i was wondering why so many people with names like "hang progressives" and "libtards suck" were commenting on this video, then i saw it was linked to a glenn beck website. nice...
"An employer will never pay someone what they're worth" This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody forces anybody to do anything. If you don't like your job, boss, pay or working conditions, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Even the minimum wage is b.s., as I've personally regularly experienced people at McDonalds who are incapable of filling a simple order and are not worth $7 an hour.
My parents are both union lifers, I've seen both sides. Markets are more efficient.
I'm a self-employed small business owner in a field that is full of hacks doing half assed work for peanuts. I have to find a way to compete. We charge more than the competition and we still get jobs because our work is better. In any economy, there are people who are going to seek the lowest price and those who are willing to pay for quality. You have to decide, not mandate, which you are going to provide or seek.
@ IWLocal8: "When you want to get rid of your weekends, and start allowing sweatshops, and unsafe working conditions then we can talk about saying goodbye to Unions." My point, exactly. There are now laws that regulate these things ( too much). Unions exist to support the politicians and bureacrats who pitch them.
The best system is one that allows the market to work. If you're worth $50 an hour, you'll get it. If you're worth $5, you'll get that. Unions foster inefficiency and mediocrity.
@kstompaint Our Local uses over 100 years of experience to train our members. Our dues pay for it. You tell me where Ironworkers could go if we didn't have an Apprenticeship and learn how to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
An employer will never pay someone what they're worth-especially with the economy as it is today. There will always be someone desperate enough to do the job for peanuts. Now if they're not trained, just how great do you think the quality will be?
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
@mnchstr2k For one, it's spelled dElusion, and, maybe you can tell me how Union contractors can compete with nonunion contractors bidding on the same (usually smaller) job and make money?
Look up "collective bargaining". Union workers only get paid what management is willing to offer.Both sides then agree on a multi-year contract.Maybe you can come up with a worthwhile argument after you do a little research.Simple minded responses like yours are beginning to be a waste of time.
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
Unions had their place but are now antiquated and should be rendered irrelvant. Dues are paid to politicians who purchase power and brainwash the next generation to accept the development of an entilement society. The market is the best way to determine the value of anything, including labor. Make yourself worthy and you'll be compensated.
@kstompaint Unions are all for campaign reform.There's no way we can compete with the millions pumped in from corporations who make their money exploiting working folks.
Unions are for EVERYbody - not just those who belong to one.When you want to get rid of your weekends, and start allowing sweatshops, and unsafe working conditions then we can talk about saying goodbye to Unions.
I say it's great if people want to work for less pay and less benefits. Why would they want all the benefits of being in a union anyway. Then they would live better and work under better conditions. Who in their right mind would want that! Each to their own. I chose union for obvious reasons. If the non union payed more then I would would work non union. Corporate America has been very succesful in dividing the American worker. Divided we will fall, United we will stand. Like the USA.
To sit and worry over what was and how it use to be do not help our situation, stop worrying about what and pick yourself off start thinking I can and I will get a job!
Its a Union to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Employment Rights & Responsibilities to seek wisdom and knowledge that we honor the american communities
We need the unions now more than ever. The reactionary forces want to take us back to the days of the robber barons. A reminder to those who forget history, you are bound to repeat it. People today take for granted the advances we have made through our unions. Until these benefits are taken away, they will not know how they will be missed. Labor, Stand Tall!
@joansenator They're thinking feudal Europe, not robber barons.
Just look at Katrina where the rich hired Blackwater to protect their property while the poor just died. Bush stayed on vacation eating McCain's birthday cake.When that party was over, he flew over the area to take a look.
That's not what I'm teaching my kids that the US is all about.
@IWLocal8 might wanna check the LA polls overwhelmingly show Bush handled Katrina better then Obama handled ObamaSpill...and the poor died from incompetent Dems in charge ..dont rewrite history commie fuck...
@HangProgressives LOL You republican'ts want the government to keep their nose out of everyone's business, but, cry like little whining brats when the government does exactly that.
What you fail to grasp is that Katrina was a NATURAL disaster while the Gulf spill was MANMADE - due to lack of regulations that people like minded to yourself are in favor of.
Obama didn't stay on vacation eating birthday cake while the Gulf was going on.
@IWLocal8 ok commie fuck whatever you say ..fact of the matter is 10 days before ObamaSpill ..Obama's hand picked MMS head granted waivers and passes for reg violations to allow drilling...cant rewrite histor but you commie fuck try at eevry turn ..too bad "we the people" know exactly who and what you are...the cancer on America
@HangProgressives LOL That rig could have spent 500k on an automatic shutoff but when Cheney was in office, he told BP (and others) not to worry about it - even though EVERY other country where BP drills requires that safety.
@IWLocal8 LOLOLOLOLOLOL Cheney Bush Cheney Bush LOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLL your buddy ObaMao just gave Mexico a billion to drill in gulf ...yeah MEXICO...LMAO ...you worthless America hating commie fuck....
@IWLocal8 Wow-what DemoKKKrat hatred you show! LMAO
Another treasonous commie progressive insurgent lying about his service to America...what a disgrace...but you are an America hating terrorist loving commie so what else is new...
@HangProgressives Thanks for making another point-it's now the republican'ts who are spitting on the troops.Judging from the maturity level shown in your posts, I'm betting I was defending you while you were being born.
As far as hatred - anyone can scroll back and see you really are filled with delusion.
@HangProgressives Also-check out a timeline of when the US economy was it's strongest - you'll also note that it was when the US had it's largest percentage of Unionized workforce.
I helped train soldiers to fight against communists in Honduras.Aside from being ignorant on Union issues (ignorance can be fixed - it's stupidity that's hopeless) you claim that a veteran on the US never Served.You're right - that's worse than spitting.
@IWLocal8 Unions have out lived their purpose..they were once a vital part of America now they are a vital part of destroying America...and only a poser fuck would brag about his service to America...a real American would have some modesty ...that leaves your commie fucking ass out..........
Save America crush union thugs .....break all strikes and spit on the America destroying insurgents as you takeover their jobs
It always baffles me when people bash Unions but accept from their employer vacations, holidays, sick time with pay, retirement-pension or 401K whichever is applicable for them, overtime, medical benefits, time off for funerals, family medical leave, do not have to send their young children to work, short term and/or long term disability, etc... I think they should really make the Corporate world happy and not accept any of these benefits and, oh yes, do away with minimum wage and be happy.
that piece of whatever cause thats not my job... when im inspecting a building slab it is for struct. integrity... just move whatever im asking... cause im pretty sure that the slab being designed by engs. & being inspected to the most recent bldg. codes is more imp. than your union rep. saying you cannot touch that. so stop being a stupid f*ck union a hole and move it.
