As long as Hoffa is happy
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And now this:
The stimulus bill passed by the House last night contains a controversial provision that would mostly bar foreign steel and iron from the infrastructure projects laid out by the $819 billion economic package.
A Senate version, yet to be acted upon, goes further, requiring, with few exceptions, that all stimulus-funded projects use only American-made equipment and goods.
Proponents of expanding the "Buy American" provisions enacted during the Great Depression, including steel and iron manufacturers and labor unions...
And now this:
The stimulus bill passed by the House last night contains a controversial provision that would mostly bar foreign steel and iron from the infrastructure projects laid out by the $819 billion economic package.
A Senate version, yet to be acted upon, goes further, requiring, with few exceptions, that all stimulus-funded projects use only American-made equipment and goods.
Proponents of expanding the "Buy American" provisions enacted during the Great Depression, including steel and iron manufacturers and labor unions...
Damn - Dan Drezner's been warning that national stimulus could lead directly into protectionism. He may be right.
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Yeah, it's the kind of charge I've been hoping was hyperbole, but these arent baby steps anymore.
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Unions, in the early days, saved workers from being unfairly treated, unfairly paid, unfairly fired...
But, when the workers have a great company with great managment, and they are paid and treated excellently,,,
unions now are worthless, expensive, and have no direction, other than self-serving quibbling, in the name of
trying desperately to legitimize their continued existence.
Ask 3 or 4 older union guys. You are apt to get an honest answer that the union, when not needed, should
just go hide somewhere, and come back when needed.
But, no. The dues keep coming, and the $$$$$$$$$ collected ends up making union leaders rich, and providing them
with lavish vacation resort trips, and union execs' own 6 million dollar golf coarses, complete with lavish
club houses.
with the newer generation of workers who came along, the dominant union member protection all too often
has given way to sloth, and strikes laughingly called "extended vacations".
and production and quality goes out the window, and problems come in the window.
Unions have generally outlived most of their usefullness.
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@danamal said:
Ok ,so we can all agree that in the beginning the union fighting for the working man was a good thing.At this point in time when all of our jobs are being outsourced to other countries and everything you buy at walmart comes from China shouldnt we start all over again and begin to build our economy back up by our own sweat?
When these frickin ceo's show up for blank checks from the government in their private jets do they really care about their hourly employees?
Yet that's merely bad PR.
Personally (though I have reservations about shitcanning a legal contract) I'd tell anyone who wants a piece of the bailout pie needs to dump the outrageous bonuses or go pound salt.
(unfortunately it will be wasted on pork)
The money would be meaningless BUT the PR would inspire consumer confidence.
But to the union....
How much should you pay semi skilled workers in the real world?
How many that bitch own foreign goods?
And lets say we just outlaw foreign cars.
How long before the quality drops and price skyrockets for a Chevy?
WSS
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Happy?@danamal said:
Nice cut and paste Leg.Typical where you cut out the part where are say not all unions are on the up and up.
It was the glutony of big buisness who didnt want to pay a decent wage or health insurance that brought unions to prominence.
Ultimately some unions ended up being as corrupt as the buisnessmen they were fighting against,but that cant be a blanket indictment of all unions and what they were able to accomplish for working men and women in this country.
The basic concept of a union I always found to be a good thing,maybe im wrong?
I was addressing one part of your statement, which is why I removed the other part and added "..." as per typical grammatical stylings. If I wanted to, I could have removed the phrase from your original post if I somehow needed to make you seem even less informed. But I didn't. It's still in plain view for all to see.
Don't be a paranoid-douche.
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I am not a big fan of Unions and think they are a large reason for our manufacturing demise.
I know Tupa does not like "protectionist" policies but this story is a little bit out of context for one main reason. We are allocating possible DEFICIT FUNDS, or borrowing against value and money that does not exist. If we in fact are borrowing againt the deficit I would rather those hypothetical funds benefit domestic (after all is this not a DOMESTIC STIMULAS package) business.
This is not a protectionist trade act, this just insures this loan we are making to ourselves mainly benefits OURSELVES not canadien steel or any other foreign nation the most. We are not borrowing against their currencies we are borrowing against our own to help jump start our system.
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President Obama has issued an executive order that permits federal agencies to require union labor for work on federal contracts.
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President Obama has issued an executive order that permits federal agencies to require union labor for work on federal contracts.
President Obama has issued an executive order that permits federal agencies to require union labor for work on federal contracts.
I'm sure that's the most cost effective and "beneficial to the unemployed masses" way to go.
WSS
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President Obama has issued an executive order that permits federal agencies to require union labor for work on federal contracts.
I'm sure that's the most cost effective and "beneficial to the unemployed masses" way to go.
WSS
I'm sure that's the most cost effective and "beneficial to the unemployed masses" way to go.
WSS
I liked this headline for the story:
"Executive Order Discriminates Against 84 Percent of the Construction Workforce"
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