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GREAT NEWS: AFL-CIO Facing Major Financial Woes
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| November 28, 2003
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Posted on 11/28/2003 1:12:54 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep
After getting their ashes kicked in 94, it was "We'll spend everything we have to get back the Congress in 96!" They did and and they didn't. In 98 it was the same. In 00 it was the same. In 02 it was the same. In 04 it will be the same. It will continue to be the same until rat unions stop the socialist crap and work for their members' contracts and work place related issues instead. Fortunately, they won't ha ha ha!
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:03:06 PM PST
by
jmaroneps37
( Please support how-odd? dean in the primaries. That just might get us 4 more senate seats!)
To: jmaroneps37
One more thing, if ever there was a time to enforce Beck, this is it!! It would gease the slide of the rat unions right into the sewers!
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:06:54 PM PST
by
jmaroneps37
( Please support how-odd? dean in the primaries. That just might get us 4 more senate seats!)
To: nwrep
...its own workers are taking two days of unpaid leave to avoid layoffs.STRIKE!!!! They should picket the evil, rich, people taking their pay from them!!! Where is the protection for these poor laborers. They won't have enough money to buy little Johnnie Christmas presents this year!!! ACK!!! Liberal media where are you?!?!
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:11:44 PM PST
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Jim Robinson; *Union Bosses; *Election President; *Communist Subversion
Year |
% Work force |
% Private |
% Public |
Total members |
Private |
Public |
1948 |
31.8 |
34.7 |
12.1 |
14,271 |
13,591.0 |
680.9 |
1949 |
31.9 |
34.9 |
12.1 |
13,935 |
13,227.3 |
708.6 |
1950 |
31.6 |
34.6 |
12.3 |
14,294 |
13,550.4 |
743.8 |
1951 |
31.7 |
34.7 |
12.0 |
15,139 |
14,375.6 |
763.9 |
1952 |
32.0 |
35.2 |
12.0 |
15,632 |
14,839.0 |
793.0 |
1953 |
32.5 |
35.7 |
11.6 |
16,310 |
15,540.2 |
769.8 |
1954 |
32.3 |
35.6 |
11.4 |
15,808 |
15,035.9 |
772.6 |
1955 |
31.8 |
35.1 |
11.4 |
16,126 |
15,341.3 |
785.6 |
1956 |
31.4 |
34.7 |
11.1 |
16,446 |
15,641.0 |
805.0 |
1957 |
31.2 |
34.7 |
10.7 |
16,497 |
15,686.6 |
811.1 |
1958 |
30.3 |
33.9 |
10.6 |
15,570 |
14,736.0 |
834.5 |
1959 |
29.0 |
32.3 |
10.5 |
15,438 |
14,591.4 |
846.9 |
1960 |
28.6 |
31.9 |
10.8 |
15,516 |
14,613.4 |
902.7 |
1961 |
28.5 |
31.9 |
10.6 |
15,400 |
14,487.3 |
913.2 |
1962 |
30.4 |
31.6 |
24.3 |
16,893 |
14,731.9 |
2,161.9 |
1963 |
30.2 |
31.2 |
25.1 |
17,133 |
14,815.1 |
2,318.3 |
1964 |
30.2 |
31.0 |
26.0 |
17,597 |
15,101.6 |
2,495.6 |
1965 |
30.1 |
30.8 |
26.1 |
18,268 |
15,637.7 |
2,631.2 |
1966 |
29.6 |
30.3 |
26.1 |
18,922 |
16,110.8 |
2,811.2 |
1967 |
29.9 |
30.5 |
27.0 |
19,667 |
16,597.5 |
3,073.3 |
1968 |
29.5 |
29.9 |
27.3 |
20,017 |
16,782.2 |
3,235.2 |
1969 |
28.7 |
29.0 |
26.9 |
20,185 |
16,902.0 |
3,283.6 |
1970 |
29.6 |
29.1 |
32.0 |
20,990 |
16,978.3 |
4,014.0 |
1971 |
29.1 |
28.2 |
33.0 |
20,711 |
16,460.5 |
4,250.6 |
1972 |
28.8 |
27.3 |
35.4 |
21,205 |
16,484.9 |
4,720.9 |
1973 |
28.5 |
26.6 |
37.0 |
21,881 |
16,803.5 |
5,077.8 |
1974 |
28.3 |
26.2 |
38.0 |
22,165 |
16,780.8 |
5,384.6 |
1975 |
28.9 |
26.3 |
39.6 |
22,207 |
16,397.4 |
5,809.6 |
1976 |
27.9 |
25.1 |
40.2 |
22,153 |
16,172.7 |
5,980.3 |
1977 |
26.2 |
23.6 |
38.1 |
21,632 |
15,875.8 |
5,756.3 |
1978 |
25.1 |
22.5 |
36.7 |
21,756 |
16,004.5 |
5,752.0 |
1979 |
24.5 |
22.0 |
36.4 |
22,025 |
16,225.9 |
5,799.5 |
1980 |
23.2 |
20.6 |
35.1 |
20,968 |
15,273.4 |
5,694.8 |
1981 |
22.6 |
19.9 |
35.4 |
20,646 |
14,973.6 |
5,673.1 |
1982 |
21.9 |
19.0 |
35.2 |
19,571 |
14,006.9 |
5,564.5 |
1983 |
20.7 |
17.8 |
34.4 |
18,633 |
13,222.9 |
5,410.7 |
1984 |
18.8 |
15.5 |
35.8 |
17,340 |
11,647.0 |
5,654.0 |
1985 |
18.0 |
14.6 |
35.8 |
16,996 |
11,227.0 |
5,740.0 |
1986 |
17.5 |
14.0 |
36.0 |
16,975 |
11,051.0 |
5,888.0 |
1987 |
17.0 |
13.4 |
36.0 |
16,913 |
10,826.0 |
6,055.0 |
1988 |
16.8 |
12.9 |
36.7 |
17,002 |
10,674.0 |
6,298.0 |
1989 |
16.4 |
12.4 |
36.7 |
16,960 |
10,520.0 |
6,422.0 |
1990 |
16.1 |
12.1 |
36.5 |
16,740 |
10,227.0 |
6,484.0 |
1991 |
16.1 |
11.9 |
36.9 |
16,568 |
9,909.0 |
6,627.0 |
1992 |
15.8 |
11.5 |
36.7 |
16,390 |
9,703.0 |
6,650.0 |
1993 |
15.8 |
11.2 |
37.7 |
16,598 |
9,557 |
7,018 |
1994 |
15.5 |
10.9 |
38.7 |
16,748 |
9,620 |
7,094 |
1995 |
14.9 |
10.4 |
37.8 |
16,326 |
9,400 |
6,926 |
1996 |
14.5 |
10.2 |
37.6 |
16,269 |
9,385 |
6,854 |
1997 |
14.1 |
9.7 |
37.2 |
16,110 |
9,327 |
6,747 |
1998 |
13.9 |
9.5 |
37.5 |
16,211 |
9,306 |
6,905 |
1999 |
13.9 |
9.4 |
37.3 |
16,477 |
9,419 |
7,058 |
2000 |
13.5 |
9.0 |
37.5 |
16,258 |
9,148 |
7,110 |
2001 |
13.5 |
9.0 |
37.4 |
16,275 |
9,113 |
7,162 |
2002 |
13.2 |
8.5 |
37.5 |
16,107 |
8,756 |
7,351 |
