Bruce Springsteen's quote

[Playinghardball]

[hanon]

1. Luv the Boss

& luv unions

[fredamae]

2. One of my favs

[shraby]

3. And that's the truth!

[DebbieCDC]

4. The boss speaks the truth

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[City Lights]

6. Well said, Bruce! nt

[Omaha Steve]

7. Everyboy PLEASE end me an email anytime there is a union post

So I don't miss them.

[Duppers]

14. you were the first person i thought of

And I was going to send a p.m. to you if I didn't see a reply of yours. No worries, dear Steve, we've got your back.

[The Wizard]

8. And that's why

cheap labor Repubics hate organized labor. They favor a two tiered system of lords and grateful serfs.

[Rex]

9. So true! That is why the corporatists on both sides of the isle hate unions with a passion. nt

nt

[robbob]

10. But but but....

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He's rich!!! How can he speak for the working class???

Sarcasm obvious I hope. I've heard that metric applied to Michael Moore so many times and it makes me sick. Like achieving success and wealth automatically means you shouldn't care about those less fortunate.

Or the way fucked news will mock any celebrity who takes up a political or social cause. Society is so obsessed with fame and celebrity and we want to know every minutia of their lives, who's shoes they are wearing, who they are dating, but if any one of them tries to use the spotlight to get a message out that they find important then suddenly they are a "Hollywood liberal" who needs to shut up.

[madokie]

11. The Boss knows

He's one of the good guys no doubt about that

[chapdrum]

12. Not exactly new news

He (and others of similar fame/respect) could be a tad more active/outspoken.

[Hissyspit]

13. He's was QUITE outspoken against the Iraq War, more than almost anyone else.

His whole Wrecking Ball album was inspired by the Occupy movement.

[democrank]

15. K & R

[Scuba]

16. Kick.

[PatrickforO]

17. Bruce is right.

If you think those benevolent capitalists would have just given us:
1. Workers compensation if we're hurt on the job
2. Eight hour work day
3. Forty hour work week
4. Laws governing safety in the workplace
5. Child labor laws
6. The expectation that we be paid a fair day's pay for a fair day's work
7. Due process so you can't be fired for just any reason
8. ANY kind of benefits
9. Overtime

Think again. People are so negative toward unions, it makes me sick, because the Republicans have already systematically busted unions, implemented right to work laws, scoffed at workplace safety, and tried a thousand little ways to get rid of the benefits workers bled in the streets to gain.

We have slid back, and if we continue to forget that these are hard-won gains, then we will LOSE them and our children and grandchildren will have to face union-busting thugs hired by management (in the late 19th and early 20th century it was the Pinkerton 'detective' agency) bleed in the streets AGAIN to get them back.

[A Simple Game]

22. It wasn't all bad back in the old days, say you cut off an arm, then the company would let you

go home and retire, or if necessary let your family come pick up your body and that was it. What could be simpler?

Now if you cut yourself you have to fill out an "accident report" so maybe they can fix the problem so you or the next person doesn't get hurt the same way you did. Who wants to take the time to fill out paperwork when you have an ouchie? And heaven forbid if you get hurt badly enough now they make you go to the hospital and get fixed up all proper at the company's expense, who has time for that?

Yup back in the good old days you only had two options to think about, heal or bleed out, what could be simpler? Now you have to fill out all kinds of paperwork and may even have to go to the hospital. Who says everything has gotten better?

[Pooka Fey]

18. K&R

[Enthusiast]

19. Fact!

[Martin Eden]

20. The One Percent understands that very well

Which explains why the politicians they bought are working tirelessly to blame unions for economic woes and to enact so-called "right to work" legislation.

[SalviaBlue]

21. Bruuuuuce!!

[Eleanors38]

23. Political Science 101.