I was watchin Joe Biden talk to the union members today and saw an AFSCME shirt on one of them and immediately had to look it up on youtube and found this. FUCKING HILARIOUS!
Unions are shit! They don't give two shits about the people. They only care about how much money they can scam out of its members and line their pockets with.
Unions are not anything magical. They are a business that sells labour. Companies want to pay as little for labour as possible (just like any good, companies don't volunteer to overpay rent either). Unions try and sell their good for the highest price (companies don't voluntarily throw money away). They are part of the free market and not joining one is kinda silly for most people. Join a union or be an independent contractor (both are good), otherwise you are losing money.
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AFSCME: There to help decrease the productivity and accountability of your workforce! "We don't care if they are crappy employees because we don't have to pay them or work with them every day. If they were ours, we would have fired them by now!"
Bemethal, if you've put in 80 hours a week working for the government, then either you or the government are just as inefficient as we all believe. What on earth could anyone find to do for the government, besides teach, that actually creates something of value? And where I'm from the government doesn't pick up the trash fortunately, or we'd have a community disaster. By the way, I'm not anti-union, just anti-government employees unions, since these are nothing but political shills.
I don't think government employees do anything useful either, since their work can be accomplished by wishful thinking alone - no human effort necessary. If they were all fired tomorrow, nothing would change; everything would magically remain the same.
@VeryEvilPettingZoo how about you wish for a safe inexpensive drink of water; wish your house fire magically goes out without fire fighters, wish your loved one a surviving rush to ER without an EMT squad, wish for the Police Dept when you call for assistance, wish those potholes fill themselves, wish that sewage to the next block since according to you the waste water treatment plant does nothing.
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This is so disgraceful! I wonder why none of the anti-union folks didn't capitalize on this to show the true ugly face of these foul-mouthed union scums. Absolutely disgraceful...
@youngerone1 I'd be curious what the hell you do for a living. I've worked in government and I've had to put in eighty hour weeks because we're badly understaffed.
If the government and their employees, union or not, are so much more effective and efficient in getting stuff done, why in the hell are they being done away with in favor of the private sector? Gwinnett County, one of the heaviest populated counties in Georgia eliminated their Water Reading department in favor of a private contractor because the private contractor got the work done more efficiently and still do to this day. City of Atlanta still screws up using their government employees.
locust, so whe you say minorities do poorly at school across.the board that doesnt make you a racist. also, hes right about illinois. way to be an uninformed repubtard
@dunesw64 Minorities don't do poorly across the board. Asians actually do quite well and affirmative action makes it more difficult for them to get into schools because there are too many asians in college. Jews also do extremely well.
Most other minorities do very poorly in school, which is why you'll find that states with high minority populations, have the worst educational achievements in the US.
To the original point, Iowa, a right to work state, ranked number 1 in SAT scores last year.
@thegoodlocust As for him being right about Illinois, he is not, it isn't a right to work state. Additionally, as I said, Iowa, a real right to work state, ranked higher on the SATs. This is of course an unfair comparison as well, since far more states are not right to work, which increases the odds that they would be at the top - that of course is not the case.
A much better correlation is to look at states and racial demographics. Of course, I'm sure such facts are racist :).
i love that the reaction to unionized workers having good benefits is "crush the unions!" instead of "man, i should join a union." clear evidence of the middle class giving in to a narrative that is entirely against their own interests
also lol at dumb comment mudslinging on a funny video
@btoader There you go throwing the "F" bomb around, just like a mafia person. First of all, saying Indiana workers who got employment jobs got a fraction of the salary is understating how much they made. If public school teachers left their jobs and they put them in the paper at $10,000 less, people would be running to get those jobs. If anyone is squeezing out the middle class, it is public sector unions, who are squeezing out taxpayers and even private unions.
@btoader Why can't union members have a civll discussion without throwing around "F" bombs or calling people"retards?" It only makes you look worse in the public eye. Public sector unions retirement benefits are so high and they are forcing the taxpayers...the private sector workers, to have even less retirement benefits than they had before. Private workers taking the public jobs would eventually do a better job without the political distractions, so they could focus 100% on work.
@btoader One example. I'm not sure if it was the bus union or taxi union, but a private transportation group wanted to come in give people transportation if they desired it. It was more efficient and a lot of people liked it, but then the unions sued because they felt it was their turf and their rights, and the private company was limited. The customer got screwed. My private Christian school had teachers making nothing, yet kids got a better education than many area public schools.
@chretiendutroyes Talk about a misuse of scripture. Was it Christian when firefighters faked injuries or sick time and cost taxpayers millions of dollars? The Bible says plenty about earning your money...and by not allowing compensation by performance, you are preventing honesty pay.
@oldoipunk If these public teachers left their jobs for $10,000 less, I guarantee qualified teachers would swoop in and take those jobs even at the lesser pay. In Colorado, they allowed one failing public school to be exempt from union rules. They let go of every teacher but six, brought in all new teachers, and the school made dramatic improvements. As far as being Christian, forcing poor inner city, often minority kids to go to failing public schools isn't Christian.
@btoader The ones in need are inner city school kids, yet unions force kids to attend failing public schools. It is weird that minority parents sometimes support teachers unions, when they are the ones opposed to ANY type of reform with their corrupt relationship to politicians. It keeps minority kids down and is perhaps the true racism. Public sector union workers are not those in need..they make 30% more in salary and 70% more in pensions/benefits than equal work in the private sector.
@btoader lol you are such an idiot. You can't establish a causal relationship like that. Most of the right to work states are in the South with a lot of illegals and minorities in the school systems who do bad in school wherever they are.
