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New Ad Compares North Koreans to U.S. Union Members, Saying Neither Can ‘Change the System’

Rick Berman Tells Neil Cavuto About New Ad Comparing Union Members to North Koreans

According to a recent ad released by the Center for Union Facts, citizens of North Korea are much like American union members in that neither are open to real change.

Fox News Insider reports:

Rick Berman, from the Center of Union Facts, joined Your World to defend the new ads and talked about the great responses they’ve gotten. He said, “It’s designed to tell people that if you live in North Korea, you can’t change the system that you’re living under. And if you’re in a workplace, you can’t change that system either if the union got voted in during the 1940s or the 50s or the 60s.”

Berman concluded, “They are taking a bad situation and making it worse for the average American worker and the president knows exactly what he is doing, he has created the most pro-union National Labor Relations Board in the history of the National Labor Relations Act.”

 

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  • koyettsu
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:09am

    The funny thing is unions come from Communism, it is a staple in Communism and part of changing a country over from whatever they are to Communism. They were created here by anti Republic, anti Capitalist Communists and have since been portrayed as something else.

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    • timej31
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:18am

      Hopefully soon we’ll outlaw unions.

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    • JRook
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:40am

      Interesting statement. Totally false but an interesting statement. The organized labor movement began in American with trade guilds that were brought over from England. As there are bad individuals with bad intentions within capitalism, so there are bad individuals with bad intentions within the labor movement. However, the notion that workers do not need to organize or should not have the right to organize within a free capitalistic society is nothing less than a totalitarian state. Collective bargaining is the only thing that keeps large corporations from eliminating the minimum wage and returning labor to indentured servants. Let’s keep in mind that beyond the investment stage, it is the workers who provide the real value of a company, not the executives and certainly not the wealthy investors. Workers who are paid reasonably for this contribution, buy things which create demand and fuel economic growth and create jobs. As the wealthy do not create jobs….they merely invest, along with equity funds and union pension plans, in the factors of production which satisfy this demand.

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  • Veritas Libertas
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:26am

    This is a call for “bottom up” action. The negative comparison is meant to enrage union members by insulting their sense of importance.

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  • mharry860
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:44am

    When I worked at McKinstry Mechanical in Seattle as a draftsman, my fire protection sprinkler drawings were engineered down to 1/16th of an inch. The pipes were delivered cut and threaded for assembly with numbering on the pipes so they knew how to assemble them. The union workers who assembled my work made 3 times what I did, go figure.

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:18pm

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    The only difference between N. Korean drones & American Union drones is N. Korean drones are thin, malnourished and already HAVE national socialism. American Union drones are a bunch of over-paid, fat,

    U. seless
    N. on-producers
    .I. NSISTING
    O. n
    N. ational
    S. ocialism!
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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:29am

      crapitalism= socialism communism for the rich- the teaparty is further left then communism even marx wrote about liberitarianism……..communiists anarchists created libertarianism
      like capitalism is not socialized paid for by everyone…..for the few parasites-
      without government there would be no super wealthy! and Government -is a socialism! Capitalism has bragged it would fix issues…for over a hundred years its done nothing but destroy wealth
      red-states are welfare states no conservative country on the planet.. the proof is in the pudding-conservative states have the highest misery! highest poverty “right to work” means right to low wages-
      us blue-staters are tired of the takers the redstaters even talking about welfare the costs to bring you retards services like internet phone costs us more then welfare for poor people! ever did

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:43am

      @Molotov
      I’m going to speak slowly so you can understand me.

      S t o p d o I n g m u s h r o o m s. Y o u r b r a i n i s n o t w o r k i n g a t a l l.

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:12pm

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    Please don’t compliment union members by calling them, “Employees”. I wouldn’t even classify them as, “Workers”. They’re actually all a collection of over-paid fat & lazy union drones. Especially the public sector ones!
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  • thedarkknightreturns
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:59pm

    There is often a bit of confusion on the subject matter, but Fascism and Communism are almost like 2 sides of the same coin, the biggest difference is traditionally Fascism recognizes the ownership of private property and a sense of some degree of a capitalist market economy system. Modern China and Russia both fit these parameters. For mostly practical reasons Communism is dead, even in the most steadfast “Marxist” inspired nations. But appearances have to be maintained and lip service paid of course. Unionized labor was big in both Fascist and Communist nations. Nazism is just a brand of Fascism, Hitler gained the support of the largest (already existing) labor union in Germany (The German Workers Party)

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Actually, unions were banned in both Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:22pm

      Also, “The German Worker’s Party” was never a union — it was a political party. Hitler joined it, took it over, and added “National Socialist” to it’s name — National Socialist German Worker’s Party.

