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This is nothing new, the union officials for years have been wanting to grow ranks at the cost of the members. I suppose wanting to return to the heyday of the 1970's with the numbers of dues paying members (the heart of the matter).

As far as I am concerned, the need for and the applicability of unions has long past. The era of managers forcing employees to undertake hazardous work conditions as a matter of continued employment no longer exists. The federal government, for good or bad has replaced the need for union protections. Besides, those collective bargaining activities has doomed the American auto companies and every worker involved.

Note: I have not nor ever have been involved with unions with 1 exception. A project in St. Louis I was managing used non-union electricians (because their price was 84% higher then the non-union bid) and subsequently was harassed by the local electricians union because of it.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

on the concrete shoe contract?

I'll be low bidder, because I use non-union workers exclusively, due to the higher quality of their work.

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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

I'm from Washington State. SEIU is pure evil. They are the socialists to end all socialists.

Let's put it this way: In 2004, they ran a primary opponent against the longest serving member of the State House, a hardcore, very liberal D from downtown Seattle, because she had the unmitigated gull to tell them that they weren't going to be able to give them quite all of the money they had asked for because there was a budget crunch.

They lost that challenge, barely, but it shows just how nuts they are.

"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas

The quest for personal power, specifically for the ability to lord over others with that power, is at the root of this. The desire for influence - not to help others succeed but for personal aggrandizement. We've heard the old chestnut "power corrupts, & absolute power corrupts absolutely." I'd say that the quest for persona power for its own sake also corrupts.

Why Obama must be nominated:

Gallup showed that in a general election, Clinton voters would go for Obama over McCain, 59-28%.

Obama voters would go for Clinton 72-19%.

I've always thought we'd make greater inroads with the white, Hillary voters than the kooky, fanatical Obama voters. This poll bears that out.

As I point out here, the AFL-CIO & AFSCME are telling their member locals not to contribute to Minnesota's DFL AG because she's been accused of harrassing attorneys who are trying to organize a union in the AG's office.