Hell, look at California, that isn't a right to work state and has one of the worst school systems in the country for just those reasons.
This "for the kids" crap is a smokescreen. Want to fire bad teachers? Sorry, the unions won't let you.
@btoader First of all, I'm not a Republican nor have I ever been one. Second, statistics do not create "fact" - you obviously have never studied statistics (I have). Third, Illinois is not a "right to work" state like you claim and it is ranked 35th in the nation behind several right to work states like Iowa which is ranked number 9.
As for racism, I'm not surprised that you'd say I'm racist, this is what the left does when their facts and thinking are so screwed up.
This is sublime. Also, there will always be a place for unions, because the ones who hold the power will always desire a docile labor pool that they can more easily lash into serfdom. The more they control our access to money, our lives, the heavier that boot of theirs will rest on the back of our necks. We are many and they are few, but when we allow our masters to sow discord between us, we lose out. When men unionize despite their differences they become strong.
@Ty311 Great! Kill all the union workers! Then we can go back to 18-hour workdays 7 days a week!
Better idea: Kill yourself, you ungrateful fucking parasite. This country and the people who built it gave you everything and you want to piss it away because of your childish prejudices. Here's a tip: The rich bastards who are telling you every day that unions are bad do not want you to be rich too, and they know that axing unions is removing a way for us to stop them from taking our livelihoods.
@JDorsey2001 oh yeah - that makes sense - we'll go back to 18 hour work days...right.
PS: union workers, on average, make twice the income as private workers...who, exactly, are you calling "rich bastards" you stupid motherfucking lazy, union motherfucker? You people are all nothing more than a bunch of motherfucking mobsters that deserve to be gunned down in the street
@Ty311 I've never been part of a union, but I recognize how important they are to keeping the rights of workers like me safe. And funny you should talk about gunning people down, because that's what anti-union pinkertons did back in the day.
Instead of trying to drag your fellow citizens down because you're a jealous fucking crab, why don't you demand better benefits like union workers get? (Calling union workers rich is hilarious, by the way. You clearly have no idea what that means.
@JDorsey2001 facts are facts, and the statistical facts are thant union workers make twice as much as their private counterparts; the average union worker earns more in salary and benefits than their employer - period. The fact that you simply dismiss statistical fact tells me how absolutely batshit crazy insane you and your ilk are like.
Unions, then and now are nothing short of gangsters, robbing the PUBLIC blind in their absolute greed.
@Ty311 Can you go ahead and provide some proof for these "facts" you're spitting out? Because to be frank anyone who's been following this and actually knows what they're talking about would be able to back up their assertions (which is what you're doing, asserting a claim) with facts (you have not provided any facts yet).
@JDorsey2001 feel free to look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey - its all there for you to read...assuming you will...assuming you can
@Ty311 You're feigning outrage over the fact that a fucking high-powered attorney makes a couple of hundred thousand bucks a year? How is that the same as a union worker making "more in salary and benefits than their employer - period"?
The average union worker doesn't make nearly that much and you know it.
@JDorsey2001 that salary is purely his income as a leader of the AFL CIO, prior to becoming president.
and I already provided you with the a source that proves that union workers receive significantly higher salaries than nonunion, which doesn't even include their absurdly high benefits packages, which infinitely outweigh that of the private sector, as well. Obviously, you didn't bother to read the survey by the BLS
@Ty311 I read the survey, which doesn't actually prove your point. The BLS says that "compensation cost levels should not be directly compared with levels in private industry. Differences between these sectors such as variation in work activities and occupational structures... Management, professional and administrative support occupations (including teachers) account for 2/3 of the state and local government workforce compared with 2/5 of private industry".
@Ty311 I was providing an example directly from the text that contradicts your assertion, AKA using facts to make my argument. It's not "cherry-picking" to rightfully point out that the article doesn't support your point and then provide an item of proof.
If you'd like to take a look at another article that discusses this issue, can I point you to "Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years". It should be the first result if you plug the title into google.
@JDorsey2001 oh, look! how convenient - yet another study corroborating the stubborn little fact that union workers receive more compensation (often 2x) than private workers:
Google, "Wisconsin one of 41 states where public workers earn more" By USA Today (I would provide you a link, however youtube is now apparently censoring links)
@Ty311 Actually, Wisconsin state and local governments pay public employees 14.2% lower annual wages than comparable private sector employees. On an hourly basis, they earn 10.7% less in wages. College-educated employees earn on average 28% less in wages and 25% less in total compensation in the public sector than in the private sector. The only place where public workers get more than private sector workers is among those people without high school diplomas.
@JDorsey2001 ...and from the "Labor Educator - Labor's Voice for Change" newsletter (60) August 2009, regarding the Dear Leader of the AFL CIO:
"Richard Trumka increased his yearly salary by nearly $74,000—from $165,000 to $238,975— in the last four years. That amounts to a 44 percent salary increase." It has since increased to over 250,000
My favorite union story was from my hometown in Indiana. A locally owned family business had its union workers strike. They set up the picket signs and all that and then asked when the owner could talk with them. They were informed he went to Florida fishing and said to call when everyone decided to go back to work. It took about three weeks and everyone went back to work, the owner came home and negotiated a new contract with the union. He told them the next time he would just shut down.
Unions own. Without them you'd see even more fuckery and less regulations to keep workers safe. Electrician was the most dangerous line of work until unions came along. People would pay for their own tools and not have training and die all the time working on your lines for peanuts.
