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SEIU Seeking “Pro Bono Wage Theft” Advocate
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 22, 2014 @ 4:12 pm In The Point | 1 Comment
Isn’t it terrible when organizations whose bosses make huge amounts of money don’t pay their employees for their hard work?
Take SEIU with assets of nearly $200 million whose execs routinely pull down six figure salaries. And it’s all about income equality and wage fairness. And unpaid labor to campaign for living wages.
Raise Up for $15, an advocacy group backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), posted an advertisement on Idealist.Org in search of a “pro bono wage theft advocate.”
Applicants are expected to work for 10 hours per month without pay and are invited to submit their resumes to an SEIU organizer. The group’s mission statement slams fast food companies for failing to pay workers a just salary.
“We believe that people who work hard for a living should make enough to support themselves, their families and their neighborhoods—and that workers should be treated with dignity and respect,” the site’s About Me page says.
The SEIU and Raise Up for $15 are not the first restaurant worker advocates to employ unpaid workers to advocate for higher wages. The Restaurant Opportunities Center, a nonprofit union front group, has also posted job ads seeking unpaid workers to fight wage theft.
The liberal non-profit sector is big on preaching practices that it doesn’t live by. It wants to impose costs and hardships on others. It wants others to provide benefits that it has no interest in dispensing. With its huge treasury, SEIU would have no problem paying employees. But that’s true of most liberal non-profits which try to get as much out of volunteers as they can.
As David Sanford wrote in Me and Ralph, “Nader strikes me as conforming to the stereotype people have of sociologists and politicians: they bleed for the poor and downtrodden but mistreat their maids.”
It predates the sociologist and remains completely current.
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