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Beck nails it on the head on today’s unions

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 24th, 2010 at 12:11 AM  | 

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If you wondered why Glenn Beck is reviled by the Left, it’s because he’s so often right on his targets and, in this case, he hit the rusty old nail on the head shattering it.

Video here.

A couple of factoids that Beck didn’t touch on in the above clip:

James Cavanaugh applauded when delegates to the 21st Constitutional Convention unanimously repealed language in the federation’s constitution barring members of the Communist Party from full participation in the AFL-CIO or its subordinate bodies.

Cavanaugh, president of the South Central Federation of Labor in Madison, Wisconsin told the World his organization had petitioned the AFL-CIO “for years” to remove the constitutional bar. “Now they’ve done it,” he said.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka kept his determined silence, refusing to explain or investigate how an “ethical practices” clause that had been in effect since the founding of the Labor Federation in the 1950s, had been removed in the 2005 edition of the Constitution.

They’ll squeal, “McCarthyism!”  They’ll deflect and deny.  But they can’t refute.

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  • Achance

    look no further than the paid staff of the “international” unions, especially the pure public employee unions. They had to remove the prohibition against communists because by that time, at least half their organizers and other paid staff had been carrying a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book for decades.

    • 4life

      I would call that a ‘red flag’ if there ever was one! Funny, I never heard about that before.

      • eastbaylarry
        • 4life

          It’s one of those dirty little secrets that people don’t talk about for some reason. I’m glad when the ‘inside scoop’ gets the light of day. Its like the fact that union negotiators still hint at violence if they don’t get their way. Hopefully its just an intimidation tactic, but who knows.

          • Achance

            Union violence is more likely between unions or towards “misbehaving” members than towards an employer or outsiders. You’ll note that the big shows of leftist/union violence and property damage are always in places that are friendly towards the left, e.g., big Blue cities or European socialist capitals. They know the cops will usually protect them and at most just shuffle them off out of sight of the cameras and let them go rather than throw them in jail where they belong.

            I’ve had to deal with them being defiant a few times. In that case, your choices really are political; sure you can bring in the cops and haul them off and charge their leaders, sue the union for violating no-picketing language if you have it, but then they’ll all fall down like they’re dying for the cameras and accuse your cops of brutality, all the women will claim to have been fondled. So you’re usually best to just turn and walk away. What if they gave a demonstration and nobody noticed? You have to draw a line with violence or property damage but up to that line, why give them their Saul Alinsky moment?

          • eastbaylarry

            Recall the SEIU ‘mob’ outside a bankers home where the bankers’ teenage son was cowering in fear.

            Nobody ‘hurt’? Move along, nothing to see here…

          • Achance

            You can believe the conflicting cop stories as you choose, but SEIU knew they were safe to do that and I think even the banker was willing to go along with it. Whatszerface on FOX was the fly in that ointment; she didn’t get the memo that it was all for show and she went out through the overhead. Sometimes you have a riot at a friendly place to show people in other places what’s in store for them.

          • eastbaylarry

            AChance, you seem to be saying that these union ‘events’ are deplorable, but acceptable. I’m sorry, but I can’t accept that.

            Should we ignore it when they start throwing fire bombs?
            Will we turn away when injuries and casualties become common place?
            How about when republican leaning polling places are forced to close?

            Where DO we draw the line?

          • Achance

            and I don’t understand why a significant percentage of the people on this board find words I never said in my writing. I said that these things are just a game in Blue places, and that is true. What you might do about them in places where civilized people live is another matter. Try reading for comprehension!

          • eastbaylarry

            “Sometimes you have a riot at a friendly place to show people in other places what

          • Achance
          • eastbaylarry

            But, then again, if smarts means calling somebody ‘stupid’ instead of answering legitimate questions, I guess I don’t really want any.

          • Vegas_Rick
          • Raven

            Is that Union Events are deplorable, and only occur where the local government is willing to put up with them.

          • 4life

            What I am talking about is what manufacturing management hears at the negotiating table. It isn’t the local guys in the factory, it is the union officials who come in to negotiate. They make threats, even today, even in relatively small factories. And they also use the threat of unfair labor practices suits to get what they want, but that is a matter of law and not violence.