@Makron5 Actually, the IBEW systematically opposes safety regulations in collective bargaining agreements with private electric utilities. But keep on repeating what you think is true.
When some big wig tries to fuckin push you around and tries to strong arm you behind closed doors. THAT is when unions can be good for the little man. Unions are obviously wasteful but when you have some upper crust shit for brains tryin to muscle you, that's when it would be nice to say fuck you go talk to my union boss.
the fucking unions are destroying this country. Fuck all the union pees in Wisconsin. Unions are destroying this country. Why do we have to pay a guy 35 dollars an hour to do a menial task. Fuck unions they are all socialist organizations and we need to get rid of every last union in the country. Go move to Russia you fucking union workers. Fuck off unions and all the union members.
I'm a fan of child labor, 18-hour days, no weekends, no sickdays or vacation, no workplace safety regulations whatsoever, and dollar-an-hour wages too! Fuck those union commies!
Go learn something about your own history, moron, because without unions we'd be living with at ALL of those things.
@aewester this isn't 1600 anymore you stupid motherfucker. Feel free to let me know what a union worker did for me today, other than destroy the country
@Ty311 What i'm saying is that what a union does for you TODAY is let you live in a society where you don't make a dollar an hour. They keep industry standards higher for EVERYONE, even your ignorant ass. And try 1930, not 1600. You should stop listening to rich conservatives who lie to you to keep all their money and their power.
@aewester still waiting to know what value the union has today... I don't give a flying fuck about nostalgiac reminiscence of days gone by - they don't matter anymore, and niether does the union. 2/3rds of the this country do not support the unions, Trumka makes a quarter of a million dollars per year, and union members make twice that of the private sector, 90% of Obozo's admin have not paid taxes for 2009, 70% of the 'middle class' are right of center, while 70% of the most rich are Libtards
@btoader Firstly, a corporation belongs to its owner, not a union worker. Don't like the conditions? Don't work there. And no, most Americans do NOT support what the mobster unions are doing today, acting like nothing more than gangsters. Unions have single-handedly collapsed American Industry and the education system. If money in does not equate to money out, it simply doesn't work - how hard is it for greedy union mobsters to understand? Unions are more powerful than ever-fact
@btoader furthermore, unions have more political influence than people who work in the White House - there are cabinet members who haven't even received a phone call from Obozo in 2 years, while AFLCIO mobster boss, Trumka, who makes a 250 grand a year, by the way, talk with the president on a daily basis. There are toll booth operators who make a six figure salary, including benefits...there are teachers in California who molest children, still get paid, and cannot be fired thanks to unions
@btoader why would I respond to anything in your lat post - there was no substance to it, you motherfucking idiot...just like any other rant from a left wing union goon thug. I am surprised you can even read and type
@btoader typical - you cannot counter the facts I provided you, so you resort to debating semantics...and outright lying. I never claimed companies were owned by a singlular "individual,' but rather the ownership body, of which the employee, union or non union is NOT a part of.
Oh, and feel free to look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics NAtional Compensation Survey - its all there for you to read... even though your literacy and cognitive capacity is highly debatable
I don't need you, you fucking over paid douche bag. I drink bottled water. Take your fucking union and shove it so far up your ass you start spouting union rhetoric. Put that in your fucking pipe and smoke it.
@scollar2725 Most bottled water comes from the same municipal sources as tap water, so not only do you suffer from aspergers, you're a foolish troll who's paying twice for the same water.
@spampy106 I'm not so sure you hold the appropriate credentials to diagnose him with Aspergers sir...btw I have water jugs that I fill up at my grocery store...5 gallons for 2 bucks BIG DEAL
@scollar2725 Do you also manage your own waste, stop traffic for your kids to cross the road safely, and pave your own roads? Also, these people don't really make much money; just normal, middle-class wages. Would you rather have them live in poverty?
Also, this video is a joke. You're not supposed to take it seriously...
Never forget: Republicans from the office of current House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made this as a joke because they think unions are inherently evil, and that people like you and me don't matter.
@GasparLewis The video was made many years before someone in Eric Cantor's office e-mailed it out when asked about pressure from a union. Nice try though.
@dadever Really? I mean obviously the footage and backing music is decades old, but I was under the impression the over-dub was done by one of his staffers. If that's older than 2009 too as well then my mistake. Still, either way, using it as a response to union ad pressure, even as a joke, smacks of at least a tendency to caricature, if not outright demonize.
@GasparLewis They're not that creative. :-) There was a comment on here (years ago) from someone who claimed his dad (I think.. some family member) had a copy along with some other members of their local. Apparently the guys all got a kick out of it. Not sure I want to go back through 900 comments to find it. The video was posted here on youtube in 2007, though.
Times like these are exactly why we NEED unions. Otherwise, we would be a country of filthy-rich princes and virtual slaves. I wish my union had the balls to tell it like it is.
@zeropulser And then you'd have a revolution like the one you are seeing in Egypt. It's high time the filthy rich start hiring people, don't you think!?
If you need a union to prevent your employer from getting rid of you and replacing you with a monkey then you just fail at life. Get some real skills that can't be replaced by a monkey.
Your union salary comes at the expense of other peoples hard work.
If the union workers salary comes at the expense of anyone, it's the CEO that thinks he deserves to make 500-700 times what the average guy on the floor makes. You need to need to open a history book for once in your life instead of letting Beck spoon feed you revisionist propaganda.
