Public Service Announcement to all those that use a Guthrie avatar:

[Juicy_Bellows]

Please listen and learn.



EDIT - We all need to listen to this.

If you're against Unions you are no liberal, you're plain ol' mean.

We are all brothers and sisters.

[Actor]

1. If you are against unions, you are probably a republican. If you are against unions

and you are a working person, you are brainwashed.

[Juicy_Bellows]

3. + ∞

Well said my friend.

[KamaAina]

5. Sadly, union-bashing is seeping into the Dem party as well

at least the DINO wing of it. Arne Duncan and Rahmbo have relentlessly bashed teachers' unions. Former San Jose mayor Chuck Reed made police and firefighters' union-bashing his top priority. And so on.

[Juicy_Bellows]

6. It's gross.

If we cannot stand together on this issue why are we a party?

[merrily]

2. My parents were both union members. I have belonged to a union whenever I have been eligible.

I am pro-union. In the event of a conflict between leadership and membership, however, I am with membership.

[Juicy_Bellows]

4. What a world it would be if we all had the opportunity to unionize.

[merrily]

7. It sure didn't come cheaply.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/127710540

[Juicy_Bellows]

8. My word - what a post/link.

How? What? WHO ARE THEY?

I don't expect anyone to answer, it's rhetorical but Jesus Hernandez Christ.

[merrily]

9. I am happy to answer, but I don't understand the questions.

For example, when you say who are they, to whom are you referring?

[Juicy_Bellows]

10. Simply those that do not see...

I appreciate your kind words.

[merrily]

11. Ah, I get it now.

[Juicy_Bellows]

12. :) like those that use Woodie's avatar and are anti-union.

Those asshats.

[merrily]

13. Oh, I hadn't noticed them. That makes the OP more clear.

I wonder what they think/assume/imagine he stood for? Or are they simply trying to steal his cred? smh

[Juicy_Bellows]

14. Unfortunately it's pervasive on DU. You'd think they're an ally but nope.

EDIT - there are so many here that aren't liberal - Their true colors are showing.

[merrily]

15. I think the parties are in the process of re-aligning.

All the posts about who is a "real" Democrat and who is not are, in my opinion beside the point.

The issue is ideology, not Party labels.

[Juicy_Bellows]

16. I agree - what that makes us now is irrelevant. NT.

[malaise]

17. Great post

Solidarity Forever!

Rec

[Omaha Steve]

18. Thanks for posting

I'm in. K&R!

OS

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. I was a member of IBEW 613 for several years.

There were scant few of us in our own little unit of that local, but it wasn't a line of work that was ever going to burgeon. It was a technical specialty; the scope was large, and the legal responsibility huge, from a liability standpoint.

In the rest of the country, the job was not organized - BC was DEEP union territory in those days, and I have no idea why those other employees took on that kind of pressure for half the money we in BC were paid.

To give you an idea of what the corporation thought of the situation, consider that vital training on new equipment was carried out in head office for all the tech people across the country...except us. We didn't merely get the training at a different time, they sent the trainers out to the coast to train us in our own facility, lest we somehow infect the other employees with Union Flu.

I was DAMNED glad to have staunch and powerful representation. I never "needed" the protection, because I was responsible and knew what I was doing, but the wages and bennies negotiated for us were pretty damned good.

Unions were a HUGE part of why the middle class became what it did, and the weakening of those organizations and concurrent diminishing of the middle class are no coincidence.

[TIME TO PANIC]

20. Finally, someone pointed this out!

I've actually seen people on here with Woody Guthrie avatars defending the TPP.

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. KnR!

[Paka]

22. K&R

[Javaman]

23. This machine kills fascists.

[mhatrw]

24. cheap labor people suck