Comments by hendersonrn - Las Vegas Sun

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Posted on: Toxic feud at SEIU’s top ends with resignations

I would like to say as one of the members of SEIU who has been labeled by Ms Mcalevey as a disgruntled loser, that I am not the loser but the members who work at my hospitals, and the community served by the members of local 1107 are the real losers. She came to town with a vision of who had the power and how she intended to get the power to supposedly build a stronger union but in fact the union has begun to implode on every level.

Executive board officers who scream and shout obsenities at the meetings when challanged by rank and file members. Officers who cause hostile work environments by accousting members verbally in public areas of the work site. And now when their leader has been supposedly been dismissed they come forward with using the catch phrases "things will be much better now that two nurses are running the local".

I am embarrassed by what has happened to the organization I have been apart of for over 14 years and no longer want to be associated with the ugliness Ms McAlevey and her appointed board members have brought to this union.

Ms Hedderman has spent the last year trying to enforce the constitution and bylaws on both the executive director and her executive board. She made the ultimate sacrifice to resign from her position only to have it surface that Ms McAlevey resignation was connected to a 4 month consulting position paid for by the international union monies. This request to have Ms. McAlevey fired was made almost a year ago and we were informed by Mr Fox he did not have the power to hire or fire. So now when SEIU is about to lose the nurse representation in the valley he suddenly has the power to make it happen. The window of opportunity has been lost and I am not sure what will rise out of the ashes of the once powerful SEIU Local 1107 now know as SEIU Nevada. But it may not matter as there is a strong current that most members will be resigning their membership as they no longer want their dues monies financing such a corrupt organization.

(Suggest removal) 6/28/08 at 9:45 p.m.