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Post by jdredd on Mar 7, 2014 17:28:37 GMT -5
So Democrat Governor Cuomo has come out against Democrat Mayor De Blasio (why do I care what happens in NYC? I don't know) shutting down charter schools. As I said before, schools are probably destined to be privatized, so whatever, if that's what Gen X and Millennials want. Not my problem.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2014 4:19:32 GMT -5
Well Companies better hire armed guards with shoot to kill the Union thugs who threatens employers and employees and family! I say kill the commie basperson union slugs! If I was working for a company as long I have a gun permit! If being attacked I will not hesitate to put a bullet right between their eyes! Sicko Union thugs threatens workers children!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 8, 2014 6:02:03 GMT -5
Well Companies better hire armed guards with shoot to kill the Union thugs who threatens employers and employees and family! I say kill the commie basperson union slugs! If I was working for a company as long I have a gun permit! If being attacked I will not hesitate to put a bullet right between their eyes! Sicko Union thugs threatens workers children!Oh I think your generation and your children's will be almost Union-free' to whatever consequences that will entail. As far as I can tell, the cohesion that encouraged workers to come together has faded in the last decades, apparently replaced with worker's cohesion with their employers. So be it.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 23, 2014 4:21:40 GMT -5
Perhaps the question is not really "Do we still need Unions?", but whether Unions still work or not. I can think of a couple of reasons they no longer do. The first I mentioned already, that the hyper-individualism of our era discourages workers organizing. Another reason might be that Unions were built around actions that are not acceptable to our middle-class values: Stopping work, interfering with the operation of businesses, sometimes doing things that are unlawful including violence, and a willingness to make sacrifices for a cause that may even include jail time. Probably all relics of a bygone era, for good or ill.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 27, 2014 13:37:25 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/thomas-piketty-capitalism21stcentury.html"Most people have come to associate capitalism with the advent of modern political democracy, on the theory that the growth of the market freed feudal minds and bodies. But while it’s true that capitalism’s productive power — new wealth from trade and investment, urbanization, advances in communications — made this democracy possible, the actual implementation of democratic reforms happened in spite of, not because of, capitalists themselves. As many modern scholars have argued, the roots of democratization were in the organized working class. Though workers needed the assistance of a host of allies from throughout society to triumph, these popular coalitions fought against yesterday’s oligarchs to secure suffrage and push for the social protections we take for granted today. Democratic reforms were foisted on resistant elites, from the English and French revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries on to the struggles of the last. The results were by no means absolute — formal equality in the form of “one person, one vote” has never resembled anything close to actual equality — but these were major victories for ordinary people. Elites are just as keen today as they were then to exclude others from the political process. The billionaire Koch brothers, who have funded many conservative and libertarian political causes, are little more than more banally dressed mirror images of the great estate holders and factory owners of the Industrial Revolution. They have the same compulsion to accumulate profits at the expense of their employees, and they’d like to do so with as few regulations in their way as possible. Lucky for them, with the near disappearance of the international socialist movement and the organized working class in the past decades, the path has been opened for an anti-democratic counterrevolution of sorts." This Thomas Piketty guy has been getting a lot of press. Unfortunately I'm not sure he has any solutions to the problem of inequality. As I said in a previous post, in this age of Ultra-Individualism I suspect that workers organizing is no longer a possibility. Also unfortunately, it may take some form of economic or environmental apocalypse to bring down the status quo. In the meanwhile, all we can do is the Robin Hood thing: Steal from the rich.
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Post by Turk on Apr 30, 2014 0:14:49 GMT -5
My favorite thread. I love simplicity. Do We Still Need Unions? NO
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Post by jdredd on May 2, 2014 0:53:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/krugman-the-piketty-panic.html?src=rechp&_r=0“Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren’t. And conservatives are terrified. Thus James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute warns in National Review that Mr. Piketty’s work must be refuted, because otherwise it “will spread among the clerisy and reshape the political economic landscape on which all future policy battles will be waged.” Well, good luck with that. The really striking thing about the debate so far is that the right seems unable to mount any kind of substantive counterattack to Mr. Piketty’s thesis. Instead, the response has been all about name-calling — in particular, claims that Mr. Piketty is a Marxist, and so is anyone who considers inequality of income and wealth an important issue."
