The internal drumbeat against SEIU chief Andy Stern [1] for seeking the union's "growth at any cost" is only growing louder, as articles in the NY Times [2] and Wall Street Journal [3] bear out.

The Times article in particular shows how union officials often sell out workers' interests in exchange for a "card check" [4] deal from an employer that will give them a toe hold in the workplace, and eventually the ability to compel dues from employees:

Michael Torres, a respiratory therapist at U.S.C. University Hospital
in Los Angeles, part of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation, said Mr.
Stern’s approach had hurt Tenet employees. He complained that union
leaders had sought to make a deal that called for not pushing for
pensions or retiree health coverage; in exchange Tenet would not fight
unionization of 23 facilities in Florida.

No wonder the dissention is reaching a fever pitch, with the group even running ads [5], brought to our attention by a reader, on the pro-forced unionism Daily Kos site decrying "top-down leadership."