Posted on 09/07/2009 5:36:29 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Big Labor can have its parades and march its “volunteers” around making believe they’re winning in their scheme to forcibly unionize America, but we’re the ones with reason to celebrate.
Their strong arm tactics are blowing up in their faces. Card Check is dying, and in words even these thugs can understand, “It aint happenin’!”
Union thugs overplayed their hand
The union influence plunge started in 2006 after Big Labor bought the Democrat Party and began demanding they get the entire nation unionized using their underhanded Card Check scheme euphemistically titled the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
As recently as 2008, 59% of Americans still approved of unions, but today that’s fallen to 48% the lowest level since Gallup started asking the question in 1937!
The union thugs apparently underestimated the depth of America’s animosity toward them. When they started flogging Pelosi and Reid to get Card Check passed they had to be privately stunned at the huge blowback against their plot.
Starving for money
The number of Americans who say, “unions mostly hurt America’s economy” has risen sharply since 2006 from 36% to an attention demanding 51%!
AFL-CIO head Richard “5th Amendment” Trumka is especially desperate to have his Democrat hired hands force under 30 workers into unions. Trumka isn’t concerned with their wellbeing only theirs dues money which will fund his ponzi scheme pension funds.
A Hudson Institute study found just 17% of union pension funds are fully funded, and the AFL-CIO is currently 2.3 million in debt.
Big labor went into hock buying our Congress from the Democrats, yet they’ve lost on EFCA and failed again when they tried sneaking it into Obamacare.
If we stay strong we can out wait them. Maybe even bankrupt them. After all who could have dreamed they could have bankrupted GM?
(Excerpt) Read more at collinsreport.net ...
“After all who could have dreamed they could have bankrupted GM?”
My father, a seventh-grade dropout and the wisest man I’ve ever known, grew up during the Great Depression. He told us that the UAW would break GM during our lifetime. He didn’t live to see it, but we did.
Which is exactly why the elected liberals, BamaKennedy on down to locals are demanding 'public option' health-care. The Unions have plundered and pillaged their members money and they need a bailout.
once there surely was a need for unions. In other countries where there are no laws protecting them,there is a need today.
But not here. we have laws protecting the worker coming out of our ears. Now all unions do is take money from workers that they use to donate to campaigns. The vast majority have underfunded benefits. Why? Years of political contributions instead of investing for your workers? Buying golf courses for the union execs instead of putting away for a rainy day?
Union leaders have come to regard themselves as the bosses of the companies that pay the workers much to the detriment of those very same workers.
While it’s great that the public is against the unions and their greed, it really doesn’t matter what WE think anymore. With a President and Congress so beholden to the labor unions, all that needs to be done is to have legislation passed so that unions do nothing but increase, while the rest of us must pay for these programs.
That’s the worst part - neither the POTUS nor Congress care a thing about the will of the American people. Politicians need these people as part of their thugocracy (as can be seen lately, to counter legitimate protests at town hall meetings), and will act to benefit them at every opportunity.
The URL on Collins Report needs to have a primary source link.
It doesn’t.
After leaving as an official of the union, he detested unions.
Bigger socialists bailing out lesser socialists at our, our kids, and our grandkids expense...
“They’re both talking about a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW’s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans.”
More...here...
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hidden-10b-uaw-package-not-enough
No national socialist healthcare! Starve the Beasts BUMP!
Great news! Great day to watch the delightful John Candy movie, “Armed & Dangerous”, which has some of the funniest and truthful lines about unions.
“I really think” the UAW “were gambling there would be some health care nationalization,” he said…
(from the above link)
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