No Labor Pains (Obama gives the go-ahead to card check to the AFL-CIO)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 44th Estate ^ | March 3, 2009 | Salena Zito

[Salena Zito]

Here are the remarks (as prepared for delivery) that President Barack Obama spoke via video to the AFL-CIO executive Council in Miami today.

At the very end of the speech, Obama made what all of labor hoped and expected: a promise to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, or 'card-check' for short. Here goes:

[papertyger]

Are you in right to work state or have you been on the union teat all your life?

Have you quit beating your wife?

[guitarplayer1953]

not married do you still wear red diapers?

[April Lexington]

I think the market is reflecting the fact that capital is fleeing equities and going somewhere. T bills, money markets, currency baskets, maybe some gold/silver, yen, real estate (its cheap now), foreign real estate, pennies on the dollar debt obligations, etc. I'm buying ammo and good wine. Cold on Swiss Francs for the moment as they seem to be selling their sovereignty to the USA for tax cheats (wouldn't it be a hoot of Geithner’s name came up!!!)

[April Lexington]

Don't hire liberals. If you have liberals on your payroll, lay them off. At the moment, liberals are not a protected class under state or Federal employment law so you can discriminate against them (but, be careful if the liberals as members of a protected class - then don't).

Also, stop advertising in liberal media. Why give them your money and support their propaganda machines. Don't do business with liberals in your town. If they vote or support Democrats, take your business elsewhere. In short... STARVE THE BEAST. It all you can do at the moment without violence (which I am against).

[odin2008]

[kamikaze2000]

Most unions could give a flying flip about their members. They would rather run a corporation into the dirt and see all of their members lose their jobs after the corporation goes bust, than give an inch. Just keep those mandatory union dues coming. Unions exist to leach off the poor slobs who just want to work and eak out a living.

[DISCO]

The Dow will go down another 500 points!

[athelass]

“We have already started to change America on behalf of working people.”

Yeah, he sure has and not for the better. He gives card check with one hand and destroys industry with the other with cap and trade. It's incredible. How can people be so easily bought off? Don't Union members watch the news?

[gwilhelm56]

**I bet Walmart is the first big target of the Union goons.**

I’ll wager that Walmart has Contingency plans to Immediately and Completely CLOSE SEVERAL STORES in a contiguous AREA, if Union Thugs start .. SNIFFING Around.

[gwilhelm56]

**Don’t hire liberals. If you have liberals on your payroll, lay them off.**

And the second round of layoffs was just after the Election. Boss went to parking lot... all cars with NOBAMA stickers were the FIRST to GO.

Amazing how much work you can get done without All that WHINING going on all the time.

[indiana_gop]

What’s the problem? Look how much the UAW has done for GM, Chrysler and Ford.

[pleikumud]

More unions equals fewer jobs, as employers leave the United States. So Obama and his fellow travelers in Congress are waging war against “working families”. The are hung up on ideology, leaving logic behind.

[April Lexington]

YESSSS!!!!!!!!

[Dionysius]

Shudder and shake — you betcha! Union leaders have managed to slay the auto industry and public education, now they’ll be spreading their contagion everywhere, down to and including the mom & pops. For ther sake of the workers (whom are pawns of their masters), I hope that Obama’s pay-backing largesse extends to pitiful handouts when these businesses collapse under the weight of forced union contracts.

[papertyger]

Go play on facebook, nOOb. You obviously can’t carry on an argument without resorting to tactics perfected by petulant little girls in grade school.

Let’s pick this back up when you can stick to the actual subject.

[papertyger]

Don't hire liberals. If you have liberals on your payroll, lay them off.

That's not going to help you if you run your business like your own personal fiefdom. Organized labor wouldn't exist if not for businesses that use something other than the quality of their product to compete.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I bet Walmart is the first big target of the Union goons.

I bet they'll close all their stores too. Obama supporters will be hit the hardest.

[papertyger]

For ther sake of the workers (whom are pawns of their masters)

Funny, it doesn't seem like that when you file a grievance, and your employer has to answer it when they would rather ignore it.

[Anti-Bubba182]

In that event I don’t think they close but, their prices would go way up and contribute to inflation that will come with all the spending.

[guitarplayer1953]

I related a story of what happened where I work, about the Nazi tactics of the union of threatening me during one contract in which I proposed a decertification of the union. And it ended up in you stating that it was my fault. That is when I asked if you had been on the union teat all your working life. Undoubtedly you work in a state that you must pay to have employment which is in direct opposition of the American way. Your response was do I still beat my wife and I asked you if you still wore your red Communist diapers because you were the one acting like a baby.