with Edwards endorsing Obama, this is a done deal. Hilary needs to just leave.
But as an aside, McCain is so bad on labor union issues it really should not matter. No one who votes on kitchen table issues would support Bush’s third term!

ATTENTION UNION MEMBERS:

McCain wants to tax your employer-provided health benefits! For many union workers this means an additional $15,000 tax liability. Don’t let Republicans steal any more of your hard fought negotiated benefits. McCain’s plan would be a nightmare for working families and a dream come true for insurance companies….

The “old fart” has been living off federally funded taxpayer supported healthcare since he was 19 years old…Don’t let him take yours away!

Your union has never steered you wrong, right?

Mr. Leisure….No, my union has never steered me wrong. I’m a 28 year member of the IBEW and have made good wages and benefits since I was 22 years old….My house is completely paid and I’m planning on a very comfortable retirement. My wife and three children have excellent healthcare benefits. All my children have graduated from college…We’ve never taken one dime of government assistance and we have lived the American dream….Thanks to the IBEW and thanks to organized labor and the union movement.

Tell your kids good luck at Wal-Mart. It’s a shame I’ll pay for their healthcare while the non-union Walton family empire exceeds $340 billion in personal assets.

Now…who’s being steered?

You’ve done a great job of organizing Wal-Mart. Almost as good as the residential housing market. Wait…you already have card-check there, right?

You can’t organize Wal-Mart when their corporate lobby is the Republican party. Wal-Mart workers in Canada organized and corporate shut them down…Goes to show you employees want to be union but Republicans allow management to intimidate. See “Employee Free Choice Act”.

It’s hard to compete in the residential market when scab contractors are hiring illegal Mexicans while the Republicans in Missouri pass legislation about ice-cream.

Yeah, you can’t have the workers voting in secret, can you? Those “illegal Mexicans” won’t sign now, right? How you gonna make them sign with EFCA card-check?

They shouldn’t be working at all. They’re working for substandard wages and they undermine the wages and working conditions estsablished for this area. They accept scab wages because scab contractors hire them illegally…And Republicans turn their backs because it’s good for business…Screw the union guy who plays by the rules and pays his taxes….He doesn’t support us [Republicans] anyway!

In the meantime these illegal workers stuggle to survive on poverty wages while scab contractors purchase summer homes in Florida….

That’s not the American dream Democrats want to pursue. We’ll leave that cheesy operation to the self-rightous Republicans.

The same philosophy that allows Wal-Mart to tie 12 year old Asian girls to sewing machines for 16 hours a day.

How do you know those “Mexicans” are illegal?
Didn’t those scab contractors used to be IBEW members?
This is more about keeping union boss jobs than looking out for workers, right?

Because they’ve been arrested and deported while the scab contractor got a slap on the wrist on their way to Florida…

Name one scab contractor that “use to be” an IBEW member. I know of only one and it was several years ago. Don’t put the blame on union members for the shrinking middle-class….They’re the only ones left in the middle class since the Republicans started pandering to corproations and local businesses.

So you guys lost the whole residential wiring business because scab contractors hired illegal Mexicans who got arrested and deported, huh?
I don’t blame union members for anything.
I blame the union bosses who lose their jobs for them.

You need to educate yourself about the assault on unions.

I did. Mark Ayers, the president of the AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is finally sending a wake-up call to his union bretheren:

“There is no place in our unions for nonperformers,” Ayers told business managers of the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons during a recent speech recently.

Calling non-performing union members a cancer that has “dragged us down for many years and damaged our reputation as highly trained and productive craft professionals,” during a Feb. 27 OPC-MIA meeting, Ayers said, “they are the members that scream the loudest about union rights on the job, in your hiring halls and in your union meetings, while at the same time they chip away at our proud foundation.”

In short, he said, “they are simply bad for business, and therefore, they must go!”

He reminded the business managers that in the current business environment anyone can find out anything about an organization with a few clicks of a mouse.

“We must understand that we are constantly being judged by what we do and how we conduct ourselves every single day we are on the job,” he said. “Over the last thirty years or so, we didn’t lose the lion’s share of the market because the competition was so good,” he said. ‘We lost it because our attitudes, our productivity, and our work ethic got worse and we took our jobs and our work for granted.”