{"id":2771,"date":"2008-10-23T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:15:13","slug":"seiu-union-hit-with-fec-complaint-for-illegal-political-fundraising-scheme-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/seiu-union-hit-with-fec-complaint-for-illegal-political-fundraising-scheme-0\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIU Union Hit with FEC Complaint for Illegal Political Fundraising Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Washington, DC (October 23, 2008)<\/strong> \u2013 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking it to investigate a campaign fundraising scheme adopted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at its convention this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union and its officers appear to be violating federal labor law and the Federal Election Campaign Act by imposing financial penalties on local affiliates who fail to meet Political Action Committee (PAC) fundraising targets. On June 3, delegates to the SEIU convention approved Constitutional Amendment #317 in time to take effect for this year\u2019s federal elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe policy imposes on each SEIU local an \u201cannual SEIU COPE fundraising obligation.\u201d SEIU COPE is the SEIU\u2019s federal PAC. If a local fails to meet this requirement, the SEIU imposes heavy fines. However, federal election law forbids unions from \u201cutilizing money\u2026secured by\u2026financial reprisals\u2026 or the threat of \u2026 financial reprisal\u201d to fund a PAC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnion officials have injected enormous sums of money this election season into electing favored candidates. The FEC lists SEIU COPE as the top labor union PAC with over $23 million in receipts for 2005-2006, and SEIU union bosses expect the new requirement to funnel at least $9 million into SEIU COPE.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause the SEIU\u2019s political contributions are so significant, Foundation attorneys believe that this amendment has the potential to irreparably compromise the integrity of the electoral process. By coercing local affiliates and nonmember employees into contributing to the SEIU\u2019s massive general election fund, union officials threaten to disenfranchise voters with a firestorm of illegally funded political activism.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLast year, the FEC levied record fines \u2013 though still quite minimal compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars at issue in the case \u2013 against Americans Coming Together, an SEIU-backed \u201c527\u201d group following a complaint filed by the National Right to Work Foundation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe SEIU cannot be trusted with its government-backed forced-dues privilege, and its scheme will corrupt the election process,\u201d said Foundation vice president Stefan Gleason. \u201cThe FEC must act quickly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Foundation joined with Karen Glass, a school district employee in Wisconsin who is forced to pay dues to SEIU Local 150 and its national affiliate, and Regent University School of Law student Michael Casaretto, who has extensively researched the SEIU scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Washington, DC (October 23, 2008)<\/strong> \u2013 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking it to investigate a campaign fundraising scheme adopted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at its convention this summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union and its officers appear to be violating federal labor law and the Federal Election Campaign Act by imposing financial penalties on local affiliates who fail to meet Political Action Committee (PAC) fundraising targets. On June 3, delegates to the SEIU convention approved Constitutional Amendment #317 in time to take effect for this year\u2019s federal elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEIU Union Hit with FEC Complaint for Illegal Political Fundraising Scheme - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/seiu-union-hit-with-fec-complaint-for-illegal-political-fundraising-scheme-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEIU Union Hit with FEC Complaint for Illegal Political Fundraising Scheme - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, DC (October 23, 2008) \u2013 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking it to investigate a campaign fundraising scheme adopted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at its convention this summer.    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