Opening statements at trial

It's time for the game faces to come on in the trial over SEIU's lawsuit against Sal Rosselli and the other former officials of our union!

Opening statements began with our attorney, Gary Kohlman. Let me tell you they were great. They showed timelines when the old leadership started defying not only our Constitution and By-laws but also the International Constitution and By-laws. The following items are what our attorneys are going to prove at this trial.

1. While being paid their salaries from UHW they were working on their own agenda to start their own Union and used UHW resourced to get it done. During the trail today there was a statement about the Colcord Case in 2006 in which Dan Martin said in a deposition: "You'd have to be an idiot to believe you could start a new union is one day".

2. To gain advantage over our Union they removed documents, member lists (our personal information like addresses, phone numbers and our place of employment), files of member issues and grievances. They were sabotaging our union and leaving it unmanageable. As witness Nancy Herrera-Barett stated on the stand, she heard Jason Johnson telling someone to clean out the office right down to the paper clips. Which included a computer and printer.

So when the defense attorney, Dan Siegel was presenting their opening statement it was a circus. Judge Alsup had already ruled that this was NOT ABOUT THE TRUSTEESHIP. Mr. Siegel could not stay on track, he talked about everything but the real issues.

So stay tuned it's just begun. Let me hear what you have to say.
Bye for now.