Union thuggery

[billc]

Some union thuggery just in time for the holiday's. At least they didn't assault anyone this time.

http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/20...-to-intimidate-local-media-calls-it-caroling/

 

[Empty Hands]

Thuggery eh? Maybe we should bring back the Pinkertons and show you what the term really means.

 

[billc]

You might want to ask Ken Gladney about that.

Another proud union moment.

I also have a friend who is a teacher. When she first started out she hadn't joined the union. The teachers went on strike and as a non-union member of the staff she had to report to work. These educated, union thugs slashed her tires. I love unions.

 

[Empty Hands]

Ugh, rotten thinking at its worst.

Some time ago in Iraq, the security company Xe (formerly Blackwater) covered up the sexual assault of an employee, and forced that employee to go through arbitration instead of pressing charges. Does that mean that "corporations" are now pro-rape? That corporations are fundamentally about rape? What about after Enron, are all companies thieving frauds? Does every new fraud case perpetrated by some company impeach all companies?

So why is it any different for unions? Because for political reasons (which aren't rationally consistent or explainable) you don't like them? Not good enough.

Real wages have been flat for more than 30 years now. Clearly unions still have their place. As do corporations, occasional sexual abuse and fraud notwithstanding.

 

[billc]

I don't like violence from either side, corporate or union. Right now unions get all the good publicity, although that is changing with the public employees pension crisis. Everyone highlights corporate abuses, justifiably so. I feel the need to show union abuses, of which there are many. I like the good guys to win, and the bad guys to lose, whoever they are, whatever they represent. Physical violence is ocurring more and more on the left these days. Look at the attack on Bobby Jindals campaign finance manager, the attack on Ken Gladdney, the property destruction during the G8 and g20 meetings. The recent attacks in England over tuition increases. The voter intimidation by the new black panther pary and so on. Of course the Tea party members are then accused of being the violent ones. That's all.

 

[Big Don]

Could anyone explain, why Detroit, a very pro-union town is such a s***-hole?

 

[granfire]

Could anyone explain, why Detroit, a very pro-union town is such a s***-hole?

Because Alabama produces more cars that Mo-Town?

 

[billc]

It could be because Michigan, until recently was controlled by one political party.

 

[Darksoul]

-Thats right, all unions are evil...not. Wow, Rush Limbaugh must love you; are you his fanclub manager or something? Unions served a purpose when they first got going, and they can serve one again. The only problem is when one gets too much control. The same can be said for corporations. American history has seen when big business has too much power, and then the pendulum swings the other way.

-There is a happy medium, where companies can make a profit and grow and the worker can make a living and support his/her family, and in turn, both can support the economy and the country itself. Yet there are a lot of people, on both sides, who would just assume make it one way or the other with no compromises.

Some just seem to be opposed to any kind of balance. I'm not one of them.

Andrew