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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Answer to the Ubiquitous "Union Thugs" Meme
Aren't business associations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce basically unions for rich people?
We have rich people organizing and asserting their collective power, often with the goal of preventing non-rich people from organizing and asserting their collective power. Is this not class warfare? Aren't corporate lobbyists the true "union thugs"?
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An Answer to the Ubiquitous "Union Thugs" Meme (Original Post)
Cowpunk
Jul 2012
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unblock
(52,317 posts)1. a corporation is a union of investors. and the ceo is the head thug.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. This has always been my understanding. Different names used to stigmatize one group by another.
needledriver
(836 posts)3. Isn't that a union thug
over there next to the welfare queen, talking to the fraudulent voter?
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. Works for me!
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)5. No such thing as "union thugs"
It's just republican pants wetting.
Try that. Be sure to use a typical republican ugly face when you say it. You can't talk any sense into them anyway.
roody
(10,849 posts)6. My answer to my dad's union thugs meme
was to volunteer to be my site rep.