Destroy labor? Lord no, they just want to convert them back into slaves.
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> Corporate Media And The Battle To Destroy LaborFebruary 27th, 2011 I was interested in seeing how the wire services covered the protests over the weekend in the USA. I got a distinct impression that AP and UPI were giving more coverage to the Republican Governors positions and that Reuters was more sympathetic to labor. Could it be that Reuters is British, while AP and UPI are American?
> According to Wikipedia UPI is now owned by the Moonies, the right wingers that also used to own the Washington Times. AP is a cooperative run by various American newspapers around the country. Reuters is based in London, Great Britain and is part of Thompson Corporation with corporate offices in Stamford, CT but ownership based in Canada.
> Interesting as ownership is, the fact that Reuters writers are not on as tight as an editorial leash may be because most of their income comes from financial news and very little from straight news, whereas AP is strictly news and UPI is controlled by a rightwing organization.
> Will the workers hold the line and stand up to the corporate shills in the political parties or will they bow down to corporate lies about the debt crisis being perpetuated through the mouths of bought out politicians and their media flunkies? We shall see. The protests organized by Move On over the weekend were not very big, although the one in Wisconsin seems to have been decent, considering the time of year; you have to be brave to stay out in the streets in a Wisconsin winter. Now are we brave enough to make the `Repubocrats' back down? General strike…
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> From Reuters
> Largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Wisconsin
> By James Kelleher and David Bailey
> MADISON, Wisconsin | Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:03am EST
> MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb public sector unions that has galvanized opposition from the American labor movement.
> In one of the biggest rallies at the state Capitol since the Vietnam War, union members and their supporters braved frigid temperatures and a light snowfall to show their displeasure.
> The mood was upbeat despite the setback their cause suffered earlier this week when the state Assembly approved the Republican-backed restrictions on union collective bargaining rights over fierce Democratic objections.
> "I'm deeply honored to be here with you," said Peter Yarrow, a veteran of many social protests during his 50-year folk music career and a founding member of the group Peter, Paul and Mary. "If you persist, you will prevail."
> What began two weeks ago as a Republican effort in one small U.S. state to balance the budget has turned into a confrontation with unions that could be the biggest since then President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers nearly 30 years ago.
> Republicans still must push the measure through the state Senate, which has been unable to muster a quorum for a vote because of a Democratic boycott.
> If the plan is approved in Wisconsin, a number of other states where Republicans swept to victory in the 2010 elections could follow. Already, other legislatures including Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, Tennessee, and Kansas are working on union curbs.
> Unlike previous protests, the rally on Saturday brought out thousands of union workers not directly affected by the bill, including the state's firefighters, exempted along with police from the Republican proposal. Dozens of private sector unions were represented as well at the event.
> No "Tea Party" supporters of the proposal championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker were spotted on Saturday. They staged a smaller rally of their own in Madison a week ago.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/27/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE71O4F420110227
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> From the Associated Press
> Feb 27, 10:40 AM EST
> Wis. governor says protests haven't swayed him
> MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says the two weeks of protests in the state capital haven't swayed his resolve to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
> Leaders of Wisconsin's largest public workers' unions have capitulated to Walker's demands for their members to cover more of their pension and health care benefits to help close Wisconsin's budget deficit.
> But Walker said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that stripping the workers of collective bargaining rights is necessary to give the state the flexibility to get its finances in order.
> Democratic and union leaders say the attack on collective bargaining is an attempt to undermine the unions and weaken the Democratic Party base.
> Walker also says he thinks some of the 14 state Senators who fled the capital will return soon.
> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WISCONSIN_BUDGET_GOVERNOR?SITE=CAVAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-02-27-10-40-36#07fbbf6e-afd3-4977-af24-73091ad3486f
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> From UPI.Com
> Christie vows rollbacks for N.J. employees
> Published: Feb. 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM
> WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he planned to take an ax to his state's public-employee costs and that collective bargaining was not a guaranteed right.
> Speaking on CBS "Face the Nation" Sunday, Christie said he favored "fair and adversarial" bargaining with the state's unions, whose contracts expire in June.
> "I'm going to do what I think needs to be done for New Jersey, which is to reform the pension system, to roll back expensive health benefits for public-sector workers, to put them more in line with the rest of the population in New Jersey," said Christie.
> The current contract, Christie said, was heartily backed by his predecessor as a way to curry labor's political backing. "They got 7 percent salary increases in a 0 percent inflation world," Christie said. "I don't think the people who are paying the bills think that's the result of fair, adversarial collective bargaining."
