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President Meets With Union Bosses to Discuss Government-Union “Partnership”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 23rd, 2010 at 04:45 PM  | 

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In light of the NLRB’s attacks on business this week, this this little piece is striking, as it is the epitome of why the economy still sucks unemployment remains high.

The U.S. Department of Labor, which has become akin to the Ministry of Workers’ Councils, regularly issues a newsletter via e-mail and posts it on the Ministry’s website. This week, among other items touted, was this little gem on union bosses meeting with President Obama to discuss growing the economy and the government-union partnership.

[Screenshot below the fold just in case...well, you know.]

Obama, Solis and Labor Leaders

President Obama, Secretary Solis and key White House staff met last week with a dozen leaders from several national labor unions to discuss ways to work together to strengthen the economy. The group talked about creating good jobs for the American people, and how the partnership with labor unions is essential to growing our economy and continuing our recovery. The president and the labor secretary also highlighted critical steps that the administration has taken and pledged to continue to work closely with organized labor in the coming months on important economic issues.

It’s funny that the administration still refuses to admit that unions are the antithesis of private-sector job creation. In fact, it seems the only way unions create jobs is to buy politicians who steal other people’s money, then reward the union bosses with taxpayer dollars and government-approved discrimination.
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  • decotriumph

    Obamalamadingdong know nothing of business or creating jobs (or working for a living). He’s never done any of it. He was trained politically in the Daley-style corruption of Chicago Democrat politics and has brought that to Washington. His open caressing of Big Labor is a shameless indicator of that.

  • izoneguy

    Dept. of money laundering…..

    Dept. of Labor destroys jobs left & right…..

    Time to defund and destroy

  • bobmontgomery

    …..because we understand Lisa Murkowski will now be supporting all Obama-Reid initiatives. And of course Scott Brown will probably chime in that he’s ‘for the workin’man’ and ‘putting people back to work’, dontchaknow, securing his Kennedy seat. You can count on Collins and Snowe and we understand the Senator from North Carolina thinks the answer is blowin’ in the wind, One thing for sure, Governor Daniels won’t want to get involved in it because it’s a ‘social issue’. What! you say. A social issue? Yep. In case you hadn’t noticed, everything’s a social issue now….civil rights even.These people learned how to play cards a couple of generations ago and now it’s the only game in town. Except for environmental issues. Course those are social issues too because the poor communist and dictator-led nations have to get exemptions and carbon credits until they become big-time pseudo-democracies like us.
    Did you ever think you would live to see the day when diversity would trump National Security? Well, we’re there, so don’t tell me we’ll never live to see the day when the thugs get their hands on the military. The President will undoubtedly tap the SEIU as the negotiating partner, and will chuckle as he declares “I won.” and “Why do you think they call it ‘Service’”.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    It just keeps on coming. My goodness, the new Congress is going to have a full-time job beating back tyranny, starting on Day 1.

  • ohiohistorian

    Obama will team with 12 percent of the work force, half of which is in non-productive government jobs, about building the economy for the other 88 percent of us. I can hear it now?

    Mr. Obama: How do we build this economy?
    Union boss 1 — Duh
    Union boss 2 — Duh
    all the way down the line, until you hear coming out of the conference room (to the tune of Hail to the Chief)
    Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh….

  • student

    As long as people pretend that Obama is a “liberal” who believes in the American system and the west but just wants “reform” or “fairness” they will fail to get it. The reality is that Obama is a Marxist who understand that he needs to destroy America in order to destroy global capitalism. The fundamental American vision is a vision of classical liberalism – small frugal limited government, free enterprise, low taxation and empowerment of the individual to make the important decisions in their lives. Obama’s Marxist vision is the opposite – large expansive all-powerful government, shackled enterprise dependent of government crony capitalism (think of Immelt and GE/NBC/MSMBC), with high taxation, and all important decisions being made by Marxist government “experts” – every thing from whether you are aborted or not, terminated or not, get healthcare or not, what you can eat or not, what words you can or cannot use, what thoughts you can or cannot think.

