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1 posted on 06/13/2012 10:35:38 AM PDT by kristinn
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AFL-CIO getting even..


2 posted on 06/13/2012 10:39:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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All told, how much did the Unions blow in Wisconsin? Twenty million? And now no mandatory dues collection? Whew. Talk about bad strategy. Glad to see they wasted all that money!


3 posted on 06/13/2012 10:39:44 AM PDT by Obadiah (2008: Hope & Change -- 2012: Fear & Destruction)
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Will other unions Teamsters etc follow suit ?


4 posted on 06/13/2012 10:41:28 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Well the wheel fell off of that wagon.


6 posted on 06/13/2012 10:42:47 AM PDT by pfflier
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This sounds like the unions are seeing a major change during this coming election and have decided to "redeploy" their political contributions in a more balanced way.

And it will work because many politicians will carry the water for whomever is providing the contributions.

7 posted on 06/13/2012 10:43:22 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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If true, this is HUGE news.


8 posted on 06/13/2012 10:43:22 AM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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I loved to see if some annuities have been bought courtesy of the AFL-CIO and how many of the higher level muckee-mucks will soon be “retiring early”...
9 posted on 06/13/2012 10:44:04 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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It’s all going to the Dems like always.

Obama’s well funded so others will get more.


10 posted on 06/13/2012 10:45:50 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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It’s all going to the Dems like always.

Obama’s well funded so others will get more.


11 posted on 06/13/2012 10:45:59 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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Wow.

Now I’m getting concerned that Obama is doing SO bad that the DEMs will try to make Hillary Clinton the candidate.


12 posted on 06/13/2012 10:46:15 AM PDT by kidd
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Wow! I think that it has a lot to do with the losing recall effort in Wisconsin, as well as polls showing an across the board erosion in Obama’s support, even among black voters. This makes me wonder if union leaders are working on the inside, using their economic and manpower leverage to bring about a major shift in Democratic support to Hillary, either as a replacement for Biden, or even the top of the ticket.


13 posted on 06/13/2012 10:46:15 AM PDT by Freestate316
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O’Bumbler’s new book ‘The Audacity of Failure’


14 posted on 06/13/2012 10:46:37 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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The federation says the shift has been in the works for months, and had nothing to do with the president's failure to show in Wisconsin last week

That's a nice new plate glass window. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

15 posted on 06/13/2012 10:48:26 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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There was a time when labor unions wanted economic growth. Maybe that time is coming again.


18 posted on 06/13/2012 10:54:07 AM PDT by Snake65
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The private sector unions see the writing on the wall...

Their fight is at the state level keeping right to work legislation from becoming reality...in many states

They are smart enough to know the Fed cannot help them so giving Obama money is pretty much throwing it away...


22 posted on 06/13/2012 10:59:41 AM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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I suggest Republicans start looking into union pension funds & if necessary initiate legislation to make sure they are fully funded before unions can spend dues money on ‘outside activities’. That would slow some of these guys down.


25 posted on 06/13/2012 11:01:20 AM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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That is really leave a very nasty mark! :-D

26 posted on 06/13/2012 11:01:25 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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Lookimgt forward to watching what Ed “Union Mobster Mouthpiece” has to saay about this.... >B-^)`


28 posted on 06/13/2012 11:09:29 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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Let's see:

The war on coal has hurt the UMW.

While the GM bailout seemed like a sweetheart deal for the unions, their likely greatest area of manufacturing growth is.....China.

The Keystone pipeline jobs would have included jobs which organized labor could have had...

Unions have been losing popularity and jobs, (in tough times there is no shortage of non-union applicants who are ready, able, and willing to work) and even the management has got to see that if there is no rank and file to pay dues, sooner or later they won't have enough cash flow to 'operate'.

Wisconsin is just the beginning of the end for people working in the Public Sector using our money to lobby for more of our money.

30 posted on 06/13/2012 11:17:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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Pssst-it’s only a threat. After all these years of funding the dems, the unions are not about to tell their members to support conservatives. Then again, maybe the union bosses are ready to cut their losses, take whatever money remains, and RUN.


31 posted on 06/13/2012 11:25:46 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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