The assault on workers is in full gear

[SHRED]

The lines are clearly drawn.
The Republican Party is attempting to break the back of organized labor in order to dry up a major funding source for the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile WE LOSE in this insidious political game.

Hats off to the jack-offs on talk radio and TV who serve their big-monied corporate bosses (the same bosses that have a vested interest in bringing down unions).
They are so damn good that they have fooled even unionized public employees into supporting the ruination of their careers.

I long for a day when I can open up a newspaper and see a "Labor" section (they have a "Business" section) or see TV and hear radio stations address the concerns of the working-class in intelligent fact driven ways as opposed to the lies and divisiveness on the airwaves today.



In Wisconsin, union-busting as GOP strategy
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-02-22-column22_ST1_N.htm

Assemblyman Mansoor(R) introduces legislation to reform California's Collective Bargaining Process
http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/68/?p=article&sid=429&id=247638

Almost half of city work force gets pink slips
About 203 city employees will be receiving the six-month notice in the City Council effort to correct the budget.
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-0303-outsourcing-20110302,0,6882412.story

Huckabee On Whether Republicans Are Union Busting: ‘So What?!’
Talking with Mike Huckabee on Fox News last night, host Greta Van Susteren wondered why Republicans don’t call what they’re doing in states like Wisconsin and Ohio what it is: Union busting. “Whether it is or isn’t, my point would be, so what?” Huckabee shot back, adding, “It could be!” The former GOP Arkansas governor later suggested that that is indeed what these Republicans are doing:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/24/huckabee-unions-so-what/

Wisconsin Layoff Notices Will Come Friday, Scott Walker Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/wisconsin-layoff-notices-friday-scott-walker_n_831087.html

Labor Fighting Quiet Anti-Unionization Measure In Congress While Eyes Remain On Wisconsin
WASHINGTON -- While labor activists continue to stage a high-stakes campaign against the budget bill from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that would strip collective bargaining rights from that state's public employees, union backers are feverishly working to derail what they describe as an equally troubling federal proposal with a clear route to passage.

In recent days, union officials have ramped up lobbying efforts to block or remove language in the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would make it drastically harder for rail or aviation workers to unionize.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/congress-unionization-faa-reauthorization_n_830862.html

Ohio Senate approves bill that weakens public employee union negotiating rights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/01/AR2011030106108.html

The Real Issues: A Wisconsin Update
The Wisconsin protests are about much more than budgets and unions. As I observed in "What Conservatives Really Want," the conservative story about budget deficits is a ruse to turn the country conservative in every area. Karl Rove and Shep Smith have made it clear on Fox: If the Wisconsin plan to kill the public employees' unions succeeds, then there will be little union money in the future to support democratic candidates. Conservatives will be effectively unopposed in raising campaign funding in most elections, including the presidential elections. This will mean a thoroughly conservative America in every issue area.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-real-issues-a-wiscons_b_828640.html

Koch Front Group Americans For Prosperity: ‘Take The Unions Out At The Knees’
In a speech earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual conference, Americans For Prosperity-Michigan Executive Director Scott Hagerstrom revealed the true goal of his group and its allies like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) efforts. Speaking at CPAC’s “Panel for Labor Policy,” Hagerstrom said that AFP really wants to do is to “take the unions out at the knees”:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/25/afp-union-knees/

Wisconsin Protests
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/wisconsin-protests

Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/us/01poll.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1299006421-eFTp+9L0TnmSGImnbFTEdw

Union busting is gift to corporations
http://www.wiscnews.com/wisconsindellsevents/news/opinion/mailbag/article_2ffa2b68-3b8e-11e0-8d58-001cc4c002e0.html

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[October]

1. Excellent post. Very resourceful, too.

I especially like your comment about longing for the day when you open the paper to the "Labor Section." I never thought about that -- wouldn't that be great!

[SHRED]

2. I think Thom Hartmann says that

I think that is where I heard about the "Labor Section".

[Omaha Steve]

3. R #5