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    • thedarkknightreturns
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:40am

      opposition is rarely tolerated by the powers at be… both governments started as part of organized Labor movements.

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    • thedarkknightreturns
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:47am

      The worker’s party may have initially had only 40 members or something but at the time that was better organized than most….most were affiliated with the railroads.

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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:43pm

    But my shop steward said the public should pay more because of like our hard labor sometimes and coming to work most days, and not hanging out on a claim for 3 years and working a side job while in arbitration, or the myriad of mandantory breaks we didn’t take when it is “law” for us to take them and stuff and we need bigger retirements and stuff for our labors and work ethic thingy. Our shop steward is like a rock star at the local kari-oke thing and he should get waaay more money and we wish we could give him more in dues too for letting us work our own flex hours and punching each others time cards when we aren’t even at work. Unions and progressives. Which is the bigger pile of excrement.
    US Post office… The same exact people are going to “run” our health care and we are acting sane about it…

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  • concealled9mms
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:32pm

    well the unions are communist

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  • jungle J
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:32pm

    Unions have help destroyed industry in this country. How could they not. They are adversaries of whatever business they are involved in

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:27pm

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    New Ad Compares North Koreans to U.S. Union Members…….

    So your tell’in me, the North Koreans are just as stupid and uneducated as their U.S. Counterparts, Or is it, Union Members are as smart as a N. Koreans? Wonders never cease……

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:01pm

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    Wouldn’t it be a kick to see that crowd carpet-bombed with a few loads of, “Daisy Cutters”?
    HeII of a clean-up job though. But perfect work for unionized janitors.
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  • thedarkknightreturns
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:53pm

    Modern China and Russia are actually more like fascist countries, with a semi-free market economic sector. Which is ironic in many ways considering (for example) that Russia is always celebrating it’s victory in the great patriotic war over Nazism and Fascism. My family is Russian on my mothers side and we have friends from Moscow that go back to visit family. Before the Federation it was a five year prison sentence if a civilian was found to be in possession of a firearm, now lots of people have them. But we hate what Putin is doing to Russia now. I would say the United States is making it’s way down the fascist yellow brick road as well.

    *great parade:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhkePLsm_pU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhkePLsm_pU

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  • freeweever
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:49pm

    They’ve brainwashed these idiot union serfs…they have counterintuitive means to their ends. They are North Korea thats what unions and progressives want it is so unbelievable that they are doing this to our America while millions and millions along with my whole family just by and watch it fall while watching reality shows like its a religion. They are the USELESS IDIOTS! Sorry but its true. Hurts me to say.

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    • annieoakley
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:38pm

      It hurts to see that the people one cares about the most seem oblivious to the truth.

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  • heyjim55
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:49pm

    One more thing if he does get another 4 or more years , I think he will stay beyond his term since no one is stopping him at anything else. We all may be at some point summoned by our Government or some such agency to explain or renounce our political beliefs or face some kind of punishment or re education. If Obama is true to his ideology then he will order this done, no Communist would let it slide they would want to clean things up over time. It’s really a matter on how much trouble is being caused by the oposition or anyone who disagrees with the edicts. The more tame the populace the easier it will be for dear leader to advance his agenda. It all depends on how much anger and outrage we Americans express and what we do about it, the more unrest to longer it will take to clean it up and of course millions may die since no self respecting Communist could take over a country without killing a whole lot of people it’s just what they do and have always done. I would rather fight and die for my beliefs than to bow to them and become a slave.

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  • From Virginia
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:42pm

    Unions have destroyed industry in this country. How could they not. They are adversaries of whatever business they are involved in. They have destroyed the textile, steel and suto industries. We make NOTHING in this country any longer and it all stems from unions jacking up the prices of the products the business produces because of unrealistic wages and benefits that can’t compete in the world market. Businesses give up and move their product production overseas so they can compete and stay in business.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:49pm

      Well to be fair, it’s not all unions, it’s unions, super high taxes, and government policies that make it more profitable for raw material producers to sell their raw materials over seas than refining them in this country. The textile/furniture was killed because farmers were given huge government subsidies if they sold raw cotton overseas instead of in the us, then we had huge tariffs on thread and cloth, that wasn’t charged on finished clothes or furniture.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:39pm

      @Swampy – I understand what you’re saying about the textile industy. However, unions directly killed US Steel. It‘s also obvious what they’ve done to the auto industry.

