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UPDATE:  From the “Don’t Dick With The Boy Scouts” file…

Allentown union official Nick Balzano has been a political punching bag all week because he threatened to file a grievance against the city for allowing a Boy Scout to clear a walking path in a city park.

Three days of taking body blows nationally from conservative pundits, a rebuke from the Lehigh Valley’s congressman and even a lashing from his own union led Balzano to voluntarily resign his position Thursday as head of the local Service Employees International Union.

Balzano said he and seven other executive officers of the local SEIU stepped down.

It isn’t apparent whether Balzano apologized or not.  Silly me – why would I think that he would?

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From the “You’ll Never Guess What The Liberal Morons Are Doing Now” file…

A Pennsylvania union leader has come under fire after threatening legal action against the city of Allentown for allowing a Boy Scout to voluntarily clear a walking path in a local park.

Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union’s Allentown chapter, said last week that the union might file a grievance against the city for allowing 17-year-old Kevin Anderson to clear the hiking trail, instead of paying some of the 39 recently laid-off SEIU members to do the work.

Balzano’s office did not return messages left by FoxNews.com, but the Morning Call quoted him as telling the city council that the union would be “looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails … There’s to be no volunteers.”

Full article here.

In defense of the union in question, a spokesman left no doubt as to how the union front office was going to spin this:

SEIU spokesman Matt Nerzig called Balzano’s comments “completely unauthorized and insensitive” and said the union was “not at all” considering a grievance in this case.

“Not sure if it was out of context or just a bad moment, but we’ve got no intention of doing anything like that,” Nerzig told FoxNews.com. “Not sure where he got the idea but he certainly doesn’t have the authority to do so.”

In other words? “Balzano?? You are on your own with this one, pal!”

Still,  SEIU are not exactly the Flavor of the Month these days:

• SEIU President Andy Stern sits on ACORN’s advisory council, and while the left will *still* defend ACORN, most people understand the corrupt and lying aspects of that “community service” organization.
• A SEIU official had talks with impeached governor of Illionois Rod Blagojevich to discuss giving Obama’s recently vacated senate seat to a candiate of SEIU persuasion.
• In the irony of ironies, SEIU is being sued by…..another Union for…..not being fair to its Union workers.  The Union of Union Representatives (hah…no…seriously…that is the union’s name) 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.
• Who did SEIU first endorse for President last year?  Mr. Integrity Himself…..John Edwards!  Nice going, SEIU.  A little slow on the “honor” uptake, I see.

Now that they have the “Sue The Boy Scouts for Performing Community Service” merit badge, all they need now is to beat up some poor minorit….umm…..wait a minute….

• [In August of this year]…  a black gentleman named Kenneth Gladney went to a town-hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. While passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, he was viciously attacked by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members. One called him a “nigger.”  Who led this Union activity?  None other than Elston McGowan, the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 and a local Baptist minister.  What is REALLY hilarious (and so so so so Liberal) is that a few weeks after McGowen led the pummeling of Gladney, the SEIU Local 2000 director applied to the SEIU for workman’s compensation for the injury he suffered at the Carnahan rally while beating Ken Gladney.

I swear….you can’t make this stuff up.