Fight within SEIU Local 1107 shows no sign of slowing down

Earlier this year, a confrontation involving two high-ranking members of SEIU Local 1107 resulted in police being called to the Las Vegas union hall and led to a protective order against Executive Vice President Sharon Kisling.

Witnesses there on Aug. 17 later reported that Kisling screamed in a union director’s face that he was fired, forced her way into a conference room while chasing him and would not let the director retrieve his personal cellphone and laptop from his office until a police officer arrived on scene and escorted him from the building.

It was not how Peter Nguyen, SEIU’s Director of Organizing and Representation since May, expected to spend his 43rd birthday.

“She engaged in a two-and-a-half-hour reign of terror at our office,” Nguyen said of Kisling last week. “She verbally and physically threatened me to the extent that a board member had to physically put herself between me and Ms. Kisling.”

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