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SourD · 10-22-2010, 01:09 PM

Can someone explain this hackery?

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The IATSE (Local 33) union fired the worker even after he explained the shirt to his bosses. The shirt didn’t explicitly support George H.W Bush but that of the aircraft carrier named after the former President and the aircraft carrier his son has served on for the past many years and is currently deployed.
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Yeah, unions are there to protect your job. LMAO. More like they are there to make sure you walk and talk the Democrat/Progressive line.

stillkit · 10-22-2010, 01:18 PM

I can't find this story anywhere else, not even on the KTLA website, which Breitbart claims interviewed the guy.

sanrene · 10-22-2010, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by stillkit

I can't find this story anywhere else, not even on the KTLA website, which Breitbart claims interviewed the guy.

Try clicking the video. The reporter is obviously from a local station - has their logo right there.

stillkit · 10-22-2010, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by sanrene

Try clicking the video. The reporter is obviously from a local station - has their logo right there.

Maybe so, but it's not on their website.

stillkit · 10-22-2010, 01:28 PM

There's nothing on the IATSE website either.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but barring some additional information from SOMEWHERE, I don't think I'll get all upset just yet because some guy claimed he was fired for that.

Avengerfire · 10-22-2010, 01:47 PM

If this is true a BIG lawsuit should be coming.

roysoldboy · 10-22-2010, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sanrene

Try clicking the video. The reporter is obviously from a local station - has their logo right there.

You can't win even if you rub their noses in the truth. Deflection is the name of their game and some are very good at it.

This story is one of the sickest ones about union crap that I can remember.

roysoldboy · 10-22-2010, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by stillkit

There's nothing on the IATSE website either.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but barring some additional information from SOMEWHERE, I don't think I'll get all upset just yet because some guy claimed he was fired for that.

Since the union wouldn't talk to the interviewer I doubt they will tell this story on their website before they make up a plausible story.

sanrene · 10-22-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by stillkit

Maybe so, but it's not on their website.

Really?

The News Blog with Eric Spillman - KTLA (http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/2010/10/man-fired-for-wearing-bush-sweatshirt-at-obama-rally.html - broken link)

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I'm not saying it didn't happen, but barring some additional information from SOMEWHERE, I don't think I'll get all upset just yet because some guy claimed he was fired for that.

Will you get upset now?

Yesssssss....the tolerance and good will of the democrats and their allies...shining through.

Face it - The union leadership is nothing but a bunch of thugs.

roysoldboy · 10-22-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Avengerfire

If this is true a BIG lawsuit should be coming.

It should be for enough to "break" that local union.