Topic: SEIU Faces RICO lawsuit in civil court

[IronDioPriest]

I don't know enough about RICO statutes to say whether they are applicable in all the ways I've been hearing lately, but I've been hearing it enough to hope that these out-of-control union thugs can be prosecuted under those statutes. Unions ARE organized crime, and they should be understood as such and prosecuted as such.

Linked @ LaborUnionReport...

Sodexo Slaps SEIU With RICO Suit

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Sodexo USA today filed a civil lawsuit against the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and other defendants under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, to stop the illegal campaign of extortion that the SEIU has been waging in the U.S. for over a year....

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...Sodexo USA has filed the lawsuit seeking to halt the SEIU’s extortionate threats and barrage of unlawful tactics. The complaint alleges acts of SEIU blackmail, vandalism, trespass, harassment, and lobbying law violations designed to steer business away from Sodexo USA and harm the company...

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...The complaint alleges that the SEIU, in face to face meetings, threatened Sodexo USA’s executives that it would harm Sodexo USA’s business unless they gave in to the union, and then carried out its threats through egregious behavior, including:[blockquote]* throwing plastic roaches onto food being served by Sodexo USA at a high profile event;
* scaring hospital patients by insinuating that Sodexo USA food contained bugs, rat droppings, mold and flies;
* lying to interfere with Sodexo USA business and sneaking into elementary schools to avoid security;
* violating lobbying laws to steer business away from Sodexo USA, even at the risk of costing Sodexo USA employees their jobs; and
* harassing Sodexo USA employees by threatening to accuse them of wrongdoing.[/blockquote]The complaint, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, seeks an injunction against the SEIU and its locals and executives, as well as monetary damages to be determined by the court.

[hemm]

oh please let them be successful in crushing seiu's collective nuts.

[charlesoakwood]

The French found their stones? Better late than never, first they want to lead the charge against Daffy (well, it's something anyway), and now they are taking SEIU to task. 

More power to them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodexo
Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance, Euronext: SW) is a French multinational corporation headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.[2] Sodexo is one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world, with 380,000 employees, representing 130 nationalities, present on 30,600 sites in 80 countries.

[AlanS]

Sounds good as long as they have proof. Of course this is a civil case, so I don't think it has to be concrete evidence, does it?

Personally, I hope it's concrete and they have a criminal case, too.

[Libertas]

My health care outfit contracts with Sodexo, I work with some of their local managers, and we have SEIU jobs all over the place and they are a major pain in the rear.  I hope my outfit joins this.  Basically threatening patients with food poisoning is pretty low on its own.  Can you imaging hearing that crap from some SEIU flunky while your laying in your hospital bed recovering from God knows what?  I hope SEIU gets bent over and drilled hard!