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Post by jdredd on May 2, 2014 1:00:45 GMT -5
My favorite thread. I love simplicity. Do We Still Need Unions? NO You are right in a way. We don't need organizations that are no longer effective. Unions may be past their prime, but the problems that created them are still with us, waiting to explode again in new forms.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 15, 2014 17:00:37 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/health/texas-ebola-nurses-union-claims/index.html?hpt=hp_t1"Why did the group of nurses go to the nursing union, if they're not members? According to DeMoro, a number of nurses were upset after authorities appeared to put some of the blame on Pham when she became ill. "This nurse was being blamed for not following protocols that did not exist. ... The nurses in that hospital were very angry, and they decided to contact us," DeMoro said. The nurses are worried that conditions at the hospital "may lead to infection of other nurses and patients," Burger added." Those wacky Unions, always worrying about safety. How are American hospitals going to compete in the global market if they have to worry about trivia like worker safety?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 27, 2014 14:11:52 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/newswidget/police-turn-backs-on/2014/12/27/id/615187/?Dkt_nbr=EB8D-1&nmx_source=Nationalreview-Conservative&nmx_medium=widget&nmx_content=135&nmx_campaign=widgetphase2"Hundreds of officers standing outside the rch where a funeral is being held for a New York City policeman killed in an ambush shooting have turned their backs on the mayor as he spoke during the service. The reaction Saturday follows comments from police union officials who said Mayor Bill de Blasio contributed to a climate of mistrust toward police amid anti-police protests. Inside the rch at Officer Rafael Ramos' funeral, mourners gave de Blasio polite applause before and after his speech. The mayor said hearts citywide were aching after the shootings that left Ramos and his partner dead. The police union president and others turned their backs on the mayor in a sign of disrespect at the hospital after the Dec. 20 shooting. Lynch blamed de Blasio then for the officers' deaths and said he had blood on his hands." Here's a union you rightoids can love.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 4, 2015 14:59:00 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/2/lebanese-domesticworkersorganizetoreformlaborcode.html"Lebanon could become the first Arab state to allow migrant domestic workers into a labor union if the country’s labor ministry approves a proposal submitted by the National Federation of Labor Unions. The ministry announced on Monday that it had received the proposal, and that it was studying whether Lebanese labor law protects the right of migrant domestic workers to be in a union. An estimated 200,000 migrant laborers are employed as domestic workers in Lebanon, according to a May 2014 report by the human rights group Anti-Slavery. Those workers, many of whom are Nepalese, are routinely subject to abusive practices that range from “non-payment of wages and no time off to forced and bonded labor and servitude,” according to the report. Of the employers surveyed by Anti-Slavery, fewer than 20 percent allowed their domestic workers to take a day off and leave the house. The domestic workers seeking union recognition want to force a change to the kafala system, a labor law regime employed throughout much of the Arab world. Under the kafala system, migrant laborers require a sponsor to remain in the country, typically their employer. The arrangement leaves migrant workers almost wholly dependent on their employers because if they try to leave their jobs, they lose their legal status. Millions of migrant workers across the Middle East are employed under the kafala system and similar laws." Maybe in America employer-employee relationships are so lovey-dovey we no longer need unions, but in some parts of the world unions could only be an improvement.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 28, 2015 2:52:40 GMT -5
reason.com/blog/2015/01/25/andrew-cuomo-rebukes-teachers-unions-don"The fact that this fiery anti-union tirade passed the lips of a blue state Democrat tells you everything you need to know about just how thoroughly teacher's unions have alienated many of their natural political allies. And this isn't merely some quirk of New York politics, as the same thing has happened on a local scale in numerous cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Democratic politicians everywhere are more willing to take on teachers unions than ever before. I suspect that's because they recognize the long-term unsustainability of this alliance. Teachers unions have continued to extort delusional concessions from lawmakers and taxpayers, even as their leaders' antics grow more distracting and hateful. Their demands are so unreasonable, so out of step with the very moderate package of school reforms that a growing consensus of politicians on the left and right now support, even people like Cuomo and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg—who are not exactly friends of libertarianism—can't help but object to the shrill divisiveness of Michael Mulgrew, Karen Lewis, Steven Cook, etc." Here's an issue I believe the right thinks it can divide the Democratic coalition with, and maybe they can. I will remake some points I have made in the past: 1. Unions are not out to make friends. If they are not making enemies of the right people, they are not doing their job. 2. From where I sit, survival of Unions is more important than the survival of the Democratic Party, and if labor issues unravel the Party, so be it. Labor will continue to fight for it's interests no matter what.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 7, 2015 18:59:42 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/us/wisconsin-closer-to-becoming-a-right-to-work-state.html?ref=politics&_r=0"MADISON, Wis. — The State Assembly on Friday approved legislation barring unions from requiring workers to pay the equivalent of dues, leaving Wisconsin poised to become the 25th state with what advocates describe as a right-to-work law. Gov. Scott Walker, who said before he was re-elected to a second term in November that he did not expect right-to-work legislation to be taken up this session, has since said that he will sign the measure within days. The move was expected to burnish Mr. Walker’s image as a conservative willing to take on unions as he flirts with a run for the Republican nomination for president." Once again, while the right continues to stick it to Unions, they want us all to join their senseless War on Islam. Are you buying it, Millennials? Not that I think for a minute you won't.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 9:16:01 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/us/wisconsin-closer-to-becoming-a-right-to-work-state.html?ref=politics&_r=0"MADISON, Wis. — The State Assembly on Friday approved legislation barring unions from requiring workers to pay the equivalent of dues, leaving Wisconsin poised to become the 25th state with what advocates describe as a right-to-work law. Gov. Scott Walker, who said before he was re-elected to a second term in November that he did not expect right-to-work legislation to be taken up this session, has since said that he will sign the measure within days. The move was expected to burnish Mr. Walker’s image as a conservative willing to take on unions as he flirts with a run for the Republican nomination for president." Once again, while the right continues to stick it to Unions, they want us all to join their senseless War on Islam. Are you buying it, Millennials? Not that I think for a minute you won't. Nope! Its not the Right! It's the People who gave the scum unions the Shaft! Bye Bye you thieving Union Scums! You did this to yourself!
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