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‘Right-to-Work Has got to Go!’ Union Activists Shut Down Mich. Capitol Building, Eight Arrested
Police used pepper spray Thursday to subdue protesters trying to rush the Michigan state Senate after Gov. Rick Snyder and other Republican leaders announced they would press for quick approval of right-to-work legislation limiting union powers.
“When several of the individuals rushed the troopers, they used chemical munitions to disperse the crowd,” said Michigan State Police Inspector Gene Adamczyk. “It would be a lot worse if someone gets hurt and I failed to act.”
A few of the anti-right-to-work protesters engaged in dangerous and threatening behavior. From Michigan Capitol Confidential:
“A union supporter cuts up a sign from supporters of right-to-work laws,” the video’s description reads.
The Capitol was temporarily closed because of concerns for the safety of people and the building. Adamczyk estimated about 2,500 visitors were at the Capitol.
So-called right-to-work measures generally prohibit requiring unions from collecting fees from nonunion employees, which opponents say drains unions of money and weakens their ability to bargain for good wages and benefits. Supporters insist it would boost the economy and job creation. Should it become law in Michigan, it would give the right-to-work movement its strongest foothold yet in the Rust Belt region.
Again, those opposed to the right-to-work legislation weren’t shy about letting its supporters know how they really felt:
“Union members protesting a right-to-work law turn from picketing the capitol to intimidating other citizens supporting a right-to-work law, getting physical and screaming at a man playing a Ronald Reagan speech,” the video’s description reads. “One union member resorts to personally cussing out the man playing the speech.”
After repeatedly insisting during his first two years in office that right-to-work was not on his agenda, Snyder reversed course Thursday, a month after voters defeated a ballot initiative that would have barred such measures under the state constitution.
“This is all about taking care of the hard-working workers in Michigan, being pro-worker and giving them freedom to make choices,” Snyder said during a news conference with House Speaker Jase Bolger and Senate Minority Leader Randy Richardville, both fellow Republicans.
“The goal isn’t to divide Michigan, it is to bring Michigan together,” Snyder said.
But the decision to push forward in the waning days of the Legislature’s lame-duck session infuriated outnumbered Democrats, who resorted to parliamentary maneuvers to slow action but were powerless to block the bills that were expected to be introduced Thursday.
Senate Democratic leader Gretchen Whitmer said she was “livid.”
“These guys have lied to us all along the way,” she said. “They are pushing through the most divisive legislation they could come up with and the dark of night, at the end of a lame-duck session and then they’re going to hightail it out of town. It’s cowardly.”
Hundreds of chanting, whistle-blowing union activists packed the state Capitol rotunda and hallways, chanting slogans such as “Union buster” and “Right-to-work has got to go.”
State officials said two platoons of 32 state police officers have been dispatched to guard the Capitol building, the Lansing State Journal reports.
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deploy-the-nukes
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:55pmDemocrat bldch whitmer is complaining because the republicans stole their strategy. What did peeonulosy say about obummercare: ‘You have to pass the bill to read it’. Turn about is fair play for number one and two is every one of them are nothing but liars anyway (both parties) so to whitmer I say
quityergripingbldch!
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The_Jerk
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:19pmUnions gotta go. They are a cancer on our economy, not too different from bottom feeding lawyers.
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SUNTZU
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:38pmRIGHT TO WORK\
not till you pay the COMMIE basSturds
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muffythetuffy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:46pmSECESSION?
Will Michigan join Vermont and Texas? The TEA is not violent but is blamed for the behavior of UNION THUG GOONS. The police should have used those hollow point bullets on the Soviet Goons.
Secession today, secession tomorrow, secession forever…
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muffythetuffy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:49pmARE THERE NOW THREE STARS ON THE NEW FLAG?
Texas, Vermont, Michigan, …
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muffythetuffy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:53pmTAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THOSE FACES AND MEMORIZE THEM
That is the new enemy of the American people. The violently attempted to prevent democratically elected legislature from passing laws. The Russian word for unions is SOVIET. Do you want a Soviet USA?
