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As the SEIU and the CWA target the banking industry for unionization as part of their larger global strategy, the SEIU astro-turfed a number of California banks on Tuesday, including one in Watsonville:
Frustration with the banking industry became so great for a group of Central Coast residents Tuesday they paraded into a Chase bank and demanded payback for the financial havoc wreaked by the nation’s foreclosure crisis.
“We had a conversation with the branch manager, and he decided he didn't want to talk to us. And he threw us out,” reported activist Erik Larsen. “(But) we’ll be back.”
Larsen was met outside by some 50 cheering people, part of an event staged in several California cities this week to highlight the alleged indiscretions of banks. Though it’s been two years since a taxpayer bailout helped rescue the industry from overly risky behavior, organizers of Tuesday’s event sought to show that bank actions are continuing to burden average American households.
A report by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, released in tandem with this week’s rallies, suggests that the financial industry is shorting taxpayers billions of dollars.
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