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The REAL Reason the Unions & Democrats Hate Halliburton
U. S. Labor Against the War website ^ | October 8, 2004 | bronc1

Posted on 10/07/2004 11:00:21 PM PDT by Bronc1

Halliburton/KBR is a long-time adversary of organized labor...and now Halliburton/KBR stands in the way of union expansion into Iraq.

Halliburton owns Kellogg Brown & Root (KB&R) which is coming under fire by the Democrats. Since its origin in Houston, Texas during World War II, Brown & Root has successfully battled attempts to disrupt Brown & Root operations in the United States and throughout the world.

It's interesting to note that a coalition of U. S. unions have formed a coaliton which they call "U. S. Labor Against the War", along with a task force called the "Labor Solidarity Task Force for Labor Rights in Iraq.". It all adds up: Unions support the Democrats and the Democrats become the hatchet--against the champions of the "merit shop" (open shop) philosophy--Halliburton/KBR.

(Excerpt) Read more at uslaboragainstwar.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: construction; halliburton; iraq; kbr; kelloggbrownroot; labor; middleeast; organizing; trade; union; unions; uslaboragainstthewar; uslaw
Halliburton/KBR is a long-time adversary of organized labor...and now Halliburton/KBR stands in the way of union expansion into Iraq.

Halliburton owns Kellogg Brown & Root (KB&R) which is coming under fire by the Democrats. Since its origin in Houston, Texas during World War II, Brown & Root has successfully battled attempts to disrupt Brown & Root operations in the United States and throughout the world.

It's interesting to note that a coalition of U. S. unions have formed a coaliton which they call "U. S. Labor Against the War", along with a task force called the "Labor Solidarity Task Force for Labor Rights in Iraq.". It all adds up: Unions support the Democrats and the Democrats become the hatchet--against the champions of the "merit shop" (open shop) philosophy--Halliburton/KBR.

Here is a list of unions who are "affiliates" of this anti-Halliburton/KBR and pro-labor movement--as of September 29, 2004:

AFSCME District Council 47, Philadelphia AFSCME Local 171, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison AFSCME Local 1723, Temple University, Philadelphia AFSCME Local 3558, Duluth, MN AFSCME Retirees Chapter 36, Los Angeles

AFT California Federation of Teachers AFT Oregon Federation of Teachers AFT Local 61 United Educators of San Francisco AFT Local 1021 United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) AFT Local 1078 Berkeley Federation of Teachers AFT Local 1493 San Mateo County Community Colleges Faculty (pending) AFT Local 1521A Los Angeles Area Community Colleges Clerical Workers AFT Local 1521 Los Angeles Community Colleges (pending) AFT Local 1936 Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers AFT Local 2026, Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia AFT Local 2121 San Francisco Community College Faculty AFT Local 2190 United University Professions (UUP), Albany, NY AFT Local 2334 Professional Staff Congress, CUNY AFT Local 4999 Research, Statistics, and Analysis Employees of the State of Wisconsin

Alameda County Central Labor Council (pending) Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) AFL-CIO (pending)

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Lodge 3014, Levittown, PA Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, Lodge 3068, Westbury, NY

BMWE PA Federation

California Faculty Association, SEIU Local 1983 California Nurses Association

Chicago Labor for Peace, Prosperity and Justice Chicago Coalition of Labor Union Women Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida Coalition of Labor Union Women, Washington, DC Contra Costa County Central Labor Council

CWA Local 1180, NYC CWA Local 9423, San Jose (pending)

DC Labor Committee for Peace and Justice Detroit Labor Committee for Peace and Justice Garment Workers Center, Los Angeles Hawaii Labor for Peace & Justice Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 483, Monterey, CA Intl. Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees 169, Oakland, CA

International Longshore & Warehouse Union, Local 10, San Francisco Kansas City Labor Against War Labor Committee For Peace and Justice, SF Bay Area

Los Angeles Federation of Labor Maryland and District of Colombia AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington DC Labor Council Monterey Bay Central Labor Council

National Association of Legal Service Workers/UAW Local 2320 (pending)

National Writers' Union, UAW Local 1981/Unit 16, Arizona & New Mexico (pending)