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:14:39 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: Jim Robinson
I spit all over my screen. :-}}
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:14:40 PM PST
by
cksharks
To: nwrep
Does this mean they may have to intimidate voters on election day without pay??!!
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:18:34 PM PST
by
rabidralph
(Consciously denying my prejudices)
To: dyed_in_the_wool
What a shock. The comrades are not so good at managing finances.Not when their crooked, corrupt leaders are stuffing their own products with money ripped off the workers.
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:19:22 PM PST
by
hgro
To: JNB
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.Personally, I hope Sweeny stay on a good, long time, and continues to bleed these guys white, until all of their lines of credit and other financial assets are gone, and they have absolutely nothing to show for it. Then, and only then, will it be time for Sweeny to go. Or join Hoffa. Whatever.
To: Consort
"The affected AFL-CIO workers should form a union."
....or get a good trial lawyer and file a class-action lawsuit against the AFL-CIO.
To: surely_you_jest
Having been in situations where the pendulum has swung far too much to the empolyer side, I see that there is a need for unions, but at least the AFL-CIO just does not care about workers in the trenches, all they care about is pushing whatever fashionable program upper middle class againg hippies want to push, even if it is against the intrests of the workers inm the trenches. I know many Freepers bitterly disagree with the need for unions, but they exist(at least on paper) to support the workers and stand up for workers), but in reality as another poster said, today they are a organisation of elites who have views supporting abortion, opposing gun rights, supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants(a postion that ironically further rots the postion of private sector workers and any attempt to unionise there), but yet lacked the will to take so called pro worker Democrats to task when the the approvale for Chinas addmitence for the WTO was up in congress in the summer of 2000.
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posted on
11/28/2003 2:54:20 PM PST
by
JNB
To: JNB
I really have empathy for the workers who have been laid off. However, this story has two sides. The AFL-CIO has made American labor (and subsequently American made products) very expensive. I read an article in USA Today comparing American auto salaries with foreign auto salaries. The Americans averaged $50 per hour. This is just too much for unskilled labor. Our only hope is to move American workers into high tech jobs but there are not enough Americans taking advantage of the opportunity. My son got a masters in math and confided in me that he was the only candidate in his group who had English as his first language.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:26:48 PM PST
by
AZFolks
To: AZFolks
The pension costs are one reason why US laor for auto making is so high, in terms of take home pay, the median pay is in the $25 hr range, good pay, but less than what Japanese and European auto workers make per hour, and no I am not saying $25 hr is bad at all, just saying the uS is not the only high cost labor market.
As for the US educational feild, that is another whole ball of wax in why so few American students take the science track at universities, though many universities seem to have a bias against American born citizens in their effort to become more "worldly", also the fees at many universties have gone up far more rapidly than inflation for at leats 20 years, pricing many students out of universities.
Also for the last 20 years, the percentage of Americans getting 4 years degrees has not gone up much, still at around 25%, and that reality is not going to change. Political reality states that if jobs for even skilled labor for people with 2 year or technical school degrees dry up, and the only good paying jobs are in feilds that require 4A+ year degrees, somthing will give down the road. The present situation with the employment picture and how the economy is currently being ran is not politically sustainable in the long run.
Lastly, and this was soley due to the Clinton admin, specifically Robert Rubin, the moronic strong dollar policy put in place in late 95, and ramped up during the Asian crisis in 97, in no small part designed to mask the impact of inflation(and help Clintons poll numbers), played a far larger role in pricing American products out of many markets. I remeber in 95, there were many news stories about the revived American industrial base, and 95 was the last year of the weak dollar policy.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:52:32 PM PST
by
JNB
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