SEIU Goes To College...Well..Attempts To Unionize Campus Operations

Ah, it's spring. Graduation has come and gone, academia is settling in for another bucolic summer, and students are staging sit-ins against the campus cafeteria. All we lack to make it a TotallySixties sort of event is the smell of the teargas, photos of nice carpets smeared in pig's blood and excrement, and Mom-n-Dad bailing Junior out of jail. (He's not a bad boy, just misunderstood, you know...)

A string of protests across the country against one of the predominant food services providers at colleges and universities has resulted in 50 arrests – so far. The arrests are part of what activists promise will be stepped-up focus on the company Sodexo.

Last week students at Ohio State University rallied on campus before moving into President Gordon Gee’s office, where seven were arrested after they refused to stop chanting (two non-students were arrested as well). They wanted the university to cut its contract with Sodexo, the company that hires and manages 124 of Ohio State’s 1,800 concessions employees at its stadium and events center.

Of course, driving this new round of youthful high spirits are our Marxist friends at SEIU.

OldSouth is just shocked, gobsmacked...

So the university administration has to calculate:

Lessee--The White House and SEIU are, shall we say, on good terms. Himself is their homeboy, actually. We've got people threatening property and bodily harm if we don't cave. But if we do cave, those goons will be all over our ass, and anyone we may let a service contract to--they'll unionize the whole place! We don't have the money for that operational model. The donors will turn tail, and no family wants to to send a student to a place that might go on strike during the next four years.


(Nice little campus you got here at Ohio State/Emory/U of Washington, etc...It'd be a shame if someone were to come here and BURN IT DOWN! Don't-chew think so boys? Yeah, boss, it'd be a cryin' shame...)

Organizing For Wisconsin: So Much For The 'Adult Conversation' Obama Claims He Wishes To Undertake

One of the scariest things we learned about Richard Nixon in the early 1970's was that he had an entirely separate operation, aptly named CREEP ('Committee to Re-Elect The President), that operated at his behest. Apart from the Republican Party, out of sight, often operating in laundered cash. He had his Plumbers to do covert intelligence for him. He had an Attorney General (Mitchell) who served as his muscle. He had an enemies list, and used the IRS to harass them. He was on the way to setting up his own personal governance in the shadows. It was, well, scary.

So, now, forty years later....we have Obama inserting himself and his personal one-off machine into Wisconsin's local debate.

Those crowds with the printed signs did not appear out of thin air, ya'll. This appears to be severely ginned-up.

MADISON, WIS. - President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin's broiling budget battle, mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb public-worker benefits while planning similar action in other state capitals.

Obama accused Scott Walker, the state's new Republican governor, of unleashing an "assault" on unions in pushing emergency legislation that would nullify collective-bargaining agreements that affect most public employees, including teachers.

The president's political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union officials to mobilize thousands of protesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in other state capitals.

Their efforts began to spread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus, Ohio, to protest a measure from Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective-bargaining rights.

By the end of the day, Democratic Party officials were working to organize additional demonstrations in Ohio and Indiana, where an effort is underway to trim benefits for public workers. Some union activists predicted similar protests in Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

There is a common denominator here: Obama must win these states to retain the Presidency.

Having lost at the ballot box, pretty decisively, we now face the prospect of a President of The United States actively fomenting mobs of loyalists to show up at state houses, to protect his core constituents, and likely to intimidate any and all who may disagree. It is his organization undertaking this. It is for him to say 'yea' or 'nay' to its activities. As President, his 'nay' would bring this sort of thing to a halt.

We are now on very dangerous ground. Heaven help us all. It is significant that The Washington Post would devote this much energy to reporting this story, as it is the organization that unraveled the Nixon machine.

We will be fortunate if no blood is spilled in the meantime. We are on very dangerous ground. The scenes we have viewed in Athens and London may be local events, unless wiser heads prevail.