Posted on 11/24/2010 10:49:56 PM PST by Robwin
Jesse Jackson isn't the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama's progressive agenda.
In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are willing to tackle progressive CEOs just as they tackled progressive politicians. Judging by the results of the midterm elections, progressive CEOs should buckle up, because Tea Party activists are going to give them a very bumpy ride."
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>>Hopefully they won’t get “Jablonski-ed”<<
It doesn’t even need to go that far. My dad ran for Prsident of his union on NYC, back in the late 1940’s. When the votes were counted, my dad lost by 10 votes. However, there was one problem - the total votes cast exceeded the number of members by 20. A couple of calls to NLRB and FBI and the leadership were arrested, tried, convicted and deported. All of them were members of the Communist Party.
The sad part was that my dad was blackballed from working in any NYC restaurant for four years. And the FBI were regular visitors.
It doesn’t take 2 years for moles and shills like Army to crawl in for distortion of intentions.
Hmm...
Why are all those jobs in China anyway?
Why don’t we still “make clothes” here?
Why has a manufacturing base moved?
Part of that answer...a significant part of the answer has to do with UNION wages and benefits. Regulations are just the icing on the goodbye cake.
Should the Tea Party boycott Lipton? Is Tetley a preferred brand?
Could things get any worse if America outsourced its government jobs to China and India?
Bad idea. IMO, continue with political targets.
Dens are anti-corporations, not me.
This is one of the problems with the tea party.
Exactly. They are more deserving of scorn.
With a little help from public schools.
“Apparently, he’s also in favor of amnesty, according to Mchelle Malkin. He’s also the guy who bragged about censoring Tom Tancredo. “
It’s an unfortunate tendency of many free-market libertarians. Even Reagan fell for that trap. They point out the numbers looking good for business but they don’t realize that capitalism without respect for the law and our national culture is destined to fail.
Exactly.
They’re nothing but an arm of the socialist Democrat party. See: SEIU.
I’m not sure I ever heard of SEIU, until mr Obama was running for President. There is certainly no denying their presence since he became President.
“are you saying unions should be illegal? “
Best thing i’ve seen today!!!!!
Bad idea. IMO, continue with political targets.
Dems are anti-corporations, not me.
Amen, Amen, and AMEN!
Corporations, especially large ones that hire large numbers of people, are the life blood of our economy when it is run by adults.
A point not yet seen on this thread, corporations many of them are publicly owned. That is the man in the street, you and I are actually the owners. Do we boycott ourselves, and pursue a course that would be bad for us and America?
Just as there aren’t any perfect people, there aren’t any perfect corporations, but as long as they are honest and play by the rules, they help make America what she is.
The Tea party, and patriotic Americans go after individuals with Names. Individuals with names who are assisting in the destruction of our way of life, can be prosecuted for their wrongdoing.
Corporations have CEO’s, upper management, and boards of directors, who have names, and set policy, go after them with a vengeance until they get off their green horse, stop looking for government handouts, and start running the ship PROFITABLY to everyone’s advantage.
Too right. But, I’d add one extra thing to that: often it’s the whole idea of “democracy in the workplace” that’s the problem.
You cannot expect turkeys to vote for Christmas. That’s not a principle of left wing thinking OR right wing thinking, it’s just plain common sense.
Give you a “for instance”:
I know of a guy who operated an industrial machine with other people working around it when he did show up... but he started to turn up drunk EVERY DAY. His fellow workers hated him, and thought he was a liability.
Normally the solution to a situation like this would’ve been quite straightforward given both the union and the company agreed he had to go, but this guy was also a union rep.
I don’t know if the same applies in the USA, but in the UK most unions are expected to protect their own officials from the sack irrespective of the reasons for dismissal (the logic being, that if even a union official can be fired without union intervention on his behalf, there’s not much point in even having a union).
This situation was rather unusual because the company founders had been instrumental in setting up the union to begin with. As a consequence, the union supported the company as much as possible, and the company supported the union as much as possible - but they still had to preserve the appearance of being natural enemies.
One bright spark in the room suggested to ballot the members for industrial action to protect this official from “unspecified company sanction”.
As predicted, almost all the workers who’d been there for twenty years or more, many of whom followed their fathers and grandfathers into the trade, read between the lines and figured out the union needed their approval to remove him from his union post BEFORE the company could sack him. They could all see that this drunk was putting their safety at risk and he was no good at his job, so they voted the union proposal down.
But they were outnumbered by seasonal temp workers, agency workers, and contractors - who were all encouraged to join the union even if they were only working as temps. Under normal circumstances these people had no employment rights whatsoever - no sick pay, no paternity leave, no holiday entitlement, no redundancy payout. They reasoned that if they didn’t stand up for the union this one time, the union wouldn’t stand up for them.
You guessed it: The union “won” a ballot it wanted to lose and eventually the company went to the wall... and all because the turkeys wouldn’t vote for Christmas.
Can you hear us now?
Thank you. Well said.
Most of us have 401Ks and mutual funds. Why attack American business. Change what we don’t like.
Progressives hate business and I’m not going to help them tear down America.
Great news.
Many big corps supported obamacare and cap an trade.
” the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson
Nonsense. That’s just doing the Demonrats’ dirty work for them. For Heaven’s sake - they’ve been doing just that - attacking big corporations and destroying private enterprise ever since the illegitimate Little Lord Fauntleroy squatted in the people’s White House.
Please - let the Tea Party be the Tea Party and do what it does best. Don’t try to manage it..
Shop unions may be tolerable, but multi-plant or multi-industies or federations are as destructive as rogue corporations.
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