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09/01/2012: Unions have had their “day”. At one time they were badly needed. But now, the pendulum has pretty well set itself at 6:00 PM. If these labor organizations did not have the word “union” affixed to their names they would differ very little from the days of Al Capone who went around “selling” protection, safety, etc.

Mr. Bego went through hell to keep the SEIU (a corrupt organization if there ever was one) from “kidnapping” his employees. He honestly has/had the best interest of his workers at heart. He is still prepared to hold a secret ballot vote on joining anytime his workers think that it is necessary. “Secret Ballot Voting” is not in the lexicon of unions. Instead they (unions) want employers to voluntarily stand aside and let the union organizers to their thing (which can be very nasty.) Sadly some (too many) employers are unable to stand the pressure brought by unions (who play by a different set of rules) and stand aside.

All unions are not bad, many serve their members well. And, all employers are not enlightened and care about their workers. But, joining a union should be of all manner of persuasions from both sides (like Dave Bego preaches.) But, today, the big union bosses know that they are in serious trouble. They have been playing “loosey-goosey” with their members’ dues (and the pension funds that they manage on behalf of their members are badly underfunded.) They are desperate for more dues and right now they have a friend in the White House, himself a former union organizer for SEIU, and they are going to fight tooth-and-nail to keep him there.

The upcoming presidential election (November 06th) is causing a lot of sleepless nights for big union bosses and well it should.
I could go on but I suspect that I may be preaching to the choir.
Mr. Bego is a shining star (and a fresh breath) in the world of labor relations. He has written two fine books detailing his travails with the SEIU (I have both of them) and the last one, “The Devil At Our Doorstep” is as good, if not better, than the first “The Devil At My Doorstep.”-  Bones “remle”, Chase, BC. CA.

08/30/2012:I just finished this book. Dave’s perseverance is amazing. Lots of lessons. I was helping my high school daughter with geometry last night and I had the whole smart person vs persevering person discussion. I think she already believes it. She sees smart people not doing as well as her because she tries harder. Thanks for being a great example.

I don’t know if a public company would have had that clear a purpose to succeed under that pressure.

The second half of the book was even more powerful given the upcoming election. -  Wayne Jurillo

08/08/2012: Dave Bego has done Americans a great service by exposing the SEIU union bosses and their heavy-handed tactics. With little or no regard for their members, these thugs seek power by building their membership by any means other than a secret ballot. They grow the union’s income stream and divert it to political causes and for purposes other than supporting the membership. Dave Bego knows of what he writes — his business was literally assaulted for over a year by these SEIU thugs. He withstood the assault and has made it his personal mission to eradicate this behavior. We highly recommend “Devil At Our Doorstep” and plan to give a copy to our Congressman. -  Linda Harden, Naples

07/27/2012: This is Rick Reuss and Rick Berry of the Rick and Rick at Night Radio Show. We enthusiastically promote Dave Bego’s book, The Devil at Our Doorstep – Exposing the Real Agenda of Big Labor, The Taking of American Freedoms. Dave wrote this book to shed light on the brutal tactics used by labor unions, such as the SEIU, whose close ties to President Obama and his Administration have proven costly to businesses and employees across the country.

Obama’s Administration’s “rule by regulation” mentality has weakened the economy, leaving business owners unsure of their future and put employees in the crossfire, while eroding American Freedoms. The Devil at Our Doorstep is a must read, containing important insight for the future of America, and detailing why the November 2012 Election is the most important in our country’s history!

Just as the Greatest Generation fought the tyranny in their generation, we must fight and defeat the tyranny led by Obama and his regime. We are at a crossroads, and as Americans, we must wake up and save our liberties, freedoms and our future, before it’s too late!

07/28/2012: I have very little time for reading these days, but I did just finish “The Devil at Our Doorstep.”  I enjoyed the book very much and thank you for taking the time and effort to write it.

After reading the book, I came away with three distinct feelings. The first was pride.  I am proud to have a leader that did not back down to Big Labor. The fact that you decided to fight the war is very commendable, but the way in which you fought it was extraordinary. When sucker punched from many different angles by the SEIU, you kept your composure. Your response was strategic, well planned and relentless. Signing the neutrality agreement would have been the easy thing to do. It also would have been a mistake, and you knew that from the beginning.

The second impression I took away from the book was bewilderment. The view you shared of the way our government works (or doesn’t work) left me wondering how anything gets done to benefit our country. I’m sure your experience with Senator Bayh not knowing the facts is not an isolated incident. Too many of our Legislators, in my opinion, lose sight of the big questions. The big questions in this case being – Who do I really work for and how can I make this country better?

