St. Joseph's v. SEIU-UHW is all about teh gays

by: Julia Rosen

Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 21:30:34 PM PDT

Dave Johnson sent over this really pretty amazing article in the Catholic News Agency after seeing my post on SEIU-UHW's battle to unionize workers in the St. Joseph Health Care System. Sure it is a few months old, but it is too good not to blog. The article is titled innocently enough "Catholic health workers' effort to unionize could crowd out Catholics". Crowd out Catholics they say? How?

Well...it is all about the homos you see, as the lead tells us.

A complex labor dispute between a Californian Catholic healthcare company and its employees could end in an agreement with a union that promotes homosexual rights, the California Catholic Daily reports.

And what do they use to base this claim?

Well, they go right after Sal Roselli, the leader of SEIU-UHW. No, not like SEIU International has gone after Sal, but because, gasp, he is gay! Going way back to 1984. Oh my goodness.

In 1984-85, Roselli was president of a Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club. A grand marshal for the 2006 San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade, Roselli has introduced domestic partner compensation into the UHW member benefits.

This bit is my favorite. They use an anonymous source to attack Sal and SEIU-UHW.

A political activist in Sacramento, who requested anonymity, told the California Catholic Daily that Roselli's union is trying to become the exclusive bargaining agent for some St. Joseph employees.
"This is a very contentious union, and if they get what they want, there will be a full homosexualization of everything. Domestic partner benefits and the like will come from worker dues, and the full muscle of the union will be put behind the homosexual agenda," the activist said.

Yes, that is exactly what SEIU-UHW does. They are all about advancing the homosexual agenda and homosexualizing EVERYTHING.

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Sisters of St. Josephs it's time to make peace with your workers

by: Julia Rosen

Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 17:13:15 PM PDT

It is a dirty little secret, but often times the more virulently anti-union employers are religious orders that run health systems. Such is the situation with the Sisters of St. Joseph who run the St. Joseph Health System. They have been resisting the efforts of their service employees to join SEIU-UHW for the past three years.

SEIU-UHW is organizing a series of events this week in support of their organizing efforts. Today Delores Huerta of the United Farm Workers wrote a HuffPost piece on the struggle.

This week I'm joining St. Joseph Health System workers, Attorney General Jerry Brown, Father Eugene Boyle, actor Ed Begley Jr, and community and religious leaders to call upon the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to make peace with their workers.
For decades, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have fought for justice for California's workers. In the summer of 1973, they marched in solidarity with Cesar Chavez and farm workers during the brutal Grape Strike. I witnessed the Sisters putting their personal safety at risk. They walked picket lines and even went to jail with more than 3500 striking farm workers. I was inspired by the Sisters' commitment to stand with the farm workers, even in the face of violent provocation.
But now, these same sisters are refusing to show their own workers the same justice they once fought for.

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