Leader Pelosi on GOP Bill to Deny Workers' Rights

[judyleasugar97]

Thank God there are a few people left in Congress like Pelosi who stands up for the middle class.

[JOHNBRANSKI100]

WHAT A TERRIBLE OLD HAG HELL BENT ON TURNING THE U.S INTO A COMMUNIST STATE.

[judyleasugar97]

And it would be a whole lot worse without unions.

[JamesJoyce12]

One sticks one’s finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls?

[judyleasugar97]

Without unions we would have had no middle class. Unions set the stage for fair pay, benefits and job safety in the rest of the industries. They are not perfect, but absolutely necessary. Most people have no idea just how bad life would get without unions.

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

@judyleasugar97 Life is pretty bad in GREECE, MICHIGAN, & CALIFORNIA.

[BuckandRider]

Nancy continues to buy votes for her Democratic party by giving out more entitlements to unions. It is not fair to taxpayers. Labor unions should be viewed as a violation of Anti-trust because it is a monopoly on labor. FDR's fears have come true. Public sector unions elect the people who pay them, then get kickbacks from them. That is highly immoral.

[judyleasugar97]

Nancy continues to fight for middle class families.

[Shellshock1918]

politicians should be barred from saying the word "families".

[HabitatRestoration]

Contact your Congressperson and demand that they oppose HR3094. Workers deserve a fair process for choosing union representation. Corporate uberlords are hearing the drumbeat. After fifty years of labor decline, Unions are organizing and winning elections. This is a desperate measure to nip this labor resurgence in the bud. Stop the bastards. Make your voice heard.

[cjw14621]

What middle class? I am just a $ or 2 from poverty level!

[profaneoneohone]

Thanks, Nancy! A market without worker's rights is fun for the 1 percent, totally sucks for the 99 percent.

[CommonSenseCap]

Per the description, how does having unions strengthen small businesses?

-Common Sense Capitalism

[fishskicanoe]

@CommonSenseCap Because people making $7.50 an hour at Walmart can't afford to give small businesses any trade. Higher wages spread out over a larger demographic leads to more economic growth and opportunity than Reagonomic concentration of wealth geared to the upper classes. We've tried supply side, laissez faire capitalism for the last 30 years.

It does not work.

[CommonSenseCap]

@fishskicanoe If you think you are working for a depressed wage, go find a job that pays what you think is fair. If Walmart is the best you can get, you need to look at your skill sets and education, not the system. I for self responsibility before collectivism.

[judyleasugar97]

@CommonSenseCap: A fifth of the population are unable to find this elusive good job you're talking about. Maybe because the jobs have been shipped overseas by greedy corporations. That's what you should be looking into.

[CommonSenseCap]

@judyleasugar97 Many of the unemployed I talk to are in uncomfortable situations, but between their side jobs for cash and unemployment checks, they can't afford to take jobs at this time. Maybe that's something Rep. Pelosi should be looking into.

[judyleasugar97]

@CommonSenseCap: Can't afford to take what jobs? McDonalds? Greeters at Walmart? Who can live on that?

[CommonSenseCap]

@judyleasugar97 Again, look at your skills. I lost 2 jobs in this recession and turned out fine. I found and was hired based on my skills. If you don't have the right skills for the economy, or you can't properly market yourself, then yes, McDonald's is as good as it gets. You aren't "entitled" to a job, you have to go out and get it.

[fishskicanoe]

@CommonSenseCap I make a very good wage as a union printer, thank you. "Collectivism" works well for me and did for America for 40 years, bringing down the gap between the rich and the middle to its lowest point in history by the 1970's. Then we got Reagan and the return to the neo-classical capitalist class war of the the late 19th and early 20th century. So now we have a ruling class rolling in money and a working class unable to buy stuff from small businessmen. Your ideology is failing.

[CommonSenseCap]

@fishskicanoe Last I recalled, we had double digit inflation and interest rates before Ronald Reagan. Americans spent any increases in wages on consumer goods. Small businesses in my community are full and doing fine. Of course, I live in a community that has 5% unemployment and a conservative economic philosophy. How's the unemployment in that blue state? Your union shop hiring?

[fishskicanoe]

@CommonSenseCap And Paul Volcker, not Reagan was the one who controlled it. It was also Paul Volcker who tried to stop the deregulation of the banks and was over ridden by the dumb s**** who believed in supply side economics. And yes, our Union shop is hiring, one of the few places in a State which elected a Repug governor and has seen its unemployment rate increase by half a percent. But he's going to be recalled soon... so there is that. Your ideology is dead.

[CommonSenseCap]

@fishskicanoe Where's the website to apply? I got a friend that's a printer looking for work.

[judyleasugar97]

For people who think we don't need unions, I would suggest reading about the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911 in which workers were forced to choose between burning to death or leaping to their death because the factory owners hadn't provided a fire exit.

[OhioDemocrat]

Without Unions Americans will be working for pennies in the next few years.

[Phalinex]

It doesn't matter what the current economic conditions are republicans have the same agenda. Use Americas credit to borrow and use the money to enrich their owners, big oil, the Koch's and the Murdock's.

They're not going to pass a bill that will improve economic conditions or reduce the deficit because their willing to hurt Americans so they can blame the president for their corporate sponsored destruction of the middle class.