SEIU Uses Federal Inspections to Target Houston Small Business

[SEIU Uses Federal Inspections to Target Houston Small Business: OSHA brings organizers along on inspections to intimidate open-shop employees by Jillian Kay Melchior] "Union organizers are showing up at Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspections of an open-shop business that has been targeted by the country’s second-largest union.

Professional Janitorial Service (PJS), the largest non-union janitorial company in Houston, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) haven’t gotten along for seven years. The company is currently suing SEIU for $9 million, alleging that the union has repeatedly slandered it.

Such an organized-labor presence on OSHA inspections at non-union businesses is becoming more commonplace, owing to a rule clarification quietly drafted in February 2013. Responding to a union inquiry, OSHA decided that third-party agents who are not affiliated with the employees or the federal government are now allowed to tag along on safety inspections. A SEIU spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the presence of union representatives on inspections and did not respond to a request for comment.

A major change, this so-called “clarification” opens up the potential for unions to use the threat of federal inspections against any business that refuses to bend to their wishes..." Full text: SEIU Uses Federal Inspections to Target Houston Small Business Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10, Jn 8:36, Am 8:5

SEIU Uses Federal Inspections to Target Houston Small Business