GREAT NEWS: AFL-CIO Facing Major Financial Woes

AP ^ | November 28, 2003 | LEIGH STROPE

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PING

[dyed_in_the_wool]

What a shock.
The comrades are not so good at managing finances.

[Jim Robinson]

AFL-CIO LAYS OFF 120,000 UNION GOONS - MAY GO BUST

Oh, no. Not another WillieGreen post!

[not-alone]

This sounds really stupid to me.I hope a lot of union menbers agree.

[Recovering_Democrat]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Now, if only the Teachers Unions and George Soros would go bankrupt!! :)

[ClintonBeGone]

Only union thugs could screw up a private business where it's income is extorted from selected members of society.

[JNB]

The damage that Sweeny has done to t he AFL-CIO is massive. The union under him has become so partisan that Democrats in 2000 had little fear when they voted to admit China into the WTO deal, and the AFL-CIO has ben so anti Republican at levels not even seen in the 40s that many anti globalist and anti constiutionalist Republicans who would be allies with them are disgusted. The AFL-CIO has become a public employee union, and under Sweenys horrible leadership, the private sector workforce has further languished.

[JNB]

Actually private industry union workers lean conservative on social issues, and overall, I believe private sector union workers voted for Bush in 2000(though they only make up around 40%-45% of unionised employees now), and many are pissed at their dues going for causes they do not believe in, and are pissed at how ineffective Sweeny has been for workers in the private sector. Not once after Sweeny took charge in 95 did the AFL-CIO hold the Clinton admins feet to the fire.

[KDD]

Oh the irony.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Gee, I'm deeply saddened by this story.

I wonder if the union leadership thugs/socialists will still have enough confiscated union dues to buy off democrats in the 2004 election...

[Dick Vomer]

Well I guess they can cut the Las Vegas junkets ...... er conferences and the hookers,

the trips to Atlantis in the Bahamas for "fact finding" and the hookers... I mean international conferences,,

and the trips to Asia for gambling and ..... hookers, I mean international solidarity conferences. ,

Wait till they go through the books and find the "retirement fund" has hand scrawled IOU's, co-signed by..... hookers. hahahahahahahahahahahahaa

[Tacis]

There are three strategies to get the AFL-CIO out of this terrible predicament. First, cut the wages and benefits of ALL AFL-CIO employees by 50%, second, when AFL-CIO bosses go to resorts for all their meetings and conferences, double up on all bets in the casinos, and finally, double the dues of all remaining AFL-CIO members. They could also eliminate AFL-CIO payment of rent for the mistresses of AFL-CIO bosses or, at least, pay for no more than two, but that would require a terrible sacrifice.

[witnesstothefall]

What's the average wage of an AFL-CIO member, about $50/hr?

[MinuteGal]

Yep, these unions dedicated to the welfare of Joe Six-Pack and his chillun continue to gouge dues from him and still pour millions of extorted $$$'s into the black-hole coffers of liberal 'Rat politicians.

The union thug bosses live like kings, and wine and dine at presidents' and senators' tables with nary of thought of lowering dues money and turning it back to those laborers who really need it.

Someday, the workers will wake up.

We need another Industrial Revolution from the rank-and-file.

Leni

[Capitalism2003]

Union Worker = Oxymoron

[river rat]

The socialist unionists, watching their capitalist employers send their jobs to communist China...while their Marxist Democrat "leaders" scream in protest...

Now, that should give them a headache...
WHO TO BLAME?

Semper Fi

[Consort]

The affected AFL-CIO workers should form a union.

[Cicero]

Exactly. The old union leaders were firmly anticommunist and had real working class backgrounds. Their chief concern was more benefits for the workers.

These guys are a bunch of effete new leftists, far to the left of their memberships, whose chief concern is to push abortion and sexual perversion. I don't think that goes over very well with the rank and file. That's why I think Karl Rove is truly stupid not to put more emphasis on the right to life and opposition to gay radicalism.

[JNB]

If defense of Rove, we do not know how the campiagn will play out by next summer, and what the Bush admin will push. But I agree with you 100%, the AFL-CIO has been taken over the by the againg hippies, and all they care about seems to be protection of public employee jobs and liberal social issues. In a few years after Sweeny has retired(or we can hope be thrown out of the job), people will look upon his tenure as a overall disaster.