(1947-52, 1959-60) Ronald Reagan US president who was president of a "labor union".

[rdean]

Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.

FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership 'One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights'

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwN4WKhriw]Reagan Says Being In A Union Is A Basic Right - YouTube[/ame]

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Ronald Reagan was against an "illegal strike", but not against the right to bargain.

Laurence O'Donnell asked Willard supporter "Tim Pawlenty" why Romney would make a great president. Pawlenty said because he's a great businessman. Laurence said, "Name a president who had been a great businessman". Pawlenty was more stunned than Bush being told about the WTC. Then he blurted the one answer ALL Republicans cling to. "Ronald Reagan". Then both Laurence and Tim burst out laughing. Which lasted until Larry told Tim Reagan was the president of a labor union. Oops.

 

[Political Junky]

Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.

FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership 'One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights'

Reagan Says Being In A Union Is A Basic Right - YouTube

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Ronald Reagan was against an "illegal strike", but not against the right to bargain.

Laurence O'Donnell asked Willard supporter "Tim Pawlenty" why Romney would make a great president. Pawlenty said because he's a great businessman. Laurence said, "Name a president who had been a great businessman". Pawlenty was more stunned than Bush being told about the WTC. Then he blurted the one answer ALL Republicans cling to. "Ronald Reagan". Then both Laurence and Tim burst out laughing. Which lasted until Larry told Tim Reagan was the president of a labor union. Oops.

Saw that, but cons will come up with reasons why it was OK for Reagan.

 

[Zander]

RDean- I know you were dropped on your head daily growing up, and are still brain damaged, but let me explain the conservative position on UNIONS one more time.

Conservatives are not anti-union for private sector workers. We are PRO-CHOICE in that area.
We are against PUBLIC sector unions. That is the same position that FDR held, along with George Meany, and many others from the union movement. Meany said: “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”

The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”

Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized.

George Meany was not alone. Up through the 1950s, unions widely agreed that collective bargaining had no place in government.

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

R-dean, please, please get help for your brain problem. It's sad watching you come here and make a total ass of yourself day after day....

 

[rdean]

Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.

FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership 'One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights'

Reagan Says Being In A Union Is A Basic Right - YouTube

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Ronald Reagan was against an "illegal strike", but not against the right to bargain.

Laurence O'Donnell asked Willard supporter "Tim Pawlenty" why Romney would make a great president. Pawlenty said because he's a great businessman. Laurence said, "Name a president who had been a great businessman". Pawlenty was more stunned than Bush being told about the WTC. Then he blurted the one answer ALL Republicans cling to. "Ronald Reagan". Then both Laurence and Tim burst out laughing. Which lasted until Larry told Tim Reagan was the president of a labor union. Oops.

Saw that, but cons will come up with reasons why it was OK for Reagan.

I know. Can't wait.

 

[initforme]

Those who hate unions are simply anti middle class. There is such a correlation. Class warfare is alive and well and is only getting started. As a business owner of 23 years I am so against those businesses out there who pay low wages to keep an increasing profit. Sometimes you take stagnancy as a way to retain your good workers. In the end you are rewarded tenfold. But there are those who believe in paying the lowest wage according to market to increase profits. Thats a scary and unethical way of doing business.

 

[rdean]

RDean- I know you were dropped on your head daily growing up, and are still brain damaged, but let me explain the conservative position on UNIONS one more time.

Conservatives are not anti-union for private sector workers. We are PRO-CHOICE in that area.
We are against PUBLIC sector unions. That is the same position that FDR held, along with George Meany, and many others from the union movement. Meany said: “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”

The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”

Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized.

George Meany was not alone. Up through the 1950s, unions widely agreed that collective bargaining had no place in government.

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

R-dean, please, please get help for your brain problem. It's sad watching you come here and make a total ass of yourself day after day....

Yea, because Republicans have been so supportive of the auto unions.

