Last week, a prominent member of the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU) resigned in a blistering letter to the union's President, Andy Stern.  The official, Sal Roselli, complained that the union wasn't Democratic enough - recently national union management has been eclipsing local workers in an apparent power grab.

Rosselli's basic complaint is that Stern and top SEIU officials have sidestepped local union leaders to make critical decisions and have merged locals without giving members a voice.

"Over the past two years, a stark difference has evolved between SEIU's projected image and its real world practices," he wrote to Stern. "An overly zealous focus on growth, growth at any cost, apparently has eclipsed SEIU's commitment to its members."

This letter coincides with other big labor moves aimed at taking away the decision-making power of workers at the local level.  Card check is another issue at the forefront of labor management's agenda, as the national unions and liberals in Congress are attempting to take away workers' right to a secret ballot in union elections. 

Unions started as a method to give workers a voice - but it seems these days big labor is more than willing to disenfranchise the local employees to advance union management's radical agenda.