[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Texas_Jarhead]

HAHAHAHA... hypocrites...

[theDentist]

Oh, the irony!

:-)

[Shovelhead]

It makes one want to break into an old favorite from Al Gore's earliest childhood:

"Look for the union label..."

[gcruse]

I remember a few years ago when the office secretaries for some Union Goonery had to go to court to force the union to allow them to organize. I never did hear how it came out.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ya know, it's funny - the Teamsters were the only union I ever liked being in... ;0)

They never bothered me, didn't try to indoctrinate me and my kids (unlike the SEIU did when I was in that - the whole 'Wobblies'-themed family picnic was the final straw...

[Vidalia]

Hawaii is steadily becoming a third world state thanks to the unions.

They still beat and attempt to kill scabs.

"Privatization" is worse than "nigger"...

[grundle]

http://www.paleadership.org/news/aflcio.html

From the American Spectator -- 3/14/01

www.spectator.org

America's Sweatshop -- AFL-CIO says 'do as I say, not as I do'

The AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. has been undergoing extensive
interior and exterior refurbishment over the past 18 months. And given that
it is the AFL-CIO building, you'd assume the big laborites used all-union
help.

But apparently the AFL-CIO wasn't looking for the union label as diligently
as it expects other contractors to look. On several occasions, the union has
hired non-union electrical and construction help. "Only if they couldn't
find a local union shop to do it," says an in-house source. "But it did save
us some money." If anyone knows about the high cost of union help, it's the
AFL-CIO.

[blackbart.223]

"But it has become a sour moment for other labor leaders because the Teamsters didn't use union construction workers. They were told by the Teamsters that union contractors cost too much."

A case of do as I say not as I do if there ever was one. Unions screw everyone in the long run.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***They were told by the Teamsters that union contractors cost too much. ***

Bump!

[FreedomPoster]

Ooh! This is just delicious! Bump!

[Twodees]

<> "I just can't believe the cost issue outweighed the right thing to do."

Welcome to the real world, sporty. Union BS drives costs up outrageously. A non-union restaurant equipment maker I dealt with once had orders for a large job in NYC and were required by their contract to use union made stainless steel components instead of producing them in their own shop. The problem was solved by buying decals from one of the officials of the union. $1,400.00 for decals instead of losing a little over $100,000.00 in profit doing their own fabrication was a no-brainer.

Unions cut their own throats with their corrupt practices.

[Illbay]

FUUUUUUUUUUUNNY!

[GVNR]

I spent many years in a steel mill, and was in the AFL-CIO.

What was really amazing is that when every election was coming-up you'd get a mailing from them endorsing candidates

In ALL the years I was there, there
WASN'T ONE
Republican
EVER
endorsed!

We used to say: "You mean there isn't ONE Republican that's a better choice than ALL these Democrats??"

That's the way they operate - still stuck in the 1940's, and not using one ounce of brainpower when considering who to endorse, what's more they really do expect the membership to go along with them and blindly vote "D" all the way down the line.

[Sonny M]

In a nice bit of irony, Hoffa seems to be the closest of all the unions to possibly crossing party lines and endorsing a republican. Some of the teamster leadership is bitter about the senate Alaskan Tundra (that is not a god damn wildlife refuge, its a damn ice desert) hold up. They pro immigration enviormental wing of the dem party has been stopping them on some of the things they want and asked for, and it seems some dems couldn't care less if the teamsters protested (they must think the teamster vote is like the black vote, one of those things you can take for granted). Hoffa actually endorsed Gore almost at the last minuit making his endorsement essentially worthless since he did no campainging for him. I have a close friend who is in the teamsters now, awhile back they went to some kind of AFL-CIO union thing or somthing, where Hitlery and some other liberals spoke, him and his "brothers" didn't like the leftists enviormental socialists edge the whole thing gave off. They also noticed, a sort of intellectual snobby condesending attitutde from the dems, ironically, all the other unions didn't seem to care, but alot of the teamsters did. I have a feeling that the teamsters might endorse Bush in 2004, and may be slowly splitting into both parties. Hoffa has made a big deal about making sure that things go for the teamsters best interests, not the interests of the democratic or republican party, unlike most liberal groups who couldn't care less, as long as they support a rat.