@dsajmr Unions breed laziness?!?! Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong.A foreman could fire a guy for just about any reason.If you don't produce-you go straight back to the Hall and someone who WILL work takes your spot.My Trade is among the top 5 as far as dangerous professions go.Without a Union, we'd be dropping like flies and/or getting paid pennies a day.
@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
get repeat business due to the fact that their product sucks !!! people that are skilled in a free market society get payed what they deserve. Now in the time of Norma Jean, unions had their relevance. In todays society they have outlast their usefulness. Unions are a leech on the back of the working man in America. In a personal responsibility, non-entitlement state people earn what they put out... not get paid twice what it would normally cost me to get the job done. tell me i cant touch
@dsajmr Don't know all of the facts. Carpenters broke away from the AFL-CIO.I'm positive he could have at least gotten a job with another contractor. Our officers are elected every 3 yrs. Garbage doesn't stay behind a desk very long. (3 yrs max.) Our Contracts are agreed upon by both the Union members AND Management. It's a win/win situation. If your dad's Union was so horrible, why did he stay in it for 16 years?! Sorry-you're lacking a LOT of facts!
Most people in unions are good, strong, law-abiding citizens, and most of them probably live their lives quite conservatively. It's the partisan thug union leadership that causes all the problems. It's really not a leftist/liberal vs. right thing among the rank-and-file, in my opinion, but power-hungry, corrupt leadership is the issue.
I bet the union members love to see their dues go to corrupt politicians and corrupt union management.
Go ahead and hire your non-union protesters, thug hypocrites. We'll stand by the sidelines watching, pointing fingers and ridiculing, but don't think the taxpayers are going to bail out your unfunded pensions stolen by your management.
@LibtardsSuck LOL Unlike big corporations, Unions VOTE for their officers. I wasn't aware of any Union protesters that were available - our Local uses our own members to banner and show up for protests.Our dues pay for our training.
You just stay on the sidelines and watch as we turn this country around.We'll even let you hop on once the lightbulb clicks on above your head and you realize that we're fighting to make YOUR life better as well.
@IWLocal8 thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
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. In addition, Trumka will also get an AFL-CIO pension equal to 60 percent of his top pay. This information came from "The Labor Educator, August 11, 2009. HOWS THAT HOPE AND CHANGE. OLE MR DICKEY IS NO BETTER THAN GOVERNMENT....Talk out of both sides of there mouth. In the end its all CRAP. Has ur salary increased 44% in 4 yrs??
If Dicky Trumpka is so worried about Union Jobs why isn't he banging down the door at the White House and DEMANDING TO get these dayum ILLEAGALS out of OUR Country. Dayum ILLeagals have put thousands of construction workers in the unemployment line.
@Lttlrvrt09 Unions aren't the ones hiring illegals.I say throw anyone who hires (and pays them pennies a day) those here illegally in jail - they're the REAL criminals.
Latest polls show that population has been decreasing...
@IWLocal8 I might agree with you on the Unions not hiriring ILLeagals, than explain why Barrys Labor Dept Head advocating to the ILLeagals they have a right to fair wages, housing, transportation etc. The real Criminals are THE DOJ, WHITEHOUSE, Dept of Labor there ultimate goal is to give amnesty to secure there votes. As far as so called latest polls ILLEAGALS pop dropping, If the poll came from a Fed Government Agency I dont beleive it. And Union HEADS CROOKS ALSO...PERIOD
Amnesty to secure votes?LMAO If that was the case the republican'ts would have been over that while Dubya was in Office.Naw, the rich like to keep peasants around to do yard work and other tasks "beneath them". Unions will do whatever it takes to build America using Americans.
I'm a Union officer and I end up losing money as a result of it - taking off of my 40 hour/wk job to attend meetings. Crooked? LOL
@IWLocal8 Yes amnesty, San Francisco begging ICE (not turning over records) to get a free pass from fingerprinted Illeagals thats arrested, DOJ going after Sheriff Apio, DOJ filing law suits against the state of Arizona, DOJ office in Houston dropping charges against ILLeagals. Its all a back door plan to give amnesty without congress approval. Mark my words the dayum Unions better watch out because if Amnesty happens your job is in jeopardy just like everyone else. And whos in charge DEMOCR ASS
@Lttlrvrt09 I've sent you three links. Please read them and get back to me.The first is one showing in 2004 where Dubya tried getting legal status for those here illegally. The other two are one showing that Obama's admin is deporting more than Bush.
I think it's a big waste of money to deport.What needs to be done is fixing the problem at the root.If there were no jobs for those here illegally, they wouldn't risk their lives getting here.
@IWLocal8 Heres the bottem line this country has had a immigration problem since Eisonhower, Reagan just escalated it faster when he granted 3 million amnesty. Now were in an erea where politicians using this as a political/re-election tool. Status numbers coming from the Federal Gov., I just dont beleive, numbers are to easy for the Feds to munipulate. I plaud you for sticking by your convictions, but think about it, you grant 10/11 million amnesty and theres going to be problems w/jobs/pay.
@Lttlrvrt09 All the more reason for Unions in order to insure that people don't get paid substandard wages, and, that training is top notch.Illegal immigration has been going on since the US was founded.Look at the first settlers, and, ask how those native to US soil feel about people being here without an invitation!
I also say put anyone who hires someone here without documents in jail.I see them as the real criminals.Fines won't work-that cost will just get passed along to the consumer.
This month 7 years ago, on a Sunday morning my wife fell to the floor. Got her to a hospital, and a dotor says she needed quadruple bypass heart surgery. Calling the boss that Monday morning, telling him my wife was about to have a quadruple bypass. He asked me if I was a Ductman or a heart surgeon and that I needed to leave and get to work. I told him staying with my wife till she comes out of recovery. So I was fired over the phone for refusing to leave. That's what union is all about.
@MrSTANDFORAMERICA Sounds like you allowed crappy officers to get elected. Sorry to hear about your wife. I'm betting that had you read your Union's bylaws, there would have been something in it to protect your job. What Union was this?
