unions are one of the reasons that corporations have moved work overseas.
comrade sweeney should visit china to see the future.
Bill Sammon's excellent book , "At Any Cost" contains the fascinating tidbit that during the Florida recount mess, when the DC FReepers and other GOP activists demonstarted outside the Naval Observatory..screaming "GET OUT OF CHENEY'S HOUSE" over and over, for days on end...it drove Gore bananas...He called up Sweeney, and demanded that he send over some union folks to counter demonstrate..It could have turned ugly, but Sweeney refused to send anyone over. IT was just before the Thanksgivign weekend..Sweeney told Gore that everyone was away for the holidays, and told Gore to call him after the weekend. Gore never did...
"Unions spent more than $100 million in their attempt to send Kerry to the White House and dispatched more than 200,000 volunteers into the field."
It ought to be a violation of Campaign Finance laws to do that, and if it's not, then the entire CFR ought to be thrown out as unconstitutional.
there gonna add 3 new letters to AFL-CIO
RIP
One of the most visible unions in the sKerry campaign was the International Association of Fire Fighters (the yellow-shirted slaves). Does anyone know the breakdown of union firefighters voting for sKerry vs. Bush? As I recall, in 2000, the IAFF membership voted about 40% Bush. This time, with the advent of Firefighters for Bush, the percentage has to be much higher. I understand the president of IAFF (Schaitburger) was a big shot in the campaign. Anyone know the split?
bump
The 3 most satisfying results of the 2004 elections.
Bush won.
Thune won.
The liberals wasted at least $1,000,000,000 to achieve that result, and now its not available for other mischief.
Unless labor union leadership changes drastically, labor unions will slowly disappear. First thing the unions should do is back out of politics. They should not back a political candidate and only should voice opinions on issues. Their mission should strictly be the conditions and benefits for their membership in the employee work environment. The primary mission is protect their memebership and insure that the employer they bargain with remains stable and healthy economically. If an employer is milked to the bone, there are no jobs and benefits. Backing political candidates who have never run a business and are hell bent on killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a waste of time and the union members money. The current labor leadership is still living in a 1930s environment!!! Get with it fools. The train has left the station without you. Backing Democrats is a total waste of time in gaining your real objectives for your membership!!!
Regulations need to be put into place that will keep the unions from getting control of the public workers. If this continues the unions will be negotiating with political hacks that they install into public office - a no win situation for the public. If this can be stopped we will see the unions stop financing Dem. candidates and maybe they'll get back to actually representing the rank and file.
Sweeney - a leading Socialist of the trade union movement - a leading cheerleader for the "Hate The United States" crowd!