Posted on 07/26/2016 7:35:42 AM PDT by rktman
National union leaders made the case Monday for why Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is a better choice over Republican nominee Donald Trump.
National unions have overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton with many warning Trump would be disastrous for worker rights. The AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the National Education Association, AFSCME, among others within the labor movement voiced their support for her at the the Democratic National Convention.
We need a president that wants to raise wages instead of one that thinks wages are too high and doesnt even think there should be a federal minimum wage, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry told the crowd of party voters and delegates. Thats why were supporting Hillary Clinton.
Henry and her union have been vocal supporters of the $15 minimum wage. Clinton has been far less clear about her stance on the policy. She originally said the federal minimum wage should not exceed $12 an hour but supported states that choose to go higher. Clinton later said that she meant the $12 mark as a step towards eventually reaching $15 an hour.
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‘Big’ Labor isn’t so ‘big’ any more.
Looks like they would realize that, sooner or later.......................
I’m sure the union bosses like ‘trumpka’ and his ilk are really, really suffering. :)
More chants for more union extortion. Keep raising wages - keep driving business OUT OF THE USA. It will continue to happen as long as RATS are in control and pandering to unions for votes and power in exchange for catastrophic wages and taxes.
Thats not big labor, its big government unions.
Tools.
The leadership supports Hillary, the rank and file support Trump.
“My Hometown”
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
In ‘65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown
Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more
They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I’m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown
And there is no way on God’s green earth the filthy government unions should even exist.
Talk about communism and welfare parasites.
Big Labor is easy to defeat. One must simply separate the union bosses from the rank and file. Just as with our dear leaders in DC, the Union Bosses have little in common or have little concern for those that they are supposed to represent.
“My Little Town”
SIMON & GARFUNKEL
In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps His eye on us all
And He used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord I recall
My little town
Coming home after school
Flying my bike past the gates
Of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging our shirts
In the dirty breeze
And after it rains
There’s a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It’s not that the colors aren’t there
It’s just imagination they lack
Everything’s the same
Back in my little town
In my little town
I never meant nothin’
I was Just my father’s son
Saving my money
Dreaming of glory
Twitching like a finger
On the trigger of a gun
Leaving nothing but the dead and dying
Back in my little town
Labor showing its appreciation to the DemocRATS for all the jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline.
Oh, wait . . .
“Allentown”
BILLY JOEL
Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it’s getting very hard to stay
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coal
And chromium steel
And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face
Well I’m living here in Allentown
And it’s hard to keep a good man down
But I won’t be getting up today
And it’s getting very hard to stay
And we’re living here in Allentown
The Democrats have lost large numbers of rank n file union members this election cycle. They see the light.
Frankly Scarlett I didn’t think they “made the case” at all. If you are into lies, distortion, and deception, well they made a case. They do love minimum wage. What an oxymoron.
1. Congress passes a law making it illegal for any worker being paid with government funds, to organize or be part of a union
2. Current government union workers go out on strike
3. Eliminate those jobs
Result: Hundreds of billions saved yearly
Let me guess: “Becuz she SUPPORTS DA UNIONS”
Trump for President.
Yeah, I guess I musta missed that part in the constitution too. Probably right next to the clause about health care and abortions.
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