@IWLocal8 It due to the crappy rules coming down from the International. Rules like sell cards to anyone and everyone that wants one, helpers are allow to be members that are allowed in union meetings, allowed to put mostion on the floor and allowed to vote on them. Now these teenage kids has it to where the local has to put on skateboard events once a month, paintball events once a month, ect...next will be text messaging contest once a month.
@IWLocal8 There is rules in the bylaws, I took them up with the BA and BM, they said there's nothing they can do. I then went to the International, samething out of them. I then went to the court system, they refuse to even hear it due to the fact it was union.
We my wife is better, I dropped out now I'm doing better.
Man I am making a butt load of money without joining a union. A little about myself, I don't have a college degree, I taught myself everything I needed to get my job, I didn't rely on Unions to do anything for me (I didn't want to pay their percentage of my salary) I give 0% of my salary to a union. I understand that if you're not smart enough to get the best salary, best benefits, or best retirement, go join a union.
@jascraig You represent everything that is wrong with America.. Hurray for me!!! I am so full of myself I can't stand it. You think everyone's world is exactly like your is. I pitty you.
I'm not making a boatload of money, but I'm not drowning either and I'm self employed.
Years ago on the advice of a friend who is a local union leader I worked 2 days at a union job just to give it a try. Total in-efficientcy! The guy working next to me told me to get away from him, that I was making him look bad.
Unions served their purpose at the turn of the century. Now we have the Labor dept, OSHA and more watching out for the America worker,
@JoeThePoster either you were a helper or a card buyer. As for me and you being a card buyer, I would have done the samething. You'ld been pay the same scale as me and know less than a 2nd year apprentice.
It'll be the same non-union, if you get payed the same as me you'ld best know as much as me, I don't train journeyman OJT.
@petersdraggon Just like one told you, You cant defend your position so you resort to Name Calling, Isnt that straight out of the Left (DEM) Play book? As far as being a scab, no dont think so. Never have been in a union and never will, After seeing my father get screwd over thru the union I knew than not to be part of that scam. Come back and debate when you have something of substance to say. You MUST BE A SEIU PAYED BLOGGER.LOL and probley your retirement being secured with my tax dollers.
Yep the sheep are being called upon 10/2....LMAO You Union ppl better wake up and smell the Coffee....While Trumka, Butterfinger, Andy "THE SOCIALIST" Stern take your union dues and live hi off the hogg and pay there lobbyist to stay in the back pockets of politicians nothing will change for you. Those Criminals you all call leaders dont give a hoot about little ole Miss Olga the school teacher when your retirement plans go away because they spent your money maybe you will realize it.
@Lttlrvrt09 They, as I was for years, had the wool pulled over my eyes, but once I lited it up and saw through what the unions really stand for. I started to stand my ground.. didn't take long and the just force me to drop out. So far it's been the best the the union has done for me.
Republicans blocked unemployment to stop the economic recovery. They bragged last year about rejecting the stimulus 2 their states. They bragged about wanting Obama to fail. They are blocking a bill that will revile WHO is receiving foreign money ( That should be illegal anyway!) And they are blocking the bill that will stop us from paying companies money to ship jobs to CHINA. Wonder which country is giving them money to get elected? No wonder I always see lots of Asians ON CSPAN bosses!
@JoeThePoster LMAO Have you looked lately into the Gulf and seen what lack of regulation provides? How about Wall Street's lack of regulation? Just how is our economy doing today as a result of little or no RULES in place to protect the taxpayers that get charged for the mess?
Richard L. Trumka is callimng on all unions to support a one world tax as well,as the USA to be under International law.
And the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association is calling on all members to support Richard L. Trumka on his one... world aganda..is all the unions workers up to the task? Are you ready for a New World Order, a One World government?
@MrSTANDFORAMERICA George Bush Senior spoke of the New World Order over 300 times while in office, wrote NAFTA, Ronald Reagan declared amnesty for 6 million illegals at the behest of big business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce- that is a capitalist thing- to do away with all barriers and borders preventing capital to exploit workers worldwide you idiot. Go to Glen Beck's rally and wave your Chinese made American Flag and brag about what a proud American you are outsourcing America.
This is obviously not a black and white issue. The union heads have obviously been living in dreamland trying to suck every last drip off the tit of Ponzinomics and at the same time the Corporate oligarchy has destroyed the middle class by creating an OTC derivative nightmare of paper profits that shifted our great industrial machine after wwII overseas. Its all one big cluster fu*# that is going to end in Hyperinflation within 2 years and completely wipe out the lower and middle class. Truth
Remembering my Dad, my uncles, cousins, and friends. Proud union workers who were/are the backbone of this Country! Never forget those who have given their lives on the job, and never forget that UNIONS and their workers played a major part in making this Country strong, productive and powerful.
@sksepulv Proud union workers that maybe true, but the back bone of the working people of America. Far from it. Not when all unions make up less than 20% of the working force in the nation. Never forget, it was the unions that help to force companies to more over seas, due to their over pay and less work, then the governmnet over taxing. So the back bone of the nation is all the small non-union companies. And now the unions are wanting to have them all shut down.
God bless the Union workers who gave us eight hour days and the weekend. May God have mercy on all the "cheap labour conservatives" who believe that companies' needs are more important than people's needs.
@bop52465 - Hmm ya know the 'cheap labor advocates' are not just the convervatives. To say that its only the Conservatives would be a gross misjudgement. It nothing to do with party lines and labels.
@bop52465 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
I wish you had a better state and legislature. The gulf coast is 100% anti-union, and has the history and economy to prove it. Texas isn't the worst, but it's a pretty anti-labor place, and it's not hard to figure out. If you don't think Texas is owned by the same owners as big oil, you haven't looked!
It's too bad that unions are not being given credit for creating safe working environments, wages to support a family, and to reign in corporate greed.
But to all the nasty posts on here - let's not mention the multi million dollar salaries given to CEO's only to swindle the public by producing food that poisons, cars that guzzle gas, products that harm ( asbestos for one, how many medical products ? ex: Avandia ) at the expense of the American public and our environment.
@azas1949 everyone knows it was the unions that have got the unions better working environments and have used 100's of millions of union dues to lobby congress for rules that better the unions.
And I want the freedom of choice that if I want to work my way to being a multi million dollar salary CEO, and buy a gas guzzling car,truck or bass boat, that I have that choice. All at the top of the unions well have them, but yet want you to not. They get Million dollar a year retirments, I want one.
@azas1949 says, "it's too bad that unions are not being given credit for creating safe working environments, wages to support a family, and to reign in corporate greed."
