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(91,778 posts)
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 03:41 PM Sep 2021

Happy Labor Day, 'Union Thugs'

John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang 33m
40-hr work week, minimum wage, an end to child labor, family leave, health ins, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans, and the weekend.

Happy Labor Day
Thanks, Union Thugs.





(UFCW Local 400 and Local 27, 36 years)

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Happy Labor Day, 'Union Thugs' (Original Post) bigtree Sep 2021 OP
Union proud Deuxcents Sep 2021 #1
Careful, there's a nanny around who claims any use of "thug" is racist. UTUSN Sep 2021 #2
It very often is iemanja Sep 2021 #7
I specified any/all *other* usages, which is what the nanny went on a vendetta about. UTUSN Sep 2021 #11
34 year teamster here Duncanpup Sep 2021 #3
"Oh, you can't scare me! I'm sticking to the union!"---from Woody's "Union Maid". nt Atticus Sep 2021 #4
Union Thug here malaise Sep 2021 #5
Union Thug here malaise Sep 2021 #6
Although my parents were Republican central scrutinizer Sep 2021 #8
early memory bigtree Sep 2021 #9
Proud union thug checking in. Elessar Zappa Sep 2021 #10
Proud thug here, Notek Sep 2021 #12
CWA here, too Deuxcents Sep 2021 #14
Greetings! Notek Sep 2021 #15
Former UFCW members here. Lady Freedom Returns Sep 2021 #13

UTUSN

(74,093 posts)
11. I specified any/all *other* usages, which is what the nanny went on a vendetta about.
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 05:29 PM
Sep 2021

central scrutinizer

(12,576 posts)
8. Although my parents were Republican
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 04:30 PM
Sep 2021

They taught me, “Never cross a union picket line”.

How things have changed.

Deuxcents

(22,102 posts)
14. CWA here, too
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 06:19 PM
Sep 2021

Best thing I ever did was get involved. Changed my life and I’m grateful for the experiences

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,180 posts)
13. Former UFCW members here.
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 05:46 PM
Sep 2021

United Food and Commercial Workers
Local 99

Being Union is hard in a Right to Work state. That why I'm so mad at Senator Sinama. She backs breaking Unions. She's my Democratic Senator and showing herself as a DINO more and more.

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