Lastly, When I finished reading I was scared. I am scared for me, my family and my country’s future. It seems as though our President is ready, willing and able to skirt the rules in order to further his agenda. The recess appointment of Craig Becker to the NLRB and his relationship to Andy Stern and other Big Labor leaders is concerning. I thought our forefathers set up our government with a system of checks and balances to prevent one branch from overstepping its boundries. The result of President Obama’s efforts is of course handicapping businesses  big and small. Maybe worst of all, I don’t think Mr. Obama respects the office of President of The United States of America and what it means. As you said in the book, it is time for America to wake up and vote this man out of office. Dave, thanks for being a great American and for writing “The Devil at Our Doorstep.” –  Steve Conlin, Indianapolis

06/26/2012: David, your first book “The Devil At My Doorstep” was inspiring and stimulating to our movement that has evolved to OccupySEIU.com.

We are a group of SEIU Local 1000 Members and State of California Employees who live and see everyday what you have overcome and described so well in both books:

a- The Devil At My Doorstep

b- The Devil At Our Doorstep

The story is told by a Manager who is ‘hands on’ and a CEO who cares about his employees, and who perfectly understands both sides and what it takes to regain the White House:

a- the Higher echelons of the Republican Party and their disconnect with minorities, moderates, and liberals.

b- the mentality, simplistic state of mind, and financial situation of the people who are working for his Company; who are the symbol of the majority of Labor Unions Members and who outnumber the Higher echelons.

To beat Obama you need the volume, not just the ideas and intellects.

David, your book, in its easy to understand language, expresses your total comprehension of the ‘colossal special interest group the labor unions have become’ and their threat to the American Dream, Free Market, and Free Choice.   Again you expressed and explained very clearly what the Labor Unions have become, but sadly many fail to recognize:

a- a Business

b- a threat to FREE Speech and FREE Market camouflaged under: EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act)

As SEIU Members we can attest to your description of the SEIU Officers, their dirty and deceiving tactics.  We live and see that every day in the State Offices where the ‘union reps’ march in /out as they please, on State time, and paid by hard working tax payers.  They have no notion what it takes to meet payroll.

We like what you wrote because we know it is the truth and couldn’t be described any better.  To conclude we would like to implement one of your ideas in our fight against what the Labor Unions have become today:

No. 7 of the “Ten-Point Plan to Battle Big Labor”:

• “Reach out to minorities, moderates, and independent voters and encourage them to fairly consider union tactics as they deliberate who to elect for their political leader”

As you very well described and explained in simple words: we need to reach out to minorities and independent to make a difference, and to save our Free Market and Free Speech.

David, we believe in your fight, we want to help and make a difference.  Your book is also guidance to our fight for the same cause. - Mariam the Mighty, California

07/11/2012: I live in a blue state (Connecticut) where our public-sector-union-friendly governor recently signed an executive order forcing home healthcare providers (for example, someone who is taking care of an elderly parent that receives state aid) to join SEIU. This was just one payback for the recent election where the union bussed out-of-state college students to vote illegally in our polls and then stuffed the ballot box in Bridgeport to win the governor’s seat within a margin small enough to force a recount. The public sector unions here are no friend to the taxpayers in CT. They drive up the costs of every public project they become involved with.

Private-sector unions used to understand that if you bankrupt the company that you work for, you won’t have a job for long. Greedy, public-sector unions just don’t care. Why should they when they collude with politicians who are more than willing to use them to get elected and then reward them once they are in office?

Mr. Bego tells us his horrific story of union attempts to infiltrate the business that he built from scratch, with his own money and sweat. He is the American icon of equal opportunity. The best part of his story is that he wins!

If you are in a union, think about this: your union is holding you back. If you work harder than the next guy, are you rewarded for it? If the guy next to you is a slacker, should he get paid the same as you do? What are the salaries of your union leadership? Are you making more than your counterparts in non-union shops? Is your union donating your dues to the same guy you want to vote for? AND, if you work for a public-sector union, do you you really want to be part of a greedy gang that bankrupts your state or town, or the USA?    – Jon, Connecticut

04/06/2012: I know Dave Bego personally, and every word is true. This man and his employees have been put through hell.

The truth is that unions like SEIU are out of control. And that the unholy alliances between Obama-style socialism, unaccountable Czars, and corrupt union officials is putting our nation, our prosperity, and our basic freedoms at risk.

This is especially egregious when it comes to public sector unions. There is at least theoretical justification, and historic justification, for private sector unions to provide a check and balance. Most would agree that free people should have the right to work. Most would also agree that free people would also have the right to join unions (in the private sector), if they so chose (by their own free will, not by being coerced). Being forced to join unions, however, is a form of tyranny. It will crush our freedom and destroy hope.

“The Devil at our Doorstep” makes a withering case against the mass media for its acquiescence in what Mr. Bego convincingly argues is the destruction of the American work ethic. He raises the damning question of whether support for the union position by the established newspapers and networks isn’t motivated by fear of attacks against their advertisers as well as a lazy philosophical drift in the newsrooms.