Ok, you got the credit at the turn of the century and then govt stepped with a Labor Dept, OSHA and welfare. Unions are now the greedy ones.
It's sad that working class people do not understand how critical worker organizing has been and is to the standard of living, safety and security of working families in the USA and in the world. These comments about workers being the problem are so off base - did you notice who has gained and who has lost lately?- while you lose your job or your home or both - CEO s and stockholders get record profits and bonuses. Union members are the only force working to stop corporate control
@1Cathyor That's true, but that was the past, today our unions are being use to push the socialist/communist agenda. Never forget it was for-told that communism would take over America without firing a shoot, and be done through our union labor. And that was from a communist leader before you were born.
yes union open the eyes and the government to workers needs, now it's time to step aside and let all the rules put in place by the unions to work. Or it'll screw it's self up.
@JoeThePoster yes as well as he went to China to get the Unions of China and the unions of America all as one union. 3 times he went there. 1 time was to look into a 1 world money. And that's before he become president of the AFL-CIO.
It took some looking but I found how they plan there link of unions, it's through the LEET/GREEN program. China has already got theirs started, the US unions are joining into it now.
@Spudman61 I am forced to work with a bunch of non-union lazy, underpaid, under-trained alcoholic workers. No wonder they don't make any money- they are just interested in making enough to buy a 12 pack of the Beast and live off the taxpayer. Non of my union friends take one dime of taxpayer money and pay a lot into the system that makes America the best.
@petersdraggon That's what you find at every union meeting and the next morning after a union meeting you'll find at least 2 forman passed out in their trucks, sleeping off a drunk. Or them being ran out of the meeting due the ract they are drunk drunk, then they pass out in the meeting. Then if you look hard enough you'll come to find they are family members of the BA or BM of the local and bought their cards.
Their hate of the labor movement is almost - ALMOST - as great as their ignorance of the nation's history; neither of which will prevent us from standing in solidarity or celebrating Labor Day.
@petersdraggon LMAO this genius wrote " your a scab that is uneducated. No wonder the right-winger capitalists have this country so screwed." LOLOLOLOLOLOL ok we have an idiot talking trash about being educated ..but doesnt know the difference between "your" and "you're"...and he is a self proclaimed commie fuck! who hates capitalism ....another reason why commie union fucks need a round in the head...
Ahh the union propaganda campaign begins. It will be interesting to watch how much money, siphoned from worker, goes toward the union bosses political manipulations.
Unions made the American middle class. Public/Private Unions united.
Djmemez 8 months ago
i was wondering why so many people with names like "hang progressives" and "libtards suck" were commenting on this video, then i saw it was linked to a glenn beck website. nice...
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Coercive unions are criminal, and people that solicit/aid and abet/initiate them should be charged as such.
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qwertypoiu4321 1 year ago
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@cloogerdude Wishful thinking on your part troll. LMAO
IWLocal8 1 year ago
"An employer will never pay someone what they're worth" This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody forces anybody to do anything. If you don't like your job, boss, pay or working conditions, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Even the minimum wage is b.s., as I've personally regularly experienced people at McDonalds who are incapable of filling a simple order and are not worth $7 an hour.
My parents are both union lifers, I've seen both sides. Markets are more efficient.
kstompaint 1 year ago
I'm a self-employed small business owner in a field that is full of hacks doing half assed work for peanuts. I have to find a way to compete. We charge more than the competition and we still get jobs because our work is better. In any economy, there are people who are going to seek the lowest price and those who are willing to pay for quality. You have to decide, not mandate, which you are going to provide or seek.
kstompaint 1 year ago
@ IWLocal8: "When you want to get rid of your weekends, and start allowing sweatshops, and unsafe working conditions then we can talk about saying goodbye to Unions." My point, exactly. There are now laws that regulate these things ( too much). Unions exist to support the politicians and bureacrats who pitch them.
The best system is one that allows the market to work. If you're worth $50 an hour, you'll get it. If you're worth $5, you'll get that. Unions foster inefficiency and mediocrity.
kstompaint 1 year ago
@kstompaint Our Local uses over 100 years of experience to train our members. Our dues pay for it. You tell me where Ironworkers could go if we didn't have an Apprenticeship and learn how to do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
An employer will never pay someone what they're worth-especially with the economy as it is today. There will always be someone desperate enough to do the job for peanuts. Now if they're not trained, just how great do you think the quality will be?
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
mnchstr2k 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
mnchstr2k 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
mnchstr2k 1 year ago
@IWLocal8
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
mnchstr2k 1 year ago
@mnchstr2k For one, it's spelled dElusion, and, maybe you can tell me how Union contractors can compete with nonunion contractors bidding on the same (usually smaller) job and make money?
Look up "collective bargaining". Union workers only get paid what management is willing to offer.Both sides then agree on a multi-year contract.Maybe you can come up with a worthwhile argument after you do a little research.Simple minded responses like yours are beginning to be a waste of time.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8
Employers pay what the employee will accept. If an employee "thinks" he's worth more go somewhere else and find an employer who agrees with you. Employers can't "Make" someone work for them, thats called slavery and I believe it's illegal, in this country anyway. You union guys just "think" you're better and worth more, it's called Dilusion.
mnchstr2k 1 year ago
Unions had their place but are now antiquated and should be rendered irrelvant. Dues are paid to politicians who purchase power and brainwash the next generation to accept the development of an entilement society. The market is the best way to determine the value of anything, including labor. Make yourself worthy and you'll be compensated.
kstompaint 1 year ago
@kstompaint Unions are all for campaign reform.There's no way we can compete with the millions pumped in from corporations who make their money exploiting working folks.
Unions are for EVERYbody - not just those who belong to one.When you want to get rid of your weekends, and start allowing sweatshops, and unsafe working conditions then we can talk about saying goodbye to Unions.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
I say it's great if people want to work for less pay and less benefits. Why would they want all the benefits of being in a union anyway. Then they would live better and work under better conditions. Who in their right mind would want that! Each to their own. I chose union for obvious reasons. If the non union payed more then I would would work non union. Corporate America has been very succesful in dividing the American worker. Divided we will fall, United we will stand. Like the USA.
boscoduck1 1 year ago
To sit and worry over what was and how it use to be do not help our situation, stop worrying about what and pick yourself off start thinking I can and I will get a job!
barker00429 1 year ago
Its a Union to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Employment Rights & Responsibilities to seek wisdom and knowledge that we honor the american communities
DannyLovesOregon 1 year ago
Great video!