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poorrichard09
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:00pmIn order to justify their cushy jobs and salaries, the union bosses in the ’60′s and ’70′s kept pushing higher wages, more benefits, bigger pensions-and priced the American worker right out of the global labor market. It started with auto makers and in domino affect went down the line to steel makers, rubber (tire) workers, and other businesses related to auto production. IMHO
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skimmer57
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:34pmHey rocket scientists– 8 out of the top ten states that use the most food stamps are right to work states! Think about it! The rich get richer! FOOLS!
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turkey13
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:59pmHere in Oklahoma & Texas we can only hanldle so many company’s moving here. In Pontotoc county unemployment has stayed under 4% for almost 3 years. Wehen you see companys puting up permanent signs saying “NOW HIRING.” on all 3 shifts.You should see our Sunday want ads, it looks like the Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City.
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rawmilker
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:23amUnions, always trying to intimidate other peoples $$ for their own gain. Infamous quotes from union workers.
All you have to do is show up for work on time and they can’t fire you
I get paid by the hour so I take my time.
It all pays the same whether I work fast or work slow.
Is it time for the 20 min mid-morning break yet?
Is it lunch time yet?
is it time for the after lunch 20 min break?
Is it time for almost quitting time break?
Its too late to get another project started its almost quitting time…take a break….
I think I’ll take a sick day tomorrow and go fishing.
And #1 quote by union workers…..Hey boss, we’re making $27.00 an hour when we getting a raise?
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Conservative2
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:17amThe Governor finally grew some nads, Unions are the down fall of all states economies, keeps businesses away. Everyone seen what these unions did to GM and Chrysler, almost Ford. Just look what it takes to buy a new car now, dam near a mortgage requirement. I wonder when closing costs will be part of buying a car? There was a day when these unions had a real need to protect the workers, but that day has been gone now for over 30 years plus. The worst part is these Union thugs are too ate up with the unions to know they’re being taken, just look what the Hostess Union did to 18k members! It’s all about the money in the end! Now I can be proud of our state republicans….
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old white guy
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:00amthe people get dumber every day. unions that no longer want to make sure people get to work. there must be a contradiction there somewhere.
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nocakeforme12
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:03amHey skimmer 8 out of 10 states with the highest unemployment are non right to work states. It doesn’t take rocket science to see that unions destroy jobs and companies.
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mizzouwendy
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:10amSKIMMER……not sur where you got your information from, but CNBC did a story about the top welfare states and 13 of the top 15 state wer blue state not red. Here is the story: http://www.cnbc.com/id/31910310/The_Biggest_US_Welfare_States
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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:20amThere once was a thing called the Union. Everything they got near they did ruin.
They carried signs and cried out “we are superior” yet everyone knew that the products they built were inferior.
They scream we want more or we will walk out the door but they had far less ethics than the street corner whore.
The thugs always were bitchen but were more like the bugs that come out at night in your kitchen.
So to all I say if it’s union built do not pay. You will only get trash and build up their political stash which will ruin our country some day.
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Cavallo
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:01amUnions cannot survive unless they use FORCE to obtain membership.
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Cavallo
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:22pmLooks like Detroit is headed for Chapter 9 Bankruptcy! Take a bow leftists!
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somecallmeMC
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 3:56pm@skimmer according to the huffington post article crossed with NRTW.org sites map it is 4 out of the top ten food stamp states are right to work.
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Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:44pm“These guys have lied to us all along the way,” she said. “They are pushing through the most divisive legislation they could come up with and the dark of night, at the end of a lame-duck session and then they’re going to hightail it out of town. It’s cowardly.”
Is she talking about the democrats in Wisconsin last year?
I’ll never work for a stinking union. My brother moved to Wisconsin as a teacher & he was forced to join the union & pay their dues if he wanted a job. How crazy is that.
Unions suck funds from their members, and cause rates for everything they touch to skyrocket. We cannot be competitive with the rest of the world when we have to pay all these golden benefits to the unions.
If Texas secedes, I bet Boeing would be happy to move their plants there to escape the union gougers.
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:51pmUnions! Bye Bye!
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:48pmNot to mention Unions make it impossible to get rid of bad workers. They just hang around the neck of all the good workers, dragging them down.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:56pmTime to shut down the unions. they deserve to be put down like dogs.
