Comments on: Findlay, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce Kills Parade Because Unions Backed It http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:13:56 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941910 Gitcheegumee Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:45:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941910 <p>@17 foothillsmike</p> <p>The BEST site I ever came across that unmasks the C of C and its enablers is American Rights at Work.It is a veritable treasure trove of info on all the dirty tricks r us tactics and tacticians,like Rick Berman. Slobbyist extraordinaire.</p> <p>American Rights at Work - HomeJul 8, 2009 … American Rights at Work is a nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to support workers’ rights to a free choice and a fair chance …<br /><a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/" rel="nofollow">www.americanrightsatwork.org/</a> - Cached - Similar</p> <p>American Rights at Work - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDec 5, 2008 … American Rights at Work (ARAW) is a U.S. self-described nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for workers and their right to …<br /> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rights_at_Work - Cached - Similar</p> @17 foothillsmike

The BEST site I ever came across that unmasks the C of C and its enablers is American Rights at Work.It is a veritable treasure trove of info on all the dirty tricks r us tactics and tacticians,like Rick Berman. Slobbyist extraordinaire.

American Rights at Work – HomeJul 8, 2009 … American Rights at Work is a nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to support workers’ rights to a free choice and a fair chance …
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/ – Cached – Similar

American Rights at Work – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDec 5, 2008 … American Rights at Work (ARAW) is a U.S. self-described nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for workers and their right to …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rights_at_Work – Cached – Similar

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941904 Gitcheegumee Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:38:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941904 <p>Wait a damn minute- the Nazi Party was allowed to march in mostly Jewish Skokie Illinois, the KKK is allowed to march, Aryan nation can march, but union members aren’t allowed to organize a parade?</p> <p>They are scared of people organizing a PARADE?</p> <p>Folks, the Repubes do NOT want Dems to finally learn how to coalesce-in ANY form.They want Dems to continue to acquiesce.</p> <p>Once the serfs learn how EFFECTIVE and EMPOWERING that getting organized can be, well, bejeezuz, they just might DEMAND their constitutional rights!!</p> <p>Incidentally, those tax dollars that go to bail out Wall Street and pay the salaries of pols-are the union tax dollars rejected,too?</p> Wait a damn minute- the Nazi Party was allowed to march in mostly Jewish Skokie Illinois, the KKK is allowed to march, Aryan nation can march, but union members aren’t allowed to organize a parade?

They are scared of people organizing a PARADE?

Folks, the Repubes do NOT want Dems to finally learn how to coalesce-in ANY form.They want Dems to continue to acquiesce.

Once the serfs learn how EFFECTIVE and EMPOWERING that getting organized can be, well, bejeezuz, they just might DEMAND their constitutional rights!!

Incidentally, those tax dollars that go to bail out Wall Street and pay the salaries of pols-are the union tax dollars rejected,too?

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941810 earlofhuntingdon Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:52:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941810 <p>This antipathy toward workers and middle Americans generally is of a piece with Republican efforts to make health care Obama’s “Waterloo” (which assumes he’s Napoleon and not Wellington). Tens of millions of your neighbors will be directly harmed by such efforts. Tens of millions more - city and county workers, workers in small shops and towns smaller than Findlay, workers in retail, hospitality and manufacturers of all kinds - will be hurt indirectly. </p> <p>For the Chamber and its top contributors, that’s a feature, not a bug. They want as few American workers as possible. They want as many reasons as possible not to hire or keep them or stay in communities that have paid heavily to play host to them for a generation or for several generations. </p> <p>For predatory capitalists, positive relationships of any kind - supervisor & worker, plant or office and local town - distract from “objective” decision-making and cost cutting. Translated, that means they detract from paying an orchestra of predatory pipers a king’s ransom for providing routine equity and working capital.</p> <p>This parasitic behavior suggests top management of every company is also worried about more than their ability to pay Wall Street the exorbitant returns it demands. They are worried that their companies will become the next General Motors. With behavior like this, they already are.</p> This antipathy toward workers and middle Americans generally is of a piece with Republican efforts to make health care Obama’s “Waterloo” (which assumes he’s Napoleon and not Wellington). Tens of millions of your neighbors will be directly harmed by such efforts. Tens of millions more – city and county workers, workers in small shops and towns smaller than Findlay, workers in retail, hospitality and manufacturers of all kinds – will be hurt indirectly.

