Morons.

FireDogLake today is keeping up the drumbeat for the Employee Free Choice Act, and I say, bravo.
The post is about how much employers spend on union-busting tactics. Billions sounds like a lot of money spent on the union-busting industry (politely called

Here are a couple of things you can do:

- Buy services from Working Assets, an offshoot of the AFL-CIO. They have a variety of telecommunication packages: http://www.workingassets.com/

- If appropriate, join the Freelancers Union: http://www.freelancersunion.org/ They help freelancers buy health care and do other things to join together in common cause. They are mostly active in New York, but I understand they are also looking to expand.

- As another commenter noted, join Working America to help the AFL-CIO in its political causes: http://www.workingamerica.org/

- Donate to union-supporting groups, or take actions which they recommend. I’d highly encourage you to look into American Rights at Work: http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/

I hope that helps!

Maddy, if you are still here.
Sorry to reply so late, I am at work.
Wanna here something funny?
9 years in the Operating engineers and I never worked a dirt job once.
Always wound up on the water.
Pilebucks, dredges etc.

You re making me laugh.When I lived in San Francisco I had a couple pilebutts(pilebuks?) as friends one of whom got fired for carving rosebuds in the forms instead of drilling holes for rebar

I think Eugene Debs is rolling in his grave. The obscenity of ownership society, and all that it represents, is armed and dangerous once again…time to go to the mattresses.

House Minority Leader John Boehner was booed on Wednesday at a construction workers’ union legislative forum for saying the United States needs to fight the war in Iraq or face terror attacks at home.

“Who doesn’t believe that if we just pull out of Iraq and come home that the terrorists won’t follow us here and we’ll be fighting them on the streets of America?” Boehner, R-Ohio, said to members attending the AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades Department’s legislative forum.

hearing back on -

oooh they always give the most poisonous darts to everyone’s favorite next door neighbor and all round sweet guy – Richard Durbin – yee haw !!!