Posted on 10/04/2011 4:39:47 PM PDT by mdittmar
New York area union members will join an expected several thousand labor activists and supporters tomorrow in a Wall Street march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
The grassroots-grown protest is now in its third week, with a diverse array of people from across the country camping out in the heart of the financial district to demand Wall Street is held accountable for the schemes and reckless games that led to the nation’s economic collapse.
The mostly young Occupy Wall Street protesters are “speaking for the vast majority of Americans who are frustrated by the bankers and brokers who have profited on the backs of hard working people,” says Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) President Larry Hanley.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), says Occupy Wall Street “has brought into sharp focus a reality that cannot be denied.”
Corporate greed is responsible for harming the lives of millions of working people and unemployed people.…A small group of firms, banks, and corporations now hold trillions worth of our collective wealth and assets. That money should be invested in job creation on a massive scale and used to rebuild countless lives damaged by the recklessness that caused the recession.
Over the weekend, the 800 young activists at the AFL-CIO’s Next Up Young Workers Summit in Minneapolis threw their strong support to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Wall Street symbolizes this simple truth: a small group of people have the lives and livelihoods of working Americans in their hands…. We stand together in calling for a country that doesn’t just work for the top 1 percent. We stand together to call for a sustainable future that doesn’t begin with massive tax breaks for the wealthy and end with austerity measures and a jobs crisis.
Jim Gannon, a spokesman for the Transport Workers (TWU), told the Daily Beast:
We view the protests as young people who are articulating the same kind of things that we’ve been trying to articulate… they’ve really thrown a spotlight on issues that are bothering people, especially bothering workers like our members.
Click here for more information on the action which begins at 4:30 p.m. EDT and here for a map and directions. If you are not in New York, can also click here to join the Virtual March on Wall Street from Rebuild the Dream and MoveON. Follow the action on Twitter with the hashtag #occupyWallStreet.
Time again to shut down a union plant and move it overseas. Why put up with all the horsecrap when it’s more profitable elsewhere.....
I have noticed a complete blackout on the part of the press in reporting the demands of these loons...
Thanks for coming right out and saying it...dummies.
Businesses and unions are hardly morally equivalent. Most of what businesses do lobbying has to do with keeping the government out of their business and pockets. Because the the government has become so powerful, lobbying is needed for protection. Microsoft learned this lesson through being sued on bogus anti-trust charges. (until the suit, Microsoft had no lobbyists and wasn’t “contributing” to politicians)
Because the government now dispenses so much money, many other businesses have to deal with government to stay in business. Some businesses have adapted to our increasingly fascistic economic model by becoming subsidy and rent seekers. These are typically “green businesses” and businesses that are heavily unionized. But farmers are also major government welfare recipients. Nevertheless, this is a small proportion of businesses overall.
American unions, on the other hand, have always been political and parasitic. The vast majority of American workers stayed away from unions in droves until they were forced in by FDR’s Administration through the Wagner Act. Since Taft-Hartly American workers have shown what they think of unions by leaving in mass. The only exception is in the government. There unions fit well - parasitic organizations serving parasites.
You might consider what you would do if you created a business or were in charge of one and had to face and try to hold off looting politicians and bureaucrats every day.
You just know that the GOP will not have the back bone to fight back & point out that these goons are in league with the socialist wing of the TREASON PARTY.But nobody ever accused the GOP establishment of have a spine or brains.
Martial Law on fast track
Will Ron Paul be joining them?
Then they will vote next year to re-elect the main culprit.
ACORN and the CRA are the other half of the problem, and most of the protestors probably support ACORN.
"There's a fire raging! Quick, bring more kerosene!" LOL
Have you actually noticed that these “workers” do more protesting and marching, than actual working...
Unions talking about greed LOL LOL LOL
ping for later
No.
Just like a previous generation, come next year, the “silent majority” will have its say.
I doubt it. This nation is first of all a center-right nation and is going in that direction.
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