Thursday, June 28, 2018

Unions had a choice...

Represent their union members and work on their behalf... or represent the Democratic Party and work on their behalf. The have clearly and consistently choose that the latter is more important than the former.



60 comments:

Anonymous said...



As Membership Continues to Decline, an Epidemic of Embezzlement Plagues America's Unions

read the whole thing...

https://pjmedia.com/trending/as-membership-continues-to-decline-an-epidemic-of-embezzlement-plagues-americas-unions/

Anonymous said...




awesome:


Ken Girardin, policy analyst for the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said New York's public sector unions collect an estimated $860 million in dues and fees from members each year. Of that, about $112 million pay "agency fees," or the payments in lieu of dues from non-members that the ruling now says are no longer mandatory. The Janus decision, he said, could cost unions roughly $100 million.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Supreme-Court-deals-big-setback-to-labor-unions-13030233.php

Anonymous said...

Roger all of a sudden is concerned about middle income earners and the decline of Americans in the Middle Class. Rog turns out the tipping point of decline happened with you boy at the wheel.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/09/459087477/the-tipping-point-most-americans-no-longer-are-middle-class

Obama's Legecy .

Anonymous said...

CNN is burning the Witch at the stake today.
If only she would have won. Then none of this would be happening. They are crying that Gun Grabbing laws are over for 25 years.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The carpenters Union was created by a Republican

Right to work for less laws are the primary reason why the unions support the Democrats. The Republicans have written right to work for less laws across america and that lead to the decline of unions across America. Further weakening the middle class.

Anonymous said...




Poll: Trump approval rating ticks up to 47 percent


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394384-poll-trump-approval-rating-ticks-up-to-47-percent

Anonymous said...

Alky, your boy did so much damage to the middle class.

Anonymous said...



The carpenters Union was created by a Republican


really.


United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

The union was created in April 1881, by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. The two men organized groups for collective bargaining, and started a newspaper called The Carpenter to facilitate their idea of a national union. The Brotherhood held its first convention in Chicago in August 1881. The cornerstone of local and regional affiliations in support of common goals was laid out to show ways to maximize the unions bargaining potential. The immediate common goals were wage and hour demands, and death and sickness benefits. The union grew from its 1881 membership of 2000, to 50,000 by 1890, and 100,000 by 1900.

While Peter N. McGuire was a socialist, the union itself was non-political, refusing to endorse any political party or philosophy. It was not, on the other hand, apolitical: it supported legislation establishing the eight-hour day.

The union also struck to obtain the eight-hour day, calling a strike of its affiliates for May 1, 1886. The strike itself was ineffective and provoked a repressive response, particularly in Chicago, where police shot and killed two strikers two days later, leading to the Haymarket Riot the following day.

Even so, the strike gave the Brotherhood added visibility that led to increased membership. The union struck again in 1890, with similarly uneven results, but now facing the stiffened resistance of newly formed employers associations.

The Brotherhood admitted both black and white carpenters on an equal footing when it was first formed; one of the union's vice-presidents in its early years was L.E. Rames, an African-American carpenter from Charleston, South Carolina. In the South, however, the union often isolated black carpenters in segregated locals as a concession to the opposition of white carpenters and contractors. Local unions also often excluded black workers on a de facto basis. The union formally dissolved its segregated locals in 1963.

The union also faced fierce pressures from outside to exclude black carpenters: in 1919 supervisors from the Great Southern Lumber Company, the mayor of Bogalusa, Louisiana, and local businessmen affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, attacked and killed four union organizers who had attempted to organize black and white lumber mill workers. None of the attackers were convicted of any crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Brotherhood_of_Carpenters_and_Joiners_of_America



a republican you say?
only in the fantasy world of alky land.



Anonymous said...




how does a worker who is eased of the burden of having $$$ extorted from him by some goonion thug being weakened?

he has more $$$ in his pocket AND he's just had his first amendment rights restored.

and you see that as a bad thing. man, your priorities are fucked.

