SEIU moves to exploit Obama Bucks
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- December 8, 2008
Dobbs: Well, here we go. A payoff for the multi-trillion bailout of the financial industry. One of the country's biggest unions is the Service Employees International Union. It has a long track record of lobbying, amongst other things, for amnesty for illegal aliens and it's lobbying for something else tonight. CNN has learned that the SEIU is exploiting the bailout opportunity and trying to organize bank tellers in this country. The union has plenty of political clout in Washington now. A former top union operative is the president-elect's new political director.
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