New Jersey Labor Against the War New Jersey State Industrial Union Council

New York City Labor Against the War

North Carolina Labor Against the War

Ohio State Labor Party Philadelphia Central Labor Council Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union Women

Pride at Work, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Association, Chicago

San Francisco Labor Council

SEIU Pennsylvania State Council SEIU Districtl 1199 New England Health Care Employees Union SEIU District 1199 New York (pending) SEIU District 1199P, Pennsylvania SEIU Local 250, California SEIU Local 535, California (pending) SEIU Local 615, Boston SEIU Local 660, Los Angeles SEIU Local 715, Oakland SEIU Local 790, SF Bay Area, Central Valley SEIU Local 1000/CSEA, California SEIU 1877, California SEIU Local 1983, (see CA Faculty Association, above) SEIU 1991, Florida SEIU Local 2020, Massachusetts (pending)

South Bay Central Labor Council, San Jose South Bay Labor for Peace & Justice, San Jose

South Central Federation of Labor, Madison, Wisconsin

St. Louis Labor Against the War

UAW Local 2322, Northampton, MA

UE United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America UE District Council 2, New England UE District Council 11, Chicago UE Local 896 - COGS, Iowa

Union of Professional Employees, Univ. of Illinois at Champain-Urbana

United Health Care Workers of Greater St. Louis

Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO (pending) Vermont Workers Center Washington-Orange Vermont Central Labor Council Western Connecticut Central Labor Council Wisconsin Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO (pending)

1 posted on 10/07/2004 11:00:21 PM PDT by Bronc1
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To: Bronc1

Great find. Forwarding to as many radio talk shows hosts that I can think of.


2 posted on 10/07/2004 11:03:50 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Please don't put me on your ping list just because I replied to one of your posts. Thank you.)
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To: Bronc1

Thanks for the post. God Bless freedom, and to hell with Communist union thugs.


3 posted on 10/07/2004 11:32:25 PM PDT by Jaysun (It's getting hard to see through all of the "white out" on my screen.)
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To: Bronc1

bump


4 posted on 10/07/2004 11:33:25 PM PDT by prophetic (What do u call someone who flip-flops so much? A Politician? No, a HYPOCRITE!!)
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To: Bronc1
Unions must die. All of them. Especially government-parasite unions.

And they must die now.

5 posted on 10/07/2004 11:38:58 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Bronc1
Ahhh yes the union thugs well surprise surprise.

The Haliburton hatred is stupid, even if rat inc. has an axe to grind with them. Isn't Haliburton an American company.

Why shouldn't Americans benefit from the rebuilding of Iraq, since our country made most of the sacrifices? Only a democrat would be more worried about the French and Germans than Americans. It figures.

6 posted on 10/07/2004 11:44:50 PM PDT by Pajamajan (John Kerry- The wrong man at the wrong time. Vote for GW BUSH=THE RIGHT MAN)
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To: Pajamajan

You're right, it figures. The problem is we have so many unthinking automotons out there who let their unions "figure" for them. This is an election between those who think and those who like their thinking done for them. And the former just better win.


7 posted on 10/07/2004 11:53:48 PM PDT by JennysCool (Terrorism: Not a global test, John, but a pop quiz.)
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To: JennysCool

Everyone has to go vote this time- No excuses, no third parties, no Christian's sitting in the church saying "woe is me" and staying home. We have to overcome both massive voter fraud, and the "unthinking" vote.


8 posted on 10/08/2004 12:00:09 AM PDT by Pajamajan (John Kerry- The wrong man at the wrong time. Vote for GW BUSH=THE RIGHT MAN)
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To: Bronc1

Behind every whining Democrat is a union thug, behind whom is a mafia kingpin, behind whom is another Democrat.


9 posted on 10/08/2004 12:25:40 AM PDT by Imal (Today, Iraqis are enjoying the kind of freedom Americans haven't had in over a century.)
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To: Bronc1

The Unions don't do a thing for anybody anymore...except line their own pockets with the dues money they extort from us. They're a rip-off.


10 posted on 10/08/2004 7:36:39 AM PDT by pray4liberty (Pray for Our Nation http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
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