Many times on union issues they have groups they essentially control acting as witnesses or guests on talking head shows under the group name but the are in some cases also members of the unions public relations department and many of their boards of these third party groups are loaded down with union people to assert control

Some time take a look at the cross linking and who sits on the boards of all those ‘independent’ groups that house their offices in the same building with the SEIU in Washington, DC.