Read Demands of 'Occupy Wall Street' ... and Try Not to Laugh

http://nation.foxnews.com ^ | 10/4/2011 | Kerry Picket, Washington Times

[kcvl]

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NYC Transit Union Joins Occupy Wall Street

New York City labor unions are preparing to back the unwieldy grassroots band occupying a park in Lower Manhattan, in a move that could mark a significant shift in the tenor of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street protests and send thousands more people into the streets.

The Transit Workers Union Local 100’s executive committee, which oversees the organization of subway and bus workers, voted unanimously Wednesday night to support the protesters. The union claims 38,000 members. A union-backed organizing coalition, which orchestrated a large May 12 march on Wall Street before the protests, is planning a rally on Oct. 5 in explicit support. And SEIU 32BJ, which represents doormen, security guards and maintenance workers, is using its Oct. 12 rally to express solidarity with the Zuccotti Park protesters.

“The call went out over a month ago, before actually the occupancy of Wall Street took place,” said 32BJ spokesman Kwame Patterson. Now, he added, “we’re all coming under one cause, even though we have our different initiatives.”

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The union representing more than 1,500 GO Transit workers is set to announce a new strike date on Wednesday – and employees could be off the job by the end of the month.

“Later this afternoon, early this evening, I will be announcing a strike date - and it will be for this month,” union president Ray Doyle told CityNews.ca.

[SueRae]

Unions ARE corporations. Fat cats at the top, worker bees on the bottom getting the shaft...unless you’re part of their good ‘ol boy network.

‘Give us your youth, we’ll take your country.’

signed: Some Commie somwhere

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

What about ice cream? I want ice cream.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Behold Obama’s FREE SH*T ARMY has arrived & published its version of “Why We Fight”.

[Lucky9teen]

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[steveo]

Demand 14.5

We demand a shrubbery!!!!

[VRWCmember]

“Demand one” is a good idea, except for the minimum wage part.

And except for the isolationist tariff part, and the environmental regulations part, and for the entire notion of a "living wage" part. Other than that, it's a great idea.

[DuncanWaring]

Wage and Environental parity tariffs are a good idea.

If they can't do this:

in the US, they shouldn't be able to move their facilities to China to be able to avoid the expense of preventing it, and then ship the fruits of that poisoned tree back to the US.

Further, American workers shouldn't have to compete on price with slave labor. Impose a tariff on imported goods that at least brings the cost of the labor component up to US minimum wage.