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chips1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:04pmDoes anyone need a new goal post? Trumpka is available!!!
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:45pmThe unions used up their public support years back. The more they whine the less they are going to find support at the State and local levels.
By-by unions.
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paperpushermj
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:41pmWhy do I get the opinion that those protesters work for or derive their money from Unions. So in a twist of meaning they are there to support their right to work.
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:48pmOnly their’s no one else’s. BYE BYE UNIONS BACKTO MOTHER RUSSIA COMRADES. LOL
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chicago76
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:42amMany are paid, non-union people making a minimum wage if that, protesters. They find street people, many who are mentally ill, and gin them up, then send them to wherever to do what street people do, stand around and look for trouble.
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katzmeow44
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:40pmActivists activists…everywhere I look there’s a flippin’ activist! When do they plan to relax, take a trip to Hawaii, or maybe an outting with their kids? Probably never! They’re too busy stressing out about how they’re going to force the rest of us to think like they do! Get a life!!
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Wilma
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:21amWell said.
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:39pmMy mother worked for General Motors and the Automakers Union would negotiate raises for the workers then turn around and raise their dues. Giving themselves a raise. Those unions sure did get some great deals for the employees. All to the detriment of the company paying the wages. Why do you think cars are so expensive. To pay for the great benefits.
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BlackCrow
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:49pmWell you also have to factor in the air bags, emissions controls and all the other un-needed and unwanted government mandated cr^p!
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M13
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:50pmU.A.W. members pay two hours a month of their wages no matter what they make per hour. So it does go up when they get pay raises. I worked in an auto factory for 31 years. The U.A.W. couldn’t organize a pick nick at the park, let alone any Japanese auto company.
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asybot12
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:54pmHey blackcrow agenda 21 perhaps?
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:39pmMy,my, my, how the shoe does pinch when it is on the other foot. Dems have no right to cry foul when they have used the exact same tactic themselves. Sure hope right-to-work passes. Unions have devolved into nothing more than legalized extortion. The union leaders are true parasites, feeding off the membership and giving them (or society) nothing of true value in return. Trumka and his ilk are no better than bedbugs.
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:45pmWe need a like button!
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FatherD
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:28pmTrumpka and his ilk are more like intestinal worms, destroying the gut from the inside. They do not care if they kill the host, as they demonstrate over and over.
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:59pmyEP NONO IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE A LIKE BOTTON, MAYBE WE CAN GET THE UNION TO GET US ONE. ( NAUGHT) LOL
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pamela kay
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:16amALL4FREEDOM, LOL! Like we didn’t see this coming. I figured that out from the get go. The Unions are no longer what they once were. Greed and corruption has taken over. I would bet the same faces will be seen over and over again. Union Thugs are the Mafia of today.
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spfoam1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:36pmThe best example of a union was the Soviet Union. That worked really swell, didn’t it?
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SUNTZU
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:49pmF in A
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:09pmIt’s never worked but they keep trying, they think if they tweek it this way and tweek it that way it will work just fine. you can’t tweek STUPED.
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:35pmLMAO!! And all this is after Obummer dumped millions into saving Detroit. Money, money, money! The union creed.
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmAh unions… corrupt good old boys clubs where their demands put American jobs overseas. The average UAW union employee, including retired union members, earns around $70 an hour when benefits are included. They went from taking care of employees to demanding exorbitant, greedy wages and benefits. I can see why these stooges want Michigan to get rid of right-to-work. It would kill them to have to manage their own retirement like many have to in the real world. Thanks, goons. Keep whining about jobs going away and wondering why.
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmStop the Lies! I live in a right to work state and we have unions. They negotiate with the company on our behalf but they can’t force us to join the union. They have to treat us non-union workers just like everyone else. They can’t force us to pay union dues and then support politicians I don’t support with my money. We have to accept the contracts they negotiate. Good and Bad! We get to choose if we go on strike or not. Only difference is we don’t get paid to strike. If you cross the line you are treated like dirt by your co-workers.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:59pmthat is why unions need a bullet in the face, a sledge to their shins.
