Union Protests are "Uprisings" Now.

[Luna]

Waiting for a downside.

See earlier post about me not having a raise since 2008.   

Not getting one this year, either.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Waiting for a downside.

See earlier post about me not having a raise since 2008.   

Not getting one this year, either.

That may have more to do with the fact that most places haven't recovered since November of 2008.

But you can make up the difference by stealing office supplies.

[LMNO]

Waiting for a downside.

See earlier post about me not having a raise since 2008.   

Not getting one this year, either.

You all should form a union!

[Luna]

Waiting for a downside.

See earlier post about me not having a raise since 2008.   

Not getting one this year, either.

You all should form a union!

No shit.  The clerical union keeps trying to claim us... but I've seen them negotiate.

I could shut down their tries with one phone call.  ("You DO realize I have a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement stating that (name) and (name), while acting as the negotiating team, arranged for THIS one-time benefit for themselves only, don't you?")

[Adios]

As angry teachers in the Midwest shut down more than a dozen school districts in protest Thursday, Republican officials across the nation have made teachers' unions "public enemy No. 1" in a battle to trim budgets and rewrite the rules on how unions and states work together.

In Wisconsin, Ohio, New York and New Jersey, governors are taking on the unions -- who they see as guilty of demanding excessive benefits and causing out-of-control waste -- in their quest to cut spending and regain control over the educational system.

Some feel overly generous union contracts are busting state budgets, and many are using the current fiscal crisis to do something about it.

"I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested," New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie told a conservative conference Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/17/teacher.budget.crisis/index.html?hpt=T1

Pot/Kettle

[Juana]

Union laws, if that bill go through, are quite possibly in trouble. The fuckers who pass it, if it gets passed, will never see the inside of that capitol building again, but it will still spell trouble for unions.

As angry teachers in the Midwest shut down more than a dozen school districts in protest Thursday, Republican officials across the nation have made teachers' unions "public enemy No. 1" in a battle to trim budgets and rewrite the rules on how unions and states work together.

In Wisconsin, Ohio, New York and New Jersey, governors are taking on the unions -- who they see as guilty of demanding excessive benefits and causing out-of-control waste -- in their quest to cut spending and regain control over the educational system.

Some feel overly generous union contracts are busting state budgets, and many are using the current fiscal crisis to do something about it.

"I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested," New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie told a conservative conference Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/17/teacher.budget.crisis/index.html?hpt=T1

Pot/Kettle

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

"I'm attacking the leadership of the union because they're greedy, and they're selfish and they're self-interested," New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie told a conservative conference Wednesday.

Thats a bad thing?
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[Slyph]

Ayn was pretty much to the left of these people on the subject of Unions. She had some heavily qualified praise for the idea in 'shrugged.

[Slyph]

Again, these people are to the right of Ayn Rand 

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Again, these people are to the right of Ayn Rand 

took a minute for that to sink in.

[Cramulus]

Related:

http://www.usnewssource.com/headlines/ex-cia-analyst-ray-mcgovern-beaten-and-arrested-as-hillary-clinton-talks-about-freedom_256726.html

Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Beaten and Arrested as Hillary Clinton Talks about Freedom

Hypocrisy has reached a new level as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked at George Washington University on Wednesday, disapproving governments that arrest protesters, not allowing freedom of speech. Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern was taken from the audience by two security guards, beaten and left bleeding in jail. His crime? Standing silently with his back turned to Clinton, wearing a t-shirt that said "Veterans for Peace". Officially it was "Disorderly conduct".

McGovern wanted to be "witness to the fact that many Americans are very much opposed to these policies of permanent war", but he had no idea that it would get him brutalized, arrested and rather seriously hurt.

The timing was "excellent", as Clinton smilingly said "...and then the government pulled the plug", the two men grabbed the 71-year-old McGovern and dragged him out of the auditorium. "So this is America," said McGovern.

"They took me outside, put two sets of iron handcuffs that pierced my wrists. The bleeding went all over my pants.", said McGovern.

McGovern became a political activist after a 27-year-long career as C.I.A. officer. He served under seven U.S. presidents, presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House.

[East Coast Hustle]

[Adios]

 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Oh for fucks sake... Officially we have become a parody of ourselves

[Cramulus]

As a funny parallel... That same exact speech got Clinton censored from the internet in China.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/china-censors-info-on-u-s-internet-freedom-policy/

Reports from China indicate that Chinese censors have blocked posts from the U.S. Embassy highlighting Clinton's recent speech on Internet freedoms, and China's top microblogging service Sina has blocked searches on the terms "Hillary" and "Hillary Clinton" with a message that the search results were blocked due to Chinese laws and regulations.

Clinton's speech elaborated on Internet freedoms as a primary plank of U.S. foreign policy, describing Internet freedoms as a basic human right. In the speech, Clinton said nations like China that stifle their citizen's online speech and expression will pay long-term social and economic costs, including a "dictators' dilemma" of being forced to greater lengths of oppression to maintain control over media and speech. "Those who clamp down on Internet freedom may be able to hold back the full expression of their people's yearnings for a while, but not forever."

Chinese censors also recently blocked searches for "Egypt" in the wake of anti-government protests in that country that led to the resignation of president Mubarak. China is also not above shutting down Internet and mobile access in entire regions of the nation, such as in 2009 when ethnic riots broke out in the country's Xinjiang region. Internet and domestic mobile text services were shut down for month, and only re-enabled for domestic messaging and access to approved Web sites.

The Chinese government consistently describes its citizens' access to the Internet as free and unrestricted, while maintaining it has the right to block and restrict access to information it deems harmful or disruptive.

we really are living in the weirdest and most confusing period of history to date.