Are Unions A Detriment To A Good Work Ethic? You Betcha!

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:

MICHIGAN MAN SHOT IN APPARENT ATTACK BY UNION

Hey, it's all part of that ''collective bargaining to get the best deal possible''.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Hey,sparkie! ''collective bargaining to get the best deal possible'' right?

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Union leader draws lucrative pension
perk based on false information
Chicago Tribune, by Jason Grotto

Every month, Thomas Villanova gets a $9,000 reminder of how lucrative it can be to serve as a union leader in Chicago. The sum is part of a city pension that comes on top of the $198,000 annual salary he is paid to represent the interests of thousands of city workers. Villanova last worked for the city in 1989 as an electrical mechanic with the Department of Streets and Sanitation, making about $40,000 a year. Yet in 2008 he was allowed to retire at age 56 with a $108,000 city pension.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watc ... 7273.story

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:41 pm

Hoffa: 'President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out '

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:44 pm

LABOR LEADER CALLS FOR WAR ON REPUBLICANS

As valid a reason as any for the next President to disband public sector unions, and eliminate collective bargaining in the private sector.

If they want a war, lets not pull any punches.

Fairs fair.

Right Sparky?

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

I just hear this though it's not a new story. We may be losing the US post office. Why? Because union thugs would rather lose their jobs instead of renegotiating their cushy union contracts. If I'm not mistaken they wouldn't even qualify for unemployment. Yea real bright. And what put the USPS in such a bind? While new technology certainly plays a part the unwillingness of the unions to compromise to compete with private carriers keeps causing the cost of postage to rise apparently faster than the private sector. Today's model for the USPS just doesn't work hence if labor digs in and refuses to be reasonable there will be no post office. Thank you Mr Obama. Another national embarrassment under your watch.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:

Hoffa: 'President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out '

Sarah Palin took notice of Hoffas remarks against American citizens and the apparent approval of Barack Obama

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/welcome-union-brothers-and-sisters/10150285058673435

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:07 am

Hundreds of union workers storm port, hold guards hostage

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

Why is Hoffa supporting Obama? I don't see how sending jobs to China and making policies that cause US jobs to dry up is helping boost union membership. Sounds like Hoffa is stuck in the 60s and doesn't live in the real world.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Regionite wrote:

Why is Hoffa supporting Obama? I don't see how sending jobs to China and making policies that cause US jobs to dry up is helping boost union membership. Sounds like Hoffa is stuck in the 60s and doesn't live in the real world.

are you kidding?

now they don't have to lift a finger and DUMBO will just bail them out.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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A Union Goes Too Far
Wall Street Journal, by Editorial

It turns out a union can go so far that even the current National Labor Relations Board can't turn a blind eye. A grain operator at the Port of Longview in Washington state was hit with a violent strike yesterday by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Longshoreman walked out at nearby ports in Tacoma and Seattle. According to police reports, some 500 longshoreman broke in at about 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning and held six security guards hostage for two hours while the protesters rampaged through the facility. They cut brake lines on railroad cars and spilled grain from

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 70264.html

it's all part of that ''collective bargaining to get the best deal possible'' right sparks?

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Labor Leaders Back Obama Jobs Plan
ABC News, by Devin Dwyer

After weeks of ratcheting up pressure on President Obama to take a bolder approach to creating jobs, leaders of the nationâ€™s largest unions heaped praise on the larger-than-expected $447 billion stimulus package Obama unveiled Thursday night, tempering their warnings that union confidence in Obamaâ€™s economic agenda was on the edge. AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, who had accused the president of making â€œstrategic mistakesâ€œ in office and warned of waning support from union members for his reelection bid, said Obama demonstrated that â€œhe is willing to go to the mat to create new jobs on a substantial scale.â€

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... jobs-plan/

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:53 am

Moby Grape wrote:

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Labor Leaders Back Obama Jobs Plan
ABC News, by Devin Dwyer

After weeks of ratcheting up pressure on President Obama to take a bolder approach to creating jobs, leaders of the nationâ€™s largest unions heaped praise on the larger-than-expected $447 billion stimulus package Obama unveiled Thursday night, tempering their warnings that union confidence in Obamaâ€™s economic agenda was on the edge. AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, who had accused the president of making â€œstrategic mistakesâ€œ in office and warned of waning support from union members for his reelection bid, said Obama demonstrated that â€œhe is willing to go to the mat to create new jobs on a substantial scale.â€

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... jobs-plan/

Dumbo is just funneling the taxpayer's money into the unions so that they can kick it back to the democrats to fund their re-election war chests.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

Aren't the same worthless hypocritical thugs who call the Tea Party violent?

