If you are a Laborer or Tradesman, Happy Labor Day and I hope you and your family enjoy the parades and recreation and amusement festivals. For the managers, business owners, professional white collar people, and other non-Laborers and Tradesmen...this holiday is not for you. Have a regular day and do your best not to oppress anyone this weekend. Especially you 5%'ers.
The holiday was created for laborers and trades workers and their families. Having a Union in the workplace doesn't necessarily get you admittance to the club. Of course, there are laborers and trades folks in government service so they would qualify. The rest are just the wannabes and oppressors.
We all know that things like 40-hour-weeks, 8-hour-days, overtime pay, vacations, safety rules, equal pay for equal work, and retirement plans were ideas originated by owners and management that they put into place because of their concern for the lives and well-being of their workers. It's a total mystery to me why we need any organization on the lower end when it's so obvious that we can trust those in control to do the right thing.
This must be what is called a preemptive strike? I haven't seen anyone degrade unions in this thread..yet. But maybe I missed it. BTW...What Union do you belong to, Union Brother?
Which resulted in GM, Chrysler, AA, Delta, California, Scranton, Jefferson County, Stockton, Wisconsin, et al, etc. and so on.
It's my thread and I just thought I'd throw that in. We have our own private little union. We're bitches to negotiate with. And since we're also the management there is no escape for either side at the end of the day.
Didn't have to wait long, did we, Stu? If these people can't manage their operations in the real world with a view toward long-term health and viability don't blame the workers. Takes both sides to make a company as well as to break one.
No one cares how many days management works. If you ask me, it should be 7. Especially this week! But if you try to oppress my Union Brothers into a 5.5 day work week, we will occupy you until you stop! Small Business Owners are just the larval form of a Corporation!!!!!
"But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning !'' ~Ebenezer Scrooge
Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka AFL-CIO boss believes the end justifies the means. Breaking the law is acceptable if it advances the cause. Unions should “forget about the law; this is about more than that,” he said at the “Future of Unions” roundtable in Detroit on April 7. Like many union leaders, occasionally the slippery Trumka pretends to like capitalism. He supports vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, not because he actually believes in them, but because his members work in industries that depend on their enforcement. Turning a blind eye to the manufacture of counterfeit machine parts could put union members out of work. But unlike most high-profile leftists, Trumka doesn’t even make an effort to conceal his radicalism. “Being called a socialist is a step up for me,” he told Bloomberg News in June. In 1994, Trumka proudly accepted the Eugene Debs Award named after the five-time presidential candidate and labor organizer who founded the Socialist Party of America. As an AFL-CIO executive, Trumka helped to create “Union Summer,” a program for training young people as organizers and political activists. Participants were made to recite a pledge called “Working Class Commitment” that included the Marxist idea “that we [union workers] produce the world’s wealth … [and] will end all oppression.” Trumka, a mine worker-cum-lawyer, admits he got involved in “the labor movement not because I wanted to negotiate wages,” but “because I saw it as a vehicle to do massive social change to include lots of people.” As he’s climbed the ranks of AFL-CIO leadership, Trumka has moved away from his modest roots. His 2011 compensation package at AFL-CIO totaled $293,750, according to LM-2 disclosure forms on file with the U.S. Department of Labor. Trumka apparently lives in a four-bathroom house assessed at $747,650 in Rockville, MD, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He helped to turn the AFL-CIO away from boosting wages and improving working conditions. Now, the labor federation focuses on recruiting government workers who benefit from higher tax rates and bigger government, a growing constituency within the Democratic Party. The federation also blackmails employers by generating adverse publicity, harassing investors, and linking arms with the media and radical activists. While at the helm of the AFL-CIO, Trumka helped repeal a longtime rule that banned Communists and fellow-travelers from leadership positions in the organization and its unions. The move to open the previously patriotic union to subversives delighted the Communist Party USA. “The radical shift in both leadership and policy is a very positive, even historic change,” CPUSA National Chairman Gus Hall said in 1996. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/matthew-vadum/union-gangsters-richard-trumka/
