Why can't the Service Employees International Union live by the same rules that it wants imposed upon other employers?

As it helps push for legislation that would make it easier for workers to organize, the country's fastest-growing union is engaged in its own labor dispute with employees it is seeking to lay off.

The Service Employees International Union, considered the most influential union in the nation, has notified the union that represents about 220 of its national field staff and organizers that 75 of them are being laid off. In return, the workers' union, which goes by the somewhat postmodern name of the Union of Union Representatives, has filed unfair labor practices charges against SEIU with the National Labor Relations Board. The staff union's leaders say that SEIU is engaging in the same kind of practices that some businesses use -- laying off workers without proper notice, contracting out work to temp firms, banning union activities and reclassifying workers to reduce union numbers.

I'm curious -- what would the SEIU do in the event that one of the companies where it represents workers engaged in these activities? There would be a great hue and cry over the outrageous behavior of management. There would be the calling in of chits from the Obama Regime and Congressional Democrats in an effort to get investigations and legislation that would appropriately punish and restrict what the union considers to be bad practices. But now the chief thug of the SEIU defends these practices when he presides over them. The hypocrisy is enough to make you laugh, isn't it?