We’ll see if this works

In a follow up to the story of SEIU members assaulting members of other unions in Dearborn, MI

The California Nurses Assn. on Wednesday secured a temporary restraining order against the Service Employees International Union, accusing it of harassing the board members of the Oakland-based group.

The two influential nationwide unions have a long, acrimonious rivalry that reached a new height in March after they publicly battled over whether the SEIU should represent more than 8,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in Ohio.

The dispute flared again at a labor conference in Dearborn, Mich., on Saturday, when SEIU protesters attempted to gain access to a ballroom where Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses association, had been expected to speak. Several people were injured in a scuffle, including a 68-year-old woman who fell after being pushed.

DeMoro accused SEIU members and staff last week of stalking nurses association board members at their homes, looking through windows and shouting.

SEIU spokeswoman Lynda Tran said union organizers have been driving a nurse and respiratory therapist to board members’ homes to express their disapproval of the association’s tactics in Ohio last month.

“Certainly it’s peaceful, and certainly it’s not harassment,” Tran said.

I really, really hope that someone has their activities on video. SEIU President, Andy Stern, has to appear in court next week, and I would so love to have some judge put his nuts in a vice over the actions his union promotes.

On a side note, I mentioned this story to The Wife who decided that that morning was a good time to tell me that there is a movement amongst her co-workers to dump the SEIU for a variant of the Teamsters who represent office folk.

Great. Just fuckin’ wonderful. Like I don’t have enough to worry about.