Posted on 06/13/2012 10:41:50 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
America’s jobless are unionizing, or at least furthering an agenda of one of the nation’s biggest unions.
An organization aimed at giving the unemployed more influence has announced it now has more than 100,000 jobless activists in their ranks.
The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) Activists is an Internet-centric “community service project” of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) — one of the country’s largest industrial trade unions.
“Our objective is to pull together unemployed Americans in a way that allows them to connect, communicate and press their political leaders for policies that will get them back to work,” Rick Sloan, UCubed’s executive director and IAM communications director, told The Daily Caller.
According to the group’s website, jobless “Jobs Activists” assert their influence through coordinated communication with public officials.
“Jobs Activists, organized by their zip codes, advocate for sound public policy, emailing public officials to alert them about policies that directly impact the jobless,” the website explains.
Among those policies the group advocates is a second Works Progress Administration or WPA 2.0. Ads by Google
“We’d like to see [policymakers] recreate the Works Progress Administration, WPA 2.0. Which in the 1930s put between 6.5 and 8 million people back to work,” Sloan said.
The WPA was a New Deal program instituted by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to put Americans to work on public infrastructure projects during the Great Depression.
The group is currently pushing passage of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s recent “21st Century WPA Act” to reinstate the New Deal employment program, and Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s attempt to rejuvenate another New Deal program with her “21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act.”
Lautenberg’s bill would cost $250 billion through 2013; Kaptur’s would cost $16 billion annually through 2015. Both bills are pending in committee.
UCubed is also interested in supporting extensions of long-term unemployment benefits.
“Those 100,000 online activists regularly share posts with their 26.6 million Facebook friends, giving the unemployed a power that far exceeds their numbers,” Sloan added in a statement. “UCubed connected with jobless Americans by asking a simple question: Where’s a job for me, Mr. President? And by advocating for a new Works Progress Administration — a WPA 2.0 — to put Americans back to work ASAP.”
Rent-a-mob. Unions have been caught hiring protesters in the past who are not even employees of the affected business.
Hired muscle, that’s all.
And more upper management who get to skim their money.
I recall when the DNC wanted an exemption to minimum-wage-laws for paid campaign staffers.
I was certain this was satire.;-)
How is the union going to collect dues if the members arent working?
They’re fighting for longer naps, more coffee breaks, and unpixelated nudity on Jerry Springer.
Red storm rising!
Red storm rising!
Automatic dues skim off their unemployment check. just watch.
Whoa Betsy! How about THIS for material John?
ACORN replanted.
Ya just can’t make this stuff up, kind of like imagining that some random dude who’s recent main job was a community organizer being elected President of the United Stataes.
Not only that -- How the heck are they going to go on strike? :=)
“Dues? We don’t need no stinkin’ dues to fund leftist activism! That’s what taxpayers are for.”
The Unemployed Union
When their demands aren’t met, they go on strike by going back to work.
The union will have it auto deducted from their unemployment checks.
Oh....wait.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Brilliant!
The second surest cause of the financial collapse of government units nationwide (next to mindless spending,) and who will join its ranks?
The usual suspects.
The incompetent, the inept, the insane, the educational zeroes, all of whom are certain that they are entitled to a greater societal and financial life than their discipline and effort deserves.
Good luck with that!
Great example:
The Detrit area teachers who not only voted 90% to strike, but to demand an immediate 25% raise in pay across the board, but also a 5% next year.
To assert that these people are insane and delusional, is to state the obvious.
The usual tactic of the clever but stupid : ask for the moon, and "compromise" on the absurd. Good democrats, radicals and socialists, all.
YOUR TIME IS SO OVER!
“A union of the unemployed, dedicated to advancing unemployment. Brilliant.”
Ya gotta admit — it’s a growth market as long as Obama is President. The only problem with it is that unemployment isn’t working.
There.
Fixed it for you.
I can think of a good policy to get them back to work, quit being a stupid ass socialist and get the moonbats out of power.
Wait until they get states to start sending them a percentage of all the unemployment checks.
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