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eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iP2DL9_AGWg
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TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:30pmWAAAAAAHHH…..WE CAN’T USE FORCE TO SEIZE PART OF SOMEONE’S PAY AND COMPEL THEM TO JOIN OUR ORGANIZATION TO WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE………….WWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
I know that isn’t what the unions say, but that’s what I hear.
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intercepter
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:29pmcatchy slogans ,people that don’t see and or just don’t care but they are just ruining the country,if some of these guys had to compete thru quality work verses intimidation and shouting down their tune might be hey hey ho ho should have did a better job now where did it go
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encinom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:28pmLong Live the WORKERS!!!
Snyder is another GOP governor sucking on the teat of the Koch Brothers. The People of hte state spoke, and shot down the ballot initive, now the cowards in a lame duck session are attemtping to strip rights from workers to make their billionaire donors happy. This is the true class war, the Rich buying state houses to undercut the rights and benefits of the workers.
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:33pmAre you sure you’re not confusing those donors with all the union money that was given to the Democrats? Loser.
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Mr Galt
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:37pmYou don’t know what you’re talking about. Michigan shot down ALL of the union initiatives. I know, I live here. Idiot Prog.
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:39pmDon’t like the lefty tactics now do you !!! Deal with it.
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OnwardThroughTheFog
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:39pmNO RICH = NO JOBS = NO WORKERS….DUMBA$$ (Gubment jobs don’t count since they don’t provide anything)!
I defy any union thugs to keep me from working. I’d rather have the right to do real work than the right to stand around watching the lower pay ‘laborers’ work. I’ve worked on union jobs before. Pathetic…..like you, Troll.
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nonofmybiznez
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:43pmTroll
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DEFCON4
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:44pm@Encinom, Time to put a “hammer and sickle” in your avatar !
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encinom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:10pm@Ayn Rand Idiot Mr. Galt. That is why even this article sites the reason for Synder ignoring the will of the people is “a month after voters defeated a ballot initiative that would have barred such measures under the state constitution.”
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usedCZARsalesman
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:54pmRe-read your own quote you moron…they shot down a bill that would bar RIGHT TO WORK legislation! That means they WANT right to work laws…god the left is so friggin stupid
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Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:08pmEncinoidiot- Paid Union Troll
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glckgrl
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:46pmWith all due respect, methinks you might have partaked in smoking the same delusional wacky weed that Obama brags about in Dreams of My Father and laughed about inhaling on Leno. Or was it the white powder that has tainted your critical thinking skills?
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4areason
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:31pmEncinom, you have misread the article. We in Michigan shot down the initiative to bar the right to work legislation. We want right to work laws here. The initiative wanted to force more unionization in the state. I have never needed a union to represent me, though I have been forced to pay union dues. When I worked in a union office, I was pulled aside by my union steward and told I needed to slow down and do less or I would set the standard too high for others. That was my first taste of a union, and it was a bad taste that stuck. Every encounter I have had since with a union has been a protection of bad employee practices, not representing the little guy like they try to play it. They chose to go out on strike when they were the highest paid employees in the city. While on strike, union employees caused damage to vehicles and threatened truck drivers with ball bats smashing their windows while driving. This is America, we should be free to choose if we want to belong to an organization or not. Think it through Encinom. How would you like to be forced to pay dues to an organization that you don’t agree with? The people in Michigan voted it down. Watch the video, it is just plain bad manners to act in such a ridiculously rude manner. The visual unfortunately represents the truth of unions…in your face and fighting for all the wrong causes.
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glassaudioguy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:36pmEncinom- if you think unions are so good for the workers, go eat a Twinkie!
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:28pmYou sound like a broken record, You repeat the same dems talking points over and over. please for all of us on both sides stop and think, I am sure you no right from wrong so slow down take a deep breath and think, but please don’t hurt yourself.
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rawmilker
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:44amENCINOM, why don’y you take your Koch Bros drivel & shove it up your ass! You sound like a broken record….
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AvengerK
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:41amLOL….very good ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO/KREGNEVA…”koch brothers”..”99%”..”workers unite”…”GOP favors the rich”.