Anonymous said...

Trump Winning
13,000 new Jobs
$10 Billion Investment in a new plant and Equipment in Wisconsin.

Anonymous said...

RRB, too funny, Alky wrong on Union Founder.

commie said...

On the heels of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s announcement that he’ll be retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of July, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement that proclaims, “The Senate will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.”


How soon he forgets the obstructionism he led against Obama....Jowls the douche of all douches...

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At the @WhiteHouse today, @ChuckGrassley and I will reiterate that the American people will have a voice in filling the #SCOTUS vacancy.
7:34 AM - 1 Mar 2016


Leader McConnell

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.@VP - "once the political season is under way...action on a Supreme Court nom. must be put off until after the election campaign is over.”


The next justice could dramatically change the direction of #SCOTUS for decades. The American people deserve a voice in that conversation.
10:04 AM - Mar 15, 2016

caliphate4vr said...

Fatty, The American people did have a voice it was the 2016 election.

And you lost, now you’re old ass is going to die with a 6-3 conservative majority on SCOTUS

LMAO

commie said...

The American people did have a voice it was the 2016 election.

And by over 3 million votes picked hillary.....or did you forget that, loser????

Asshole....I just quoted Jowls the jerk off.....He plays games and does it very well, now with another pending election, he changes the rules he invented, not biden who you alleged....Hopefully, you will die working first....LOLOLOL!!!

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Anonymous said...

President HRC, will announce her selection next.
Because she won.

Anonymous said...

Trump Weighing Senator Mike Lee for Supreme Court Vacancy, Sources Say."
Lee is 47 years old.

Anonymous said...

3 million, yes , voters. Woot.
She won she told us , as often as Gore has.

caliphate4vr said...

Fatty jowls didn’t change the rules unless this is a presidential election year, you know the person that actually nominates the SCOTUS judge.

Are you this fucking stoooopid?

Don’t answer we all know

Anonymous said...

Blood today in an American newsroom. Aren’t you proud, you vile, fascist son of a bitch,” Simon tweeted, responding to a Trump tweet in which the president said the “fake news media … is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”



Simon followed that profanity-laced tweet with another, where he appeared to argue President Trump is responsible for today’s shooting.

“Fuck you. A friend has not yet reported in safe. It is Trump’s direct language: ‘Enemy of the people.’ Fuck you and him both,” Simon tweeted, responding to a Twitter user.



In an earlier tweet Simon sent On Thursday, the Deuce writer lashed out at Senator Marco Rubio, who was criticizing the mainstream media for helping create a “lack of trust in reporting.”

Anonymous said...

Rob Cox, Global Editor for Thomson Reuters’ Breakingviews vertical, said the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting was a direct response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of the mainstream media.
This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul.

At least four people killed in Maryland newspaper shooting: reports https://t.co/BXNOhj5BDx

— Rob Cox (@rob1cox) June 28, 2018

“This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people,” Cox tweeted following the shooting. “Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul.”

Anonymous said...

Thursday at a press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the Supreme Court’s decision on Janus v. AFSCME, which struck down laws requiring government workers to pay union fees, was “violence to our democracy.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The Carpenter Union is the most politically independent union and is not part of the AFl CIO. They resisted the KKK "good people"*Doald Trump clear back in the early 20th century.

A socialist in the late 19th and early 20th century were often Republicans before the parties changed their rolls when Nixon took the Southern Strategy and replaced the Dixiecrats in the old south. Six years and 3 days but you will always be a bigot.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

No President who is under a criminal investigation shouldn't have the authority to appoint a justice who may have to decide if he committed crimes against the country.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump has said that there should be criminal charges for abortion.

Even worse is that most of the people who are opposed to abortion rights believe that it's murder. In some states we will see some states will make abortion murder. In most cases the sentence for murder is life in prison or execution.

The President who is under criminal investigation shouldn't be allowed to appoint a justice who may have to decide if he can be charged with crimes.

