The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), the organization where Barack Obama taught leadership conferences, is the noisemaker/ activist group behind a new organization.
It’s officially called the “Muscle for Money” program within the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) where it was started, and unofficially by the same name among activists of ACORN.
Muscle for Money includes multiple techniques for creating highly aggressive, organized efforts both to pressure businesses and officials to support the activists’ agenda or to discredit and intimidate opponents of their agenda, according to present and former ACORN members, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
Some of the more prominent Muscle for Money targets to date have included the Carlyle Group, Sherwin-Williams, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, Liberty Tax and Money Mart, according to Anita Moncrief, a former ACORN employee and now an ACORN 8 member.
“The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation,” said MonCrief. “Protestors would also go to company functions like banquets where they would be as disruptive as possible.”
ACORN actually had a contract with SEIU to target the Caryle Group, MonCrief told the Examiner.
Public property: a subsidy for union harrassment tactics.
ReplyDeleteThis is a front stage show for public consumption.
ReplyDeleteSEIU President Andy Stern said years ago, employer sponsored health insurance is "dead and not coming back." SEIU is a health care worker union. For their leader to cave is significant.
Unions want to become the huge group purchaser for "employee paid" health insurance. They like managing pension money and would happy to do dirty with billions in health insurance funds.
In that regard, they are like Carlyle and company. Both compete for huge chunks of money "to manage".
Card check and health insurance reform go hand in hand. As employers dump health insurance, unions want to quickly enter and offer their group coverage. It's a set up, covered by a huge kabuki dance. Anything the SEIU does publicly is political theater.
For a much longer pass off, note the state of defined benefit pension plans. Employers shed that benefit over a several decade period. Health insurance should transition faster.
@ PEU Report/State of the Division
ReplyDeleteYou have provided a very important piece to the puzzle.
"The idea is to go to private homes where wives and children are present and stand outside so the family members of a company official could be harassed and subjected to intimidation..."
ReplyDeleteGod help them if they try this tactic in Texas.