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Immigrations Poison Pill...Big Labor
Wall Street Journal ^ | Kimberly Strassel

Posted on 02/01/2013 7:27:08 AM PST by q_an_a

Unions have long used Democratic allies to kill any reform that includes a guest-worker program. (pay wall story)

If Republcians had a TINY bit of politcal guts they would require that UNIONS put in place 20% of their membership for incoming immigrants. Then our people in Congress can take a stand for real change...LOL

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration

1 posted on 02/01/2013 7:27:15 AM PST by q_an_a
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To: q_an_a

This assumes unions actually care about their members. Here’s a hint, they don’t.


2 posted on 02/01/2013 7:40:05 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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The unions are now pushing for open borders more than anybody. A bunch of scared new arrivals are seen as being much easier to organize.


3 posted on 02/01/2013 7:45:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: q_an_a; Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; ...
RE :”Unions have long used Democratic allies to kill any reform that includes a guest-worker program. (pay wall story) If Republcians had a TINY bit of politcal guts they would require that UNIONS put in place 20% of their membership for incoming immigrants. Then our people in Congress can take a stand for real change...LOL “

Demand?? GOP can demand the unions do stuff? Didnt they just lose an election?

Its much easier than that.
Remove ALL ‘path to voting’ references from Rubio’s bill and the unions will not allow Dems to vote for it.

It will die in Senate at 'Dems hands' like the Feinstien bill will.

4 posted on 02/01/2013 7:57:48 AM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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To: q_an_a

Most unions will support Rubio-Obama Amnesty as they did McCain-Kennedy Amnesty

Wonder if all the PhonyCon Liberals who cheer-lead Marco Rubio as some “Conservative” will still think that way when he starts posing with SEIU, La Raza, and other pro-illegal, Anti-American groups?


5 posted on 02/01/2013 8:04:03 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yeah I wouldn’t expect the unions to do much to oppose open borders. After all, their goal is global marxism.


6 posted on 02/01/2013 8:08:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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7 posted on 02/01/2013 8:13:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: sickoflibs; q_an_a; Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale

” Remove ALL ‘path to voting’ references from Rubio’s bill and the unions will not allow Dems to vote for it. “

BINGO!


8 posted on 02/01/2013 10:09:40 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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