@MishuTaste Let me tell you something. A CEO getting a $5,000,000 bonus check, despite a 4th quarter LOSS for his company, is a salary that's at the expense of other people's hard work---especially those that invested their hard-earned savings in the company. Oh by the way, people with "real skills" & college degrees are still getting laid off from their jobs because some 7 figure income dickless wonder doesn't know how to run a company.
Sounds as if it were the original commercial. HahahhhHaa
osbely 1 week ago
I'm actually in this union lol
TuxedoKnox 1 month ago 3
Hilarious!
"Amalgamated...F-federaliza...hey, I don't know what the f*ck it means..."
SaintDufus 1 month ago
Comedy gold. I'm spotting.
whennessy 1 month ago
I wish I could Double like this!
hardyharhar9 1 month ago
Union solidarity from the UK.
mikeyfranklin101 2 months ago 5
This is great.
ajoman1999 2 months ago
@zisel2 As opposed to @GohModley, who is an American idiot.
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I'm Union. I've got a sense of humor. I love it!
dukevoice1 4 months ago 4
typical union thugs
HomleandSecurity 4 months ago
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AFSCME3299SD 4 months ago
Unions are about 1) having better working conditions for workers and 2) for workers to share more of the profits of a business.
pete95035 4 months ago 5
I was watchin Joe Biden talk to the union members today and saw an AFSCME shirt on one of them and immediately had to look it up on youtube and found this. FUCKING HILARIOUS!
sirscrotum 4 months ago
Unions are shit! They don't give two shits about the people. They only care about how much money they can scam out of its members and line their pockets with.
awhitsel 4 months ago
@awhitsel yeah...40 dollars a month union dues...wooooow....even if its 80 dollars...WOOOOOOW
MrJdvance 2 months ago
@awhitsel
Bullshit
johntrauger68 1 month ago
Unions are not anything magical. They are a business that sells labour. Companies want to pay as little for labour as possible (just like any good, companies don't volunteer to overpay rent either). Unions try and sell their good for the highest price (companies don't voluntarily throw money away). They are part of the free market and not joining one is kinda silly for most people. Join a union or be an independent contractor (both are good), otherwise you are losing money.
LiberInterdico 4 months ago 2
lol the ascent is what makes it, pick up your cabbage lol
Two01BMX 5 months ago 2
I watched this fu*kin video 20+ times today and laugh my ass off every fu*kin time!!
niter1cbs 5 months ago 14
@niter1cbs LOL I watched it 4 times myself ... It is righteous!
ReligionIsSophistry 4 months ago
This actually WAS a commercial back in the 70s. AFSCME was pushing this as an "awareness" ad so people knew they actually existed.
jdcunnington 5 months ago
Could be, but a union closed down my last company. I hate 'em.
utxdoni 6 months ago
@utxdoni how did a union close your last company?
ajd1211 5 months ago
How about be glad you have a fucking job?
BADBRYZ 6 months ago
The fact he sounds like he runs the Mafia just makes it even better
HitmanJenkins1 6 months ago
I wish commercials on TV were actually like this
Jennybean55 8 months ago 22
@Jennybean55 hahahahah me too, I might actually watch TV if they were!
ReligionIsSophistry 4 months ago
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AFSCME: There to help decrease the productivity and accountability of your workforce! "We don't care if they are crappy employees because we don't have to pay them or work with them every day. If they were ours, we would have fired them by now!"
Heffe1980 9 months ago
Too funny. Too real.
oatnoid 10 months ago 3
"Annogomated,...federalazat-,....'ey 'ey I dunno whut da fuck it means!"
jice12 10 months ago 3
This is the reasoned argument I think on the same subject:
Social mobility is a dead end
Our society relies on working-class jobs – dangling a narrow ladder for moving up is a diversion from tackling inequality
Owen Jones
Guardian, Tuesday 1 March 2011 13.30 GMT
(google it)
Equality (in a broader sense than sex, race, disability etc.) is the issue essentially.
thehumancondition100 10 months ago
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6 governments or a monkey, who works harder. Sorry I have to apologize to the monkeys again! The union promote mediocrity and corruption. F Them!
rickmonique 10 months ago
@rickmonique You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, and please leave your regressive bullshit out of here
Quabzor 10 months ago 2
TOO much profanity!!!!! and this is my union!!!!!
TheSuperdumbass01 10 months ago
*argues about unions*
Attakijing 10 months ago
@Attakijing
*ignores your arguments and enjoys the lulz*
grausammesser 10 months ago
Bemethal, if you've put in 80 hours a week working for the government, then either you or the government are just as inefficient as we all believe. What on earth could anyone find to do for the government, besides teach, that actually creates something of value? And where I'm from the government doesn't pick up the trash fortunately, or we'd have a community disaster. By the way, I'm not anti-union, just anti-government employees unions, since these are nothing but political shills.
dglskelly 10 months ago
@dglskelly
I don't think government employees do anything useful either, since their work can be accomplished by wishful thinking alone - no human effort necessary. If they were all fired tomorrow, nothing would change; everything would magically remain the same.
VeryEvilPettingZoo 10 months ago
@VeryEvilPettingZoo how about you wish for a safe inexpensive drink of water; wish your house fire magically goes out without fire fighters, wish your loved one a surviving rush to ER without an EMT squad, wish for the Police Dept when you call for assistance, wish those potholes fill themselves, wish that sewage to the next block since according to you the waste water treatment plant does nothing.
the432152 10 months ago 5
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I was being sarcastic, since dgslkelly's comment was so ridiculous.
VeryEvilPettingZoo 10 months ago
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This is so disgraceful! I wonder why none of the anti-union folks didn't capitalize on this to show the true ugly face of these foul-mouthed union scums. Absolutely disgraceful...
