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“UAW-Union Ain’t Wanted”
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation ^ | June 13th, 2003 | National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

Posted on 06/13/2003 7:12:39 PM PDT by eleni121

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Unions have been in the forefront of Democratic fund raising and union leadership has for the most part been taken over by left wing ideologues. This rejection of unionization and "captive audience" tactics in Tennessee and others like it proves that no slick union organizers can deceive the great American working class...all workers.
1 posted on 06/13/2003 7:12:39 PM PDT by eleni121
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Good for the workers that fought the union bullies!

I just finished reading some articles and links at http://greenwatch.org and I recall reading about a union in dispute of which democrat to promote for president.

2 posted on 06/13/2003 7:36:52 PM PDT by Susannah (Over 200 people murdered in L. A.County-first 5 mos. of 2003 & NONE were fighting Iraq!!)
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To: eleni121
oops, that site should be http://www.greenwatch.org
3 posted on 06/13/2003 7:38:09 PM PDT by Susannah (Over 200 people murdered in L. A.County-first 5 mos. of 2003 & NONE were fighting Iraq!!)
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I cant imagine the astronomical price of an auto if unions ran all of the auto industry. The poor working class that the left is so worried about could never afford to buy one. Leaving them at more of a disadvantage. I guess you have to have common sense to realize that though.
4 posted on 06/13/2003 7:40:24 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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The unions are nothing more than rip-off political organizations. They were needed in the early days of the industrial revolution but now due to diversity in employment opportunities they are nothing but a drag now. They simply take the employee's money and give it to the politicians in on their sweetheart deals and use it to take trips to Hawaii and Vegas. Why in the world would the union brass have to have their meetings in exotic locations? The mafia always goes where the masses are and where their money is. Nowadays, it's the unions.
5 posted on 06/13/2003 7:45:10 PM PDT by #3Fan
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You are right. Unions are the primary reason for the decline in American industrial productivity. They are the primary reason that public education is failing. The entrenched unionized bureacrats endanger freedom in the political process as well.
6 posted on 06/13/2003 7:45:37 PM PDT by eleni121
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To: Susannah
The article about full union financial disclosure is excellent. Thanks
7 posted on 06/13/2003 7:47:21 PM PDT by eleni121
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UAW = U Ain't Workin

The UAW also represents groups of Aerospace workers. Why, I will never know. They are totally aligned with the auto industry, and regard their aerospace members as a cash cow for their liberal agenda.

Humm... that could go for all unions.
8 posted on 06/13/2003 7:47:52 PM PDT by Duramaximus ( American Born, Gun_Toting , Aerospace Worker Living In A State That Worships Socialism)
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If you listen read or talk to unionists (especially the bosses, media people and organizers) you will be astounded at how much they sound like the Communist organizers of the early 20th century. Every other word is something about the rich and the poor working class and the rich and the poor working class.... sickening.
9 posted on 06/13/2003 7:50:19 PM PDT by eleni121
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Personally, Ive rejected unions since the 70s.

Some folks must just take a little longer to catch on, huh?

10 posted on 06/13/2003 7:51:52 PM PDT by Bullish
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As a former member of the UAW, IAM, and Alaska Loggers Association I have no great appreciation of the liberal social agenda unions push.
11 posted on 06/13/2003 7:54:15 PM PDT by RipeforTruth
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Whoops. Forgot National Maritime Union.
12 posted on 06/13/2003 7:56:07 PM PDT by RipeforTruth
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To: Duramaximus
UAW also represents groups of Aerospace workers. Why, I will never know.

Because they saw the "hand writing on the wall" their auto workers numbers decline so to save their own hides they went looking for other fish
The UAW is a corrupt leftist tool and I have no idea why the "Big three" would pressure anyone to be union since the union is the reason the Big 3 is not more competive

14 posted on 06/13/2003 8:41:59 PM PDT by apackof2 (If posted my comment would look like this)
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You should read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It turns into a hard-core commie polemic in the last quarter of the book, but it gives you a glimpse into the minds of the union leaders. They think that things still work that way.
15 posted on 06/13/2003 11:40:26 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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I think my Mom, an attorney with Wayne County, is under the UAW umbrella too.
16 posted on 06/13/2003 11:41:42 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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Some weeks back I happened to go out on the loading dock and encountered a U.S. Postal Service thug/driver harassing an older FedX delivery guy about not being union and aggressively trying to bully him off the dock. After I threw the post office guy off the dock, the FedX guy told me he encountered that kind of harassment a lot.
17 posted on 06/14/2003 2:53:51 AM PDT by pt17
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I think my Mom, an attorney with Wayne County

Gee how in the heck does that work?
There's a dispute and she has to walk off the job?

Lord help us and your mom (I feel her pain!)

18 posted on 06/14/2003 5:27:32 AM PDT by apackof2 (If posted my comment would look like this)
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I have no problem if someone chooses to be union. I have even told some union guys if that's their choice then I wish them a genuine "Good luck and I hope you are successful". However it's funny that this sentiment is not reciprocated by union guys to non-union folks. Hey if their choice to be union is good enough to be respected by me then my choice to be non-union ought to be good enough to be respected by them. I don't get it...
19 posted on 06/14/2003 6:09:32 AM PDT by BlueOneGolf (Help KY elect a Republican Governor. Donate at http://www.fletcher2003.com/contribute.htm)
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To: eleni121

A "visit" to the Hoffa compound would have been very short lived and totally contrary to whatever direction the organizers had initially intended.

I hate unions.. Scumbags.

They give money to the democrats, they artificially inflate the price of products and services, they favor tenure over performance, they drive jobs overseas and south of the border, they confiscate wages and they just generally piss me off.

If I want your "representation" I will ask for it. Till then, go whine & promote class envy someplace else.

20 posted on 06/14/2003 6:44:07 AM PDT by Jhoffa_
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