AmericansForChange 1 year ago
We need the unions now more than ever. The reactionary forces want to take us back to the days of the robber barons. A reminder to those who forget history, you are bound to repeat it. People today take for granted the advances we have made through our unions. Until these benefits are taken away, they will not know how they will be missed. Labor, Stand Tall!
joansenator 1 year ago
@joansenator They're thinking feudal Europe, not robber barons.
Just look at Katrina where the rich hired Blackwater to protect their property while the poor just died. Bush stayed on vacation eating McCain's birthday cake.When that party was over, he flew over the area to take a look.
That's not what I'm teaching my kids that the US is all about.
WE WON'T TURN BACK
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 might wanna check the LA polls overwhelmingly show Bush handled Katrina better then Obama handled ObamaSpill...and the poor died from incompetent Dems in charge ..dont rewrite history commie fuck...
Save America burn down the unions
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives LOL You republican'ts want the government to keep their nose out of everyone's business, but, cry like little whining brats when the government does exactly that.
What you fail to grasp is that Katrina was a NATURAL disaster while the Gulf spill was MANMADE - due to lack of regulations that people like minded to yourself are in favor of.
Obama didn't stay on vacation eating birthday cake while the Gulf was going on.
LMFAO
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 ok commie fuck whatever you say ..fact of the matter is 10 days before ObamaSpill ..Obama's hand picked MMS head granted waivers and passes for reg violations to allow drilling...cant rewrite histor but you commie fuck try at eevry turn ..too bad "we the people" know exactly who and what you are...the cancer on America
SAVE AMERCA BURN UNIONS TO THE GROUND
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives LOL That rig could have spent 500k on an automatic shutoff but when Cheney was in office, he told BP (and others) not to worry about it - even though EVERY other country where BP drills requires that safety.
Look how much everyone saved. LMFAO
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 LOLOLOLOLOLOL Cheney Bush Cheney Bush LOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLL your buddy ObaMao just gave Mexico a billion to drill in gulf ...yeah MEXICO...LMAO ...you worthless America hating commie fuck....
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives Wow - what republican't brilliance you show! LMAO
As far as hating America, I'm a proud vet. Guess that just shoots another silly idea out of the air.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 Wow-what DemoKKKrat hatred you show! LMAO
Another treasonous commie progressive insurgent lying about his service to America...what a disgrace...but you are an America hating terrorist loving commie so what else is new...
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives Thanks for making another point-it's now the republican'ts who are spitting on the troops.Judging from the maturity level shown in your posts, I'm betting I was defending you while you were being born.
As far as hatred - anyone can scroll back and see you really are filled with delusion.
SAD
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 sorry america hater you commie fucks have a lock on spitting on the troops...dont try and rewrite history again...
Save America Crush the Unions
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives Also-check out a timeline of when the US economy was it's strongest - you'll also note that it was when the US had it's largest percentage of Unionized workforce.
I helped train soldiers to fight against communists in Honduras.Aside from being ignorant on Union issues (ignorance can be fixed - it's stupidity that's hopeless) you claim that a veteran on the US never Served.You're right - that's worse than spitting.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 Unions have out lived their purpose..they were once a vital part of America now they are a vital part of destroying America...and only a poser fuck would brag about his service to America...a real American would have some modesty ...that leaves your commie fucking ass out..........
Save America crush union thugs .....break all strikes and spit on the America destroying insurgents as you takeover their jobs
HangProgressives 1 year ago
Text STRONGER to 225568... what? Huh? Was there a voice-over? If so, please add captions for those who can not hear. Thanks!
gramercylady 1 year ago
God bless union people. This country needs them.
rpmall 1 year ago
Yup, why would you work without a Union?
What, for less money, less safety, less protection from abuse?
I'll be with the Unions, just like my father and grandfather before me!
IBEW Local 108
VP40naha 1 year ago 4
Great video and a proud member for 26 years in local 505 and local 3!
ed642009 1 year ago
It always baffles me when people bash Unions but accept from their employer vacations, holidays, sick time with pay, retirement-pension or 401K whichever is applicable for them, overtime, medical benefits, time off for funerals, family medical leave, do not have to send their young children to work, short term and/or long term disability, etc... I think they should really make the Corporate world happy and not accept any of these benefits and, oh yes, do away with minimum wage and be happy.
kat16able 1 year ago
We Are The Unions of Todays AFL-CIO Working Together For a Stronger America! I wish that were true with the local employees also. Thanks
MsBrownImABigDeal 1 year ago
that piece of whatever cause thats not my job... when im inspecting a building slab it is for struct. integrity... just move whatever im asking... cause im pretty sure that the slab being designed by engs. & being inspected to the most recent bldg. codes is more imp. than your union rep. saying you cannot touch that. so stop being a stupid f*ck union a hole and move it.
dsajmr 1 year ago
@dsajmr Unions breed laziness?!?! Sorry, you couldn't be more wrong.A foreman could fire a guy for just about any reason.If you don't produce-you go straight back to the Hall and someone who WILL work takes your spot.My Trade is among the top 5 as far as dangerous professions go.Without a Union, we'd be dropping like flies and/or getting paid pennies a day.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
dsajmr 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
dsajmr 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
dsajmr 1 year ago
get repeat business due to the fact that their product sucks !!! people that are skilled in a free market society get payed what they deserve. Now in the time of Norma Jean, unions had their relevance. In todays society they have outlast their usefulness. Unions are a leech on the back of the working man in America. In a personal responsibility, non-entitlement state people earn what they put out... not get paid twice what it would normally cost me to get the job done. tell me i cant touch
dsajmr 1 year ago
@dsajmr You've been programmed by the great corporate society to believe that.
artiste1954 1 year ago
@dsajmr Don't know all of the facts. Carpenters broke away from the AFL-CIO.I'm positive he could have at least gotten a job with another contractor. Our officers are elected every 3 yrs. Garbage doesn't stay behind a desk very long. (3 yrs max.) Our Contracts are agreed upon by both the Union members AND Management. It's a win/win situation. If your dad's Union was so horrible, why did he stay in it for 16 years?! Sorry-you're lacking a LOT of facts!
IWLocal8 1 year ago
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sfasilver 1 year ago
Pretty good video, BTW.
