Posted on 08/16/2009 9:18:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
Union members pack Obama's town halls
Matthew Mosk August 17, 2009
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. | Andrew Carillo and Melissa McCollister cheered loudly from near the back row of the Central High School gymnasium as President Obama stepped on stage to make his pitch for health care reform.
The two organizers for the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 proudly wore their union T-shirts, and boisterously supported the president because of what they think his initiative will do for the 25,000 grocery stockers, meatpackers and warehouse workers that they represent.
"We have to negotiate for health care every time a contract comes up," said Mr. Carillo, 24, a union employee. "Year after year, it just gets more and more expensive."
Members of the nation's labor unions have made up a hefty segment of the audiences that flocked to town halls Mr. Obama held in the past week, and they have played an even larger role in a nationwide campaign for an insurance overhaul.
Financially, and with boots on the ground, unions have become the backbone of the president's effort.
Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was part of a group, largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry's lobby, that launched $12 million in television ads to support the president's health care push, and the coalition Americans for Stable Quality Care could spend tens of millions of dollars more this fall.
The AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are among the partners in another group, Health Care for America Now, which has committed millions more dollars to advertising that is running now in a half-dozen states.
But money is only part of the equation; the most potent contribution from labor has been its people. Last month, opponents of the...
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Once we are done defeating Obamacare, and we get our people back in place, we need to finish dismantling these pinko unions.
Don’t these union members know that obammacare will do away with their ‘cherry’ medical insurance plans? Such mindless fools to follow the piper on this boondoggle.
President Palin is planning it as we speak.
I’m not so sure about this. Obama has specifically catered to the auto workers (GM & Chrysler Bail-Outs) ; the NEA; construction workers ($787B TARP); SEIU; and the list goes on. Despite high unemployment in Michigan and PA, they folks voted for 0
If they were smart they would’t be in a union.
I don’t know about a government that relies on its Nazi union knuckle draggers to push its agenda through. Things are starting to get hairy.
Alan Grayson townhall meeting Monday Aug 17 7:45pm IBEW 606 local hall. 820 Virginia Ave Orlando
Is the man a big wuss or what? Less than 24hrs notice AND IT'S AT A UNION HALL!!
obama thugs
I saw this on one your other posts and I liked it. I will be sending it out to a few folks tomorrow. LOL
I do have to admit though, it made me flinch a bit, because for some unknown reason, I have had two separate, 6 hour long, blood transfusions this past week.
So as you can see, that pic will fit into my world right now. LOL
Anyway, thanks for the laugh.
Even more delicious is the wane of unions in the midst of the Obama admin.
Card Check? Gone.
Continuing UAW shrinkage as GM/Chrysler are broken down in bankruptcy court and shut down plants in traditional union states and/or transfer the work to right-to-work states.
Toyota closing the joint GM plant for parts non-union.
Foreign makers stearing well clear of NE/Midwest states to avoid the unions while starting up new plants........Kia, Hyundai, Hino, and so on.
Too many union members are locked into lockstep subserviance of the union leadership that they do whatever they are told to do. Even if against their own interest, off they go at the foreman’s point of finger.
Thank goodness they are a dying breed.
It appears that the Union members would never sign a document such as the Declaration of Independence.
If the do not believe in the only guarantee in our Constitution, we should not believe in them.
Do not buy union.
I guess they really want to be treated like animals.
“Do not buy union....”
I don’t for the most part. I do drive a Ford but all of my recent purchases have been purely non-union. I will not buy a GM/Chrysler product in the near future.
We are truly now at the point in our history where buying non-American products.........is best for our American principles. Honda, Toyota, Mitsu, Kia, Kubota.......all know better how to work, compete in and win the American free marketplace than the “American” companies they compete with.
I’m not anti-America. I am pro American idealism which seems to have exited so much of the U.S. industrial workforce.
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