The hypocrisy of Media Matters opposing their workers attempts to form a union is almost too much to comprehend.
Via Washington Examiner:
Service Employees International Union Local 500 has created a petition urging management at the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America to “walk the walk” on progressive values and stop opposing the unionization of its staff. It is the latest salvo in Local 500’s nearly two-month-long effort to get MMFA to back collective bargaining.
“Employees at Media Matters have been organizing to form a union and join SEIU Local 500, but Media Matters executives have been fighting it every step of the way — even though they claim to pro-union!” the petition reads.
The petition was announced by Local 500 on Thursday. The sign-up list itself is on Moveon.org. By Monday, it had 148 signatures with a modest goal of just 200.
Local 500 first approached Media Matters in early April, hoping to get management to accept the union’s claim that it had already gotten the support of majority of the nonprofit’s staff through a card check election. MMFA refused, so the union filed a petition for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on April 10. The nonprofit then lawyered up, hiring attorneys with the firm of Perkins Coie, which specializes in representing management in labor disputes.