Arianna Huffington’s Hilarious Hypocrisy: Union-Busting Like…a Capitalist Pig?!?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/03/20/arianna-huffingtons-hilarious-hypocrisy-union-busting-likea-capitalist-pig/

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Will Arianna Huffington's Refusal to Collectively Bargain Draw Madison-Like Mobs?

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Sunday, March 20th at 10:00AM EDT
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We probably won’t hear AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka comparing Arianna Huffington to Hitler; nor will we likely see Joey “BFD” Biden weigh in on the merits of collective bargaining in this case either. However, ever since Arianna Huffington suckered convinced AOL to give her gobs of money ($315 million), a cushy new job, and some prestige for her rags-to-riches rise to the top of the blogoshpere, she’s had a bit of a PR problem. You see, on top of getting her millions on the backs of the 900 AOL staffers losing their jobs, Huffington appears to be turning into one of those evil, greedy, capitalist pigs she so often hypocritically excoriates on her website.

Now, an affiliate of the “Marxist Maulers” (the red-shirted union otherwise known as CWA) is calling on all of HuffPo’s bloggers to honor an “e-strike” until HuffPo bloggers get paid their fair share.



Down with slave wages! Since its inception, as do most community-oriented blogs, the liberal Huffington Post has relied on content from bloggers who, for the most part, report and opine for free, for passion, or publicity. However, since Huffington fell into some money (again), some of the unpaid talent at Visual Art Source took exception to providing their work for gratis and went on strike:

When we were invited to become a Huffington Post blogger last year I understood that the company paid nothing. We surveyed our writers’ reaction to assess their willingness to have their material reposted there for no additional pay. Visual Art Source, ArtScene and art ltd.(http://www.visualartsource.com) form an umbrella art publishing company that is actually quite large by the standards of our very specialized field. The tens of thousands of readers and online users that we boast, however, are miniscule compared to the 26 million visitors per month that the Huffington Post currently draws.

Yet we are now going on strike. For now, at least, no more content from us will appear on the Huffington Post.

And just like the corporate titans of the American Right, it would come as no surprise if Ms Huffington, whom I am certain has a good heart and only the best intentions, were to assume the obvious position: Who needs these people anyway? They are not even employees.

FULL story at link.