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Right!! And then children under the age of twelve can again work 12-16 hours a day in sweat shops. Women can be locked in at their work stations so they can burn to death in fires! Bosses can again harass workers as they have no recourse. That bad old Department of Labor can be shut down!
Some people need to take a look at just why the unions were formed and how they helped to form the middle class here in the U.S.
Yeah right. So tell us why the majority of businesses are not unionized and none of those things go on there. Care to explain how this osmosis of unionization keeps non unionized companies from enslaving their people?
Yeah right. So tell us why the majority of businesses are not unionized and none of those things go on there. Care to explain how this osmosis of unionization keeps non unionized companies from enslaving their people?
Ever hear of the Dept. of Labor? Child labor laws? Do you think that someone just pulled those out of their backend? These practices are currently out of date in THIS country largely because of unions. But, let's keep on shelling out big tax breaks to conglomerates that move their manufacturing to countries that allow their people to be misused.
Throw in bringing back "separate, but equal" No environmental control, people living in mass poverty, 80-100 hour work weeks, absolutely no benefits,..That is the ultra right's utopia.
All you need is anti-abortion laws, mandatory church attendance and a handful of rich white men running everything and there you go.
This law is ridiculous. Can we stop bailing out bankers and demonizing hard working ordinary Americans? Spoiled, greedy, thieving creeps like Donald Trump and Lloyd Blankenfield are the real menace, not the local second grade teacher.
Throw in bringing back "separate, but equal" No environmental control, people living in mass poverty, 80-100 hour work weeks, absolutely no benefits,..That is the ultra right's utopia.
Who was it that was posting recently about the ridiculous right wing lies? Have a mirror?
The kids are already covered by 3 meals at school thanks to Michelle Obama. Of course, if teacher's unions choose to force school shut downs by striking while under contract it is the unionized public employees hurting the children.
Way to go unions, target the children and force them to lose school meals funded by the taxpayer by striking! Winning the Future the Obama/Trumpka way, union thugs.
Hey, if you choose not to work, why should the public pay to feed you. This is a VOLUNTARY decision on your part, and does not mean I have to support you.
Hey, if you choose not to work, why should the public pay to feed you. This is a VOLUNTARY decision on your part, and does not mean I have to support you.
In most cases there are plenty of people that would be happy to take these jobs. The employer should be free to hire them during a strike.
Ever hear of the Dept. of Labor? Child labor laws? Do you think that someone just pulled those out of their backend? These practices are currently out of date in THIS country largely because of unions. But, let's keep on shelling out big tax breaks to conglomerates that move their manufacturing to countries that allow their people to be misused.
You can thank the Peogressives for that. That is their baby. So you think that if unions were gone that the Dept. of Labor and all the labor laws will be gone too?
If you are a Union Worker and you are required to strike, you can apply for "foodstamps" as you would would have no income until the strike is settled. This legislation would make it impossible to recieve said "foodstamps". As striking union members do have jobs, (temporarily displaced workers) it is temporary.
Right!! And then children under the age of twelve can again work 12-16 hours a day in sweat shops. Women can be locked in at their work stations so they can burn to death in fires! Bosses can again harass workers as they have no recourse. That bad old Department of Labor can be shut down!
Some people need to take a look at just why the unions were formed and how they helped to form the middle class here in the U.S.
No one is ignoring the impact in history of the union.
Just as one gives acknowledgment to the the pony
express
Some people need to look at why public unions
don't serve the interests of ALL it's taxpaying citizens.
And quit pandering to the myth
of "middle class". It really doesn't exist today
as it did in the 1950's. Too many demographic variables
to say what makes one "middle class in 2011".
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