2006 Grinch of the Year nominations:

[Earth_First]

Feel free to nominate your candidate at the Jobs With Justice website, or nominate your candidate below...

2006 Grinch of the Year Nominations

For several years, JwJ coalitions across the country have held local 'Grinch of the Year' elections to determine the most deserving greedy Grinch in their hometowns. This year, national Jobs with Justice will sponsor the sixth annual online Grinch of the Year election to determine the national figure who does the most harm to working families.

http://www.jwj.org/about/grinch/2006nom.html

I nominate Wal-Mart for the trifecta!

[Pugee]

1. WM has won the last two years. Here are the top three last year.

"Given the competition from Donald Rumsfeld and Verizon Wireless, Wal-Mart should be extremely satisfied to have won the 'Grinch of the Year' award," said Fred Azcarate, executive director of Jobs with Justice. "With no end in sight for their continued poor treatment of workers, the communities they live in, and the environment, we suspect that they'll go for a 3-peat next year."

Donald Rumsfeld, the U. S. Secretary of Defense, came in second place with 24% of the votes. Rumsfeld was nominated by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) after he proposed to strip over 600,000 federal employees—men and women dedicated to serving their country—of their collective bargaining rights.

Verizon Wireless, nominated by the Communication Workers of America (CWA), came in third place with 16% of the vote, with the final 8% going to write-in candidates—President Bush receiving the bulk of the write-in votes.