Prophet4YAHWEH 10 months ago
@Prophet4YAHWEH Um... Because this was a parody put together by anti-union folks.
Bemethal 10 months ago
@Bemethal Are you sure about that? I thought it was made by union folks.
OK, I get it, it was dubbed, right? LOL!!! Still very funny.
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@Prophet4YAHWEH - you're dumber than dirt.
friedcheese12 10 months ago
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The AFSCME, protecting the jobs of America's least productive citizens since 1932!!!
youngerone1 10 months ago
@youngerone1 I'd be curious what the hell you do for a living. I've worked in government and I've had to put in eighty hour weeks because we're badly understaffed.
Bemethal 10 months ago
If the government and their employees, union or not, are so much more effective and efficient in getting stuff done, why in the hell are they being done away with in favor of the private sector? Gwinnett County, one of the heaviest populated counties in Georgia eliminated their Water Reading department in favor of a private contractor because the private contractor got the work done more efficiently and still do to this day. City of Atlanta still screws up using their government employees.
Vanakatherock 10 months ago
locust, so whe you say minorities do poorly at school across.the board that doesnt make you a racist. also, hes right about illinois. way to be an uninformed repubtard
dunesw64 11 months ago
@dunesw64 Minorities don't do poorly across the board. Asians actually do quite well and affirmative action makes it more difficult for them to get into schools because there are too many asians in college. Jews also do extremely well.
Most other minorities do very poorly in school, which is why you'll find that states with high minority populations, have the worst educational achievements in the US.
To the original point, Iowa, a right to work state, ranked number 1 in SAT scores last year.
thegoodlocust 11 months ago
@thegoodlocust As for him being right about Illinois, he is not, it isn't a right to work state. Additionally, as I said, Iowa, a real right to work state, ranked higher on the SATs. This is of course an unfair comparison as well, since far more states are not right to work, which increases the odds that they would be at the top - that of course is not the case.
A much better correlation is to look at states and racial demographics. Of course, I'm sure such facts are racist :).
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dunesw64 11 months ago
Take a look at Wisconsin. They don't take shit from nobody!
cugamer 11 months ago 5
@cugamer And OHIO! We don't take shit from nobody neither! AFSCME VICTORY!
Tracymmo 2 months ago 8
So f'n great, this video! I'm pro-union, all the way!
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dunesw64 11 months ago
i love that the reaction to unionized workers having good benefits is "crush the unions!" instead of "man, i should join a union." clear evidence of the middle class giving in to a narrative that is entirely against their own interests
also lol at dumb comment mudslinging on a funny video
zisel2 11 months ago 28
@zisel2 Go back to Russia you Commie asswipe.
GohModley 3 months ago
@GohModley i'm american idiot
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dunesw64 11 months ago
PUBLIC Sector Unions are the new mafia...at taxpayers expense.
ace8842 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader There you go throwing the "F" bomb around, just like a mafia person. First of all, saying Indiana workers who got employment jobs got a fraction of the salary is understating how much they made. If public school teachers left their jobs and they put them in the paper at $10,000 less, people would be running to get those jobs. If anyone is squeezing out the middle class, it is public sector unions, who are squeezing out taxpayers and even private unions.
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader Why can't union members have a civll discussion without throwing around "F" bombs or calling people"retards?" It only makes you look worse in the public eye. Public sector unions retirement benefits are so high and they are forcing the taxpayers...the private sector workers, to have even less retirement benefits than they had before. Private workers taking the public jobs would eventually do a better job without the political distractions, so they could focus 100% on work.
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader One example. I'm not sure if it was the bus union or taxi union, but a private transportation group wanted to come in give people transportation if they desired it. It was more efficient and a lot of people liked it, but then the unions sued because they felt it was their turf and their rights, and the private company was limited. The customer got screwed. My private Christian school had teachers making nothing, yet kids got a better education than many area public schools.
ace8842 11 months ago
@ace8842 so you are all for punishing teachers by giving them less money?
Nice, very christian of you!
oldoipunk 11 months ago
@oldoipunk
It seems that 1 Timothy 5:18 didn't make it into Bible 2.0.
chretiendutroyes 11 months ago
@chretiendutroyes Talk about a misuse of scripture. Was it Christian when firefighters faked injuries or sick time and cost taxpayers millions of dollars? The Bible says plenty about earning your money...and by not allowing compensation by performance, you are preventing honesty pay.
ace8842 11 months ago
@oldoipunk If these public teachers left their jobs for $10,000 less, I guarantee qualified teachers would swoop in and take those jobs even at the lesser pay. In Colorado, they allowed one failing public school to be exempt from union rules. They let go of every teacher but six, brought in all new teachers, and the school made dramatic improvements. As far as being Christian, forcing poor inner city, often minority kids to go to failing public schools isn't Christian.
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btoader 11 months ago 2
@btoader The ones in need are inner city school kids, yet unions force kids to attend failing public schools. It is weird that minority parents sometimes support teachers unions, when they are the ones opposed to ANY type of reform with their corrupt relationship to politicians. It keeps minority kids down and is perhaps the true racism. Public sector union workers are not those in need..they make 30% more in salary and 70% more in pensions/benefits than equal work in the private sector.
ace8842 11 months ago
@ace8842 Any more Fox news talking points you want to spew here?
cugamer 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader lol you are such an idiot. You can't establish a causal relationship like that. Most of the right to work states are in the South with a lot of illegals and minorities in the school systems who do bad in school wherever they are.
