The same was said about Andy Stern (SEIU).
Labor leaders for the past couple of decades haven't been the friend to the working men and women; nobody sold out their membership like Stern did. The same can be said of Trumka.
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Democrats don't care about unions, except using them during elections.
Both Republican
Wages are going down in this country for everyone, and when you destroy unions, there will be no standard at all for any workers. There will be nobody left to negotiate decent jobs and wages for anyone. With unions representi
Where are the national Democrats?
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On what do you base this belief?
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You don't have to join a union to get a job.
Yes, you will pay union dues, but then again you're getting the benefits that unions have gotten for you. If you think you'd be getting those benefits without the union having gotten them for you, you're probably too stoopid to have the job in the first place.
But you don't have to belong to that union.
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FYI:
As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.
As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppet s. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.
But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv e organizati ons, journalist s, and progressiv e bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet .
According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involvescreating an army of sockpuppets, with sophistica ted "persona management " software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental ly cross-cont aminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona. In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriate hashtags. In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he rself to key individual s as part of the exercise, as one example. There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas
“One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008.
When I am President, I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas, and I will put the money in the pockets of working Americans, and seniors, and homeowners who deserve a break. I won't wait ten years to raise the minimum wage - I'll raise it to keep pace every single year. And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States."
-Candidate Obama, November 3, 2007 in Spartanburg, Carolina.
I guess you've learned nothing from the Tea Party.
And Kucinich is a siIIy, useless tooI.
Obama must be primaried. And the solution isn't going to come from within the Democratic Party, but from outside of it, from an Independen
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Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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So a larger handful of very rich corporatio
THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.
Return it.
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Tampering with a witness in a federal investigat
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Three little words:
Return Fairness Doctrine.
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