Remember this from a year ago?
Posted on 12/27/2009 5:37:14 AM PST by Ghblog
...As I watched the recent presidential campaign many things struck me as odd, but one in particular. Barack Obama enjoyed the support of the United Mine Workers Union. That in itself is not a big surprise as he had the support of every union as Democrat politicians usually have. The interesting part was when you factored in Obama’s comments regarding the future of coal:
(Excerpt) Read more at framingthedialogue.com ...
I've always been skeptical of union members supposedly being "conservative" even though the union itself is liberal. If it was true, then why haven't more of these workers tried to decertify the unions that continue to screw them over? It happens in some places, why not in others?
Who said union leaders care about the Unites States? Why does this surprise anyone? These people have been indoctrinated their whole lives into believing the people they work for are just blood suckers.
For Lenin the governmentalization of the trade unions was a long process of practical activity, of direct work in the organization of the national economy. He thought of the transformation of the unions into organs of state power as of a process which begins by participation in the government of the country and ends in the building up of new organs exclusively under the control of the trade unions. But why must the trade unions, in Lenin’s opinion, come to control the national economy? “Because,” Lenin replies, “the trade unions are mass organizations and the revolution is primarily the creation of the masses itself.” Lenin formulates this idea in the following words: “The trade unions become the principle builders of the new society because the builders of this society can be only the great masses, just as the builders of society during serfdom were made up of hundreds, just as the state under capitalism was built up by thousands and tens of thousands, just so can the present socialist revolution be accomplished only with the direct and active participation of tens of millions in the governing of the state.”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lozovsky/1924/14.htm
Be Afraid. As the dollar is allowed to fall...EVENTUALLY we will see a rise in manufacturing capacity and exports. Rahm Emmanual, David Axelrod, and Ben Bernanke all know this.
How else do you explain the AARP, and their kill old people death panel support.
The simple fact is it is always been up to the people to protect themselves, and their freedom and liberty ... Read the history of the second amendment.
It starts by asking "who is the enemy within" and ends without any clarification of or answer to that question.
Everyone knows that voting blocs supported Obama to the detriment of their membership...that's not news.
I think many if not most union members are more conservative then the union’s leadership. Certainly more conservative than the staff members hired as administrators-most of whom are left-wing liberal arts majors from private schools or large public universities.
The reason they don’t decertify is best summarized by an old timer I worked with many years ago. “Even the worst union with corrupt leaders is better than no union at all”.
Well the old timer was wrong but he came into the work force as a young man straight out of the CCC camps in the middle 1930’s and landed his first full time job in a company that was unionized. He believed the union got him this job not the company.
I know this because I overheard three of them in a restaurant at adjoining tables discussing how great and what a good job obama is doing and what a mess President Bush made when he was in office.
The term is cockroaches.!!!
It won’t matter how many UMW’s vote for Barry. ACORN will count the votes.
While I agree that for the most part Unions today are evil, at one time they were not. They were needed. I don't care how you cut it, to be able to fire someone just because you can is not good business, but all companies used to do that, they would give work hours to relatives, make people stand around for hours waiting to unload trucks but only pay them for the time it took to unload, not the 6 hours spent waiting for the truck to show up.
Companies did many bad things to people working for them and so Unions were formed to combat the unfair conditions in which they were expected to work.
Using the old saw that people could go to work for someone else is BS because they were all the same. Unions forced non Union shops to treat their people better through fear of being Unionized.
Unions at one time were supposed to work the way our government is supposed to work: The workers were the governing faction, but that changed.
The mob gained control of Unions, things got out of hand and we ended up with Unions like the long shore mans Union and the Auto workers.
Industry has only themselves to blame for what happened with Unions, had they treated people fairly no worker in their right mind would have ever voted to certify a Union.
What young people see today and what the situation was when Unions gained a foothold are vastly different situations.
Union power is where the money is...dc
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