Pilgrimsarbour 1 year ago
Most people in unions are good, strong, law-abiding citizens, and most of them probably live their lives quite conservatively. It's the partisan thug union leadership that causes all the problems. It's really not a leftist/liberal vs. right thing among the rank-and-file, in my opinion, but power-hungry, corrupt leadership is the issue.
Pilgrimsarbour 1 year ago
Wonderful video! Happy Labor day to all of our nation's working families!!
jakedparent 1 year ago 2
I bet the union members love to see their dues go to corrupt politicians and corrupt union management.
Go ahead and hire your non-union protesters, thug hypocrites. We'll stand by the sidelines watching, pointing fingers and ridiculing, but don't think the taxpayers are going to bail out your unfunded pensions stolen by your management.
LibtardsSuck 1 year ago
@LibtardsSuck LOL Unlike big corporations, Unions VOTE for their officers. I wasn't aware of any Union protesters that were available - our Local uses our own members to banner and show up for protests.Our dues pay for our training.
You just stay on the sidelines and watch as we turn this country around.We'll even let you hop on once the lightbulb clicks on above your head and you realize that we're fighting to make YOUR life better as well.
IWLocal8 1 year ago 6
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@IWLocal8 thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
cjus2473 1 year ago
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@IWLocal8
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
cjus2473 1 year ago
Proud to be union. Happy Labor day everyone.
keitzmann 1 year ago
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. In addition, Trumka will also get an AFL-CIO pension equal to 60 percent of his top pay. This information came from "The Labor Educator, August 11, 2009. HOWS THAT HOPE AND CHANGE. OLE MR DICKEY IS NO BETTER THAN GOVERNMENT....Talk out of both sides of there mouth. In the end its all CRAP. Has ur salary increased 44% in 4 yrs??
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
If Dicky Trumpka is so worried about Union Jobs why isn't he banging down the door at the White House and DEMANDING TO get these dayum ILLEAGALS out of OUR Country. Dayum ILLeagals have put thousands of construction workers in the unemployment line.
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 Unions aren't the ones hiring illegals.I say throw anyone who hires (and pays them pennies a day) those here illegally in jail - they're the REAL criminals.
Latest polls show that population has been decreasing...
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 I might agree with you on the Unions not hiriring ILLeagals, than explain why Barrys Labor Dept Head advocating to the ILLeagals they have a right to fair wages, housing, transportation etc. The real Criminals are THE DOJ, WHITEHOUSE, Dept of Labor there ultimate goal is to give amnesty to secure there votes. As far as so called latest polls ILLEAGALS pop dropping, If the poll came from a Fed Government Agency I dont beleive it. And Union HEADS CROOKS ALSO...PERIOD
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 Poll was from Pew - very credible.
Amnesty to secure votes?LMAO If that was the case the republican'ts would have been over that while Dubya was in Office.Naw, the rich like to keep peasants around to do yard work and other tasks "beneath them". Unions will do whatever it takes to build America using Americans.
I'm a Union officer and I end up losing money as a result of it - taking off of my 40 hour/wk job to attend meetings. Crooked? LOL
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 Yes amnesty, San Francisco begging ICE (not turning over records) to get a free pass from fingerprinted Illeagals thats arrested, DOJ going after Sheriff Apio, DOJ filing law suits against the state of Arizona, DOJ office in Houston dropping charges against ILLeagals. Its all a back door plan to give amnesty without congress approval. Mark my words the dayum Unions better watch out because if Amnesty happens your job is in jeopardy just like everyone else. And whos in charge DEMOCR ASS
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 I've sent you three links. Please read them and get back to me.The first is one showing in 2004 where Dubya tried getting legal status for those here illegally. The other two are one showing that Obama's admin is deporting more than Bush.
I think it's a big waste of money to deport.What needs to be done is fixing the problem at the root.If there were no jobs for those here illegally, they wouldn't risk their lives getting here.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 Heres the bottem line this country has had a immigration problem since Eisonhower, Reagan just escalated it faster when he granted 3 million amnesty. Now were in an erea where politicians using this as a political/re-election tool. Status numbers coming from the Federal Gov., I just dont beleive, numbers are to easy for the Feds to munipulate. I plaud you for sticking by your convictions, but think about it, you grant 10/11 million amnesty and theres going to be problems w/jobs/pay.
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 All the more reason for Unions in order to insure that people don't get paid substandard wages, and, that training is top notch.Illegal immigration has been going on since the US was founded.Look at the first settlers, and, ask how those native to US soil feel about people being here without an invitation!
I also say put anyone who hires someone here without documents in jail.I see them as the real criminals.Fines won't work-that cost will just get passed along to the consumer.
IWLocal8 1 year ago
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dsajmr 1 year ago
SAVE America burn unions to the ground
HangProgressives 1 year ago
This month 7 years ago, on a Sunday morning my wife fell to the floor. Got her to a hospital, and a dotor says she needed quadruple bypass heart surgery. Calling the boss that Monday morning, telling him my wife was about to have a quadruple bypass. He asked me if I was a Ductman or a heart surgeon and that I needed to leave and get to work. I told him staying with my wife till she comes out of recovery. So I was fired over the phone for refusing to leave. That's what union is all about.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
@MrSTANDFORAMERICA Sounds like you allowed crappy officers to get elected. Sorry to hear about your wife. I'm betting that had you read your Union's bylaws, there would have been something in it to protect your job. What Union was this?
IWLocal8 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 It due to the crappy rules coming down from the International. Rules like sell cards to anyone and everyone that wants one, helpers are allow to be members that are allowed in union meetings, allowed to put mostion on the floor and allowed to vote on them. Now these teenage kids has it to where the local has to put on skateboard events once a month, paintball events once a month, ect...next will be text messaging contest once a month.
Union: AFL-CIO/Sheetmetal Workers
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
@IWLocal8 There is rules in the bylaws, I took them up with the BA and BM, they said there's nothing they can do. I then went to the International, samething out of them. I then went to the court system, they refuse to even hear it due to the fact it was union.
We my wife is better, I dropped out now I'm doing better.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
Man I am making a butt load of money without joining a union. A little about myself, I don't have a college degree, I taught myself everything I needed to get my job, I didn't rely on Unions to do anything for me (I didn't want to pay their percentage of my salary) I give 0% of my salary to a union. I understand that if you're not smart enough to get the best salary, best benefits, or best retirement, go join a union.
jascraig 1 year ago
@jascraig You represent everything that is wrong with America.. Hurray for me!!! I am so full of myself I can't stand it. You think everyone's world is exactly like your is. I pitty you.
petersdraggon 1 year ago
@petersdraggon
You progressives and union thugs are what is wrong with America.
kangajd 1 year ago
@jascraig
I'm not making a boatload of money, but I'm not drowning either and I'm self employed.
