Posted on 10/01/2009 11:03:48 AM PDT by bronxville
Where is ACORN’s Union?
September 18th, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
I’m beginning to lose track of how many employees ACORN has fired since news broke that the embattled community organizing group was willing to offer advice on running an underage prostitution ring.
The questions in my mind are:
What about their union?
Where is the SEIU?
Shouldn’t SEIU’s lawyers be burning the midnight oil writing Unfair Labor Practices for such capricious firings?
Where was the hearing?
What about the grievance procedure? Was their shop steward notified?
Oh, wait, that’s right. ACORN busted the last union that tried to organize its employees.
When employees of Rathke’s SEIU Local 100 wanted to organize themselves into a union, Rathke relied on his wife and brother to plot out an aggressive (and hypocritical) union-avoidance strategy. One former employee reported that after employees provided Rathke with a petition demanding union recognition:
Rathke quickly called a meeting of ACORN’s inner circle, which included his wife, Beth Butler, head organizer of Louisiana ACORN, and Rathke’s brother Dale, who is the financial guru of the outfit. The troika devised a variety of tactics, such as can be expected from any union-busting corporation, to divide and destroy our solidarity.
In 2003, the National Labor Relations Board would find that ACORN management was guilty of using union-busting tactics against its employees.
Why don't they have a union?
Were they even paid a living wage?
I asked Wake Rafke on his blog - my comments didn't even get published.
I’ve heard things like this too.
I ownder what we could do to get the message out there though?
One of Alinsky’s rules was to make the enemy live up to his own standards. So that’s what we should be doing with ACORN, Micahel Moore, et. al.
LOL
I’ve been trying to put it out there as it makes then the biggest hypocrites in the world and even somewhat exposes the major goal of the organization which is to bankrupt the country.
THey’re all connected to Alinski.
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