Hell, look at California, that isn't a right to work state and has one of the worst school systems in the country for just those reasons.
This "for the kids" crap is a smokescreen. Want to fire bad teachers? Sorry, the unions won't let you.
thegoodlocust 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader First of all, I'm not a Republican nor have I ever been one. Second, statistics do not create "fact" - you obviously have never studied statistics (I have). Third, Illinois is not a "right to work" state like you claim and it is ranked 35th in the nation behind several right to work states like Iowa which is ranked number 9.
As for racism, I'm not surprised that you'd say I'm racist, this is what the left does when their facts and thinking are so screwed up.
Are you done now idiot?
thegoodlocust 11 months ago
The Information Technology Union of America, ITUA, is coming.
Strength in numbers for a better tomorrow.
mccarric 11 months ago
90 people drink piss from water fountains.
HenrockCav47 11 months ago
god this is so funny.
nkdmansam 11 months ago
This is sublime. Also, there will always be a place for unions, because the ones who hold the power will always desire a docile labor pool that they can more easily lash into serfdom. The more they control our access to money, our lives, the heavier that boot of theirs will rest on the back of our necks. We are many and they are few, but when we allow our masters to sow discord between us, we lose out. When men unionize despite their differences they become strong.
maglorsrevenge 11 months ago
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This makes me want to shove a union worker down a flight of stairs more than ever.
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 Great! Kill all the union workers! Then we can go back to 18-hour workdays 7 days a week!
Better idea: Kill yourself, you ungrateful fucking parasite. This country and the people who built it gave you everything and you want to piss it away because of your childish prejudices. Here's a tip: The rich bastards who are telling you every day that unions are bad do not want you to be rich too, and they know that axing unions is removing a way for us to stop them from taking our livelihoods.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago 15
@JDorsey2001 oh yeah - that makes sense - we'll go back to 18 hour work days...right.
PS: union workers, on average, make twice the income as private workers...who, exactly, are you calling "rich bastards" you stupid motherfucking lazy, union motherfucker? You people are all nothing more than a bunch of motherfucking mobsters that deserve to be gunned down in the street
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 I've never been part of a union, but I recognize how important they are to keeping the rights of workers like me safe. And funny you should talk about gunning people down, because that's what anti-union pinkertons did back in the day.
Instead of trying to drag your fellow citizens down because you're a jealous fucking crab, why don't you demand better benefits like union workers get? (Calling union workers rich is hilarious, by the way. You clearly have no idea what that means.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago 2
@JDorsey2001 facts are facts, and the statistical facts are thant union workers make twice as much as their private counterparts; the average union worker earns more in salary and benefits than their employer - period. The fact that you simply dismiss statistical fact tells me how absolutely batshit crazy insane you and your ilk are like.
Unions, then and now are nothing short of gangsters, robbing the PUBLIC blind in their absolute greed.
ps Trumka makes a quarter million dollars a year
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 Can you go ahead and provide some proof for these "facts" you're spitting out? Because to be frank anyone who's been following this and actually knows what they're talking about would be able to back up their assertions (which is what you're doing, asserting a claim) with facts (you have not provided any facts yet).
Show us some numbers or stop lying.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago
@JDorsey2001 feel free to look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey - its all there for you to read...assuming you will...assuming you can
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 You're feigning outrage over the fact that a fucking high-powered attorney makes a couple of hundred thousand bucks a year? How is that the same as a union worker making "more in salary and benefits than their employer - period"?
The average union worker doesn't make nearly that much and you know it.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago
@JDorsey2001 that salary is purely his income as a leader of the AFL CIO, prior to becoming president.
and I already provided you with the a source that proves that union workers receive significantly higher salaries than nonunion, which doesn't even include their absurdly high benefits packages, which infinitely outweigh that of the private sector, as well. Obviously, you didn't bother to read the survey by the BLS
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 I read the survey, which doesn't actually prove your point. The BLS says that "compensation cost levels should not be directly compared with levels in private industry. Differences between these sectors such as variation in work activities and occupational structures... Management, professional and administrative support occupations (including teachers) account for 2/3 of the state and local government workforce compared with 2/5 of private industry".
Don't put words in others' mouths.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago
@JDorsey2001 ...or perhaps you should stop cherry picking miniscule sentences in order to turn your nose from an entire study...
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 I was providing an example directly from the text that contradicts your assertion, AKA using facts to make my argument. It's not "cherry-picking" to rightfully point out that the article doesn't support your point and then provide an item of proof.
If you'd like to take a look at another article that discusses this issue, can I point you to "Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years". It should be the first result if you plug the title into google.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago
@JDorsey2001 oh, look! how convenient - yet another study corroborating the stubborn little fact that union workers receive more compensation (often 2x) than private workers:
Google, "Wisconsin one of 41 states where public workers earn more" By USA Today (I would provide you a link, however youtube is now apparently censoring links)
ho hum
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 Actually, Wisconsin state and local governments pay public employees 14.2% lower annual wages than comparable private sector employees. On an hourly basis, they earn 10.7% less in wages. College-educated employees earn on average 28% less in wages and 25% less in total compensation in the public sector than in the private sector. The only place where public workers get more than private sector workers is among those people without high school diplomas.
JDorsey2001 11 months ago 5
@Ty311 of course they make more, they don't let corporations shit all over them.