Most of all, in this his second book on the topic, Mr. Bego wants the rest of us to get involved in what he rightly sees as an era of agonizing decisions regarding not only our freedom to work where we choose and with whom we associate but our very liberty. And, characteristically, he has drawn up a solid 10-point, common sense plan, one that challenges what until now has been only a self-congratulatory Republican leadership.

In that he joins the sociologist Charles Murray in sounding the alarm on American industriousness. Murray notes that the percentage of prime-age white males with no more than a high school education saying they are “not available” for work increased from a low of three percent in 1968 to 12 percent in 2008. We are talking about 12 percent of the men at a time in their lives when every able-bodied American man once worked or was looking for work.

Mr. Bego makes clear that the restrictive policies pushed by the national labor unions are the reason for such dismal statistics. And he echoes Murray in warning that hardworking, good-living Americans had better start preaching what they practice:

“If we sit on the sidelines,” Mr. Bego writes in conclusion, “if we never take a stand, if we aren’t true to ourselves and to our beliefs, then change will not occur, Big Labor elitism will be victorious, and our way of life in America will disappear forever. Jobs will continue to be lost, our economy and standard of living will continue to deteriorate and we will become a socialistic country.”

Most of all, Mr. Bego shows us how it is done, and with an energy and determination daunting even to the bullies at the SEIU. And he shares his secret: “Be the kind of man that when your feet hit the floor in the morning the Devil says, `Oh crap, he’s up.’”

This book needs to be read. Union money is funding evil, and corrupt unions are stealing from both the taxpayers and the union members themselves. Dave makes excellent arguments for right to work laws. “THE PERSUASION OF POWER” BY UNION THUGS AND BOSSES HAS NO PLACE IN AMERICA.

This book should be read by all elected officials, and by all union members.                            -  John D. Trudel, author of “God’s House”

04/05/2012: I read this along with the first book. Such a wonderful account of a “True American” fighting for what he believes in! Clearly describes and explains what is wrong with this Country right now. So many more of us need to stand up and start making our voices heard! I would recommend to anyone from either party, undecided or those who believe in what America stands for…Freedom.    – 2momindy

05/23/2012: The difficult thing about fighting for free markets is that our successes are invisible or are projected beyond the political horizon — and, maddeningly, so are the failed promises of our statist opponents.

That, however, is lessened with publication of Dave Bego’s “Devil at Our Doorstep.” The failures of American unionism are found there in weapons-grade detail.

More importantly, Mr. Bego is walking testimony to the success of free markets, demonstrating that the conviction of a self-described average businessman is enough to defend the American work ethic.

For Dave Bego is no victim. A Hoosier, he operates a family janitorial service that has withstood a full-scale assault since 2008 by one of the nation’s most powerful labor organizations, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Mr. Bego’s struggle against the union tracks today’s headlines on such issues as national right-to-work legislation, the recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and the union campaign for card-check regulation. He names names, exposing the political collusion between Big Labor, the administration and the liberal Left.

“The Devil at our Doorstep” makes a withering case against the mass media for its acquiescence in what Mr. Bego convincingly argues is the destruction of the American work ethic. He raises the damning question of whether support for the union position by the established newspapers and networks isn’t motivated by fear of attacks against their advertisers as well as a lazy philosophical drift in the newsrooms.

Most of all, in this his second book on the topic, Mr. Bego wants the rest of us to get involved in what he rightly sees as an era of agonizing decisions regarding not only our freedom to work where we choose and with whom we associate but our very liberty. And, characteristically, he has drawn up a solid 10-point, common sense plan, one that challenges what until now has been only a self-congratulatory Republican leadership.

In that he joins the sociologist Charles Murray in sounding the alarm on American industriousness. Murray notes that the percentage of prime-age white males with no more than a high school education saying they are “not available” for work increased from a low of three percent in 1968 to 12 percent in 2008. We are talking about 12 percent of the men at a time in their lives when every able-bodied American man once worked or was looking for work.

Mr. Bego makes clear that the restrictive policies pushed by the national labor unions are the reason for such dismal statistics. And he echoes Murray in warning that hardworking, good-living Americans had better start preaching what they practice:

“If we sit on the sidelines,” Mr. Bego writes in conclusion, “if we never take a stand, if we aren’t true to ourselves and to our beliefs, then change will not occur, Big Labor elitism will be victorious, and our way of life in America will disappear forever. Jobs will continue to be lost, our economy and standard of living will continue to deteriorate and we will become a socialistic country.”

Most of all, Mr. Bego shows us how it is done, and with an energy and determination daunting even to the bullies at the SEIU. And he shares his secret:

“Be the kind of man that when your feet hit the floor in the morning the Devil says, `Oh crap, he’s up.’”

Although the reader might wish there were an easier way, he will not put down this book without knowing that each of us needs to hit the floor more like Dave Bego.   - Craig Ladwig