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LAX Union Workers To Strike On Thanksgiving Eve
breitbart.com ^ | 11/17/12 | Tony Lee

Posted on 11/17/2012 3:33:13 PM PST by ColdOne

As many as 1000 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) workers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are considering going on strike on Thanksgiving eve in what is the busiest travel day of the year.

Andrew Gross-Gaitan, the director of the Southern California Airports Division of SEIU, said the protest would be in response to an LAX contractor that failed to comply with the city’s Living Wage Ordinance.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: greatnews; lax; moreofthis; obamasfault; seiu; thanksgiving; thiswillhelpin2014; unions
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To: Truth2012
No leftist is going to change their mind about socialism because their flight is delayed.

I don't think any of them think much past what it is they want right now. The socialists get their support by promising to give it to them.

81 posted on 11/17/2012 5:29:29 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: ColdOne

A contractor can’t afford to comply with some living wage law, so the SEIU will make sure that some family in LA going to see grandma suffers for it.

Thanks again Obama, you ****.


82 posted on 11/17/2012 5:30:08 PM PST by theDentist (FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: pepsionice
Yeah just like the super geniuses in NYC remember how their snow plow drivers drove around with the blades up instead of actually plowing snow and caused a 'slow-down' that lead to the loss of life when ambulances couldn't get through. Or how they remembered ConEd threatening to strike during a heat wave......6 months from now the survivors will forget going without water, food, medical supplies, and electricity because of union shenanigans.

Other people will remember, but those in liberal bastions like LA and NYC will largely forget. They have more important things to concern themselves with. By the way did you hear that Kim Kardashian went to the Marine Corps Ball and that Justin Beiber threw up on stage?

When the people start to get fed up with unions, expect police officers, firemen, and teachers to be paraded around as victims of the evil taxpayer and used as an example of why union=good. You don't hate teachers do you? I mean teachers - its for the children.

Besides if it weren't for "skilled union labor" they could hire just anyone to work at LAX and your plane would probably fall out of the sky. You wouldn't want something to happen to Little Timmy while he was flying to Grandmother's house for Winter Holiday Celebration would you?

83 posted on 11/17/2012 5:30:25 PM PST by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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To: ColdOne

The union knuckledraggers sure are some greedy bass turds. Give ‘em a raise and they start whining that it still isn’t enough. I don’t know who these Neanderthals intend to work for once they finally destroy capitalism. The federal government I guess.


84 posted on 11/17/2012 5:34:22 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We need Comprehensive Election Reform, NOW!)
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To: NautiNurse
the workers that are currently on the clock will not be walking off.

That will prove their point, how? Most off the clock will be rushing home to be with their own families and some turkey and not in any picket line.

85 posted on 11/17/2012 5:41:32 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: ColdOne

What’s the big deal? Who in their right mind would be flying to LAX (located in Californicate). I could envision thousands of sane people flying out of LAX with one way tickets to a state of sanity. But if you are in need of a good screwing, then go for it .... first TSA gets their hands on you, the airlines screw you for over priced tickets and absolutely no service and finally Californicate screws you because you are fresh tax meat.


86 posted on 11/17/2012 5:49:24 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
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To: ColdOne

Good. Bring it. Part of what made it politically feasible in the UK to squashthe unions was for people to see just how worthless they are. Let Americans see what strike after strike brings.


87 posted on 11/17/2012 5:53:30 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: ColdOne

EX-LAX - to take care of the constitipation that is affecting the SEIU. maybe it is time for SEIU to go the way of exlax (It is no longer made).

All this is part of Odumbo’s plan to cause for confusion and create chaos. what a country under Odumbo.

Just the American people have to do is stand strong and some people will realize that Democrat means shared misery.


88 posted on 11/17/2012 6:10:51 PM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Hey who was that guy—military—in Katrina,who said, “You can’t fix stupid.”


89 posted on 11/17/2012 6:55:41 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Hey who was that guy—military—in Katrina,who said, “You can’t fix stupid.”


90 posted on 11/17/2012 6:56:40 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: tacticalogic
What happens when several hundred stranded passengers inside the terminal find out that the few dozen people on the picket line outside are resonsible for it?

Several hundred? Try a couple hundred thousand stranded passengers and disrupted family Thanksgiving reunions.

And the unions think this will draw the public to their side? Utter insanity.

91 posted on 11/17/2012 6:57:44 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: onyx

wouldn’t it be great if Romney came in to Hostess Corp, turned it around and knocked out the unions involved and everyone got re-hired! HA HAHAHA!


92 posted on 11/17/2012 7:02:09 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: pepsionice
"You can figure around 200k will travel in or out of LAX on Wednesday, and be affected."

Or more if missed connections propagate through the system.

93 posted on 11/17/2012 7:07:57 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

LOL. Heck of a good idea!


94 posted on 11/17/2012 7:18:00 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: ColdOne

Just stay far away from California in general and LA in particular.


95 posted on 11/17/2012 7:19:48 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: NautiNurse
"Airport workers who have that day off, or airport workers who are getting off shift or start a shift later on will be participating"

That's actually pretty funny!

"Ok, ah, listen up everyone. You guys are under paid, so what were're gonna do is band together in protest [clapping]! We're gonna do this the day before Thanksgiving when it'll really stick it to the man [more clapping]. So, I'm gonna ask everyone, underpaid and all... the day before Thanksgiving... to work a double shift or come in if you're off - for free, ah, no pay - to march for brotherhood [chirp, chirp]. Whaddya all say, let's do the SEIU cheer TOGETHER [chirp, cough, chirp]"

96 posted on 11/17/2012 7:37:40 PM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: 2111USMC

More like a press release to an obliging media.


97 posted on 11/17/2012 8:05:37 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ColdOne

The loss of Thanksgiving travel revenue may hit the airlines and supporting industries as hard as plant closures did Hostess. How’d that work out for the unions?


98 posted on 11/17/2012 8:52:08 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: cripplecreek

Excellent! Going out to my Dim Lib list.


99 posted on 11/17/2012 9:08:44 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Be positive: America is greater than Obama.)
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To: ColdOne

Just go all “Hostess” on their ass.


100 posted on 11/17/2012 9:32:05 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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