Comments on: Hoorays for Hilda: Secretary Designate Solis Embraced by Labor, Progressives http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:31:53 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: arcadesproject http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766609 arcadesproject Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:18:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766609 <p>Hooray for Hilda indeed. She sounds like a keeper all the way and I am happy to have her as Labor Secretary. But I hope like hell she doesn’t get marginalized the way Robert Reich did in the Clinton years. It was the deregulating ‘free’ marketeers who prevailed then, notably Mr. Summers and Mr. Rubin. Just look at what a fine mess they got us into! And they’re both baaa-ak.</p> Hooray for Hilda indeed. She sounds like a keeper all the way and I am happy to have her as Labor Secretary. But I hope like hell she doesn’t get marginalized the way Robert Reich did in the Clinton years. It was the deregulating ‘free’ marketeers who prevailed then, notably Mr. Summers and Mr. Rubin. Just look at what a fine mess they got us into! And they’re both baaa-ak.

]]> By: jaango http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766544 jaango Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:41:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766544 <p>As a Chicano from the Sonoran Desert, I find her nomination quite gratifying. </p> <p>However, she will face many considerable difficulties along the way during the next 8 years. As such, permit me to emphasize one particular aspect regarding labor here in the USA, and done so with a possible ’story’ still yet to remain to be untold.</p> <p>Thus, the convergence of Solis and the rejection by Xavier Becerra, also a Progressive, for Trade Representative, tells me that President-Elect Obama is either uninformed of or is rejecting the “need” for Congressional approval of the Employee Free Choice Act. </p> <p>Take, for example, should EFCA be embedded into our Free Trade Systemic, the reduction in the migratory behavior for those seeking work in the USA, would be reduced. Additionally, the added benefit for inclusion into the FT Systemic, means that a nation such as Mexico, would have to discontinue their “ownership” of Organized Labor. To wit, the government would no longer own a ‘union’ and this ownership would revert to the affected members in similarity to what transpires daily in the USA.</p> <p>And to me, this means that Becerra, highly cognizant of what is transpiring in the labor movement, here and throughout the Latin America Region, took the decision that Obama was not willing to go the extra mile to be a “stand-up guy”. Consequently, when McCain distanced himself from his own immigration legislation, Chicanos came to the conclusion that McCain was not a “stand-up guy”. Needless to say but I will, here in Arizona, Chicanos voted upwards of 85% for Obama, and our spouses voted upwards of 75% for Obama, and which is of course and as usual, quite different from America’s presumptive Conventional Wisdom given to us by the litany of and from the bald-headed white guys. </p> <p>And could this failure of Obama to “stand-up” for and on behalf of Chicanos, lead to a drop-off of political support for Obama in the years ahead?</p> <p>Jaango</p> As a Chicano from the Sonoran Desert, I find her nomination quite gratifying.

However, she will face many considerable difficulties along the way during the next 8 years. As such, permit me to emphasize one particular aspect regarding labor here in the USA, and done so with a possible ’story’ still yet to remain to be untold.

Thus, the convergence of Solis and the rejection by Xavier Becerra, also a Progressive, for Trade Representative, tells me that President-Elect Obama is either uninformed of or is rejecting the “need” for Congressional approval of the Employee Free Choice Act.

Take, for example, should EFCA be embedded into our Free Trade Systemic, the reduction in the migratory behavior for those seeking work in the USA, would be reduced. Additionally, the added benefit for inclusion into the FT Systemic, means that a nation such as Mexico, would have to discontinue their “ownership” of Organized Labor. To wit, the government would no longer own a ‘union’ and this ownership would revert to the affected members in similarity to what transpires daily in the USA.

And to me, this means that Becerra, highly cognizant of what is transpiring in the labor movement, here and throughout the Latin America Region, took the decision that Obama was not willing to go the extra mile to be a “stand-up guy”. Consequently, when McCain distanced himself from his own immigration legislation, Chicanos came to the conclusion that McCain was not a “stand-up guy”. Needless to say but I will, here in Arizona, Chicanos voted upwards of 85% for Obama, and our spouses voted upwards of 75% for Obama, and which is of course and as usual, quite different from America’s presumptive Conventional Wisdom given to us by the litany of and from the bald-headed white guys.

And could this failure of Obama to “stand-up” for and on behalf of Chicanos, lead to a drop-off of political support for Obama in the years ahead?

Jaango

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766442 Hugh Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:17:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766442 <blockquote><p>This is troubling news. The next thing you know, Obama will try to appoint an EPA head who actually cares about the enviroment.</p></blockquote> <p>As far as I know, he still hasn’t.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wolfe/2008/12/media_speculation_over_who_pre.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wo.....o_pre.html</a></p>

This is troubling news. The next thing you know, Obama will try to appoint an EPA head who actually cares about the enviroment.

As far as I know, he still hasn’t.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wo…..o_pre.html

]]> By: rwcole http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766441 rwcole Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:15:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766441 <p>“Knocked up in a Meth Lab” sent tingles up Tweetie’s leg</p> “Knocked up in a Meth Lab” sent tingles up Tweetie’s leg

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766440 Mommybrain Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:12:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766440 <p>My friend who was a labor organizer in Berkeley during the 80’s was frustrated because the women she was organizing, at first, didn’t think they could be businesswomen or, really, organize anything. Karin thought it might have been male influence from the household. </p> <p>Now, it’s a whole ‘nother ballgame. A generation of Yes, We Can urging from many quarters of our society had turned it around.</p> My friend who was a labor organizer in Berkeley during the 80’s was frustrated because the women she was organizing, at first, didn’t think they could be businesswomen or, really, organize anything. Karin thought it might have been male influence from the household.

Now, it’s a whole ‘nother ballgame. A generation of Yes, We Can urging from many quarters of our society had turned it around.

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766439 Hugh Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:10:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766439 <p>The Solis nomination is good news in what has been between otherwise bleak and awful selections. I haven’t heard if she is a good manager but at least she will be able to begin the process of rebuilding a department that has been completely gutted by Mitch McConnell’s wife Elain Chao.</p> The Solis nomination is good news in what has been between otherwise bleak and awful selections. I haven’t heard if she is a good manager but at least she will be able to begin the process of rebuilding a department that has been completely gutted by Mitch McConnell’s wife Elain Chao.

]]> By: barbara http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766438 barbara Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:09:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766438 <p>OT: Franken up by 285.</p> OT: Franken up by 285.

]]> By: Russell60 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766437 Russell60 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:08:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766437 <p>This is troubling news. The next thing you know, Obama will try to appoint an EPA head who actually cares about the enviroment.</p> This is troubling news. The next thing you know, Obama will try to appoint an EPA head who actually cares about the enviroment.

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766435 ThingsComeUndone Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:07:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766435 <p>Good Choice!</p> Good Choice!

]]> By: rwcole http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766434 rwcole Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:07:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/hoorays-for-hilda-secretary-designate-solis-embraced-by-labor-progressives/#comment-1766434 <p>New gooper fund raising film bein shot “Knocked up in a meth lab” Spinetingling suspense and drama with heart warming ending.</p> New gooper fund raising film bein shot “Knocked up in a meth lab” Spinetingling suspense and drama with heart warming ending.

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