So STFU you damned dirty shitstain.

 

[Lakhota]

Reagan sure whacked about 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981.

 

[MikeK]

Reagan was a Democrat, a union president and an actor. Not a good actor but a half-ass actor nonetheless. In other words, a faker. A pretender. But he got over like Lawrence Olivier on right-wingers, some of whom literally worship his memory.

Ronald Reagan was the man from General Electric. He was a corporate puppet and he commenced the destruction of the union movement and the ruin of the American middle class. But they still worship his memory.

 

[Mad Scientist]

R-dean, please, please get help for your brain problem. It's sad watching you come here and make a total ass of yourself day after day....

He doesn't realize that Bill Maher and Jon Stewart are comedians, and their shows should only be considered entertainment.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[rdean]

R-dean, please, please get help for your brain problem. It's sad watching you come here and make a total ass of yourself day after day....

He doesn't realize that Bill Maher and Jon Stewart are comedians, and their shows should only be considered entertainment.

And the stuff of their comedy is the Republicans.

Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[initforme]

So true. Trickle down economics surely does work. It widens the prosperity gap without a doubt. Proven true.

 

[tinydancer]

Reagan sure whacked about 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981.

In summer 1981 PATCO, the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike, violating a federal law prohibiting government unions from striking.[107]

Declaring the situation an emergency as described in the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, Reagan stated that if the air traffic controllers "do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.

They broke the law.

 

[Lakhota]

So true. Trickle down economics surely does work. It widens the prosperity gap without a doubt. Proven true.

Fine. Share some "credible" proof with us...

 

[Mad Scientist]

 

[Lakhota]

Zander apparently didn't like my trickle down picture...

 

[tinydancer]

Reagan was a Democrat, a union president and an actor. Not a good actor but a half-ass actor nonetheless. In other words, a faker. A pretender. But he got over like Lawrence Olivier on right-wingers, some of whom literally worship his memory.

Ronald Reagan was the man from General Electric. He was a corporate puppet and he commenced the destruction of the union movement and the ruin of the American middle class. But they still worship his memory.

Damn straight we do.

After four years of that left wing micro managing lunatic Jimmy Carter and gassing up on A days and B days, you bet we worship Ronnie Reagan.

Fuckin eh!!

ETA: anyone out there remember the Carter years fondly? You know, run your house at minus 100 degrees and wear sweater Jimmy Carter?

 

[del]

Reagan was a Democrat, a union president and an actor. Not a good actor but a half-ass actor nonetheless. In other words, a faker. A pretender. But he got over like Lawrence Olivier on right-wingers, some of whom literally worship his memory.

Ronald Reagan was the man from General Electric. He was a corporate puppet and he commenced the destruction of the union movement and the ruin of the American middle class. But they still worship his memory.

Damn straight we do.

After four years of that left wing micro managing lunatic Jimmy Carter and gassing up on A days and B days, you bet we worship Ronnie Reagan.

Fuckin eh!!

you got a mouse in your pocket?

 

[Big Fitz]

RDean- I know you were dropped on your head daily growing up, and are still brain damaged, but let me explain the conservative position on UNIONS one more time.

Conservatives are not anti-union for private sector workers. We are PRO-CHOICE in that area.
We are against PUBLIC sector unions. That is the same position that FDR held, along with George Meany, and many others from the union movement. Meany said: “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”

The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”

Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized.

George Meany was not alone. Up through the 1950s, unions widely agreed that collective bargaining had no place in government.

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

R-dean, please, please get help for your brain problem. It's sad watching you come here and make a total ass of yourself day after day....

Yea, because Republicans have been so supportive of the auto unions.

So STFU you damned dirty shitstain.

That was a quick meltdown even for Hairnet.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYMirWNaGY]What's the Worst That Could Happen? - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Mad Scientist]

Zander apparently didn't like my trickle down picture...

Did you like my "Hope and Change" pic? Can you guess what's a comin' next?