AAL 10 months ago 3
@JDorsey2001 ...and from the "Labor Educator - Labor's Voice for Change" newsletter (60) August 2009, regarding the Dear Leader of the AFL CIO:
"Richard Trumka increased his yearly salary by nearly $74,000—from $165,000 to $238,975— in the last four years. That amounts to a 44 percent salary increase." It has since increased to over 250,000
Ty311 11 months ago
Is the original version of this PSA available anywhere?
jhillst 11 months ago
My favorite union story was from my hometown in Indiana. A locally owned family business had its union workers strike. They set up the picket signs and all that and then asked when the owner could talk with them. They were informed he went to Florida fishing and said to call when everyone decided to go back to work. It took about three weeks and everyone went back to work, the owner came home and negotiated a new contract with the union. He told them the next time he would just shut down.
mdcpa 11 months ago
AFSCME should start running this. People will join up!
Zajuts149 11 months ago 3
Unions own. Without them you'd see even more fuckery and less regulations to keep workers safe. Electrician was the most dangerous line of work until unions came along. People would pay for their own tools and not have training and die all the time working on your lines for peanuts.
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@Makron5 Actually, the IBEW systematically opposes safety regulations in collective bargaining agreements with private electric utilities. But keep on repeating what you think is true.
blender1250 11 months ago
I'm pro-union and I approve this message.
shadyjohnson1 11 months ago 73
I see that ninety assholes want to give shit to the unions.
mesafish 11 months ago 2
When some big wig tries to fuckin push you around and tries to strong arm you behind closed doors. THAT is when unions can be good for the little man. Unions are obviously wasteful but when you have some upper crust shit for brains tryin to muscle you, that's when it would be nice to say fuck you go talk to my union boss.
Kchap311 11 months ago 4
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the fucking unions are destroying this country. Fuck all the union pees in Wisconsin. Unions are destroying this country. Why do we have to pay a guy 35 dollars an hour to do a menial task. Fuck unions they are all socialist organizations and we need to get rid of every last union in the country. Go move to Russia you fucking union workers. Fuck off unions and all the union members.
scollar2725 11 months ago
@scollar2725 Yeah, you're fuckin right!
I'm a fan of child labor, 18-hour days, no weekends, no sickdays or vacation, no workplace safety regulations whatsoever, and dollar-an-hour wages too! Fuck those union commies!
Go learn something about your own history, moron, because without unions we'd be living with at ALL of those things.
aewester 11 months ago 5
@aewester Most unions have run their course.
kidyubyub 11 months ago
@aewester this isn't 1600 anymore you stupid motherfucker. Feel free to let me know what a union worker did for me today, other than destroy the country
Ty311 11 months ago
@Ty311 What i'm saying is that what a union does for you TODAY is let you live in a society where you don't make a dollar an hour. They keep industry standards higher for EVERYONE, even your ignorant ass. And try 1930, not 1600. You should stop listening to rich conservatives who lie to you to keep all their money and their power.
And who's a stupid motherfucker?
aewester 11 months ago 4
@aewester still waiting to know what value the union has today... I don't give a flying fuck about nostalgiac reminiscence of days gone by - they don't matter anymore, and niether does the union. 2/3rds of the this country do not support the unions, Trumka makes a quarter of a million dollars per year, and union members make twice that of the private sector, 90% of Obozo's admin have not paid taxes for 2009, 70% of the 'middle class' are right of center, while 70% of the most rich are Libtards
Ty311 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader Firstly, a corporation belongs to its owner, not a union worker. Don't like the conditions? Don't work there. And no, most Americans do NOT support what the mobster unions are doing today, acting like nothing more than gangsters. Unions have single-handedly collapsed American Industry and the education system. If money in does not equate to money out, it simply doesn't work - how hard is it for greedy union mobsters to understand? Unions are more powerful than ever-fact
Ty311 11 months ago
@btoader furthermore, unions have more political influence than people who work in the White House - there are cabinet members who haven't even received a phone call from Obozo in 2 years, while AFLCIO mobster boss, Trumka, who makes a 250 grand a year, by the way, talk with the president on a daily basis. There are toll booth operators who make a six figure salary, including benefits...there are teachers in California who molest children, still get paid, and cannot be fired thanks to unions
Ty311 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader like a typical liberal idiot, when you cannot continue to argue with basic fact, you resort to name-calling
Ty311 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader why would I respond to anything in your lat post - there was no substance to it, you motherfucking idiot...just like any other rant from a left wing union goon thug. I am surprised you can even read and type
Ty311 11 months ago
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btoader 11 months ago
@btoader typical - you cannot counter the facts I provided you, so you resort to debating semantics...and outright lying. I never claimed companies were owned by a singlular "individual,' but rather the ownership body, of which the employee, union or non union is NOT a part of.
Oh, and feel free to look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics NAtional Compensation Survey - its all there for you to read... even though your literacy and cognitive capacity is highly debatable
Ty311 11 months ago
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dunesw64 11 months ago
@Ty311 check out all the wrong things in this here youtube comment
zisel2 11 months ago
@scollar2725 have fun drinkin' piss from the fuckin' water fountains, you fuckin' assssshole.
spampy106 11 months ago 31
I don't need you, you fucking over paid douche bag. I drink bottled water. Take your fucking union and shove it so far up your ass you start spouting union rhetoric. Put that in your fucking pipe and smoke it.
scollar2725 11 months ago
@scollar2725 Most bottled water comes from the same municipal sources as tap water, so not only do you suffer from aspergers, you're a foolish troll who's paying twice for the same water.
spampy106 11 months ago
@spampy106 I'm not so sure you hold the appropriate credentials to diagnose him with Aspergers sir...btw I have water jugs that I fill up at my grocery store...5 gallons for 2 bucks BIG DEAL
hada0602 11 months ago
@scollar2725 Do you also manage your own waste, stop traffic for your kids to cross the road safely, and pave your own roads? Also, these people don't really make much money; just normal, middle-class wages. Would you rather have them live in poverty?