Years ago on the advice of a friend who is a local union leader I worked 2 days at a union job just to give it a try. Total in-efficientcy! The guy working next to me told me to get away from him, that I was making him look bad.
Unions served their purpose at the turn of the century. Now we have the Labor dept, OSHA and more watching out for the America worker,
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
@JoeThePoster either you were a helper or a card buyer. As for me and you being a card buyer, I would have done the samething. You'ld been pay the same scale as me and know less than a 2nd year apprentice.
It'll be the same non-union, if you get payed the same as me you'ld best know as much as me, I don't train journeyman OJT.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
@jascraig I was once union, now that I'm not, I was able to go out and negotiate my own wages. I'm now making $3.00 over union scale.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
what a joke Trumpka, Andy Stern. STOP STEALING MY TAX MONEY JUST TO BAIL OUT YOUR UNIONS DAYUM LEGACY COST.
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 go sit in the corner and jerk off scab.
petersdraggon 1 year ago
@petersdraggon
Can't defend your position? So you insult? Yea, that'll win friends and influence people. Just keep on keepin on showing your true colors buddy
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
@petersdraggon Just like one told you, You cant defend your position so you resort to Name Calling, Isnt that straight out of the Left (DEM) Play book? As far as being a scab, no dont think so. Never have been in a union and never will, After seeing my father get screwd over thru the union I knew than not to be part of that scam. Come back and debate when you have something of substance to say. You MUST BE A SEIU PAYED BLOGGER.LOL and probley your retirement being secured with my tax dollers.
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
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Yep the sheep are being called upon 10/2....LMAO You Union ppl better wake up and smell the Coffee....While Trumka, Butterfinger, Andy "THE SOCIALIST" Stern take your union dues and live hi off the hogg and pay there lobbyist to stay in the back pockets of politicians nothing will change for you. Those Criminals you all call leaders dont give a hoot about little ole Miss Olga the school teacher when your retirement plans go away because they spent your money maybe you will realize it.
Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
@Lttlrvrt09 They, as I was for years, had the wool pulled over my eyes, but once I lited it up and saw through what the unions really stand for. I started to stand my ground.. didn't take long and the just force me to drop out. So far it's been the best the the union has done for me.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
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Lttlrvrt09 1 year ago
Republicans blocked unemployment to stop the economic recovery. They bragged last year about rejecting the stimulus 2 their states. They bragged about wanting Obama to fail. They are blocking a bill that will revile WHO is receiving foreign money ( That should be illegal anyway!) And they are blocking the bill that will stop us from paying companies money to ship jobs to CHINA. Wonder which country is giving them money to get elected? No wonder I always see lots of Asians ON CSPAN bosses!
indyman77 1 year ago
@indyman77
Simple solution, cut corporate taxes and stop over regulating and business will flourish.
The federal government has turned into America's union
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
@JoeThePoster LMAO Have you looked lately into the Gulf and seen what lack of regulation provides? How about Wall Street's lack of regulation? Just how is our economy doing today as a result of little or no RULES in place to protect the taxpayers that get charged for the mess?
IWLocal8 1 year ago
Richard L. Trumka is callimng on all unions to support a one world tax as well,as the USA to be under International law.
And the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association is calling on all members to support Richard L. Trumka on his one... world aganda..is all the unions workers up to the task? Are you ready for a New World Order, a One World government?
Keep backing and supporting the unions.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
10-2-10 the New World Order rally at Washington. payed for by Communist China and all lobor unions.
The logo is a US flag, but there's no stars for the states, but a 'N' for 'New World Order'
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
@MrSTANDFORAMERICA George Bush Senior spoke of the New World Order over 300 times while in office, wrote NAFTA, Ronald Reagan declared amnesty for 6 million illegals at the behest of big business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce- that is a capitalist thing- to do away with all barriers and borders preventing capital to exploit workers worldwide you idiot. Go to Glen Beck's rally and wave your Chinese made American Flag and brag about what a proud American you are outsourcing America.
petersdraggon 1 year ago
shouldnt they have it on May 1st?
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@HangProgressives Hang Scabbie Republicans
petersdraggon 1 year ago
It's the Mainstream Media that fools the chickens into voting for Colonel Sanders.
sarcasm---> "There goes CNN again, always explaining only LABOR'S side of the issue!"
yeah right, they never mention labor. just touts for big business.
billytheweasel 1 year ago
This is obviously not a black and white issue. The union heads have obviously been living in dreamland trying to suck every last drip off the tit of Ponzinomics and at the same time the Corporate oligarchy has destroyed the middle class by creating an OTC derivative nightmare of paper profits that shifted our great industrial machine after wwII overseas. Its all one big cluster fu*# that is going to end in Hyperinflation within 2 years and completely wipe out the lower and middle class. Truth
Ponzinomics 1 year ago
HAPPY LABOR DAY-- SEE YOU AT THE PARADE. I'LL BE THERE WITH MY FAMILY.
shawnmaestro 1 year ago
Remembering my Dad, my uncles, cousins, and friends. Proud union workers who were/are the backbone of this Country! Never forget those who have given their lives on the job, and never forget that UNIONS and their workers played a major part in making this Country strong, productive and powerful.
sksepulv 1 year ago
@sksepulv Proud union workers that maybe true, but the back bone of the working people of America. Far from it. Not when all unions make up less than 20% of the working force in the nation. Never forget, it was the unions that help to force companies to more over seas, due to their over pay and less work, then the governmnet over taxing. So the back bone of the nation is all the small non-union companies. And now the unions are wanting to have them all shut down.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
God bless the Union workers who gave us eight hour days and the weekend. May God have mercy on all the "cheap labour conservatives" who believe that companies' needs are more important than people's needs.
bop52465 1 year ago 11
@bop52465
Cheap labor conservatives? The unions are the ones pushing for comprehensive immigration reform, the illegals are the cheap labor
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
@bop52465 - Hmm ya know the 'cheap labor advocates' are not just the convervatives. To say that its only the Conservatives would be a gross misjudgement. It nothing to do with party lines and labels.
