US President of the Employee Union Union, which was displaced by opposition flat according to corruption scandal

On May 4, George Gresham, President of 1199seu United Healthcare Workers East (UHWE), was decisively defeated by Yvonne Armstrong, a long -time and high -ranking member of his employees. Gresham, President since 2007, was displaced after the outbreak of a scandal that was triggered by revelations massive corruption, which caused the house committee for education and the workforce to apply for a federal investigation.

The scandal, which is triggered by an extensive exposé in Politico, increases the lid of how the bureaucracy of the Union as a whole life of corrupt appetite, its essentially parasitic and hostile relationship with the workers who claim to represent them to management and capitalist parties, and the capitalist parties. It emphasizes that bureaucracy cannot be reformed, but has fallen and replaced by rankless committees that give the employees a real democratic control.

This is with special sharpness in view of the persistent or planned strikes of Uhwe members in the northeast of the United States. This includes strikes of nursing home workers in New York and Connecticut as well as workers in the Butler Hospital in Rhode Island. The workers are fighting poverty wages, which are a small fraction of the bloated salaries of the Union.

The Politico article unveiled Gresham, who, as President of the Union President, earned 300,000 US dollars a year, has carried out persistent embezzlement of union funds. Most recently, $ 60,000 were spent on union funds to cover travel and accommodation for Gresham's daughter, which accompanied the struck union president as so-called caregivers.

Signfiicant, his daughter has a management position at Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, where many Uhwe members work. Gresham's decades of connections to hospital administration runs deep enough that a hospital garden was named after him.

The Democratic Party has deeply involved this corruption, which has long specialized in using the services of the bureaucracy to suppress the class struggle. Carmen Perez, head of the Democratic Party, which was organized for justice, stayed on the Union's salary statement for over a decade and received over $ 1 million “payment” without defined responsibilities. The union also covered the costs for the penthouse office of its group for $ 300,000 a year for several years.

In 2023, Jesse Jackson, the ex-Civil Rights Leader and the Democratic Party Factotum, received trade union money for a “Legacy Award”, which acted as a rescue campaigns for doctor bills. The political circle of Gresham included top -class democrats such as Bill de Blasio and Rev. Al Sharton. Gresham also supported the former governor Mario Cuomo in a broken mayor run.

Last year Gresham was named by City & state as the most influential operator in the state of New York.