Posted on 10/25/2009 6:34:35 PM PDT by george76
The Simpsons explained unions very well:
"You can't treat the working man this way! Someday, we'll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!"
The coal miners -- whose ranks were already depleted by the draft for service in WW II -- did NOT hold firm for the most part to this idiotic and frankly treasonous diktat from Lewis. Most of them worked right straight through (with, sadly, a few of them killed by union goons, as directed by Lewis), and America, for the most part, had the coal it needed to fight through until the Japanese surrender.
There are ANY number of good books on this subject and the various sub-topics. Lewis, as the historical record shows quite clearly, was either an outright Communist or so far into bed with the 'American' Communist Party that the distinction is a distinction without a difference.
Naturally, no student will EVER read this little bit of American history in any public school. Nevertheless, easily verified, easily demonstrated to anyone who wishes to read simple historical fact.
These idiots should be darned glad they even have a job.
I’m getting laid off, too!
‘Bastards lucky to have jobs....
Fire them all.
Another reason public transit will NEVER catch on nationwide. I would NEVER give up my car and be totally at the mercy of union government employees to get me where I need to go.
This strike and the new “Bike Paths” which have given one lane to bikers (for those swank people who insist on riding their bicycles in the middle of the city) on each of two main streets in and out of center city - leaving each street with only one lane for the automobile traffic for which they were intended - should crate catastrophic traffic jams........
Please please PLEASE let them strike until the urine-smelling buses have cobwebs all over their seats. All Pennsylvania residents need to call their legislators immediately and tell them they better not authorize one thin dime of state money to SEPTIC. Let the city figure it out.
Why nobody wants to work in Philly ping
Phils in five!
Of course. They’re taking advantage of the situation and holding the city hostage.
Honest to goodness. Unemployment is rising across the nation; these people are lucky to have jobs!!! Unions are blinded by greed, but that is not news.
strike, walk away from a pay check and health care............do it, I dare you!
Certainly there is a way they can be, but it'll never happen.
Huh? Do you support the strike?
Septa goes on strike quite frequently. And it is the most costly mass transit system in the country. Riders pay more than in any major city in the U.S.
try about 3-6 times that amount, depending on the seat location. they never go for face value unless you are a season ticket holder and get first dibs from the box office.
The union threads on here are like the pitbull-kills-owner threads. You’d think at this point that reasonable people would figure out that unions are killers.
And that cost will only go up if the union sees to it, apparently. We’ve been through this in L.A. and it does shut down the city; maybe that’s the goal in Philly too.
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