  • chbroussard

    I am up to here with all the favors being bestowed upon labor union thugs. It’s like if you don’t belong to a union, you’re not really working. Oh yeah, those of us who don’t belong to a union just go to work, do nothing, and still get a paycheck. Their mindset is that only union members are the real *working men.”

    While unions may have served a useful purpose in the beginning (hours worked, working conditions, etc.). they have long outlived their usefulness.
    They have become just another entitlement program. They seem to feel that someone working on an assembly line is entitled to the same benefits and financial rewards as someone with more education or greater talents.

    I am not trying to put down people who work in our factories or other union jobs. They play an integral part in our economy. But I was a secretary for 38 years and never have I felt that I deserved to make as much money as a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or other jobs that required a lot more education and skill than I possessed. It’s all part of the class warfare and share the wealth BS that Democrats have been pushing for decades.

    Is it any wonder many of our manufacturing and other jobs have moved overseas? A company can only exist if it makes a profit. Unions have made that very difficult in many instances.

    • jwfan

      Obama is just doing his job as he sees it need to be done in order to have a “Kumbaya World “where the Sheep shall exist with the wolves”
      in Peace.

      Not going to happen except in Liberal/Socialist dreams .

      The union leaders of the long-ago past worked for their membership and not for the increase of their personal power/wealth. The Internationals of today’s AFL-CIO are out for their own power and the members better follow along meekly.

      Sure, they get more $$ for their membership but only at the cost of more $$ and bennies for themselves, oddly, for themselves. Union leadership is no better in today’s world then the politicians who also want their perks. Those Union leaders of today who worked to get where they are have short memories.

      A large part of the membership don’t like what is going on but keep quiet because they get a few more $$ thrown down periodically and don’t dare to buck the system….I’m an old Union man but Unions can be just as bad as management sometimes… I don’t like millions of my union dues being arbitrarily given out by the Union bosses to hack, mostly Democrat, politicians without the membership’s authorization every election cycle…
      And the Band plays on…

  • http://westforwestwing2012.com westforwestwing2012

    The government-labor-crony-capitalism thing is Mussolini all over again, is it not? Except that Obama is more like Mussolini on steroids, because Obama wants to take it to the global level.

    Remember that the puppetmaster/financier (“he who pays the piper calls the tune”) behind all this is George Soros–who has said repeatedly that global governance is the goal, the U.S. is blocking the way forward to the goal, ergo the U.S. needs to be taken down.

  • http://www.800cart.com Ron Robinson

    DOL must be watchinhg LUR pretty closely.

    • Deskpilot

      can’t even respond to a search on “NEWS”. PURGE, eh?
      Their SYSOP guy is probably being paid overtime to keep their site as pure as the wind driven snow. he jut doesn’t know that the rest of us know that is a foul smell coming from every letter of of the executive alphabet soup.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      http://www.dol.gov/_sec/newsletter/

      It might have been taken down for a while, but it’s back up now.

  • Duke

    This would be the point at which Oblahblah pays off his markers to the union bosses for the election in ’08 and rolls some of them over for the election in ’12.

    Our job in the next 18 months is to see that those markers are all worth less than the paper their not printed on.

  • zioneer

    to have a President who is so unqualified. I am so unhappy with the voting public for not giving him the slightest exam. My life is so much worse with Obama in office.

    • jwfan

      ZIONEER —- We gotta get back to when our teachers taught us to DO OUR HOMEWORK.

      Today, things in life are getting too complex to undestand and we allow it in large part by getting wrapped up in our own little worlds and leave the driving to others, the hack politicians, Chicago “Community Organizers” and such — they are all to happy to think for us because we have become too lazy to keep an eye on them . Don’t listen to what they say and not watch what they are doing…

      PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT’S GOING ON AROUND US !!