For the Chamber and its top contributors, that’s a feature, not a bug. They want as few American workers as possible. They want as many reasons as possible not to hire or keep them or stay in communities that have paid heavily to play host to them for a generation or for several generations.

For predatory capitalists, positive relationships of any kind – supervisor & worker, plant or office and local town – distract from “objective” decision-making and cost cutting. Translated, that means they detract from paying an orchestra of predatory pipers a king’s ransom for providing routine equity and working capital.

This parasitic behavior suggests top management of every company is also worried about more than their ability to pay Wall Street the exorbitant returns it demands. They are worried that their companies will become the next General Motors. With behavior like this, they already are.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941804 earlofhuntingdon Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:40:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941804 <p>I think it’s fair to say that the goal of large American companies is to take as many jobs outside the United States, certainly outside the North and any non-right-to-fire state, as possible. They not only don’t want good relations with organized labor, they want no relations with them or with any worker who knows or is willing to defend his or her right to work in a fair and safe environment.</p> I think it’s fair to say that the goal of large American companies is to take as many jobs outside the United States, certainly outside the North and any non-right-to-fire state, as possible. They not only don’t want good relations with organized labor, they want no relations with them or with any worker who knows or is willing to defend his or her right to work in a fair and safe environment.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941796 Phoenix Woman Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:23:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941796 <p>A-yep!</p> A-yep!

]]> By: shekissesfrogs http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941786 shekissesfrogs Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:32:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941786 <p>Ironically, The Chamber of Congress in Honduras - COHEP, who are supported with American tax dollars through USAID and NED, are lobbying the US to let the criminals responsible for the coup to remain in power. </p> <p>President Zelaya recently raised the minimum wage to $132 per month.<br /> Those poor gold mining companies from canada, Russell Athletic, and the United Fruit Company are feigning bankruptcy if these egregious wage increases are allowed to stand. This story has fallen into a black hole. <a href="http://wonkette.com/tag/pt-surely-this-is-pro-bono-work/" rel="nofollow">Wonkette</a> puts the NYT to shame on coverage.</p> <p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07172009.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07172009.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.borev.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.borev.net/</a></p> <p>The actions of this mayor disabuse us of the fantasy that ours is still a government by the people for the people.<br /> Fascism is growing everywhere, Honduras can become our future if we don’t fight back..</p> Ironically, The Chamber of Congress in Honduras – COHEP, who are supported with American tax dollars through USAID and NED, are lobbying the US to let the criminals responsible for the coup to remain in power.

President Zelaya recently raised the minimum wage to $132 per month.
Those poor gold mining companies from canada, Russell Athletic, and the United Fruit Company are feigning bankruptcy if these egregious wage increases are allowed to stand. This story has fallen into a black hole. Wonkette puts the NYT to shame on coverage.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff07172009.html
http://www.borev.net/

The actions of this mayor disabuse us of the fantasy that ours is still a government by the people for the people.
Fascism is growing everywhere, Honduras can become our future if we don’t fight back..

]]> By: AngelsAwake http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941768 AngelsAwake Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:08:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941768 <p>I didn’t think hypocrisy could run so deep.</p> I didn’t think hypocrisy could run so deep.

]]> By: siri http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941753 siri Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:47:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941753 <p>Exactly! And/or withdraw if you are a member! And DO write to the local papers and tell them what you did and why you did it.<br /> This just sux beyond belief!<br /> Americans against America!</p> Exactly! And/or withdraw if you are a member! And DO write to the local papers and tell them what you did and why you did it.
This just sux beyond belief!
Americans against America!

]]> By: GregB http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941751 GregB Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:44:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941751 <p>Chamber of Con-Artists.</p> <p>-G</p> Chamber of Con-Artists.

-G

]]> By: reader http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941745 reader Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:29:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/23/findlay-ohio-chamber-of-commerce-kills-parade-because-unions-backed-it/#comment-1941745 <p>Thanks, Tula: hard to think how all of these public officials will escape some kind of fallout for siding with the C of C against something so genuinely populist vs. the fake shit we get served everyday. Man oh man, I cannot wait for the 2010 vote.</p> Thanks, Tula: hard to think how all of these public officials will escape some kind of fallout for siding with the C of C against something so genuinely populist vs. the fake shit we get served everyday. Man oh man, I cannot wait for the 2010 vote.

]]>