Do You Support UNIONIZED LABOR?

[Dinger]

Copied from this thread to see who is willing to put their name to their vote.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7959106&mesg_id=7959106

[Dinger]

1. I Do

Always have, always will.

[Catshrink]

2. Me too.

[RKP5637]

3. Yes! n/t

[catnhatnh]

4. You bet your ass I do. N/T

[Cleita]

5. Yes! n/t

[Lyric]

6. Yes

[mitchtv]

7. I do

Teamsters, CWA, TIU are my brothers

[Ildem09]

8. Yep 110%

[Mimosa]

9. Definitely.Unions used to represent power for the workers and progress. n/t

[yorgatron]

10. yes.

[Nailzberg]

11. I am unionized labor.

[safeinOhio]

13. I'm retired unionized labor.

I never retired from the union.

[devilgrrl]

12. Absolutely!

eom

[wysingm]

14. Yes

Retired American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) of 30 years.

[Lifelong Protester]

15. Yes! as a former member of SEVERAL and from a union family

I say YES!

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Now that you've brought that thread to my attention

I've gone there and voted YES. I also notice that only one person actually attempted to make a coherent argument against unions, but wouldn't admit to having voted NO. It's very informative to see that a handful of people sees fit to admit - anonymously - that they don't support labor unions, but not a mother's one of them has the courage to articulate their reason for all to see.

[saged52]

17. YES!!

my husband is the vice-president of his union - we live it and breath it.

[fishwax]

18. yes.

[drmeow]

19. emphatically yes

And I fought for my right to unionize as a graduate student (we eventually won).

[ourbluenation]

20. you bet. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Of course, UNION NOW and UNION FOREVER

[onestepforward]

22. Yes!

[OHdem10]

23. yes

[no_hypocrisy]

24. Hell, yes!

[KonaKane]

25. Absolutely.

Anyone who doesn't, hardly qualifies to be haunting this place.

[GreenTea]

26. Fuck yes! Absolutely, till the day I die - Unions, the workers only united voice

against the greedy, selfish corporations, the4ir lobbyist & all republicans who are elitist and only want to destroy unions/workers voice in order to pay workers less & less while cutting workers benefits just to increase more & more company profits for the stockholders, Vice- presidents & CEO's.

[juajen]

27. I do and have for most of my life. Unions created the middle class and

the pugs are attempting to destroy it by destroying unions.

[Smarmie Doofus]

28. Yes. (Do we really have a choice?) nt

[LaPera]

29. YES!

[mrmpa]

30. Hell yeagh

I look at my life in union and non union jobs and I realize union is the only way to survive.

[Lugnut]

31. I am a former union member.

My husband is a current and life-long member of the UMWA.

[Greyhound]

32. Of course, but like too many my age and younger, I've never had a chance to join one in my life. n/t

[donheld]

33. yes again

[la la]

34. yes-

i was a rep for my union for many years and a member from the beginning of my career. no one disses unions when i'm around.

[quiller4]

35. Definitely. We are both union retirees. n/t

[Political Heretic]

36. It's fucking tragic that this question even has to be asked here. But yes.

[Morning Dew]

37. not just yes, but HELL, YES !!

[Bluebear]

38. SOLIDARITY

[OutNow]

39. YES

Proud CWA member.

If you think you can negotiate with a multi-billion dollar company all by yourself; good luck with that.

I'm stickin to the union.

[Desertrose]

40. I do. Definitely. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Yes. The media did a number on the UAW and I will never forgive them

for that.

[Enthusiast]

42. Union Yes!

Many of today's younger people do not realize what the nation/world was like before organized labor. It's a history that I suggest we take an interest in.

[Brickbat]

43. Yes, because unions help support me. I am a member and Mr. Brickbat is a member of several. As I

said in the other post, union is my religion.

[spanone]

44. i is unionized labor

[blindpig]

45. I know which side I'm on.

k&r

[branders seine]

46. yes

one of the few things left in America worth supporting

[LeFleur1]

47. Yes

A piece of the pie is good.

[trayfoot]

48. Yes I do!

And anyone who has any knowledge of history will support organized labor, also!

[Peacetrain]

49. AFSCME here... third generation of proud union members!.. anything else I can help you with

;)

[dghll]

50. Big Yes nt

[Joanne98]

51. Yes

[WillyT]

52. You Better Believe... SEIU Local 1000 Here !!! - K & R !!!

:patriot:

:kick:

[Fire1]

53. Yes. AFL-CIO here!! n/t

[Biker13]

54. Yes! n/t

[MilesColtrane]

55. AFM member for 27 years here

[radical noodle]

56. Absolutely

and no exceptions.
:applause:

[KG]

57. I DEMAND unionized labor

[CornerBar]

58. Of course

Are there people here who don't? That would be considered quite reactionary in sane places.

[Smashcut]

59. Absolutely yes.

SOLIDARITY!

[City Lights]

60. 100%! nt

[ozymandius]

61. Yes.

A simple question deserves a simple answer.

[W_HAMILTON]

62. HELL YES.

And I don't understand for one minute why the hell anyone (outside of the greedy corporations, of course) would oppose it. The one power the people have is their numbers. Without the people, the corporations are nothing. Even people like Bill Gates, with the brightest minds in the world, would not be able to accomplish what they have without their workers. Workers have the true power, yet some are brainwashed into thinking that unions are a BAD thing.

Some people are so goddamn stupid.

[intheflow]

63. Hell yes!

[diane in sf]

64. I am unionized labor

[Odin2005]

65. HELL YES, I DO!!!

[autorank]

66. k*r Hell Yes!

[Razoor]

67. 100% yes

I fully support unionized labor

[miscsoc]

68. No.

And any true liberal should oppose union efforts to stop people selling their own labor as they see fit. Even George McGovern supports the workers rights movement - real workers rights, not just the right to be treated like chattell by union barons.

...

Not really, though. Just talking nonsense to get people to click. Of course I support unions, and laws that enforce solidarity and promote union membership. Scabs are a category of people that I genuinely despise. I'm impressed that all the responses have been positive. It's more or less a fact that a society with free trade unions and the legal infrastructure to let them function invariably has a better standard of living for the majority of people.

[Melusine]

69. Yes! n/t