Posted on 08/19/2009 3:25:45 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
ACORN is also listed as a "partner" in the Apollo Alliance, along with SEIU, and Center for American Progress president John Podesta. The "green jobs" group has significant pull in Congress and helped to write the February stimulus bill. It is a major player in the debate over economy-crippling cap-and-trade legislation.
The Apollo Alliance "is designed to bring together the elements of organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that's been supportive of those causes in the past," according to Phil Kerpen, director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“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.”
Various references:
http://apolloalliance.org/?src=
http://www.cows.org/collab_projects_detail.asp?id=6
http://wdiny.org/apolloalliance.html
http://www.seiu.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=green%20building&limit=20
(SourceWatch has a number of links:)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance
IIRC, SEIU is attempting to organize 150,000+ members of United Health Care out West.
http://www.sutterhealth.org/about/labor/labor_l250-misinfo.htmlOne of the major potential areas of union growth in the United States is organizing workers usually hitherto considered “unorganizable,” especially low-wage service sector workers, in what is often called “social movement organizing.”[6] Many of these service sector workers are minorities, immigrants, and women.[7]
As an example of this, in 2006 and 2007 Oregon’s SEIU Local 503, OPEU (Oregon Public Employees Union) built on its earlier successes in organizing state-paid “long-term care providers”, including homecare workers (in-home care providers) and family-child-care providers, by organizing “commercial” adult foster home providers who receive state funding. Commercial providers are licensed to operate foster homes with up to five senior or disabled residents. By forming a union, providers would for the first time be able to collectively bargain a contract with the state over service fees, benefits, regulations, and respect.
In the spring of 2007 the state Employment Relations Board (ERB) verified that a significant majority of the commercial providers across Oregon had signed authorization cards supporting forming a union, and Governor Ted Kulongoski signed an executive order recognizing commercial adult foster care providers as a union, and opening the path to contract bargaining.[8] Following the governor’s executive order, the Oregon legislature passed a bill, on June 28, 2007,[9] codifying the executive order and making the adult foster care providers state employees solely for the purpose of collective bargaining. After successfully organizing commercial providers, SEIU 503 continued the campaign and organized “relative” adult foster home providers, who are licensed and paid by the state to provide care for senior or disabled family members.
In November 2007 the Oregon ERB verified that a significant majority of relative providers had signed authorization cards and Governor Kulonoski signed Executive Order No. 07-20 recognizing them as part of the union.[8] With the success of the two stages of this organizing campaign, adult foster care providers were able to form a union for the first time in the United States.[10] In August 2008, the new adult foster care providers in SEIU Local 503 and the State of Oregon completed negotiations on the first adult foster care provider union contract in the US.[11]
With the addition of the approximately 3,500 commercial and relative adult foster care providers, SEIU became the largest union in Oregon,[10] and is being credited by SEIU International with pushing the number of members in the SEIU healthcare division over 1,000,000.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEIU
Placemark for later ... thanks for posting this excellent article.
Bumping and pinging concerned Freepers......
All leftist ‘aliances’ are bad news, to all but the tyrants.
Ping
The following is a rogues gallery of leftist apparatchiks
Apollo Board of Directors
Chairman
Phil Angelides, Chairman, Canyon Johnson Urban Communities Fund
Members
Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation
Kathleen McGinty, former Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated
John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Dan W. Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
......All leftist ‘aliances’ ......
They are all one criminal enterprise. Don’t call them alliances.
I hope one day Rush will get around to talking about the apollo alliance on his show; given his wide audience.
Glad I can play my part in shuffling info around so that more become privy to it.
For every f igurehead, there are at least 5 minions dedicated to the Apollo Alliance mission from each group
Who are these individuals?
Thank you for the ping editor-surveyor.
Glenn Beck’s been talking about these guys for a couple of weeks.
Republicans should be screaming from the rooftops about the hydra-headed monsters on the left. I know some are investigating Acorn and its creatures, but they must turn the volume up. Glen Beck has been doing a great job exposing them.
This thread has a lot of information about this group in links from several posters.
This may also help you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2304400/posts
Thanks a bunch for this important ping!!! I’m Emailing a link to this thread to some friends who told me about the Glen Beck video a few days ago!!!
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