Toadessa25 1 year ago
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@bop52465 My father, a union carpenter for 16 yrs., when he was fired for personal conflict with the # 2 @ the company he worked for went to the union to get a lawyer & they looked @ him like they had never seen him before. Now im sure the union thing has worked out for you but i am vehemently anti union.. In my own experiences in the construction field working both union & non union jobs, unions breed laziness and take much more than they are worth. company's that use unskilled workers do not
dsajmr 1 year ago
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
cjus2473 1 year ago
@bop52465
thank you for all you have done...I wish Probation/Parole officers in the State of TX were unionized...we are the lowest paid, and when asked to just move us even with the Teachers, the answer was a resounding NO from our legislature...we all have college degrees, and most cannot afford to pay their student loans working at this low wage. Keeping fighting the fight; we need more unions not less in this country today.
cjus2473 1 year ago
@cjus2473
I wish you had a better state and legislature. The gulf coast is 100% anti-union, and has the history and economy to prove it. Texas isn't the worst, but it's a pretty anti-labor place, and it's not hard to figure out. If you don't think Texas is owned by the same owners as big oil, you haven't looked!
hcbflash 1 year ago
It's too bad that unions are not being given credit for creating safe working environments, wages to support a family, and to reign in corporate greed.
But to all the nasty posts on here - let's not mention the multi million dollar salaries given to CEO's only to swindle the public by producing food that poisons, cars that guzzle gas, products that harm ( asbestos for one, how many medical products ? ex: Avandia ) at the expense of the American public and our environment.
azas1949 1 year ago
@azas1949 everyone knows it was the unions that have got the unions better working environments and have used 100's of millions of union dues to lobby congress for rules that better the unions.
And I want the freedom of choice that if I want to work my way to being a multi million dollar salary CEO, and buy a gas guzzling car,truck or bass boat, that I have that choice. All at the top of the unions well have them, but yet want you to not. They get Million dollar a year retirments, I want one.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
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@azas1949 says, "it's too bad that unions are not being given credit for creating safe working environments, wages to support a family, and to reign in corporate greed."
Ok, you got the credit at the turn of the century and then govt stepped with a Labor Dept, OSHA and welfare. Unions are now the greedy ones.
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
UAW Local # 2404 Charlotte, NC Solidarity & Happy Labor Day!
MAXMAN357 1 year ago
It's sad that working class people do not understand how critical worker organizing has been and is to the standard of living, safety and security of working families in the USA and in the world. These comments about workers being the problem are so off base - did you notice who has gained and who has lost lately?- while you lose your job or your home or both - CEO s and stockholders get record profits and bonuses. Union members are the only force working to stop corporate control
1Cathyor 1 year ago
@1Cathyor That's true, but that was the past, today our unions are being use to push the socialist/communist agenda. Never forget it was for-told that communism would take over America without firing a shoot, and be done through our union labor. And that was from a communist leader before you were born.
yes union open the eyes and the government to workers needs, now it's time to step aside and let all the rules put in place by the unions to work. Or it'll screw it's self up.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
@MrSTANDFORAMERICA
example of Unions and Socialists working together
Did you see the video of AFL-CIO Richard Trumka "hanging" with the European Socialists. They just love him for giving support to a GLOBAL TAX.
Since when did America participate in GLOBAL TAXES?
JoeThePoster 1 year ago
@JoeThePoster yes as well as he went to China to get the Unions of China and the unions of America all as one union. 3 times he went there. 1 time was to look into a 1 world money. And that's before he become president of the AFL-CIO.
It took some looking but I found how they plan there link of unions, it's through the LEET/GREEN program. China has already got theirs started, the US unions are joining into it now.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
Typical of the Left - divide and conquer. Us and them. The workers vs. those rich folks that don't really work. Socialist dribble.
Spudman61 1 year ago
@Spudman61 I am forced to work with a bunch of non-union lazy, underpaid, under-trained alcoholic workers. No wonder they don't make any money- they are just interested in making enough to buy a 12 pack of the Beast and live off the taxpayer. Non of my union friends take one dime of taxpayer money and pay a lot into the system that makes America the best.
petersdraggon 1 year ago
@petersdraggon That's what you find at every union meeting and the next morning after a union meeting you'll find at least 2 forman passed out in their trucks, sleeping off a drunk. Or them being ran out of the meeting due the ract they are drunk drunk, then they pass out in the meeting. Then if you look hard enough you'll come to find they are family members of the BA or BM of the local and bought their cards.
MrSTANDFORAMERICA 1 year ago
We work to steal tax payer money.
We work to force workers into union fees or they don't get to work.
We work to gain power for ourselves and control all people thru their work
lees20022 1 year ago
/watch?v=N8IYvGyXu3U
What the AFL CIO leadership is really working for.......
shmergo 1 year ago
Labor Unions LEADERS are a Cancer sucking America Dry. Wake up Union Workers! Get some Balls and or your children will be paying for their greed!
con13069 1 year ago
Their hate of the labor movement is almost - ALMOST - as great as their ignorance of the nation's history; neither of which will prevent us from standing in solidarity or celebrating Labor Day.
local2458 1 year ago 2
@local2458 Clearly it's not the union members, it's the corrupt bosses :)
daisymom4 1 year ago
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local2458 1 year ago
Every union can go suck and every member in it until the members get some balls and tell their union puppet masters to stop ruining my country.
kangajd 1 year ago
@kangajd your a scab that is uneducated. No wonder the right-winger capitalists have this country so screwed.
petersdraggon 1 year ago
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@petersdraggon LMAO this genius wrote " your a scab that is uneducated. No wonder the right-winger capitalists have this country so screwed." LOLOLOLOLOLOL ok we have an idiot talking trash about being educated ..but doesnt know the difference between "your" and "you're"...and he is a self proclaimed commie fuck! who hates capitalism ....another reason why commie union fucks need a round in the head...
HangProgressives 1 year ago
@petersdraggon
I would rather be called a scab from a thug, than to be a thug.
kangajd 1 year ago
I don't to be a dang sheep mane. Ju know? BAAAH BAAAH! Unions suck mane. They destroy productivity mane. BAAAH BAAAH!
brian8793 1 year ago
Ahh the union propaganda campaign begins. It will be interesting to watch how much money, siphoned from worker, goes toward the union bosses political manipulations.
JDabyss 1 year ago
Thank you for bringing us the 40-hour work week and child labor laws.
flyurbansquire 1 year ago
Great video. I hope that people take the time spread the message this Labor day, workers are the backbone of this country.
keitzmann 1 year ago