In case you missed it, earlier this month the Washington Examiner reported that from 2005 to 2008, Big Labor's big money boys have funneled nearly $10 million from forced-dues-fueled union treasuries to the scandal-ridden Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (popularly known as "ACORN") and its affiliates.
According to the report, leading the way is the scandal-plauged Service Employees International Union (SEIU), doling out a whopping $7.4 million; followed by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Longshore and Warehouse Union, the Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the National Education Association (NEA) unions. The Examiner also notes:
SEIU Locals 100 and 880 were listed as allied organizations on ACORN’s web site until The Examiner highlighted this connection.
LM-2’s show over $600,000 in contributions between these SEIU locals and other ACORN operations. A 2007 LM-2 form shows SEIU Local 880, which is active in Illinois and Minnesota, donated $60,118 to ACORN for "membership services." Organized labor has kicked it back in the form of gifts and grants to ACORN totaling $2.4 million, according to the disclosure forms.
ACORN activists have participated in highly aggressive, well-coordinated anti-corporate campaigns across the country unofficially called “Muscle for Money” funded by SEIU.
In other words, SEIU union kingpins shelled out top dollar for ACORN activists to conduct corporate shakedown campaigns, with tactics that include crashing business meetings and harassing company officials and their families at their own homes, to extract corporate donations and intimidate employers into accepting the Big Labor syndicate's compulsory unionism agenda (which prominently includes forcing the companies' workers into union ranks).
One must wonder if the workers who are "represented" by SEIU union bosses are even aware that their dues are funding a "mob-style 'protection' racket."
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Строительство
Строительство пирамид, великие пирамиды, города египта.
Эксперименты, техника, в мире технологий.
Все о торнадо, торнадо, форма смерчей может быть многообразной.
Unions
To Jim Demint:
Yes, I believe that unions are destroying this country especially in the education field because salaries are much much too high for the amount of time that teachers actally teach. Yet, I work in a school system and am turning 65 next month. My boss who is personnel administrator and her asst. have been tring to have me terminated since I was hired as her secretary 4 yrs. ago. She would not allow me to be with my daughter when my daughter had an at risk pregnancy and needed an emergency surgery even though for months I had kept my boss informed and wanted to use my vacation days. My boss has denied my taking computer corses given by the district, has kept me from a secretarial bridge program even though I was the only secretary who had applied for the position--she hired a bus driver to do the secretarial bridge program, has screamed at me in front of coworkers and the public and it goes on and on. Everytime I try to discuss something with her she tells me to find a new job!! Although, my job has just been put in as a 12 mth. secretarial job instead of the 10 mth that it was and I'm happy about that. So, you see, if you do not address protecting a secretarial worker who's pay is low, we are afraid to sign a petition.
To the responder to Jim
To the responder to Jim Dermit on July 25 with respect to Unions and your job. Check with lawyer on the subject of a "Hostile Work Environment" You may have a case for a law suit. You may want to google the subject first. Of course there is always the age discrimination law. Where is your union support? Hint! Document, document, document! Dates, times, subject, wittnesess, communication to your boss on his/her actions and how they affect you. Document!!!
Brodie
Its a bit silly to compare
Its a bit silly to compare ACORN to the mob or their campaign tatics to mob-style thuggary. ACORN is not using violence, they are not threatening the safety or health of anyone. Moreover it is very unlikely that any of the campaign tatics that ACORN uses are against the law. You are making a foolish comparison that is also dishonest. Of course, you are fighting a campaign for the interests of large corporations. I´m guessing that you are also mainly funded by these large corporations, although your organization does not have enough transparency to verify this. In either case, I guess no one should expect this analysis to be honest or fair.
ACCORN is the Astroturf
How blind can 'Silly to compare' be? Obama has done everything he said he WOULDN'T do in his campaign. In other words he is a liar. He said he would not hire lobbyists or Washington insiders, he would read every line of every bill, he would cut out all pork, would not raise taxes, and on and on. Pelosi has called American people who are alarmed at what Democrats are doing and speaking out against it, "Astroturf with Zwasticas". I have never seen these people with Swasticas and she would never recognize a real grassroots effort anyway because the Dems hire their protesters in the form of nasty, loud, harassing ACCORN employees. They were outside of bank employees HOMES. You remember, don't you...to encourage low rate mortgages for people who couldn't afford them? Everything the Democrats blame on others is what they themselves have caused. They have done it for years and gotten away with it. Why doesn't Obama dismantle the IRS instead of the Corruption Investigators? Why indeed. That says it all. He doesn't want to help Americans, he wants to control them. Read the books "Animal Farm","1984" and Karl Marx, then watch the movies "Reds" and "Dr. Zhavago". If you read it in high school, you need a refresher. Lastly read our Constitution. Do you get it yet?
ACORN's Thugs
ACORN doesn’t have to engage in violence; it has the SEIU to do that for them.
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The Right to Work movement’s power comes from its more than 2 million activist members who contact government officials not high-powered and high-priced lobbyists.