Posted on 09/09/2011 9:58:11 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
Henry Ford, the creator of the United States' affluent working middle class, identified Mr. Hoffa as what he is decades before Hoffa's birth:
A spokesman who does not work in the shop, who does not work in any shop, whose sole ambition perhaps is never again to have to work in a shop, is usually the "bargainer," and it is from what he says or does that many employers draw their opinion of the men in the shop (Ford Ideals, 1922).
...Mr. Hoffa also accused the Tea Party of "waging a war on workers," which reinforces Ford's advice that workers need to identify their friends and enemies very carefully. Again per Ford Ideals (1922):
It is a truth which every American workman ought to know is that 95 percent of the agitation which they see around them does not grow up out of the working people, but it comes down through hired agitators from the would-be capitalistic rulers who want to use the workmen themselves to break down the very industries on which the workmen depend, in order that then the workmen may be thrown on their tender mercies.
The agenda of Mr. Hoffa's friend Barack Obama includes the wholesale destruction of high-wage jobs exactly as Ford has described. Mr. Obama, and not the Tea Party, has declared war on the coal industry and therefore on miners who, unlike Mr. Hoffa, actually perform blue-collar work and earn good pay for doing it. Mr. Obama's running mate Mr. Biden backed this up by saying openly that he wanted no new coal plants in America, but only in China -- where they will supply cheap energy with which Chinese manufacturers can take even more jobs away from working Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
no, he’s a thug.
No ... he speaks for "labor" union members.
Not quite sure what you mean by “labor” union members, but from what I keep seeing, it looks like Hoffa will soon have a mutiny on his hands.
Right...he’s a mobbed up thug and he speaks only for the mob and other thugs. But if he wants a war he can bring it on.
I'm implying that unions so that people can avoid labor. I have enough personal experience with unionized NIMJD assholes to permanently and completely sour me on unionism.
If that worthless prick Hoffa has a mutiny on his hands, good. Maybe more folks will realize that they don't need "shop stewards" and other malefactors leeching off their paychecks, and kick the AFL-CIO out the door.
He is going down and he can’t stop it.
Re: “Maybe more folks will realize that they don’t need “shop stewards” and other malefactors leeching off their paychecks, and kick the AFL-CIO out the door.”
My understanding is that shop stewards are genuine hourly workers who do real work and pay union dues like everybody else, unlike “leaders” like Mr. Hoffa who have probably never touched a tool (at least not outside their homes) or the steering wheel of a UPS delivery truck in their lives. The latter are non-value-adding parasites who leech off workers as well as management, customers, investors, suppliers, and everybody else in the supply chain.
We should probably not attack shop stewards because they are merely the equivalent of non-commissioned officers (i.e. part of the union rank and file whom we seek to persuade to our point of view) and not the parasitic and self-serving leaders who are the real enemies of the workers they claim to represent.
One might also compare the shop steward to the gauleiter ...
Still, they're not the root of the problem.
The real root of the problem isn't even to be found in the union at all.
The real problem is to be found in Congress and the White House. Unions have coercive power over both their (often involuntary) membership and their employers ONLY because Congress and the President have given it to them.
Re: “no, he’s a thug.”
The rotten apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree (Hoffa Sr.), does it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamsters#The_influence_of_organized_crime
BUT Hoffa does speak for the Police, Firefighters, Teachers, ALL Government(fed,State,local) workers, Teamsters, SEIU in Wisconsin.. and many other States..
These Union people want to foul the whole nest..
I don’t see this as beneficial in any sense..
They are NOT NICE PEOPLE.. but diseased mutants..
ALL... literally ALL States need to be “right to work” States..
Being able to be a NON UNION member IS FREEDOM...
Forced Union membership IS NOT FREEDOM...
The Unions are now a carrier of a political disease..
The vector of spreading this contagion.. it IS a disease..
Union members are TROLLS.. highwaymen.. conmen.. work burgulars.. a MOB...
If you’ve ever been on a major construction project, you’ve seen how much time is totally wasted, and how much work is not done, by everyone having to cater to the “union” rules.
I’ll say again what I have said before, the only purpose served by the modern union, especially government employee unions, is to keep union officials living in the extravagant lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.
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