Occupy Wall Streeters set sights on Sotheby's

The auction house Sotheby's has become the latest target of New York's 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters.
 
The demonstrators are showing support for striking art handlers, who say the auction house wants to cut their pay - despite reportedly selling $3billion worth of art in the first half of this year alone.

Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from New York.

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[Will224000]

@viktorhat I was a skilled worker with 36 years in my trade. I was working overtime right up to Oct.'08. The Investment Bankers ate my JOB ! Wall Street Crushed our Country and got away with a Bonu$. The PROBLEM is the parasitic Financial System. The greedy Banksters are sucking the life out of the entire World and People everywhere are waking up. I suggest you do the same.

[getplaning]

Sotheby’s abruptly cut off contract negotiations with its art handlers, demanding that they accept a 10% wage cut, caps on overtime and an end to their retirement benefits. The handlers have been locked out without pay since August 1st. Two days later, Sotheby's announced that its net income for the last quarter was up 48% from the previous year, the best quarter in Sotheby’s history. Their actions are purely ideological, and have nothing to do with shrinking margins.

[kgold70]

Sotheby's didn't make nearly as much as Obama's pet fund raiser GE (who unlike Southeby's got away with paying no taxes and sent jobs overseas). Jeffrey Immelt admits he is in the 1%. If these union thugs wanted to go after some real crooks I'd be right there with them. The fact is that these unions are the greediest fat cats of them all!

[Gizziiusa]

@Nikimar23 the majority of people just know that there are no jobs, no money coming and going around, folks losing homes, etc. they really dont care about the dynamics/workings of the high and highest ups of society and their plans. the protests/riots/etc are an effect to a cause, regardless of where it leads.

[Nikimar23]

Georg Soro's Billionaire Financier (1%) Funded Occupy Wall Street -So, what is the motive. Hmm ignite protests around the world. My prediction is that this is being staged using Hegelian tactics to impose a one world currency (Global currency) under a one world Govt or (New World Order) George Soro's was on the board for The Council for Foreign relations and is pushing for One World Govt. Why isn't anyone running with that story? Buyer Beware it's a trap.

[GL0BEmaster]

@TheTrollTime Oh, look, Freedombase has a new channel

[danielvincentkelley]

@TheTrollTime

I've never lived in a trailer.

The 2 people whose lives I've saved would disagree I should have been aborted.

I never collected any money from the government, that the government didn't first take from me, the taxpayer.

Skinhead? What!?

Oh hey look it's a douche bag zionist troll, agent of the Rothschilds.

You're a great voice for Israel. I hope your propaganda campaign continues with such wild success.

[TheMapla]

KEEP UP THE FIGHT SHOW THEM OUR MIGHT

[danielvincentkelley]

@brenda3d2 That guy probably isn't even part of the 1%. It's total disinfo. Most moderately wealthy people think they're part of the 1%. Nearly nobody are multibillionaires though. Those are the 1%, multibillionaires. You won't find them chatting on the street. That guy probably has ten million dollars or so and no clue as to how not very wealthy he is. Rich people are mostly very dumb.

[danielvincentkelley]

@TheTrollTime

Probably coming from a man who has the filth of a sewer caked to his colon. When's the last time you did an enema? That's the filth of your a$s, which has migrated into your brain and is talking for you. Keep yucking it up Koch wh*re. Justice will be upon us soon. 1 way or the other.

[danielvincentkelley]

This is AWESOME. OWS going on the road to help unions picket. Totally awesome. This should become a way of life for everybody. Find out who is getting ripped off by the billionaires, then impose justice on the situation with massive protest.