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ACORN's Labor Pains

Given how it treats its workers, the notorious group is a PR disaster waiting to happen.

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Unions say EFCA will make it easier for employees to join a union without corporate harassment, but former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), says the measure would allow labor organizers to intimidate workers. "It's hard to believe that any politician would agree to a law denying millions of employees the right to a private vote," said McGovern, the Democrats' presidential nominee in 1972.

For reasons unknown, in April ACORN scrubbed its website of references to two of its key affiliates, SEIU Locals 100 and 880. One theory is that organized labor doesn't want to be associated right now with ACORN, which is pure PR poison, as it presses for EFCA.

It's a good theory.

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topics:
ACORN, Big Labor, Rep. Darrell Issa

About the Author

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (28) | Leave a comment

Ryan| 8.7.09 @ 8:51AM

Until there is an upheaval in the house, it's going to be up to state and local governments to fight anything that ACORN is pulling.

Bruce| 8.7.09 @ 9:26AM

I agree with Ryan. There is absolutely "no way" this is going anywhere in the House committee.
Face it; Congress practices the same tactics as ACORN: Do as is say, not as I do.

Tim| 8.7.09 @ 12:18PM

It seems to me that "Acorn's Workers" would be better served if they become unionized.

And why not, the other Federal Goverment/Party workers are all union and enjoy working under labor contracts why not the folks who work at Acorn? Are they second class citizens?

I smell a little discrimination here. Why do some Federal/Party workers get all of the tax payers bennies while others like Acorn don't?

I think Congress should investigate this discriminatory practice that is lurking in their own back yard.

I say all Goverment/Party workers should be treated the same.

Rocco| 8.7.09 @ 1:49PM

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

CO Defender| 8.7.09 @ 4:28PM

The Republican Party has nobody to blame but themselves for all of this statist crap sandwich we've been fed the last 200 days. Between "wide stances", infidelity, not to mention spending like a sailor on shore leave leading up to the 2006 elections--we deserve what we're getting thanks to them. It is truly time to throw out ALL of the incumbents--R and D alike. Professional politicians have ruined this once great nation--it's time to give it back to the taxpayers who's labor has gone unrecognized. I'm sick of this crap.

Ken (Old Texican)| 8.7.09 @ 6:01PM

ACORN equals "Ghetto Lords".

Do we let this country become a "drive by shooting"?

Take a deep breath, productive Americans. We must cut the funds to these ghetto lords' welfare scams.
Their "ole ladies" get the money, then the ghetto lords steal it from them AND us, then addict another generation of children.

Pray a lot, then decide.

Hardius| 8.7.09 @ 7:51PM

CO DEFENDER hey bud I am with you.

Pfft!| 8.8.09 @ 5:35AM

Good article. But, White House trolls, shouldn't you be composing your email to flag@whitehouse.gov ?

Mayte| 8.8.09 @ 3:58PM

Why are there so many of these anti-Jewish crap comments on this article? If you all can't monitor your comments, do not allow for them. Who is writing this, a bunch of disgusting Muslims or Arabs, well known for their terrorism and inferiority. Please clean up your site!!

Delete the Anti-Semitic Crap..| 8.9.09 @ 12:11AM

I'm with Mayte, if you can't monitor your comments, get rid of them. Makes your site look like a hate site.

Neo-Nazis, go away| 8.9.09 @ 4:28PM

I see that the monsters from the "Judenfrei Jew Review" are commenting here as well as after other TAS articles. In case any TAS readers don't know, the JJR is, according to its own Web site, "aiming to expose the Jewish crime network and set the stage for the expulsion of Jews from the United States of America as well as other Western societies."

Their Web site says that "Jews won't stop with their criminal agenda. They have to be stopped by us." JJR is "dedicated to the Jewish problem." It says that "the Holocaust is a hoax" and that "Jews did 9/11."

It also has a number of items against black Americans, including lurid cartoons. In a comment, one fan suggests writing articles that "present a detailed anecdote of black malfeasance, [but] don't cap it off with how much you hate blacks now. Let the reader live through your imparted experience, and come to dislike blacks on his own." Clearly, these monsters use the same tactic to try to turn people against Jews.

The person who writes the Web site notes the formation of the "One World Nazi Party," and says that "if they are serious or if some other serious contenders come up, then Judenfrei could join in to set up a formal movement to expel Jews."

I hope the TAS staff will find a way to keep these neo-Nazis out. Nothing they have to say is worth reading.

Marc Jeric| 8.9.09 @ 7:33PM

Let us talk about Obama's ACORN BROWNSHIRTS and SEIU THUGS. You have to know what most Americans do not know - i.e.,
community organizations closely follow the Lenin'a concept of soviets; the word is the same. Obama had only one kind of "working" experience: a) as a community organizer; b) as a lawyer for community organizers; and c) as a law instructor for future lawyers for community organizer. The White House-sponsored alliance of the eco-nazis, ACORN, and SEIU are gearing up to communize America under the new name of that deadly combination APPOLO. The environmental cult of death is now combined with the ACORN attack brownshirts (paid by Obama's stimulus bill's $9 billion), SEIU union armed thugs, all "tax-free" benevolent associations. The White House members of Appolo now gather names of the "enemies of the people", just like the KGB, UDB, and STASI used to do.

JoeJazz2000| 8.10.09 @ 9:22AM

I think this thread is lost.

Justin Roether| 8.12.09 @ 9:05PM

Interesting. I patiently await action from our government in addressing this issue. And I am curious why the mainstream media hasn't discussed this at all yet.

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