And where’s all that lefty rote of yours got Detroit ENCIDIOT? LOL.
That’s all one has to do with you in this instance…let you cry your lefty rote until your hoarse and then just point you to Detroit..all of a sudden..the sound of crickets. Idiot.
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:44pmNotice he never responds? That’s because he’s not here to discuss, he’s here to vandalize.
Another reason we need more moderators/moderators with **** on their chests
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wrecked
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:28pmThis union thing worked out well for the hostess company workers didnt it ? Thugs thats all they are at the top. To bad the working stiff has no say so. But if ya wanna keep paying those dues go right ahead.
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encinom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:34pmOf course the CEO thye raised his salary 300%, they was justified, its the fault of the workers making under $20 AN HOUR.
Tea Baggers want serfdom, they live for the crumbs from their master’s table.
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Fubared
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:58pmMonicene the free ****** speaks. Or is it encinomom? Who is it? WHat is it? Free ******.
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Chromo200
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:01pmENCINOM And if you were made CEO, you would be such a great guy and want to be paid a few dollars more than the average worker is your “factory”. BS you would want as much money as the other CEOs.
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encinom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:12pmChromo, the CEO is Costco, pays his employees more than average with better benefits and recevies a smaller salary than average. Guess what, happy employees work harder for him and Costco is extremely profitable.
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Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:11pmEncinoidiot- How’s it feel to be a stupid clueless Tea Bagee?
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pudssweetie
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:40am@ENCINOM, Yes the CEO of Hostess did get a big raise, but what you fail to mention is the fact that he was also fired and replaced. After Hostess filed for Chapter 11, they hired a guy to come in to help with restructuring and the first thing he did was fire the CEO. The second thing he did was renegotiated the Union Contracts with both Unions, the one Union accepted the concessions but the Bakers Union refused because they wanted more pay and benefits. So while the Other Union members agreed to take a cut in pay and benefits to save their jobs, the Baker’s Unions, being GREEDY, refused, went on strike and ultimately forced everyone to loose their jobs and forced Hostess to close it’s doors permanently. Moral of the story, when Unions force Employers to pay higher wages and benefits when times are tough, businesses like Hostess go out of business.
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Git-R-Done
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:28amEncidiot – Any proof that Costco has to deal with unions like Hostess did? And you show that you have no knowledge of what accounting or math are. Even the raises of the CEOs added altogether aren’t nearly as much as the combined expenses of the employees.
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:28pmDon’t like the tactics used well they learned them from unions.
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Bluebonnet
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:46pmAs a young gal I read an article about how sleezy the Unions were and decided I would never be a part of a group who are so violent and show no respect for another person’s point of view. Then I had a mother-in-law who normally was a nice lady who went loony when her company went out on strike.
Couldn’t believe how violent she talked and acted and I wanted no part of UNIONS, or her, and finally moved away.. Why pay those horrid union dues and be told what to do, then allow those horrid unions to give millions to a political party you want nothing to do with??? You probably won’t ever get what you’ve put into the unions back when this Nation goes down hill with obama at the helm.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:24pmUnderstand clearly – this is a portion of the battle for the dominance of America, by the progressives and the union thugs, and the extremists against the will and wishes of the people who want to be free.
What will happen when one of these band of union thugs manages to reach a legislative body and do real harm to them? What would stop a union band threatening their families, as has happened in the past, from crossing the line and drawing first-blood, or for that matter one of their family members or a threatened legislative member from feeling they have no choice left and fires first in their defense?
We all can imagine Obama’s response all too easily.
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmThis is in the hornets nest and Michigan has the lowest of the low so expect violence.
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encinom
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:31pmI see no thugs, just patriotic Americans defending their right to a fair wage and work environment..
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:42pm@ encinom
If a fair wage is what they want they’ll have to settle for a wage cut.
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Mr Galt
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:04pm@ENCINOM
So, you think $88/hour is a “fair wage” for doing assembly line work? Because according to Crain’s Detroit, that’s what it costs for the wages, bennies and pensions for your blue color brothers. Don’t seem very reasonable to me.
