Ten thousand union members to knock on a million doors

www.ble.org ^ | (The AFL-CIO circulated the following on August 27.)

[KevinDavis]

Also, I would like to point out one more thing:

There is no right to a job or a job that pays well. Nor a business should be requried to provide a job or any benefits at all. The reason why business exist is to provide a service. If they see a need to hire x amount of employees at the market rate they will. If they don't see a need to hire x amount if employees they will. If the business does well they hire more people. Business does bad they have to layoff in order to say in business. It is call capitalism...

[madison10]

That's for sure! We won't see any of them until sometime in December.

[undeniable logic]

My wife just started a job at a Social Security Office... Union representatives came to try to convince everyone to join the union. Aside from the first lies that it is unlikely that you will make it past the probationary period without union representation (half of the office is not in the union) they actually told her this:

You will normally get a 4 percent or so raise a year, but Bush tried to screw gov't employees with a 1.5 percent raise. If Bush is reelected, he will eliminate social security and you will all lose your jobs. And so on and so forth...

Funny thing is, one of the other new hires asked the management about a dental plan - another employee said that if you join the union, they offer a dental plan - and the manager made the comment, yeah, you could join the union, but it will cost you big time!

I guess its a little refreshing to see that not everyone is big into the union, especially in Pittsburgh...

[G Larry]

Trial lawyers cost more jobs every year than "offshore outsourceing" ever has.

Trial lawyers have the greatest impact on the cost of health insurance.

[Onelifetogive]

the need for affordable healthcare

Not sure who originally said it, but....

If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free!

[Dead Corpse]

A million idiots out spreading the cause of their own particular brand of socialism.

Yay... I can hardly wait.

[jmaroneps37]

The ratmedia saves this same article and dusts it off every cycle. They first used it in 96, "Thug unions to spend every penny they have to get the congress back for the rats." And they did and they didn't! Then when that didn't work, they said it again in 98. Same results. 2000 and 2002 - same result. The problem these thugs have is that people are no longer swayed by nit wits knocking on their doors. It did't work then. It won't work now.
My favorite story is about the morons in the Florida teachers union who re mortgaged their headquarters to put up money for foghorn leghorn aka bill mclawyer's campaign for gov of Fla. Now they have no HQ! Hee hee hee.

[leadpencil1]

Good point.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Each union worker is going to knock on a hundred doors?

It'll be the most work that nearly all of them have done in a long time.

[N. Theknow]

New sign for my door: This door made by non-union workers. It works all the time, why don't you?

[jmaroneps37]

The ratmedia saves this same article and dusts it off every cycle. They first used it in 96, "Thug unions to spend every penny they have to get the congress back for the rats." And they did and they didn't! Then when that didn't work, they said it again in 98. Same results. 2000 and 2002 - same result. The problem these thugs have is that people are no longer swayed by nit wits knocking on their doors. It did't work then. It won't work now.
My favorite story is about the morons in the Florida teachers union who re mortgaged their headquarters to put up money for foghorn leghorn aka bill mclawyer's campaign for gov of Fla. Now they have no HQ! Hee hee hee. One more thing, remember cheeks gephardt had the "UNIONS" backing him in the rat primaries. In Mo. he got 11%!!!!Hee hee hee again.

[StoneFury]

Five hours of half-hearted door-to-door canvassing while on double time.
Three hours of union-mandated coffee break.
Repeat.

[tang-soo]

I wonder if union dues will be used to pay for the expenses.

[Polyxene]

I dare them to come to my house, too. I have a feeling that all of our Bush-Cheney stickers and signs will keep them away. Kind of like garlic keeping vampires away!!

[leadpencil1]

It'll be the most work that nearly all of them have done in a long time.

I go from time to time to an appointment at a union location (hospital)and I have to register in order to see my Dr. Even though I get there very early (in order to be first on the list), the clerks who do the registering refuse to assist anyone until 8:00 because they say they will get in trouble.

So we all have to wait until 8:00, at which time there is a HUGE freaking line of people waiting to register. The clerks sit at their desks drinking coffee and reading the paper waiting till 8:00. Jeezzz.

[listenhillary]

Should get conservative owned restaurants and bars to offer free beer for union members during the time they're supposed to be knocking on doors.

[ladyjane]

Our own Teamsters guy here in Boston - George Cashman - won't be going door to door. He was sent to federal prison for messing around with medical benefits and retirement funds of union members. Sadly he had to resign his membership on the board of directors of Massport. (think Logan Airport, lax security, 911). Taxachusetts: hand-in-hand with union thugs.

[StoneFury]

Union influence is definitely on the wane. We can thank Reagan for that, when he fired all those ATCs who went on strike, and brought in military ones to replace them (most couldn't find jobs after that, since there's not a whole lot of demand for 'em LOL!).

A few years later Caterpillar told its workers to go to hell when they went on strike, and then GM refused to give in when some of their foundry workers DEMANDED to have a 5 1/2 hour day count as an 8 hour one for pay purposes.

They're getting pretty desperate now, and taking in whatever they can get, and most union employees now are of the $6/hr variety.