Breakaway Labor Group Launches Campaign

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - A coalition of breakaway unions is launching a national campaign that highlights the gulf between pay and benefits for executives and middle-class workers with television ads and a drive to organize millions in service industries.

The campaign set to begin Sunday is the first major initiative of the Change to Win labor federation.

"This is a permanent campaign to connect the aspirations of working people in multiple industries," Greg Tarpinian, executive director of the federation, said Saturday.

The federation is spending more than $500,000 airing an ad that will point to huge salaries for chief executives. It will run on network news shows on Sunday and on cable news channels during the week, Tarpinian said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060422/ap_on_el_ge/labor_campaign

[napi21]

1. That's GREAT! The unions need to convince workers that

together they (as Howard Dean says) have the power to make a difference!

[Flabbergasted]

2. Now they need a presidential Candidate and I'm hooked....

[justice1]

3. This should really start pissing people off!

Hopefully, more people will start taking action.

[babylonsister]

4. In your face, dimson and his enablers! Nom! nt

[54anickel]

5. So wtf is up with MSNBC and Comedy Central. Is it true they don't

run ANY "issue ads"? Or is that a lame excuse to not run THIS "issue ad"?

[cosmicdot]

6. guess those "Look for the union label" ads of the '70s

sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union would be deemed an 'issue ad' today????



K&R


Published on Friday, February 8, 2002 by Common Dreams
The New Gilded Age
by Marty Jezer
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0208-02.htm

Thom Hartmann
Unequal Protection:
The Rise of Corporate Dominance
and the Theft of Human Rights
http://www.bodhitree.com/lectures/hartmann2.html

[Us vs Them]

7. I love when people try to argue AGAINST worker's rights,

and end up sounding like selfish, greedy capitalists.

[LiberalPartisan]

8. Economic class warfare must be a tactic

There is a war on unions and the middle class in this country. When conservatives are presented with this fact they whine about using class warfare as a tactic. It is a legitimate tactic because it speaks to the fact of the deliberate decimation of the middle class. We must invoke the 'us verus them' theme. 'Soak the rich' etc...

[oscar111]

9. Unions built the middle class bet. 1900 and 1970, roughly

without unions, no middle class. Who needs a middle class? Look at Mexico, the GOP goal.

an economy can function, sort of , with no middle class.

Unions chopped in half since 'fifty two.

Good to see the life in the OP.

[mediaman007]

10. It is class warfare and the low and middle class freepers

are the stooges! Reagan use class warfare when he began to separate the union workers from the unions. The personal responsibility charm is class warfare. Rush wages class warfare everyday. Good luck to the Freepers when there ain't no Social Security for them.

I doubt that they have saved a whole lot more than the rest of us!