Posted on 04/15/2012 3:31:03 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Damn freakin’ straight. I’ve said here for years that the Dems have sold the private sector unions down the river and conspired with union bosses and enviro groups to focus on their new union growth industry - govt workers.
Finally some of these guys hopefully are starting to wake up.
The Unions are greedy and die of free will.
What ever happened to the coal miners union? We never hear anything about the mines being shut down and those union jobs (thousands of them) eliminated.
Need to get those original “rednecks” to go agains’t Obama too.
guess I was still asleep when I read the article.......Disregard my previous posting.
Sorry but I am up pretty early due to major storm rolling through......
Wisconsin Public and Private Secotr Union Interests Diverge ping
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Although this article is “national” in scope, rather than regional (Wisconsin is not mentioned directly), it is related to the defeat of the Mining Bill that enraged Lyle balistreri to seek recall against Bob Jauch, Democrat.
I don’t know where you are, but we have our eye on the storm too. We may catch the edge of it, but I’m up early too. Stay safe.
I grew up in a family that despised unions.
I was only in my teens, but remember the story of my uncle that had a plastics molding factory on Long Island.
Union thugs in their shark-skin suits started picketing his plant.
My uncle was a small guy, but tough.
He went out to the picketers and garbed ones hand.
Looking at his palm, he shouted something to the effect of
“you G** D*** Son of a B****, you never worked a G** D*** Day in you life. Get the H*** of of my property before I beat the H*** out of you.
Union bosses are greedy, as are the very oldest members still delusional and living in the glory days.
Younger guys with families - not so much. There are opportunities to be had here.
There was`a time when the Union Worker and the Gov’t worker met parity. Clue #1
So, because Obama pissed them off they are offering themselves for sale to the Republicans?
or... did I get that wrong?
Let the Dems keep all the unions and their votes. They are part of the problem, not the solution.
Yep - typical left-wing desire for being given more than they're worth, for the least amount of effort on behalf of their employer. Like the Dim Party, they also tend to cause devastating damage to the teat that feeds them.
I wonder if there are a still enough UMWA members to matter?
Private sector unions are on the wane. The focus now is to pander to government unions by promising more and bigger government and grow the ranks of those unions to offset the shortfall in the public sector ones.
The new wedge is between government unions and taxpayers. That came to a head in WI and is heading there in other states, large and small. It's closer to home in the states.
At the federal level, where they can print money, it will take longer but it will eventually come to a head there as well.
Remember, unions come in two flavors ~ "leaders" and "members". Virtually all the "leaders" are part of the Democrat apparatus. Few of the "members" are.
I do believe the discussion is about capturing more than our usual share of "members".
It would be exciting except GOP outreach stinks.
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