Posted on 04/16/2002 5:05:42 PM PDT by snopercod
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
You might not see the picket lines, but a chunk of the American labor movement is staging a notable walkout -- against the Democratic Party. The trend is already having consequences in Congress and could echo through November and into 2004.
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AFL-CIO has placed its bets on Mexicans. They know that Mexicans unions are powerful and corrupt, so that's what the Mexicans expect when they come here. This is undermining wages of low-skilled Americans. Americans who work in low-skilled industries MUST be able to see how their own unions are selling them out for more union dues.
America and Russia joining hands against fundies, now GOP and Unions against demos. Does that mean that demos and fundies are friends ?
Seriously, domestic energy policy is now important issue to play with.
If you mean Muslim fundies, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Actually, I think that is good news ... for the repubs anyway.
Just getting back to normal
Teamsters have traditionally supported the GOP
The Commies, socialists and left-over SDSers in the AFL are an anomoly
Now that Carey and his government protectersare gone labor will move back toward the center if not to the right
QUOTABLE QUOTE
"It is hard to exaggerate just how removed John Sweeney's AFL-CIO is from labor unions of yore. Today four in 10 union members work for government; indeed, the AFL-CIO's largest members is AFSCME, the 1.4 million-member strong union of...state and local workers. Given this constituency, instead of focusing on an economic growth that would create jobs for more union workers, organized labor needs a growing government and their membership rolls. For all his talk about the invention of the Internet, Mr. Gore's core constituency really has no binding stake in the new economy."
- Review & Outlook, Wall Street Journal, Mar. 16, 2000.
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I'm old enough to have visited two operating steel mills in the Los Angeles area (Bethlehem and Kaiser), and one in the Bay Area (US Steel) of california, but I never realized that unions ever supported Republicans.
You're sure of this?
Guess who pardoned James P. Hoffa?
Nixon ..... after RFK created the Get Hoffa squad at DOJ
Sooner or later everything comes back in fashion
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But those were my "liberal" years . All I "knew" back then came from the LA Times...took me 30 years to recover...I'm still working on it I guess...
You bet I do! I'll never forget the heartwarming evening news footage showing what happened to some flea-bitten hippy scum marching in an anti-Vietnam war parade (shouting treasonous slogans, of course); these vermin made the HUGE mistake of waltzing past a construction site. Next thing you know, the Hardhats are spilling out into the street and cleaning the clocks of those Mao/Minh-loving creeps. Whatta great sight! It grieves me to think that their successors have aligned themselves with the party of perversion and perfidy. Maybe, possibly, we can greet them with "Welcome back!"
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