          • Raven

            Let them have their moments but have your own cameras out there filming them and then explain long and often what actually happened.

            Eventually people will stop paying attention to the arrests and claims of brutality and fondling.

  • 4life

    but the link wasn’t right. Can you link to a transcript? Unions will ruin this country if we let them. Like my dad says, they are the biggest and most powerful special interest group around.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.combrand/brhttp://www.laborunionreport.blogspot.com LaborUnionReport
      • 4life

        n/t

  • pompadour

    How right you are about Beck. He’s not perfect. Who is? But geez Louise, the guy has certainly rattled the cages of a bunch of slimebags who’ve been getting too little attention for too long.

    Every time I hear some supposed conservative complain about Beck’s questionable history sources, I laugh my butt off. Whose line are they buying? Who’s been controlling the history books? Who’s been controlling the study of history? It hasn’t been the conservatives for years. And yet people assume that because Beck’s history looks different, it’s off. The majority view is not always the right one. Just ask guys like Copernicus. Sometimes it just takes someone to forge a path for a new way of looking at things…and that’s usually a rough job.

    Personally, I’m very glad Beck’s taken it on.

    • Common_Cents

      He is light years ahead of anyone in the media. Beck isn’t yet “cool” w/ the establishment types even on the R side probably because they are threatened.

    • 4life

      They scare me more than the thugs that live a few blocks from me. Maybe it’s because my childhood fear was being shot through the curtains at night. Not a common fear, you say, in a middle class neighborhood? No, not unless your dad left the office to work in the factory during a strike. Those ‘do you know where your children are’ calls created a new game at our house. It was called ‘find your way around the house in the dark’, because my dad wouldn’t let us turn the lights on at night. I wasn’t supposed to know why, but somehow I developed that strange phobia.

      • cactusjack

        onc’t in a while. Death threats in the neighborhood he lives in, are to be taken very seriously. His coat is still rumpled and his forehead pops sweat when he starts railing on Wilson sometimes. That’s why O’Reilly and the polished crowd still don’t take him 100%seriously on an intellectual level. They think they are leading him along, educating him at the big NY network studios so he will get more polished. Surprise, ever so slowly, he is leading them on, educating them, they haven’t realized it yet.

        • BA Cyclone

          I totally get that vibe from O’R as well when they have exchanges.

          I can’t stand to watch O’Reilly any longer, however. I watch Beck more because he at least tries to be a little instructive – plenty of points to ponder. He at least challenges you to think. O’R seems like a lot of bluster and big-city “conservatism” – or “traditionalism” as he calls it. Too squishy for me.

      • OccamsRazor

        :)

    • cactusjack

      American history like a lot of you. Somewhere in that education process, I never knew Woodrow Wilson had re-segregated the federal government. I knew well about early 20th century progressivism movement, but did not know about its European connections which are significant. thank you, Dr Beck.

  • http://www.dcworksforus.com Kenny Solomon

    The Vuvuzela.

    Latest weapon for unions to disrupt anything they choose.

    “We’ll hand them out to our members before demonstrations. Around 200 to 300 instruments will be enough in a rally of 7,000 to 10,000,” Grzegorz Ilka of the OPZZ union federation told Metro.

    — — — — — — —

    Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ……. Strike !!!!!! ……….. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ……. Strike !!!!!! ……………… Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz …………….. It’s Bush’s fault !!!!!! …………… Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………….

    • Common_Cents

      Vuvuzuela, weapon of mass DISruption.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.combrand/brhttp://www.laborunionreport.blogspot.com LaborUnionReport

      Chinese-made vuvuzelas imported by Poles surfing the wave currently fetch six to eight zloty on local online auction site allegro.pl.

      ROFLMAO! :)

    • acat

      Or maybe those little foamy things construction sites use…

      Mew

      • Michael Dugas

        Just curious…..a little.

        There should be a bounty on Vuvuzuela’s.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    LUR, but again, I doubt if the GOP wants to make it part of their plank..A Lot of rank and file don’t even know it was stricken, I’ll bet.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.combrand/brhttp://www.laborunionreport.blogspot.com LaborUnionReport

      They’re too busy trying to hold down a disappearing union job, pay mortgages and live honest, decent lives. Meanwhile, they’ve been paying money to a bunch of socialists…er…progressives who are fleecing them.