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Posted on 05/12/2006 1:05:33 PM PDT by SmithL
Employing a new political tactic, two large labor unions are using the threat of a consumer boycott to try to curb corporate contributions to groups opposing the universal preschool initiative on the June ballot.
The Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sent a letter last week threatening a national boycott of all of the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores.
They said they would launch the boycott if the Gap, its affiliates or any members of the family that founded the Gap donated to groups opposing actor and director Rob Reiner's preschool initiative, Proposition 82.
"It is our hope that you come to the conclusion that opposing preschool for every child in California is bad for kids and bad for California," said the letter, signed by SEIU's and AFSCME's presidents and SEIU's secretary treasurer.
The two unions, AFSCME and SEIU, represent more than 2.7 million members nationwide. They are likely to gain more members if Proposition 82 is approved because it would allow collective bargaining among those working in the preschools the initiative would fund.
In their letter, they cited a $25,000 donation made by John Fisher, one of the sons of the Gap's founders, to one group fighting Proposition 82.
They also cited a second organization opposing the initiative, the California Business Roundtable, saying the Gap is a "leading member" of it.
None of the Fisher family members returned calls seeking comment.
Don Fisher, who founded the Gap, serves on the Business Roundtable's board, and he, his wife and his son, Robert Fisher, serve on the Gap's board. But John Fisher is not a member of the Gap's board.
Gap spokeswoman Stacy MacLean said the company hasn't taken a position on the initiative, hasn't given to either
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Boycotts by individuals seem right. Boycotts by the unions seem threatening.
Outrageous! Meathead and his cohorts won't be satisfied till all businesses have left California.
Well, I need to do some shopping this weekend anyway. I guess I'll the Gap and Banana Republic.
All your kids are belong to the government.
indoctrination... it's not just for pol pot anymore.
Ping!
Just an FYI about the latest on the CA preschool initiative.
"All your kids are belong to the government."
Socialism is great as long as every worker pays into the union.
Get rid of the union and everything will change. Follow the $$$
What about free speech ?
"The Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sent a letter last week threatening a national boycott of all of the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores.
They said they would launch the boycott if the Gap, its affiliates or any members of the family that founded the Gap donated to groups opposing actor and director Rob Reiner's preschool initiative, Proposition 82."
This preschool boondaggle is a wetdream special of the left.
Californian's will have to fund thousands and thousands of new Preschools up and down the state. Millions of illegal alien children will flock to these subsidized day care centers camoed as pre schools.
Then thousands and thousands of new Union thugs will be hired as teachers, janitors, service people and of course bureacrats. Most of the so called teachers hired will be those too dumb to be hired as a teacher in California, and that is really tough to do. In a few years, these tax funded preschool day care centers will be documented as performing well below the current pre school centers. So more of our tax $'s will go to bring them up to par.
Criminals, perverts and other standard liberals will flock to this nirvana of employment, and that will jeopardize the safety and future of any child in these day school camps.
This is a perfect formula for financial disaster and to add more voters to vote for Meathead when he decides to run as Uber Governor of Califonia.
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