Unions are dead.

[jpbollma]

R.I.P. ...the USA is done as we knew it.

[RayTy]

1. DISGUSTING!!

WE ARE DEAD!!!

[boxman15]

2. Don't be so reactionary.

See how the Senate shapes up first, then work for November. We can send a message then. Wow.

[sufrommich]

7. Obama is polling high in Wisconsin. nt

[Sugarcoated]

9. Riiighto

[boxman15]

10. Really?

Obama is up an average of 10% in Wisconsin. How is this an indictment on Obama? I don't understand that at all.

[Union Thug]

4. Workers once understood

that the real fights happen in the streets - not in congress or voting booths.

Now we sit at home and pretend that the bourgeois methods are our own.

We win when we put our asses on the line and use 1934 as our framework. Anything else is capitulation and guarantees basically what we've seen happen over the past 30 years.

[socialist_n_TN]

14. Yep............

There should have been a general strike in '11 when things were hot in the streets. You're NOT going to vote out the pigs. They own the system that counts the votes. Do you really think they will allow themselves to lose?

[NYC Liberal]

5. Hmm...lots of low count posters coming out tonight to

tell us how we're all screwed and Obama is going to lose and we should just give up.

This is the 2nd or 3rd thread like this I've seen so far.

Hmmmmm.

[nanabugg]

6. Sad, but true.

The RW was so FOR unions in communist countries and other countries under the old Soviet Union. Remamber how
Reagan pushed for unions in POLAND. Squashing unions in the US while demading unions elsewhere...I just don't get it. They really hate the 99% but I am getting upset my self with the 99% because many of them keep voting against their own interests.

[jpbollma]

8. They pushed for Unions in the USSR

because the USSR wasn't a profit driven joke. they knew there was money to be there if they could bust up the public owned businesses and using unions was a convenient way to do it.

[unkachuck]

11. so let's resuscitate our Union movement....

....let's have billboards, programs, commercials on radio and TV on how to start a Union, join a Union, being a good Union member, your right to organize, etc....

....let's teach Unionism in school, at church, at home and in our neighborhoods....let's teach our children Unions are our friends and that capital is evil....let's spend our dollars, our civic time, the way we vote, the way we talk, think and dress, all to glorify Unions and promote the Union movement....

....I've been in powerful Locals and in weak Locals....Unions, like countries, are only as good as the Union-minded people in them....

[HiPointDem]

12. You came here just to announce that?

[jillan]

13. Okay - then lets take back all of the things Unions have accomplished.

No more weekends.

No more fair pay and safe work places.

Tell your kids to get to work.... I hear Newt is looking for janitors.

Fuck it - if people are going to celebrate the demise of Unions - then let's take away the benefits they received because of unions