Also, this video is a joke. You're not supposed to take it seriously...
ektrules 10 months ago 3
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa
victorgrigas 11 months ago 2
@victorgrigas
Glad you enjoyed it
doctortay 11 months ago
Please tell me that's the voice of a young Marty Beil!
TheKinchdedalus 11 months ago
I hope this goes viral for the sake of the public employees of Wisconsin who are fighting for their rights.
aariew 11 months ago 7
@aariew Their rights to what, exactly? Certainly not the "right the work" for their fellow citizens who are not union members.
dadever 11 months ago
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Unions suck.
adventuregirl76 11 months ago
Never forget: Republicans from the office of current House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made this as a joke because they think unions are inherently evil, and that people like you and me don't matter.
GasparLewis 11 months ago
@GasparLewis The video was made many years before someone in Eric Cantor's office e-mailed it out when asked about pressure from a union. Nice try though.
dadever 11 months ago
@dadever Really? I mean obviously the footage and backing music is decades old, but I was under the impression the over-dub was done by one of his staffers. If that's older than 2009 too as well then my mistake. Still, either way, using it as a response to union ad pressure, even as a joke, smacks of at least a tendency to caricature, if not outright demonize.
GasparLewis 11 months ago
@GasparLewis They're not that creative. :-) There was a comment on here (years ago) from someone who claimed his dad (I think.. some family member) had a copy along with some other members of their local. Apparently the guys all got a kick out of it. Not sure I want to go back through 900 comments to find it. The video was posted here on youtube in 2007, though.
dadever 11 months ago 2
@GasparLewis Well, it backfired, because the guy's right no matter how many swear words he throws in. This is why right-wingers shouldn't try satire.
llaardvargk 11 months ago
Look for the Union Label
TeeTommyBee 11 months ago
This is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I can't believe this exists.
SirHatchporch 11 months ago 4
this stuff cheers me up everyday:D
communistfun 1 year ago 2
87 people sit around with their finger up their asses
E11evenz11 1 year ago
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87 people sit around with their finger up their ass
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E11evenz11 1 year ago
hey I don't know what the fuck it means!
plank25 1 year ago
Instead of sitting there with your finger up your ass, look around....
Bigtime1998 1 year ago
Aaaaaaaaaa haaaa hahaha I actually work for an AFSCME chapter in Illinois! I wish our leaders had this attitude!
MrSuperHendog 1 year ago 3
The fuckin' union that works for you!
E11evenz11 1 year ago 3
Sweet. This makes me want to join a union.
genYprogressive 1 year ago 31
Homeland, idk this video makes me want to be a union member...
You got that, asshole? lol
BertyRussell 1 year ago 3
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This is why we don't want Union Thugs in America
HomleandSecurity 1 year ago
@HomleandSecurity fuck that we're forming a fucking union. you got that asshole?
analogmedium 1 year ago 3
Okay, I want to join this union!
Gaharia 1 year ago 8
Top 10 on you-tube
cavjock07 1 year ago 3
hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ThePatriotinPA 1 year ago 2
Times like these are exactly why we NEED unions. Otherwise, we would be a country of filthy-rich princes and virtual slaves. I wish my union had the balls to tell it like it is.
FirewaterAgain 1 year ago 9
@FirewaterAgain If your union did you would be out of a job like everyone else.
zeropulser 1 year ago
@zeropulser And then you'd have a revolution like the one you are seeing in Egypt. It's high time the filthy rich start hiring people, don't you think!?
FirewaterAgain 1 year ago
omg i achieved full ROFL with this video. i can't believe i had never seen this before. tooo goddamn funny man
finalimpact 1 year ago 2
i phwukin lwuv dis shit
resellworld 1 year ago
The accent just seals the deal
Fohacidal 1 year ago 5
lol
scooped13 1 year ago
THIS is the greatest thing.
shakerson 1 year ago 2
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"Let's try to drum up support with cheap vulgarity and insulting the people we're trying to reach!"
"BRILLIANT!!"
ReverendSyn 1 year ago
"AFSCME...the amalgamated federaliza dah dah...oh I don't know what the fuck it means."
eprobe1 1 year ago 3
W/o my union salary, I'd be living in a tent and bathing in the river.
MishuTaste 1 year ago 5
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@MishuTaste
If you need a union to prevent your employer from getting rid of you and replacing you with a monkey then you just fail at life. Get some real skills that can't be replaced by a monkey.
Your union salary comes at the expense of other peoples hard work.
zeropulser 1 year ago
@zeropulser
If the union workers salary comes at the expense of anyone, it's the CEO that thinks he deserves to make 500-700 times what the average guy on the floor makes. You need to need to open a history book for once in your life instead of letting Beck spoon feed you revisionist propaganda.
chaszmyr 1 year ago 10
@MishuTaste Let me tell you something. A CEO getting a $5,000,000 bonus check, despite a 4th quarter LOSS for his company, is a salary that's at the expense of other people's hard work---especially those that invested their hard-earned savings in the company. Oh by the way, people with "real skills" & college degrees are still getting laid off from their jobs because some 7 figure income dickless wonder doesn't know how to run a company.
MishuTaste 1 year ago 62
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@MishuTaste LAZY UNION SCUM GO LIVE IN GREECE
biggerturtle 1 year ago