> Christie added that he believed Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was doing what he thought was best for his state and that collective bargaining for state unions had been granted by the Legislature and could be taken away as well.
> "Political things change and go back and forth," Christie said. "Every state is going to make its own determination on that and Wisconsin is in the middle of making that determination."
> http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/02/27/Christie-vows-rollbacks-for-NJ-employees/UPI-64971298829747/
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> From UPI.com
> Daniels won't parlay with missing Dems
> Published: Feb. 27, 2011 at 1:39 PM
> WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said Sunday he would not negotiate with Democratic legislators who left the state to block a vote on an anti-union bill.
> Daniels said on "Fox News Sunday" that the Democrats' actions were holding up action on several important measures besides the right-to-work bill.
> "If they come back, we will talk about what sort of changes or amendments they might want, but while they are subverting the democratic process, there is nothing to talk about," Daniels said.
> The Republican governor, whose statements on fiscal responsibility have attracted the attention of conservative Washington pundits, said he stood by his earlier statements that the right-to-work bill could be dropped for the time being. But he also chided the fugitive Democrats for trying to thwart the will of the voters.
> "It is one thing for the people in the private sector to express their point of view as our protesters did," Daniels said. "It is quite another for public servants accepting a public paycheck, having lost an election to a very clear agenda, to try to trash the process, run off to a different state and hide out."
> http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/02/27/Daniels-wont-parlay-with-missing-Dems/UPI-80251298831940/
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> From Reuters
> By Michelle Nichols
> NEW YORK | Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:48pm EST
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied in cities across the United States on Saturday to express solidarity with Wisconsin public sector unions fighting a proposal to curb their power.
> "We all support the people in Wisconsin and all over the country where labor is being threatened, and we know that the real agenda of the (Wisconsin) governor and many others is just to destroy unions," said New Yorker Judith Barbanel.
> Barbanel, an English language teacher at the City University of New York, joined several thousand people at a "Save the American Dream" rally at City Hall to show solidarity with protesters in Wisconsin.
> People waved signs reading "Cut bonuses, not teachers," "Unions make us strong," and "Wall St is destroying America," and wore stickers that read "We are all Wisconsin."
> Anne O'Byrne, 44, a philosophy professor at Stony Brook University who brought her daughter Sophia, 2, to the New York rally, said she was disturbed by events in Wisconsin.
> "If we don't have collective bargaining rights I don't know what's left for workers in America," she said. "It seems important to me to resist any attempt to take away those union rights that have in fact brought us so much over the years."
> Wisconsin's state Assembly on Friday approved Republican Governor Scott Walker's proposal to strip public sector unions of most collective bargaining rights. The plan now needs state Senate approval, but Senate Democrats have fled Wisconsin to prevent a vote.
> About 1,000 people turned out in Chicago at the Illinois state building to show support for the Wisconsin protesters, chanting "Save the American Dream." Up to 1,000 rallied in Columbus, Ohio, while a rally in Miami attracted only about 100 people.
> Even in conservative Texas, several hundred people turned out for a rally at the State Capitol in Austin that coincided with a separate rally in support of abortion rights.
> As Bill Oliver's band warmed up the crowd with folksy music, protester Doug Frank, 51, said he drove from his home in Crosby , three and a half hours away, to attend his first-ever rally.
> "This is finally the one that pushed me over the edge," said Frank, an oil and gas laboratory technician. "What they're trying to do (in Wisconsin) is very heavy-handed; it's un-American."
> In California, protesters held a rally in front of Los Angeles City Hall, and they organized another demonstration at the San Diego County Administration Building.
> Organizers said more than 3,000 people attended the Los Angeles rally, but police declined to confirm that figure.
> Denver saw another gathering in support of the Wisconsin workers with police estimating that crowd at more than 1,200 people.
> In New York, John Cody, 26, of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, said unions were "under assault" in the United States and some protesters had drawn inspiration from the popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
> "Egypt is inspiring Americans and labor movements," he said. "Unions need to work like the corporations in some ways in that the world's become a globalized economy so unions need to show acts of solidarity not only across the United States but across the world."
> (Additional reporting by James Kelleher and David Bailey in Madison, Christine Stebbins in Chicago, Jim Leckrone in Columbus, Thomas Brown in Miami, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Corrie MacLaggan in Austin; editing by John Whitesides and Greg McCune)
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/26/us-wisconsin-protests-cities-idUSTRE71P2TF20110226
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