Posted on 05/20/2014 5:14:50 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A relatively small Philadelphia union has become the biggest independent source of campaign money in the state.
Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has poured $25.6 million into political races since 2000, an Inquirer analysis of campaign records found - more than statewide powerhouses such as the trial lawyers, teachers' unions, or Marcellus Shale gas drillers.
The donations, financed by members' paycheck deductions, have helped turn the local and its business manager, John J. Dougherty Jr., into a potent and even feared political force --snip-- The money Local 98 spends on politics comes entirely from members' paychecks, as a percentage of electricians' pay, which now exceeds $80 an hour (including wages, health benefits, pensions, dues, and other deductions) on standard union jobs
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The IBEW “brothahs” around here are a hoot. They have an “I’m The NRA and I Vote” bumper sticker on one end of the rear bumper of their pickup truck and an “Obama/Biden” bumper sticker on the other end. Duh? Some people just don’t “get it.”
Shocking!
Watt?
That is nice work for a tradesman, $80.00 and hour, and you don’t have to take any risks and face the challenges of being self employed or owning a business.
Interesting insight into an organized criminal enterprise. The best part is how easy it is to buy politicians these days.
Ohm my.
But with that comes the loss of freedom, the pressure to be a herd at some mortal man’s call.
Most people work for someone, in fact almost everyone does, it isn’t unusual, or bad.
You seem particularly clueless here. No wonder you hate and mischaracterize libertarians who know what actual spiritual freedom is about. “Working for someone” on an earthly plane is a jillion light years from letting them harness your soul. These IBEWians are harnessed in Satan’s harness.
Oh Jeez, the stalking again?
You came to this thread to bring up some old grudge and make up some nonsense in a personal attack?
Your post isn’t relevant to the thread, nor to my posts, nor does it even make any sense.
You keep on showing your dark fire everywhere you go. I was here before you were. But you whine and wail.
You have to end this stalking and personalizing everything, of carrying grudges for months and years, from thread to thread to thread.
The $80 buck an hour guys are those that hope to get a 40 hour week. If you work out of the Hall those 40 hour weeks are few and far between in this economy.
The real good guys are grabbed up and paid a different maintenance rate and hope to get enough hours to retire.
Unions have always been anti-republican, their voters were part of the New Deal coalition.
Even Eisenhower’s reelection of 1956 couldn’t change that.
A good word play gets no resistance from me.
We had been printers in Dublin, Anglo-Irish since 1640, and in Illinois, Iowa and Tennessee. We fought for the Union in The War Between the States.
We were Whigs before 1856 and Republicans there after, as my Aunt used to say, “Billy, we were always Republicans.”
True, but how do you rectify the situation?
It’s inductive.
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