RNs Condemn Violent Service Union Attack at Michigan Event

CNA ^ | April 12, 2008

[gracie1]

I find the whole thing dripping with irony. Both of these unions are trying to organize the facility I work at. None have been successful so far. SEIU had filed charges against the hospital with the NLRB, the majority of which were thrown out. The charges were mostly that the hospital had attempted to educate the employees about SEIU (which is legal). The effort by CNA to get a contract with RNs at the hospital is all but but dead.

[Yorlik803]

Who would have ever thought that Purpleshirts would have replaced Brownshirts as the color of thuggery.
The SEIU is nothing more than morons who use violence to get what they want. The Goverment should use RICO to shut down these mouthbreathers.

[VeniVidiVici]

Obama and Hillary supporters. No wonder the Democrats court the unions. They are the brownshirt wing of the party.

[Truthsearcher]

Unions are Marxist and Marxism is all about violence, this should come as a surprise to no one.

[Let's Roll]

They are the brownshirt wing of the party.

Yeah, you never know when you might need some muscle.

[gracie1]

CNA is not slacker in that department. They were the union responsible for the massive protests against GOV. Schwartzenegger during the special election.

[Truth29]

I wonder if the description of what happened has been exaggerated. Otherwise, why weren't the police involved?

[ArmstedFragg]

It’s pretty much a ‘what goes around, comes around’ kind of thing...

[Jacquerie]

There is an ugly pattern here of physical abuse and tactics of intimidation that have no place in our labor movement . . .

Right. There's no place for violence in organized labor.

[VR-21]

"I wonder if the description of what happened has been exaggerated. Otherwise, why weren't the police involved?"

I suspect that there wasn't so much physical violence as there was menacing and heavy-handed intimidation. That's only a step away however and I agree with the others who characterize the SEIU as brownshirts and thugs. There is definately at trend in the modern American left towards thuggish behavior, and I believe it's going to get worse.

[Fido969]

It does smell fishy.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Which one is the bigger contributor to the dem party? That’s the one that will get a free pass, and the other one will be blamed for it all.

[gracie1]

The thuggery is not only going to increase, it's becoming direct at former comrades. The biggest example of this is the fight between Clinton and Obama.

[BenLurkin]

"Had I not seen this with my own eyes I would not have believed it," said Kimberly Helmick.

Ma'am, may I suggest to you that had you not seen it yourself, the MSM will bury this story so deeply that chances are you have never even had heard that this happened.

[eleni121]

Hornets’ nests, like unions and terror cells, tend to get even more furious when they feel threatened and are under attack.

If McCain gets in expect more union thuggery.

[gracie1]

All unions employ the tactic of class warfare. SEIU CA organization UHW organizes all classifications of healthcare workers. CNA only organizes RNs. RNs have higher salaries, hence more money available from dues. But SEIU has a larger pool of workers (theoretically) to draw on. The worker pool is also more susceptible to class warfare rhetoric. It's hard to invoke class warfare when the targets make $70,000 a year. They tried it at UMC and people saw through it. They still don't have a contract.

[YOUGOTIT]

“Otherwise, why weren’t the police involved?”

If I remember it was ruled by the judges that a union could do what they wanted to do.

I disagree and think most unions should be in jail but that is just me against the anti-American Communist. Or is it al-Qaeda now?????

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Unions are Marxist and Marxism is all about violence, this should come as a surprise to no one.

How do you explain the pro America, anti-communist positoins of George Meany, his successors, and many of his followers in the construction trades?

Maybe union workers have some valid points. The Chinese workers could use some unions about now.

[gracie1]

100 years ago, there were few protections for workers, so organizing into unions was one way to provide a common front against large employers with deep pockets. Today, most of the gains made by unions have been codified into law, such as OSHA, workers comp laws, minimum wage laws, overtime laws, and labor boards to settle disputes. All to frequently today, unions are seen as killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

An example is CNA. I believe they deliberately wish to drive private hospitals out, so that “health care reform” (socialist medicine) can be instituted.

[Truthsearcher]

He’s the exception that proves the rule. And in spite of him and his efforts, the AFL-CIO is today basically a far leftist organization.

Of course there are times when unions are useful, but useful or not, they will inevitably evolve into a Marxist organization.