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  • heyjim55
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:32pm

    It’s really about changing our economic and political system into something that is closer to Communism. Strengthen unions or use them to advance the agenda, notice nothing much has been said about GM moving the Volt to China. Unions should be screaming their heads off and we hear nothing from the Left. The more weakened the country and it’s population while maintaining control of civil unrest only advances their agenda. Unions are and have always been influenced or infiltrated by Communist’s now of course they are permitted to run unions. Obama is in the middle of sharing missile technology with the Russians, at the same time is proposing troop reductions in all branches of the military. He by passes Congress and the Senate when ever possible, he thinks and talks to the public like their children, all acts similar of a dictator. While we all witness the GOP self destruct and beat each other up, a Ron Paul possible third party potential that would gaurantee a Obama victory. Micheal Savage is right if he gets another 4 years were toast! This guy hates America as it was founded and wants to destroy it . Our president wants to redistribute the wealth, that includes military technology, missile technology not just our tax dollars and our jobs.

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  • bukowski72
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:25pm

    “The Center for Union Facts is an interest group critical of union officials’ activities. It is one of several advocacy and public relations groups created by Richard Berman. Berman’s Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm, Berman and Company, specializes in research, communications and advertising.”

    public affairs firm, Berman and Company
    public affairs firm, Berman and Company
    public affairs firm, Berman and Company

    Rich Berman, Another K Street wh*re pumping out what ever big business will pay him for.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:17pm

    BO and the dem libs know where the majority of their campaign cash comes from. UNIONS. BO and the dem libs could care less if this country will soon run over the cliff. They just hope to be re-elected one more time.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:41am

      SHOWMESTATEGUY, I agree. I can understand that they are in fear of loosing their high paying jobs and benefits, but at the cost of our freedom and our country? If things go as the Progressives want whose to say that they won’t eventually get thrown under the bus as well as everyone else when they are no longer needed? There might still be unions but I think all will be forced to be a part of one and all will pay dues. However I think the union will no longer be for workers rights . It will be a money machine for those on top. The benefits will become a thing of the past as well. The workers are sadly being used.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:16pm

    Did the Union mentality come from immigrants from Eastern Europe?

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:51pm

      Nope. Most of us, having experienced the “worker’s paradise” in all it’s “glory” in person, we’re mostly anti-socialist/communist and as conservative as it can get.

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  • waggie
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:14pm

    My spouse is an unwilling union member, and I see firsthand what a bunch of thieves and thugs the union leaders are. They are undoubtedly bringing this nation down and are only making our unemployment worse because companies cannot afford to pay their high wages in this economy. The unions then blame it on the “greedy corporations”. What a crock of crap!

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  • Dumbwhiteguy
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:14pm

    http://www.globalreport2010.com/globalwatchspecialreport.pdf

    This site tells the whole story. Let me know what you think.

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  • Firefighter 538
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:11pm

    The NLRB should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
    From 1917 to 1920 organizers for the IWW were tarred and feathered. It should be happening to the AFL/CIO and the NLRB stooges

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:57pm

    Yep…unwilling Union memebrs are as screwed as the people of North Korea. They have nutjobs for leaders and are told to sit down and shut up.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:04pm

      They need to play this in Indiana over and over. The Right To Work ledge is back up for a vote. Look for their Democratic delegation at an IL hotel again very soon.

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    • Lightningman01
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:14pm

      The funny thing about the NORKS and the American labor Unions ,is they are both run by communists.

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  • countrysideflair
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:53pm

    First!

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  • TXPilot
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:51pm

    Hmm…it seems that every so often, just a tiny bit of the truth manages to squeak out, despite the overwhelming Obama lie machine.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:24pm

      Yes;but you won’t see it on any main stream liberal news media

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:28pm

      Yep we won’t see it on the liberal news….So everyone on here needs to Facebook or email this article to a few thousand people to get the word out

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