”
Two unnamed labor officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Stern was being investigated by the FBI and Labor Department as part of a corruption probe of the Service Employees International Union SEIU.
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Stern told reporters he hasn’t spoken to or heard from federal officials about either issue and added that he doesn’t expect to. He said the reports were political attacks aimed at weakening SEIU days before California health workers vote on whether to leave the union for another labor group.
About 42,000 SEIU members in California will vote next month on whether to join the National Union of Health Workers, which was started by former SEIU leaders who were removed last year for misusing SEIU money. Stern said the anonymous allegations against him were related to the election.
“I’ve never been contacted, and two unnamed people who’ve been removed by the union [and] found guilty by a jury of their peers of diverting money makes this about tabloid journalism, not investigative journalism,” Stern said.
“I’m not naive,” he added. “We’re in an election for 42,000 workers. The ballot count is Oct. 3. This is the last week of get-out-the-vote.”
Read the full story @ TheHill.com.
Tags: DOL, FBI, National Union of Healthcare Workers, NUHW, SEIU, Service Employees International Union, Union Corruption
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