ACORN’s Blind Support for Unions and Their Attacks on Education

Main Street Radical ^ | 2/11/10 | James Devere

[mainstreetradical.com]

ACORN has skirted the law when it comes to voter registration. They were active in an Ohio voter drive at a time when the registration period overlapped early voting, opening the state up for fraud. They have taken an active stance against a Harlem school that may have been just a little too successful for their tastes. ACORN is an organization that, unlike its stated mission, seems to be dedicated to keeping our poorest communities poor, and our biggest unions wealthy.

[Blue Turtle]

The fact that this organization exists even after it has been exposed is a travesty.

[cripplecreek]

It wouldn’t say that their support is quite blind. When ACORN employees tried to unionize a few years back, Wade Rathke tried to crush the attempt. LOL

[cripplecreek]

Despite its ardent public support of higher wages and union membership for all workers, ACORN has made repeated attempts to block the unionization of its own workforce while paying below-minimum-wage salaries to its employees. In addition to the extensive union-busting detailed by the NLRB (see Appendix A), ACORN unsuccessfully sued the state of California to be exempted from the minimum wage. In its appeal of that suit, ACORN argued that the reduction in the number of employees resulting from the minimum wage would violate its First Amendment rights. ACORN’s claims were labeled “absurd” by the presiding judge (see Appendix B).

ACORN union busting

LOL

[CORedneck]

When the executives of a company that are not doing their job need to lose their jobs by being thrown out by shareholders, in the unions, the union members need to throw out their executives. In these two different organizations, coporate and union executives are no different, make themselves rich by screwing over the shareholders/members.