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If a gunman walked into the New York Times office and opened fire to respond to the President's comments about the Fake News is an enemy of the country rrb and kput'z would be cheering into the rafters.

CHT would blame the Democrats. Because the President wants him to.

Myballs seeing America become great again said...

Trump isn't under criminal investigation you f*ckin idiot

Loretta said...

"This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people,” Cox tweeted following the shooting. “Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul.”"

Fucking liar.

Anonymous said...

Yep. Amazing the level that theses snakes have reached.

#MAGA

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Anonymous said...

Roger, why did the actual shooter, shoot those people?

Was he moved to Murder by Donald Trump as you say he was?

Pro-Dodger our boy Roger.

Anonymous said...

Because I feel sorry for oPie.
"What happened to that 4% ballz posted the other day."

MB Was talking about 2nd qrt 2018.

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Quit drinking his bathwater.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

He is the subject of a criminal investigation

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I didn't mention the shooting today.

I was merely speculating on a possible future event that you would love to see.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The most significant economic event during President Obama's presidency was, without a doubt, been the Great Recession. When he took office, the country was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month, the stock market was in freefall and the GDP was shrinking. Several of the measures below show the country pulling out of this recession during the first 6 to 18 months of his presidency and then performing well above average performance after that point. In many cases, his overall average performance is impacted significantly by the first initial months.

Given that caveat, during President Obama's presidency, the economy performed worse than average for GDP growth, job creation, median income and debt. However, the performance of the stock market was spectacular. It is also important to put the economic performance in global context. During President Obama's presidency, the United States' GDP growth beat the GDP growth of the other original NATO member countries by the widest margin of any president since World War II.


Major economic events:
Feb. 17, 2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 signed into law
2009-Present: European debt crisis
Mar. 23, 2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law
July 21, 2010: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed into law
April 8, 2011: Congress comes within one hour of governement shut down
June-Aug. 2011: Debt ceiling crisis of 2011
Aug. 5, 2011: Standard & Poors downgrades the credit rating of the U.S. Treasury
Dec. 2012-Mar. 2013: Negotiations and failure to avoid budget sequester
Jan.-Oct. 2013: Debt ceiling crisis of 2013
Oct. 1-16, 2013: Federal government is shut down
2014: Best year for job growth since 1999

Myballs said...

No he is not under criminal investigation. Go look it up shit for brains.

Anonymous said...

Roger Amick said...

No President who is under a criminal investigation shouldn't have the authority to appoint a justice who may have to decide if he committed crimes against the country.



gee rog, you're a little slow on the uptake. your pal rush limbaugh predicted this reaction from you guys about 15 minutes after kennedy announced his retirement.

Anonymous said...





i'll give you a little credit. you never tire of peddling this lie.

and i know why you so furiously peddle it. democrats have a lot to be ashamed of for several generations in the south.

Anonymous said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...

If a gunman walked into the New York Times office and opened fire to respond to the President's comments about the Fake News is an enemy of the country rrb and kput'z would be cheering into the rafters.



you really have been hung up on the art of psychological projection recently. need i remind you that it was just over a year ago when bernie volunteer james hodgkinson tried to slaughter a bunch of the GOP baseball team and steve scalise damn near died.

the existence of fake news is as plain as day. we would never feel the to physically attack one of it's main purveyors. we're satisfied with simply mocking them and their loyal readers every fucking day. remember alky - we're free marketeers. we let capitalism take care of them. as the red hen is now learning.

so stop projecting your pandemic of violence on us.

Anonymous said...



Some forecasting pros suggest the U.S. economy could top 5% growth in the period running from April to June, perhaps clearing the highest bar in 15 years.

After a surprising drop in the U.S. trade deficit in May, a handful of Wall Street firms jacked up their estimates for the second quarter and more are likely to do so.

