The Almighty Unions

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The point is, it's often hard work, not luck.

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A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier (a member of the emerging right-wing political movement) are at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 and says to the Tea Partier: "Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie."

thought this joke was appropriate...again.

What does UAW stand for?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

U Ain't Workin'

Not long ago, a wealthy stockbroker drives by nine men who have been locked out of their jobs at the First Canadian Place. He stops his luxury car, gets out, and utters the words that explain his attitude to their plight.

“The watch I’m wearing is worth more than you earn in a year. Get out of my way!”

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editoria ... st-society

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President Franklin Roosevelt wrote:

When was that - 1933? Lessee, this is 2011. Hmmm, yup, Roosevelts opinions on Unions in the middle of the Great Depression sure has a lot of relevance in the 22nd century! Did wimmen have the vote back tehn?
You gotta go back further for some REAL relevance. The original Union organizer was Moses. Now the Egyptian employers may have retaliated by kicking Moses and his union members out into the desert, but there's no denying the forty years of manna that followed.
And they've been running a closed shop ever since, with great success.
Try some REAL history, instead of the rantings of Glenn Beck and Limballs.

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The unions made a difference of about 50% in my old man's income. We'd have been living in a one bedroom how without the UAW. I know this because we were doing that before he got a job with GM.

And look what happened to GM as a result...it went bankrupt. There's a clue there for those with the wit to understand.

Yeah, it was 'cause o' them greedy Union wages. Had nuthin to do with a world wide glut of cars and car manufacturers, or an economic downturn that meant people couldn't afford new cars, or the fact that GM had three stealerships in every hick village and town, or had car lineups that "competed" with themselves. Nope. DUH!

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Many unequal things are just fine.

Exactly. Which is probably why your hero Roosevelt vetoed legislation that would have made lynching negroes in the South illegal.

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Three words for those of you who think unions are evil entities: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

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The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial fire that took place in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant on September 3, 1991, after a failure in a faulty modification to a hydraulic line. Twenty-five people were killed and 54 injured in the fire, as they were trapped behind locked fire doors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chi ... plant_fire

We gotta get rid of them GREEDY unions! How's a poor capitalist to make money with all these ludicrous laws?

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The only reason anyone knows about it is thanks to Glenn Beck and his research team, who uncovered the conspiracy to commit economic terrorism and revealed it on his program two days ago.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library ... 9%2C44%3A3

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The only reason anyone knows about it is thanks to Glenn Beck and his research team, who uncovered the conspiracy to commit economic terrorism and revealed it on his program two days ago.

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The Rethugnicans continue their attack on Unions. Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”

Article continues.

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The only reason anyone knows about it is thanks to Glenn Beck and his research team,

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Well, except for the fact that labor unions don't redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor; they redistribute wealth from stockholders, who are largely retirees living on limited income, and poor nonunionized employees, to affluent unionized employees. If anything, they are redistibuting wealth from the poorer to the richer.

Yeah, we noticed all the poor widows and orphans who were stockholders in Bernie Madoff's little fund to help them with their limited incomes!