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Thursday, November 20, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Unions sure organizing bill will pass

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CommissionerGordon

It's wonderful that the AFL-CIO is putting Ms. Lee through correspondence classes and night school in order for her to become a Board Certified psychiatrist. Then, I suppose, her diagnostic workup of President Bush's "delusional thinking" can attract the kind of respect it really deserves. And, all our supposedly moral or ideological or political differences can be properly classified as psychopathologies in their proper psychodiagnostic categories. And, Comrade Lee can then help to arrange for the proper type of psychiatric hospitalization in order to bring hope and change to the many afflicted sufferers. All hail Comrade Lee!
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doublehook

I would not object to unions if they did something for workers. However, the federal governemt in its many forms like OHSA and other agencies have replaced the unions classical functions. Now all the unions seem to do is take workers monies in the form of mandatory dues that have supported political actions. Why don't the unions support medical plans for their people if they have $300M to throw around political battles?
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road_warrior

It's interesting to me that people are starting to bank on what Obama will or will not do once he gets into office. There are a lot of things that that liberal illuminati said and Obama promised that i haven't see yet. I suppose i am willing to give him some time but let's start to see some action Obama. Keeping your word action!
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soxconn

Obama's owes the AFL CIO big time. Since Bush's bailout program has fundamentally turned our economy into a regualated market economy, the government now has three new regulatory capture groups vying for power in Washington, lawyers, environmentalists and organized labor. You can believe that the bill will pass and U.S. business will be controlled by organized labor like the energy industry is controlled by the environmentalists. Basically the country has voted in an elitist controlled socialist organization. Someone else is pulling the strings and Obama is just the talking head. We are in a transition period. Social welfare legislation will control the transition and eventually with the help of global warming or climate change or whatever the justification for cap and trade tax, we will evolve to global regulated market governance.
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Gene44

With this Open Vote no one will vote against a Union even though it will signal the end of their job. Goodbye to capitalism as it brings in the regulated control of business across the board. They spent $300 million on getting Obama elected and now the payback is total control of businesses across America. Look at the GM, Ford and Chrysler contracts for an ideal of what is to come. They can all join the unemployed lines that are growing.
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rtermite

If you want a preview of a "unionized" America you can go to Chicago. Chicago is the most corrupt city in America. That corruption is a product of unionized labor. The Ill. prison system is a retirement home for politicians. Chicago is a tale of two cities. The affluent north and the ignored (other than lip service) south. In the north the professionals, the labor unions, the educators, the community activists, and their corrupt politicians siphon off the wealth of the city leaving no investment for the Southside. And where does the new leadership and influence come from? You got it. Obama's goal is to maintain the elites (5%), tolerate the South Chicago level of poverty (5%) and to economically homogenize the other 90% of America.
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truthspeaker1

Japanese car employees are unionize in Japan but not here, why? Each new plant the Japanese car companys open offers a lower wage than the previous plant. This is a race to the bottom with the loser being third world America. As GM goes so goes America.
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tjk28025

Unions are one of the major reasons the Big Three are unable to price cars competitively or match imports in quality. This law will ensure that all jobs will eventually be union jobs and the productivity of the American worker will begin to fall. Just one more step towards 2nd world status. The democrats will eventually realize their dream of Europeanizing America. I'm 54 and had hoped I wouldn't live to see the day. Obama will finish twisting the knife that GWB stuck in my back by nationalizing the banking and finance sectors. He'll nationalize the auto industry and move on to health care and energy. The fat lady is beginning to warm up!
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Duude

Wow!! How dim-witted could the AFL-CIO be? What do they think will support all this stuff? The government is their answer but they don't know where the money comes from. All of this stuff will doom the country and the Democratic party for decades to come. I suppose the silver lining is I absolutely know the American populace will bolt from voting Democrat for elections to come.
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Cobra

"Restoring the right to bargain is a key to fixing the economy" Tell that to the unionized workers of North West Airlines, who were STUPID enough to trust their union representatives and go on strike during NWA's bankruptcy proceedings here in Minnesota. Those workers not only lost their contract negotiations, a lot of them also lost their jobs, for good. Nice job of "protecting" your fellow members, union bosses.
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NavyBrat

Japanese auto plants don't unionize over here, b/c if they had, they'd all be in the same condition as the Big 3 purveyors of garbage. US cars are horrible. Designed to run inefficiently so that the broke-a** auto makers can make even more money in servicing & selling parts. My fiance had a 2003 Chevy Cavalier that she bought brand new. A yr & a half ago, when the car had 60,000 miles on it, the fuel pump went out on it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I've had a Honda or an Acura since I started drivng. Both of my previous 2 cars made the 200,000 mile mark. And they held their resale value for a damn sight better than ANY American car. The fact of the matter is that the Japanese make WAY better cars for a WHOLE lot less overhead than the US car makers. The US carmakers would do well to take a page out of Honda & Toyota's book. By the way, I don't buy their crummy cars, so I don't want my tax $$ to go & bail out THEM or their stupid unions!
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Cobra

" Each new plant the Japanese car companys open offers a lower wage than the previous plant." So, you don't like the idea of companies OPENING plants and hiring new workers now? Would it be better if there were only the "Big Three" manufacturers and a complete lockout of any competition? Talk about a race to the bottom! What would THAT do to "third world America?"
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Duude

Socialism = short the dollar
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truthspeaker1

Cobra wrote: So, you don't like the idea of companies OPENING plants and hiring new workers now? Would it be better if there were only the "Big Three" manufacturers and a complete lockout of any competition? Talk about a race to the bottom! What would THAT do to "third world America?" ******************************** I love opening plants hiring workers,competition great stuff. However, in their plants in their home country they negotiate a fair wage for their workers with a union. They are allowed to come to America and drive wages lower and lower. This dovetails with the overall conservative philosophy to drive out the unions. This too will fail, just like Reaganomics.
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brit

'Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.' Winston Churchill
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