The SEIU’s Counter-Espionage Campaign … Against Its Own Members

Ryan O'Donnell / May 14, 2009

For some time now, it’s been clear that Organized Labor—and the SEIU in particular—is adamantly opposed to allowing its members to have any say over union representation. Thanks to a lawsuit filed against the SEIU, new details are surfacing that demonstrate the lengths to which big labor is willing to go to quash dissent amongst its membership.

The lawsuit filed by the OSO Group, an international security company that bills itself as the “first commercial counter-espionage group established in the private sector,” alleges that the SEIU owes the company $2.2 million in “bills for surveillance and security services.” What sort of threat was the SEIU facing that it needed to spend millions of dollars on a counter-espionage group? Apparently, its own members. (more…)