Warning, below describes an evil mind manipulation technique practiced by the Union mobsters to grow their evil empire.
After working for a Miami hotel in the laundry department Julia Rivera was pleased when she was confronted to become a union organizer full-time.
Julia Rivera, is a worker for Workers United in Florida., she was coerced to disclose that she had been suffered abuse and then speak about it in public at the Unite Here center, she said. Her enthusiasm turned to outrage shortly after.
Ms. Rivera said her superiors at Unite Here, the hotel and restaurant workers' union, repetitively pushed her to reveal highly private information, getting her to divulge that her parent had sexually abused her. Despicable coaxing by the Union is not uncommon we later find.
She said afterward that her supervisors ordered her to describe her tale of abuse over and over to workers they were trying to unionize at the Tampa International Airport, certain that Ms. Rivera's story would shift them, making them more likely to join the union. Unions relished in using Mrs. Rivera's heart breaking experiences for gaining power over the business they planned to infest.
Ms. Rivera said, "I was scared not to do what they said," adding that she resented that she was being pressured to disclose personal information and then speak about it in public. "To me, it was sick. It was horrible."
Ms. Rivera and other existing and previous Unite Here organizers are talking out in opposition to what they say are longstanding practices in were Unite Here officials coerced subordinates to disclose sensitive personal information Unite Here officials pressured workers to divulge information like their mother was an alcoholic or that they were fighting with their spouse.
Over a dozen organizers said in interviews they had repeatedly been pressured to detail such personal anguish - sometimes under the penalty of dismissal from their union positions also stating their supervisors later used the information to push them to comply with their orders.
"It's extremely cultlike and extremely manipulative," said Amelia Frank-Vitale, a Yale graduate and former hotel union organizer who said these practices drove her to see a therapist.
Several Unite Here organizers described high-pressure meetings where they were brought to tears as supervisors pushed them, at times in front of a several colleagues, to reveal personal information in what several organizers said was an attempt to shatter their will and guarantee their obedience.
Some said supervisors, soon after hiring them, had tricked them by disclosing a few personal details over lunch and then pressing them to reciprocate with their own secrets.Mr. Edwards and five other organizers responsible for arranging boycotts against nonunion hotels resigned from Unite Here last summer to protest pink sheeting.
These organizers said the question sheets were no longer pink, had been renamed "motivation sheets" and contained such questions as, "What risks or difficulties has your target undergone in her/his personal life?"
Amelia Frank-Vitale, who is a former union organizer, said the practice of pink sheeting sent her into therapy.
Among the information on several pink sheets was:
"Her childhood was a mess. Her mother was extremely passive aggressive. She would stop speaking to her children sometimes."
"Has social anxiety disorder. She should have been on medication or in therapy but her parents refused."
"Mom was not around growing up. She's heard from her twice. Once to ask for money."