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ranepowel
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:15pmSorry, but if your CEO and upper executives are making millions of dollars and yet they claim their company is going broke…it isn’t the workers who need to take a pay cut.
Just like the nonsense someone was spouting on a different page, saying how they make over 250k a year, so they will be affected by the tax hike, and that will cause them to probably have to fire someone at their small business.
Well, guess what?? You could take a paycut yourself and ensure that your employee has a steady/stable work environment, while also lowering yourself out of the bracket affected by higher taxes! Oh, wait, lol…never mind. People would rather make someone suffer and blame it on the big bad democrat, rather than take a pay cut themselves for their employees.
Employees make a business run, not the business owner. Business owners OWE their employees a decent wage and safe working environment; and if they cannot provide that while also making more than 98% of Americans out there…then maybe it’s time THEY think about taking a pay cut themselves.
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Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:17pmEncinoidiot, Wrong again as usual.
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asybot12
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:53pmDid ecinom change his or her name to rane powell?
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:34pmSnow, what is about to happen here in this county is not going to be easy but it has to be done, we have no coice. It’s going to cost us only because we have waited to long but in the end we will win.
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glassaudioguy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:42pmI’ll agree that to take some huge bonus when the company is tanking is poor form at best, but considering Hostess had 18,500 workers, if you were to confiscate that and divide that extra amongst every one of them it isn’t much at all.
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4areason
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:45pmRanePowell, you are not looking at the 250K comment objectively. I own a small business. I put everything I own on the line…everything. I downsized my house and pulled the equity out to finance my business. I sacrifice 80 hours a week. I’m there long after everyone else goes home. I fight every week to make payroll. I haven’t seen a paycheck in 2 years. I can’t sleep at night thinking about my employees families and how much they count on their jobs in this economy. If I was as selfish as you think I am, I would have quit and closed the doors 2 years ago. I could lose everything…the business, my sweat equity, my home. When the company turns the corner (which will be next to impossible with the coming regulations) and it finally makes a little money, I will be the evil greedy capitalist who is selfish and doesn’t care about my workers. Quit listening to the divisive garbage being spewed about by the folks who do truly want to enslave Americans. Get real, if you only want to “risk” 40 hours of your life waiting for your next paycheck, then you get paid according to your risk. If you choose to put it all on the line (and in today’s world – a hope and a prayer) well then you should be rewarded accordingly.
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daveleeander
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:59pmWell said 4areason,
I too have exerted the maximum effort to ensure my 1 person (now) survives this nonsense that obozo and the rest of the mob is putting on us. I will lose everything but my wife, and she’s stood by me for a while now. Thank you for a reasonable response to unreasonable (and in the case of enconim I think brain dead) people.
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:23pmobama’s unionized terrorists doing what they do best.
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MCON29
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:23pmClearly the only people who have the right to work are Union members. Their families are more important.
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:34pmThat pretty well sums up their attitudes.
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M40-A1
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:21pmThat’s correct America, your right to work has got to go. Just remember that your electricity, gasoline, food, and water are all delivered and maintained, for the most part, by a union. They have no reservations about letting you freeze and starve as we witnessed in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy. So my question to all of you who are good for nothing but to enrich the union coffers with your hard earned income is what are you going to do about it?
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variable51
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:28pmSadly, you’re probably right in that the unions don’t care about anyone but themselves. Herein, lies the key. This attitude alone should be enough to vote unions out.
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wisconsinlcm
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:21pmIf unions want to try and slow down or even stop delivries, after the law is passed then they can be replaced no problem. I have been in a union sence the early 70 t’s and only because I had to. the union leaders lie their a?? off to the rack and file, It”s all about power and money, So when I see state leaders standing up and doing the right thing for there state it make’s me think there is still hope.
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South Philly Boy
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:18pmUnion + workers pay raise = Higher Prices for Everyone Else
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Patriot Z
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:16pmunion thugs crying cause nobody wants to play with them. face it unions, people know you have outlived your usefulness and know your true face
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sleepnomore
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:15pmTo No lies, just the truth-allow people to choose for themselves once in law,. They may love it!! More money in checks instead of giving unions vacations!! Right to work is only way to go—good job!!!
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