
The House Education and Workforce Committee is investigating a pro-Democrat union’s decision to hire a child molester to a top local chapter role after the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed the employee’s record.
Republican Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, the committee’s chair, is asking the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) why its San Francisco chapter hired sex offender Noelia Linares as a business agent, according to a Tuesday letter the DCNF obtained. The DCNF first reported on Linares after the arrest of a local SEIU leader helped kick off days of anti-deportation riots in Los Angeles, drawing national attention toward the union.
“Given the vulnerable populations many SEIU workers serve, the Committee seeks to understand how this occurred and whether reforms to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) are necessary,” Walberg wrote to SEIU President April Verrett.
Linares was charged in 2017 with sex crimes related to her behavior with four alleged victims at a high school where she was a teaching assistant, the committee noted. Linares pleaded “no contest” in 2018 to sexually penetrating a minor with a foreign object and child molesting, while six other charges were dropped. SEIU Local 87 in San Francisco hired Linares in October 2022, less than two years after her probation ended.
The SEIU and Linares did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
“[SEIU] Local 87’s decision to hire Ms. Linares in 2022 to serve as a business agent should be a matter of deep concern to the millions of workers that SEIU represents,” Walberg wrote. The letter noted that SEIU represents workers interacting with “vulnerable populations,” including more than 60 million patients in hospitals, health centers, nursing homes and in-home care settings.
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