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Labor Unions Join Wall Street Occupiers for "Mass Rally'

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:lamo Congratulations, guys. You could not have picked a more inchoate, idiot group of hippies to tie your public image too. Half these people want to destroy your jobs... but you can't help yourself, and rush to join in with anyone yelling about the rich.


:) alternate headline for this story: Unions Jump Shark.


...Representatives from no fewer than 15 of the country's largest labor unions will join the Occupy Wall Street protesters for a mass rally and march today in New York City.

The AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, and Transit Workers' Union are among the groups expected to stand in solidarity with the hundreds of mostly young men and women who have spent the better part of three weeks sleeping, eating, and organizing from Zuccotti Square...
 
Oh my the terrible evil labor unions marching in solidarity with other protesting the end to wall street corruption! How absurd!
 
Ironic that a LABOR union would decry another about CORRUPTION, lol.
 
How many union, due paying jobs exist in companies that don't make a profit? Answer, none.

The unions are climbing in bed with the idiots that think "profits" are evil. The unions are climbing in bed with a bunch of econtards that want every debt in the world to be wiped out........do the union fools know how their retirement funds are invested? Answer, government bonds.

You can't make up this ship.
 
may those who are anti-union live to see why we had them in the first place.
 
It really sounds like you are though.
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....
http://occupywallst.org/forum/propos...all-st-moveme/

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
 
:lamo Congratulations, guys. You could not have picked a more inchoate, idiot group of hippies to tie your public image too. Half these people want to destroy your jobs... but you can't help yourself, and rush to join in with anyone yelling about the rich.


:) alternate headline for this story: Unions Jump Shark.

Sure they could have. They could have tied themselves to this group:

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Ironic that a LABOR union would decry another about CORRUPTION, lol.
It wasn't the labor unions who created the financial meltdown, it was Wall Street and the banks.
 
The labor unions especially public worker unions have been under assault since the Nov Election. Every teaparty supported Gov has vilified and attacked govt workers...can any of you expect them to just roll over for the teaparty crowd ? this is just starting...like I said the other day.
 
It wasn't the labor unions who created the financial meltdown, it was Wall Street and the banks.
Not my point. Labor unions, long known to be bastions of unbridled corruption, calling wall street, or any other orginization, corrupt. Irony.
 
Not my point. Labor unions, long known to be bastions of unbridled corruption, calling wall street, or any other orginization, corrupt. Irony.

Maybe the goon Jimmy Hoffa, Jr can give a speech on the lack of corruption in the union movement. I would love to read that speech.
 
expressing anger for the purpose of expressing anger, is stupid.

this movement has no goals or agenda, and I hope my union stays out of it.
 
Judging from this thread, Tea Party conservatives only like grassroots organizing and groups with similar ideas / goals joining together when it fits with their beliefs.
 
expressing anger for the purpose of expressing anger, is stupid.

this movement has no goals or agenda, and I hope my union stays out of it.

No, it's smart and healthy as long as it's done in a non-violent manner. Expressing anger in a rational manner lets you understand if your anger has a reasonable basis and if so to do something about it, or if not, to understand that and let it dissipate. People who hold onto their anger or try to suppress it might end up with a violent outburst, or causes friction in their relationships or problems in their life. With regards to the public, they have a right to express their anger at public policy, it's also healthy so that others who feel the same know they have solidarity and maybe form a movement to the institute the changes they want to see in their government and society.

Now the changes they want to see happen might be stupid - but that's subjective and a separate issue.
 
may those who are anti-union live to see why we had them in the first place.

Yeah, let's just turn all of America into Detroit.
 
Judging from this thread, Tea Party conservatives only like grassroots organizing and groups with similar ideas / goals joining together when it fits with their beliefs.

not at all. I love these guys - they are a huge boon to the right.
 
not at all. I love these guys - they are a huge boon to the right.

I absolutely want these useful idiots on TV. Conservative parents can use the protestors brain dead rantings as a tool to educate their children on what happens when people are told there is a free lunch.
 
not at all. I love these guys - they are a huge boon to the right.

Not really...Public Divided on Occupy Wall Street Protesters - Rasmussen Reports™

According to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports, 33 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Occupy Wall Street protesters (only 27 percent have a negative view, while 40 percent have no opinion). Most importantly, 79 percent of Americans agree with the protesters primary point that the “The big banks got bailed but the middle class got left behind.”
 
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....

Double thanks for posting this. The unions especially like Item #13....but I thought they could do that already?

Before I read this, CG, I was all for these demonstrators. Here I thought they were demonstrating against derivative crapola and high CEO salaries. Now I see they're for illegal immigration (making it all legal), forgiveness of all indebtedness (what???), being unable to track someone's credit before loaning them money, banning private insurers and letting the government rape us instead...and a variety of other demands that all spell one word: Socialism.
 
Double thanks for posting this. The unions especially like Item #13....but I thought they could do that already?

Before I read this, CG, I was all for these demonstrators. Here I thought they were demonstrating against derivative crapola and high CEO salaries. Now I see they're for illegal immigration (making it all legal), forgiveness of all indebtedness (what???), being unable to track someone's credit before loaning them money, banning private insurers and letting the government rape us instead...and a variety of other demands that all spell one word: Socialism.

That's just a post by someone on the forums. Here's why the site says the protests are about

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution
 
. Really? Explain this moron manifesto....

404, link not found, but it looks as already mentioned to just be some guy on a forum message board.

OK, got a working link: Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement! | OccupyWallSt.org Forum

Surprise, it was the Gateway Pundit that pushed this. They have a long history of dishonest "reporting".

Let's look at the opening of the post, which was not surprisingly left out of your post:

Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.

Epic fail there guy.
 
404, link not found, but it looks as already mentioned to just be some guy on a forum message board.

OK, got a working link: Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement! | OccupyWallSt.org Forum

Surprise, it was the Gateway Pundit that pushed this. They have a long history of dishonest "reporting".

Let's look at the opening of the post, which was not surprisingly left out of your post:



Epic fail there guy.

No...not fox news...they are Fair and Balanced and would never do that...
 
Double thanks for posting this. The unions especially like Item #13....but I thought they could do that already?

Before I read this, CG, I was all for these demonstrators. Here I thought they were demonstrating against derivative crapola and high CEO salaries. Now I see they're for illegal immigration (making it all legal), forgiveness of all indebtedness (what???), being unable to track someone's credit before loaning them money, banning private insurers and letting the government rape us instead...and a variety of other demands that all spell one word: Socialism.

and free college! make me pay back the massive loans I took out to study film and navel-gazing!!!??!!! Fascism, i tell you!!!
 
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