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Friday, March 4, 2011

Union Rally



IBEW Local 363 Members Attend Rally in the Hudson Valley at Teamsters Union Hall

 

Ohio senator: GOP tries to take down unions, and so did Hitler and Stalin

By Jordan Fabian - 03/03/11 02:00 PM ET
 
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took to the Senate floor Thursday to defend labor unions, saying that dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin opposed them.
Brown said that unions have wrongly come under attack from Republicans and conservatives, who are pitting workers against one another in states like his, where governments are taking action on anti-union legislation. Though he said he was not making a direct comparison, Brown claimed that "some of the worst governments we've ever had" have opposed labor unions.

"As a nation, I look back in history and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the the first thing they did? They went after the trade unions," he said. "Hitler didn't want unions, Stalin didn't want unions. [Former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak didn't want independent unions."

Rhetoric over anti-union bills in Wisconsin and Ohio has reached a fever pitch, and politicians in Washington have adopted the cause to make political points.
Republican-backed bills in those states would limit public employees' ability to collectively bargain with the state. Supporters say that removing collective bargaining would make it easier to cut costs for states that are broke.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said this week that abolishing collective bargaining rights would be akin to reinstituting slavery. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said that collective bargaining has no place in representative government.
After Brown invoked Hitler and Stalin, he immediately said that he was not comparing Wisconsin to the Nazi and Soviet regimes.
"I'm not comparing what's happening to the workers in Wisconsin to Hitler and Stalin," he explained, "but I am saying that history is teaching us that unions are a very positive force in society that creates a middle class and protects our freedom."
Brown did repeatedly attack Republicans for going after unions.
"We've seen a real play on fear. They're trying to pit the private sector workers against the public-sector workers," he said. "That is the most base Karl Rove-type politics to turn working-class people one against another."

7 comments:

  1. Phone and Systems issues still on going!!!

    Come on Frontier, get your crap together. Move forward get something in place that works.

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  2. why is it that "The Company" is offering insurance to homosexuals and their children but not to hetrosexuals who are not married and their children?? Joyce Robbins swears up and down that it isn;t discrimination, how is it not???? seems like there would be some legal ramifications for this move by The Company!!!!

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  3. CD wont hire 12 NY WAH reps until at least 6 are fired. And it looks like that process has started! Imagine terminating someone due to Noble issues. Seems like a replay of the dropped calls situation that got DW terminated.

    "Value and Respect the Employee" EVEN if the are Unionized, is that too hard to ask?

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  4. I WOULD LOVE JUST 30 MIN WITH MAGGIE NOT ON COMPANY TIME TO TELL HER WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON!! ITS HARD TO BELEIVE SHE KNOWS ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. WITH THE 3 P'S SHE SHOULD BE EMBARASSED REALLY MAGGIE GIVE ME A CALL !!! NY WAH IF YOU GET CLOSE TO NY YOU WILL KNOW WHO I AM I WILL LET YOU KNOW

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  5. Maggie abandoned the NY work force, when she opened Deland. It's as if we no longer exist to her. She just wishes us all gone.

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  6. SOUNDS LOKE WE NEED A BUS TRIP TO STAMFORD CONN. WE CAN DEMAND A MEETING.

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  7. wE CAN HIRE THE BUS AND CHARGE TO MAGGIE SHE CAN Afford IT, IF SHE WONT COME TO US WE CAN GO TO HER,, NEVER MIND SHE WOULD JUST LEAVE TOWN SHE DONT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN FRONTIER SHE JUST WANT TO TAKE THE CASH BUT THAT IS A KNOWN FACT NOW JUST LOOK AT THE TOP MONEY THEY JUST GOT... BET SHE DONT CARE ABOUT COST OF GAS OR FOOD GIVE US A BREAK MAGGIE ...MOVE ON!! SAVE OUR COMPANY FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT!!! AND TAKE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOU!!!

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