Most notably, Macroeconomic Advisers raised its forecast to 5.3% from 4.5% for gross domestic product, the official scorecard for the U.S. economy. The firm’s forecast is one of the most detailed on Wall Street.

A closely followed GDP tracker by the Atlanta Federal Reserve, meanwhile, estimates the U.S. will expand at a 4.5% annual rate in the second quarter.

The single best quarter of economic growth since the end of the recession was in the fall of 2014, when GDP surged by 5.2%.

Before that the last time quarterly GDP topped 5% was 2003.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/economy-might-top-5-gdp-in-the-spring-2018-06-27

Anonymous said...



Roger Amick said...

The most significant economic event during President Obama's presidency was, without a doubt...



...the election of Donald J Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America.


Anonymous said...



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Anonymous said...

That is fantastic.

Anonymous said...

Pro-Doer Roger.
Under Obimbo the middle class hit the tipping point and no longer was the Majority.

Anonymous said...

didn't mention the shooting today.

I was merely speculating on a possible future event that you would love to see."

Right Roger the Pro-Dodger, on a day your team is Blaming The President you put up a shooting meme. Look loser, your team are nutz, committed a real shooting of Republicans.

commie said...

D said...
didn't mention the shooting today.

Your ignorance is breathtaking, asshole.....Find a job and become a productive citizen instead of a leech of society....

Commonsense said...

A lot of liberal media pundits are quietly deleting their tweets today after spending yesterday blaming Trump for the tradgity at the Capital Gazette.

The price of spouting a knee jerk reaction before all of the facts are known is your credibility.

Myballs said...

The normalization of violence on the left over the past several years is more cause of the shooting than trump being president.

Right steve scalise?

Myballs said...

Some are now asking why Ginsburg and breyer didn't strategically retire during Obama's eight years. Now dems are praying for their health.

And btw, if the dem party hadn't rigged the primary for Hillary, we might well be seeing president bernie bernie choosing justices.

And then there's Harry Reid foolishly blowing up the filibuster for judges.

You reap what you sow.

commie said...

Right steve scalise?

That comment is as laughable as you posting it......The only people accepting violence is the right who has all 3 branches of Govmt and still chooses to vilify hillary and do nothing about guns....steve scalise having almost being killed should be leading the charge and does not by fellating trump to keep his job.....party over substance, the motto of the right...

caliphate4vr said...

Hell I think if Scalia hadn’t died we’d definitely have a donk president, donks don’t get how important judges were to the Rs in the election

commie said...

tradgity

The tradgity is you are full of shit.....you must be on some looney tune blogs to find that reaction.....and now apply it to the world, typical of non thinking idiots like you....

commie said...

The inshannity continues and the right conforms to this high school drop out...you want fake news....tune into faux, your source of choice...

U.S.
Sean Hannity Blames Maxine Waters For Capital Gazette Shooting

Conservative commentator Sean Hannity made incendiary claims on his radio show
Conservative commentator Sean Hannity made incendiary claims on his radio show Thursday afternoon, suggesting that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was somehow responsible for a shooting at the Capital Gazette offices earlier in the day.

An attacker opened fire Thursday inside the building of the Captial Gazette, owned by The Baltimore Sun, reportedly killing multiple people. Reporter Phil Davis tweeted after the shooting, “There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload.”

“I’ve been saying now for days that something horrible was going to happen because of the rhetoric. Really, Maxine?” said Hannity, referring to Waters. “You want people to create ― ‘Call your friends, get in their faces,’ and Obama said that, too. ‘Get in their faces, call them out, call your friends, get protesters, follow them into restaurants and shopping malls’ and wherever else she said.”

Yeah that's it as my ballz the idiot slurps it up like the good fool he is....

Commonsense said...

you must be on some looney tune blogs to find that reaction

It was the New York Times.

Myballs said...

Good grief. We don't call him dopie for nothing.

commie said...

And I call you the slurper because you do it so well and don't even know it!!! Seems that is all you have ballz....LOL!!

It was the New York Times.

Sure it was, asshole....