from: biggovernment.com
by Jill Stanek
Earlier this month Don Loos wrote about SEIU and ACORN’s “corporate campaigns,” thinly veiled but apparently legal extortion attempts to get big companies to unionize. Wrote Loos:
SEIU, along with its partners… stage disruptive demonstrations, place derogatory ads, hand out offensive flyers, send defamatory letters, and pressure politicians…. All of these actions are designed to irritate everyone in the community and hopefully focus the unrest on the employer, not SEIU. And, in the end, it’s all about money – union dues extracted from workers….
I saw this firsthand in 2004, somewhat from the inside.
I became involved at that time with SEIU, which was trying to keep Advocate Health Care from building another Chicago area hospital in addition to the nine it already owned.
I as a pro-life activist opposed to Advocate’s expansion because it committed abortions; SEIU did because Advocate’s 25,000 employees weren’t unionized. SEIU recognized Advocate as “metropolitan Chicago’s leading private provider of health care and its third largest private employer,” according to an SEIU flyer – a very big fish. Advocate currently carries the distinction of “one of the top 10 health care systems in the United States.”
I met SEIU organizer Joseph Geevarghese at a public hearing held by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board. I was picketing outside and he was packing the place with Advocate malcontents ready to hog the mic during public testimony. Soon, SEIU would be financially supporting our pro-life efforts.
According to Crain’s Chicago Business, Feb. 20, 2004
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TAKING A CRACK AT ACORN
by Publius
From today’s New York Post:
Pointing to a string of probes that ACORN is facing and news reports about the two groups sharing a Nevins Street address in Brooklyn, the suit seeks to flush out the overlap.
Critics of the two groups have long complained they work hand in glove — and have found compelling evidence in Brooklyn.
“Another organization that helped found and remains closely [allied] with the WFP is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN,” reads a petition filed in the case, charging that “ACORN not only shares office space with the WFP . . . but Bertha Lewis, the executive director of New York ACORN, is also a state co-chair of the WFP.”
The suit goes on to say the WFP “has remained closely” tethered to the group.
The court papers cite an exclusive Post story about hidden cameras at the Nevins Street offices capturing ACORN workers counseling a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp on how to buy a home and keep authorities from catching on.
An ACORN spokesman didn’t respond to an e-mailed request for comment. But WFP spokesman Dan Levitan called the suit “a pathetic attempt by a Republican operative trying to win an election.”
Insiders said ACORN was one of many groups involved in creating the WFP and is now among 75 affiliates with the party.
Original story here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/taking_crack_at_acorn_6B7fAy64nxJtYVkSJ6KrVM