      I was impressed by Obama when I first heard of him.. Thought to myself that he sounds like a different kind of politician. But when his church minister of 19 years and who he calls a mentor/ personalfriend, then preaches racism and G-DAMN THE UNITED STATES and he says he never knew his mentor was like that, then it was obvious to me Obama was just another (although charismatic) hack politician. People like him should practice what they preach and they obviously don’t as far as I am concerned… And the Band plays on…

      • sheryl

        but to take it a little further, HE HAS LIED REPEATEDLY . HE WAS A WOLF
        IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. HE ONLY SHOWED WHAT HE WAS AFTER HE
        GOT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. I KNEW HE WAS A PRETENDER IN CHIEF
        FOR ALL AMERICANS WHEN HE GOT INVOLVED WITH THE PROFESSOR FIASCO.
        HE HAS NO SELF RESPECT. I WOULD BE SO EMBARRASSED AND SO
        ASHAMED OF MYSELF.
        IN THE NEAR FUTURE OUR RIGHT TO SPEAK FREELY OVER THE WEB
        MIGHT COME UNDER ATTACK. I HOPE EACH PERSON STAYS ALERT
        AND INVOLVED.

  • romeg

    and one of his guests had the temerity to declare that “The Labor Union Movement CREATED THE MIDDLE CLASS.” [emphasis mine]. and went on to “…defy anyone to prove me wrong.” Of course, John Stossel went on to do exactly that to which the guest responded that he had not been proven wrong.

    This is the mentality that now runs our government. This is what Eric Hoffer describes as “The True Believer”.

    But The Labor Movement has been a boon to job creation…
    in Mexico and the Pacific Rim and in Right to Work States, all at the expense of The Rust Belt.

    What’s that old quote about “..the last liberal politician being hanged using the entrails of the last labor union organizer…”

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  • wolfgang

    If your pet doggy is feeling out of sorts and all funky, the first order of business and the first step in getting the little guy back in working order is to stop whispering sweet nothings to his anus and the scent glands located near by and then to stop beating him on his cranium between his ears with your trusty ball peen hammer because thats where the little guy gets the impetus to and where the order originates for him to get his legs all in coordination and prepared to push against gravity to stand erect. If that self help veterinary manual you’ve been reading up to now says to do otherwise, please toss that manual into the nearest bessemer furnace you come by.

  • leehazel

    BIG Business plus BIG Labor plus BIG Government equals
    BIG Fascism.
    Dwight D Eisenhower put out the initial warnings near the end of his Presidency when he cautioned We The People to be very careful and watchful of the Military Industrial Complex.
    He was clearly referencing Mussolini Corporate Fascism (MCF) which had raised its head during the WWII years and continued its march toward total control of all economic levers of America.
    What we are seeing now is further consolidation of certain industries
    e.g. Automotive, Energy and Finance to fit the Cartel model of MCF.
    Additionally BIG Labor has put “Their Boy” in the White House. Labor through its control of the governmental workforce has truly begun to flex its muscle in this “enabling” environment.
    We The People had better realize what is going on and take appropriate action. It’s only a matter of time before the “Jackboots” make their appearance and the final stages of the Police State are consummated.
    PC is Thought Control

    • jwfan

      It’s comparatively easy for Big Business. After squirming a bit in negotiations they give BIG LABOR what it basically wants. BOTTOM LINE — Big Business just adds the increased cost of their product onto what it sells it to the public for.

      Everybody goes away happy until next contract negotiations start.

      Politicians (DEMS, REPUBLICANS, LIBERALS, RINOS, and their hacks etc. practice this same attitude, .

      The only loser in all this is the little taxpayer who pays the freight for all this.

  • lv2rd117

    To every problem, Obama offers government. He can offer no other because he has surrounded himself with no job creators, no producers, no captains of industry, and no free market champions. If a Government union is the only job creating grace, then a marriage built on anything other than honesty, equality, and respect can only fail in the end.

  • Brian Hibbert

    I don’t think big labor realizes that it will just become a tool of The State rather than being the separate entity in control of labor that it perceives.

    One of my favorite cartoons from the 40′s still has it right.

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