Life sometimes kicks up ironies so fantastic you have to laugh out loud. On opening day of the SEIU convention there were more than I could count. The first one happened less than ten minutes after I got inside the convention center. (Yes, they did scan the barcode on my ID badge, albeit only once, and I did have to pass through a turnstile)

I was being escorted to the press section of the convention floor along with Kris Maher from the Wall Street Journal and Michelle Amber from the BNA’s Daily Labor Report when I got pulled out of our little convoy by one of the convention sergeants-at-arms. When I looked over at him, whose face was I staring at? Yup, Frank Hornick (seen below, dutifully guarding the door in question):

For those of you scratching your head (true, Frank Hornick's not yet a household name) Frank was leading SEIU’s version of the flying wedge in April when over 150 staff and members tried to storm the banquet hall at the Labor Notes conference. [1] Here is Frank in action back then: