Hey Unions: Welcome to Politics

[Lumpy 1]

I recall as a teenager walking through a General Motors Plant where my father was the General Manager. It was 5 1/2 hours into the work day and I asked him why most everyone wasn't working and just kinda sitting around. He told me that they had finished their union quota of work for the day and all they had to do was stay in their work area until it was time to go home.

In my younger years I worked for the a Machinist Union in S. California. This was in the early 80's. I was making $32.46 hr. and my quota of work lasted at most 5 hrs. a day, ask for more work because it was damn boring and you were threatened by fellow union members with broken body parts.

Nope, Unions have screwed up a good thing by expecting a free ride and making the businesses they worked for non-competitive and finally the companies being forced to move out of the country.

Lumpy, Lumpy, Lumpy...what to do with you? How many times does it have to be explained that Reagan‘s twenty-five percent federal tax cut caused a considerable addition to the federal deficit, and an almost twenty percent rise in foreign investment on that debt that led to higher large dollar holdings and an unfavorable trade imbalance? That ninety-five percent of the reason for the deficits was high defense spending and Reagan‘s refusal to raise taxes to pay for it? That by 1982, the deficit was 90 billion dollars, and by 1987 it totaled 283 billion dollars? That the shortfall of revenue required the US to borrow money, which raised interest rates? That the higher interest rates attracted foreign investment, which caused the value of the dollar to rise out of any proportion to its actual worth? That, as the dollar skyrocketed, imports became cheaper than products made by American labor, and the trade imbalance became even more disproportionate as foreign markets could not afford American made goods at the inflated dollar value either?

These circumstances were what compelled many American businesses to relocate to third-world countries in search of low wage labor platforms.Not the demands for decent working conditions and reasonable increases in wages by unions, not regulations that prohibited industry from urinating in our common well, and not a tax code that billed the wealthiest among us at very reasonable rates for services rendered.

Hamby, Alonzo L. Liberalism and Its Challengers, 1992, 367-369.

Stockman, David A, The Triumph of Politics; How the Reagan Revolution Failed, 10-14 and 392, See also Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey, 486-487

Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey, 486-487

Thanks for your walk down memory lane..

 

[American_Jihad]

Unions Angry at Capitalist Hollywood Hypocrites


April 26, 2013
By Ben Shapiro

The American Federation of Musicians is fighting mad at their Hollywood paymasters. What could separate these two institutions of liberalism? Cash, of course. AFM is upset that Marvel’s Iron Man 3 decided to go abroad to use foreign musicians for cheap. John Acosta, vice president of AFM Local 47, summed up the case against Marvel: “Marvel is unfair to musicians because they take tax breaks from states but when it comes to doing a score for their movies, they outsource the work overseas. We’ve been protesting and raising the alarm about this over two years since Iron Man 1 and we feel those jobs belong in the US.”

For years, individual states have been reaching out to the film industry in an attempt to woo Hollywood dollars. Recognizing the business-hating climate of Los Angeles, even liberal governors are trying to outcompete the Hollywood locals by handing out tax breaks and incentives. While Gov. Jerry Brown has handed hundreds of millions in tax breaks to film and TV producers to keep them from fleeing to venues such as Vancouver, other states are chipping in to pitch woo. Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley has tripled Maryland’s film tax credit program to $25 million from $75 million. Massachusetts handed over $4 million in tax credits in 2011. Currently, 28 states give film tax credits, and a full 44 states have incentives for Hollywood. New York State recently passed a bill specifically designed to bring The Tonight Show back to the state – the bill actually had a provision that called for special incentives to seduce “a talk or variety program that filmed at least five seasons outside the state prior to its first relocated season in New York.” That show had to have a yearly budget over $30 million and a studio audience of 200 people to receive a tax credit worth about $10 million annually.

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Sooner or later, the union members themselves will get tired of holding a union card that actually means unemployment. All the liberals who run Hollywood are liberals up until the point when they have to sign a check. Then they take their checkbooks and run to the nearest bidder, leaving their friends in the unions crying on their doorstep.

Unions Angry at Capitalist Hollywood Hypocrites | FrontPage Magazine

 

[buckeye45_73]

Repubs had no problem with the union when their union president was backed by unions and was a member of a union, in fact he was the president of the the Film Actors Guild union. Mr. Ronald Reagan.

Actually its Screen Actors Guild....FAG is from Team America

 

[buckeye45_73]

and did the unions back Ronnie? no way man.......I knew Carter sucked, but that bad?

 

[buckeye45_73]

I agree, kinda like Obamacare....it was rammed so hard down our throats we all know what pornstars feel like now

 

[Avorysuds]

Another useless dumbchit who does not understand the tax code....

http://www.usmessageboard.com/attac...6-great-day-in-the-mornin-ryan-s-back-lol.jpg


No one ever paid 94%, no one paid in the 80% or 70% or 60% and I doubt anyone paid in the 50%... Even the 40% gets a bit iffy.

But keep on lying, there are masses of gullible teenagers turning voting age every year. Get your hooks in them before they educate themselves or you will lose them forever.

 

[editec]

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a hat tip to common sense, decided yesterday that nonunion members can opt out of union fees that are targeted towards political purposes.

When the SCOTUS ALSO finds that stockholders can DEMAND additional revenues from management in payback for the political donations they make then all will be right with the world.

 

[American_Jihad]

The AFL-CIO’s Newest Marxist Union Boss

October 16, 2013 By Ronn Torossian

It starts with unions and Obamacare – but maybe at the end of the day it’s all about Marxism. Press releases reveal that the National Taxi Workers Alliance (NTWA) recently became the fifty-seventh affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Representing a portion of New York City cab drivers, this marks the first time independent contractors have become affiliated with America’s oldest labor federation.

As a result of this affiliation, the Executive Director of NTWA, Bhairavi Desai, has been elected to a seat on the AFL-CIO Executive Council. As a New Yorker, it is interesting to review who Desai is – and what is her interest. While media lauds her as a successful immigrant “organizer,” simple research shows Desai is an open and unabashed Marxist. Under Desai’s leadership, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance operated out of the radical New York Marxist School and Brecht Forum from 1998 to 2003. In 2004, The Brecht Forum and the New York Marxist School listed Bhairavi Desai as a director of the group on its annual IRS filing. (IRS Form 990 for 2004, Brecht Forum, IRS forms.) She regularly speaks and is a proud member of The Brecht Forum, an independent Marxist educational and cultural center in New York City. The AFL-CIO’s appointment of her is in furtherance of Marxism – and a continuation of encouraging the very un-American notion of class warfare.

Do immigrant cab drivers (and other union members) work many back-breaking hours to further Marxism? Is that what the American flag on hard-hats today symbolizes? Desai in interviews openly says she is “drawn to Marx” and worse. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is poorly managed and had $3,836 in debts in its most recent filing with the IRS – yet Desai is trusted to manage America’s oldest union? Say it isn’t so. Apparently being a Marxist enables one to advance politically in today’s America.

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The proud America of AFL-CIO has become a new radical movement where unions and Obamacare morph into Marxism. Marxism is alive and well today in America.

The AFL-CIO?s Newest Marxist Union Boss | FrontPage Magazine

Bhairavi Desai, of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.​

 

[American_Jihad]

Big Labor Burned by ObamaCare​

February 5, 2014 by Arnold Ahlert

Unions that undoubtedly believed they were part of the Obama administration’s select group of “winners,” have discovered otherwise. In a scathing letter addressed to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV), the presidents of UniteHere and the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) declared they were “bitterly disappointed” that the proposed regulations to ObamaCare would be detrimental to their interests. In short, unions that supported the president’s two election campaigns are apparently just discovering what many Americans have known for years: Obama’s promises are worthless.

The unions are incensed that ObamaCare does not provide subsidies for union-negotiated trust funds known as Taft-Hartley plans. Because there employers already pay for these plans, the Treasury Department insists they are not eligible for tax breaks or subsidies. The administration contends that if the unions got what they demanded, they would be getting two tax breaks, even as the rest of America gets one. That’s because the unions want their employers and the government to fund their benefits. They are further enraged that the $63 surcharge ObamaCare levies on non-profit, self-funded plans to subsidize insurance companies that take on higher risk patients didn’t end up in union coffers.

Robert Laszewski, a health policy consultant in Washington, illuminated the administration’s position. “The unions here are asking to double dip,” he said. “It is an unfair request. The Obama plan is very simple: If your employer pays for your health plan, you are not eligible for a government subsidy. What the unions are asking for is government and employers to fund their benefits.”

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One would suspect they mean a cut in the living standards of middle income and low wage union workers. Otherwise, they’re more than a bit late in voicing their concern for the millions of Americans who have been enduring precisely the same experience since they began purchasing policies on the individual market more than five months ago. One is hard-pressed to recall any outpouring of union sympathy for the millions of Americans relegated to part-time employment due to ObamaCare, or the 91.8 million Americans who have left the workforce altogether. Moreover, it is no secret that the labor movement is still in bed with the administration when it comes to the so-called comprehensive immigration reform that will further harm American workers.

Thus, the best that can be said regarding union discontent is better late than never. Maybe it will begin to occur to them that they are as vulnerable to the capriciousness of the Obama administration as the rest of America.

Big Labor Burned by ObamaCare | FrontPage Magazine

 

[American_Jihad]

Tennessee was afraid of the United Auto Workers. Here’s why it shouldn’t be.​

By Lydia DePillis February 18

It's been four days since the United Auto Workers suffered its stunning reversal in Chattanooga, Tenn., after years of trying to organize a Volkswagen plant there, and explanations for the failure abound: Workers distrusted a union that had already made painful concessions to the industry, the UAW failed to work with community groups, the cultural divide with the South was too wide to bridge, there was no real oppressor to organize against.

All have merit. But in the background, always, is the fear of Republican lawmakers and workers alike that the UAW could have a negative influence on Volkswagen -- which in turn would scare off other manufacturers looking for a place to set up shop, or even cause other companies to pull up stakes, if the union managed to organize them as well. Take State Rep. Mike Sparks (R) of Smyrna, who is absolutely positive that Nissan would leave his district if the UAW ever won an election there, and so opposes the UAW -- even though he's upset with Nissan for doing things that unions are often able to help prevent, like hiring temp workers instead of full-time ones.

Is that true, though? Would a strong UAW actually drag down the companies that host it, and repel others thinking of coming in?

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Mexico's taking off, but Tennessee's holding its own. (Brookings Institution)​

Tennessee was afraid of the United Auto Workers. Here?s why it shouldn?t be.

 

[Barb]

Another useless dumbchit who does not understand the tax code....

http://www.usmessageboard.com/attac...6-great-day-in-the-mornin-ryan-s-back-lol.jpg


No one ever paid 94%, no one paid in the 80% or 70% or 60% and I doubt anyone paid in the 50%... Even the 40% gets a bit iffy.

But keep on lying, there are masses of gullible teenagers turning voting age every year. Get your hooks in them before they educate themselves or you will lose them forever.

HOW old are you? You're either very young and don't know any better, or you're demented, or you're a lying sack of shit.

I'll let you choose.

 

[American_Jihad]

NY Teachers Unions Pledge Millions to Fight Cuomo on Charter Schools​

24 Mar 2014
By Joe Battaglia


Teachers unions in New York are putting money where their mouths are, pledging $2.5 million to groups helping them fight Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his support of charter schools and a property tax freeze.

According to a report in the New York Post, the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) pumped $1.3 million into the coffers of New York Communities for Change and $1.2 million into a group called Alliance for Quality Education (AQE).

Both organizations have accused Cuomo of "pay-to-play politics" when it comes to supporting the proliferation of charter schools, saying in statements that he received campaign contributions from "Wall Street billionaires" who support charter schools.

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Perhaps further infuriating union lobbyists, who tend to view education as big business, Cuomo stated, "Education is about the students; students come first."

Opposing powerful teachers unions as a Democrat has long been viewed as committing political suicide, but in the case of Cuomo it has earned him kudos from some conservatives. Fox News' Greta Van Susteren wrote, "He is obviously more interested in helping the kids than in his political future.

"The public school teachers should be spending that 2.5 million they are using to attack Gov. Cuomo on making the public schools better, not in trying to tear down someone trying to help kids," Van Susteren added.


Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com NY Teachers Unions Pledge Millions to Fight Cuomo on Charter Schools

 

[KNB]

Do you know what happens without unions? China.

 

[American_Jihad]

Do you know what happens without unions? China.

Hey kOOk N/B...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllChina_Federation_of_Trade_Unions#Member_organisations


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[KNB]

Do you know what happens without unions? China.

Hey kOOk N/B...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllChina_Federation_of_Trade_Unions#Member_organisations


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Are you insinuating that unions will cause America to become like China? Because China has unions?

Do you have any idea what Americans went through for workers' rights? It was bloody. So let's say that Republicans get their way and workers unions are dissolved. What do you think will happen to the working poor?

 

[American_Jihad]

Do you know what happens without unions? China.

Hey kOOk N/B...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllChina_Federation_of_Trade_Unions#Member_organisations


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Are you insinuating that unions will cause America to become like China? Because China has unions?

Do you have any idea what Americans went through for workers' rights? It was bloody. So let's say that Republicans get their way and workers unions are dissolved. What do you think will happen to the working poor?

Sorry kOOk, you can't spin yo way out of being stupid, you implied china did not have unions, I proved you wrong...