Unions are protesting in Wisconsin

[parmenio]

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be voting himself a pay raise next!

Hey newbie..., you must be thinking of the Democrat governor Jim Doyle. It was under his watch where all this fiscal mess started from. And by the way voted himself and the other legislators several pay raises!

[suntiger]

Hey Junior Member I have a username! I am Republican and a AFSCME member. What legislator has not voted themselves a pay raise? Do you start sentences with And?

[parmenio]

Hey Junior Member I have a username! I am Republican and a AFSCME member. What legislator has not voted themselves a pay raise? Do you start sentences with And?

suntiger it's grammatically correct to start a sentence using the conjunction 'and'.

[Lonzworth]

Give it up. On this site, if you are not GOP you are a socialist, commie loving muslim. I can only give you so many +'s before running out.

Thank you for +ing me death monkey.

Unfortunately though, I can't give it up.

This site proves that our already underfunded education system is spawning some of the most ignorant, misinformed, uneducated people unable to produce 1 original free thinking thought.

And to the dude that equated Unions to Nazi sympathizers... you need a history lesson.

It seems GW's grand daddy did mighty fine for himself backing the Nazi's.

OMG!!! The GOP backed the Nazi's?

Why yes, yes they did.

Prescott Bush <3's Nazis

Edited February 18, 2011 by Lonzworth

[Kenneth]

- 11:43 AM' timestamp='1298058185' post='387240']

Since we're now currently bashing all references to the word Union....

Lets not forget the preamble to The United Stated [/b]Constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union[

Man's union with Christ and/or God

A man and woman's union in holy matrimony.

Let's keep it going by seeing how many unions we can bash.

Go back further and you’ll see that Marx and Engels were part of the trade union. The idea at the beginning was to make everyone equal: Pay the workers the same, treat them the same, give them the same benefits.

Here is the facts about the Soviet Union you should know about.

Trade unions in the Soviet Union trace their history back to Russian Revolution of 1905. Many trade unions were shut down or restricted on the eve of World War I and during the War, but they revived after the February Revolution and their leaders were democratically elected during 1917.

Anarchists and some Bolshevik trade unionists hoped that unions would manage industry after the October Revolution. A strong factory committee movement had sprung up, from workers occupying workplaces or forcing their bosses into compliance with demands as the government would no longer protect them. However, as the Bolsheviks seized and consolidated power, this movement was ended by nationalizing industry. This only with the Russian Civil War and its policy of war communism-trade unions lost staff to government, Party, and military organs. Government economic organs, like the All-Russian Council of the Economy (VSNKh), increasingly took the primary role in directing industry, which lost many workers due to economic crisis. The Communist Party exerted increasing control over trade unions, which even many Communist trade union leaders resisted. By the end of the Civil War a Dispute about Trade Unions (Дискуссия о профсоюзах) occurred within the ruling Communist Party. Leon Trotsky, Nikolay Krestinsky and some others insisted on militarization of trade unions and actually turning them into part of the government apparatus. The Workers' Opposition (Alexander Shlyapnikov, Alexandra Kollontai) demanded that trade unions manage the economy through an "All-Union Congress of Producers" and that workers comprise a majority of Communist Party members and leaders. There were several other factions. Eventually, all of them were defeated at the 10th Congress of the RCP( by the so-called "Platform of the Ten" headed by Lenin, which called for trade unions to educate workers, under the control of the Communist Party. Since these times Lenin's saying, "Trade Unions are a School of Communism" become an indisputable slogan.

Sounds like this "http://www.businessinsider.com/public-sector-union-spending-87-million-to-re-elect-democrats-and-government-ginormous-2010-10"

The Dispute about Trade Unions was extremely acute, and its by-product was a special resolution, About the Party Unity, which dissolved and banned any factions within the Party under the pretext that intra-Party discussions distract from "solving actual practical problems". This resolution radically shifted the balance in the notion "democratic centralism" from "democratic" to "centralism" and enhanced the groundwork of Stalin's future dictatorship.

The newspaper Trud and the magazine, Soviet Trade Unions (Советские профсоюзы) were major media of the Soviet trade union system.

Like the CPSU, the trade unions operated on the principle of democratic centralism, and they consisted of hierarchies of elected bodies from the central governing level down to the factory and local committees.

Unlike labor unions in the West, Soviet trade unions were, in fact, actually governmental organizations whose chief aim was not to represent workers but to further the goals of management, government, and the CPSU. As such, they were partners of management in attempting to promote labor discipline, worker morale, and productivity. Unions organized "socialist competitions" and awarded prizes for fulfilling quotas. They also distributed welfare benefits, operated cultural and sports facilities, issued passes to health and vacation centers, oversaw factory and local housing construction, provided catering services, and awarded bonuses and prepaid vacations.

Although unions in the Soviet Union primarily promoted production interests, they had some input regarding production plans, capital improvements in factories, local housing construction, and remuneration agreements with management. Unions also were empowered to protect workers against bureaucratic and managerial arbitrariness, to ensure that management adhered to collective agreements, and to protest unsafe working conditions. However, strikes were illegal.

The trade union system in the late Soviet Union consisted of thirty unions organized by occupational branch. Including about 732,000 locals and 135 million members in 1984, unions encompassed almost all Soviet employees with the exception of some 4 to 5 million kolkhozniks. Enterprises employing twenty-five or more people had locals, and membership was compulsory. Dues were about 1% of a person's salary. The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (Всесоюзный Центральный Совет Профессиональных Союзов, ВЦСПС) served as an umbrella organization for the thirty branch unions and was by far the largest public organization in the Soviet Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_the_Soviet_Union

http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/labor-unions-a-century-of-genuine-evil/

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ZGFmMDY4NzdkMmIwZTQ1MzU2ZDA4NGZhNzJlNGU2MTE=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSlFzdH8Xj4

[Kenneth]

For f'ing sake...2 strikes in one post!

Strike 1: Thinking Fox News is a legitimate news source (PS They are all BIASED)

Strike 2: IT IS GLENN BECK! He is paid to get you all fired up! NEVER use him in any posting as proof of anything, except how corrupt he is!

Ex: Obama is ruining our economy! Go out and buy Gold.......followed by a commercial for buying gold in which he is a sponsor

Our country may soon revolt! Be prepared! ....followed by a commercial in which he is selling disaster ready food kits

Name one thing Fox news or Glenn Beck was wrong about and I show you 100 things he was right about.

Keep getting your news from the lame stream media and John Steward then.

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110217061458.aspx

http://newsbusters.org/

Here's a picture of union protesters comparing the Governor to Hitler.

[Kenneth]

Here is the Truth!