The video is priceless

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Longshoreman assaults media: â€˜Get the
f**k out of this parking lot right nowâ€™
The Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle

A member of a Pacific Northwest longshoremanâ€™s union verbally attacked a news crew that showed up at the unionâ€™s local headquarters in Longview, Washington. The assault was captured on a video that hit YouTube Friday morning.

â€œIâ€™m from KGW and I wanted to know if there was anyone here who would want to talk to us about the situation,â€ a Portland, Ore. television correspondent is seen asking while knocking on the buildingâ€™s door.

â€œActually, if you go down to Miller Avenue, and talk to them dumbasses down there at EGT, theyâ€™ll tell you how theyâ€™re f*****g the Longshoremen around here,â€ the union member answered from behind the door. â€œThatâ€™s what you can do, so go back to Portland, bye!â€

EGT Development is a contracting company that operates a grain terminal in Longview, Wash., which is at the center of an International Longshore and Warehouse Union work stoppage. The Portland television news crew, from NBC affiliate KGW, proceeded to film papers posted on the building. That didnâ€™t sit so well with the already clearly upset union member.

On Wednesday in Longview, hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union members, upset over EGTâ€™s decision to hire workers from a different union, stormed the facility and blocked train tracks there, escalating a longstanding labor dispute.

Longshoreman assaults media: â€˜Get the f*** out of this parking lot right nowâ€™

http://thedc.com/ruD2vZ

Look for the union label!

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

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Not Even Unions Trust Unions!
Powerline, by John Hinderacker

I had no idea that people who work for unions have unions of their own, until this piece by Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection appeared. Prof. Jacobson documents the disaster that has befallen Wisconsinâ€™s public sector unions in the wake of the popular revolt against their excessive power:

If you want a good measure of how deeply the collective bargaining bill in Wisconsin has disrupted public sector unions, there is no better example than the Wisconsins Education Association Council (WEAC).

Last month WEAC announced that it was laying off 40% of its staff. With little over which to collectively bargain, and with dues no longer withheld from paychecks, the need for and sustainability of a union bureaucracy could not be justified.

Now WEAC is being boycotted by National Staff Organization (NSO), a union representing educational union employees.

Isnâ€™t that great, education union employees have their own union? Is there a union for employees of education union employee unions?

This is actually rather hysterical: the NSO has announced a boycott of the Wisconsin Education Association Council because that union is unfair to union labor! You canâ€™t make this stuff up. Unions exist, in todayâ€™s world, only to the extent that people are forced to join them and to the extent that dues are forcibly withdrawn from their paychecks. Few people in their right mind would choose to join or financially support a union. Of course, in the Age of Obama, even if you are in your right mind the federal government isnâ€™t, so the Left is bringing all possible pressure to bear on behalf of union bosses. The problem is that the concentrated power of the federal government isnâ€™t enough to overcome the will of the people.

READ MORE: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... unions.php

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Police confirm racial
incidents at sugar plant
Associated Press

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) â€” Police say union supporters have directed racial slurs and racist symbols at replacement workers and security personnel outside an American Crystal Sugar plant in North Dakota.

Traill County Sheriff Mike Crocker says there have been racial statements made to security people outside of the company's Hillsboro facility. He says he recently saw a monkey-like figure hanging from a noose attached to a large inflatable rat outside the plant. He says it was removed the next day.

The Grand Forks Herald reported Tuesday (http://bit.ly/oQfZWj) that many of the replacement workers are from Southern states, and some are minorities.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Polic ... 167980.php

according to union members on this board, this is the union method of ''bargaining for the best possible deal''

isn't that right sparkie?

Isn't it just grand that DUMBO is giving them all that money?

/s

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