Charity Employees Said Boss Forced Them to Campaign
October 21, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The president of a Los Angeles branch of the Service Employees International Union, was accused by employees of a charity he ran of routinely ordering the group’s workers to help on political campaigns, the Los Angeles Times reports. Charities are prohibited from partisan political campaigning.
Tyrone Freeman, president of the Service Employees International Union’s largest California office, denied the accusation after the Internal Revenue Service investigated in 2006. Mr. Freedman did not comment to the newspaper, and IRS officials declined to discuss the investigation. The newspaper said the charity’s tax-exempt status has remained unchanged.
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