Bernie Sanders, Danny Glover: Union workers have it better
Source: Washington Post
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stood with thousands at a pro-union rally near Nissan Motor Co.’s plant in Canton, Mississippi, congratulating workers for their courage “in standing up for justice.”
“It’s our job to tell corporate America that they cannot have it all,” Sanders told the crowd. “Start treating the working people of this country with respect and dignity!”
That comment drew a roar of approval from the crowd. Many held signs reading “Workers’ Rights = Civil Rights” and “We Deserve Better” as Sanders, actor Danny Glover, NAACP President Cornell Brooks and United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams made the case for union membership.
“If you are a member of a union in America, you are going to make 27 percent more than a non-union member. If you are a member of a union, you’re far more likely to have paid family and medical leave. If you are a member of a union, the likelihood is that you will have better health care and a better retirement plan than non-union members,” the former Democratic presidential candidate said.
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Very few unions in that category. And the manufacturing industry is still shrinking so...
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Bernie is one of the few D's out there doing rallies for workers since November. You just have to look in the little MSM coverage. Perhaps you have some links to other D's doing this too?
http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2017/02/02/senators-steelworkers-rally-support-rexnord-workers/97424454/
Holly V. Hays , holly.hays@indystar.com Published 9:39 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2017 | Updated 10:07 p.m. ET Feb. 2, 2017
Snip: Speakers at the event included Mayor Joe Hogsett, Rep. Andre Carson and Sens. Joe Donnelly and Bernie Sanders, who spoke to the rally via a pretaped video statement.
"We used to be a country which manufactured products, but in the last number of years, 60,000 manufacturing plants in this country have been shut down," Sanders said in the video. "That is a disaster."
Sanders also mentioned President Donald Trump's deal to save Carrier Corp.'s Indianapolis-based plant, which planned to close and move more than 1,000 jobs to Mexico.
"I will tell you that it is great that Donald Trump made a phone call to the CEO of United Technologies, but that is not a policy," Sanders said. "We're going to have to do a lot more than make phone calls to individual companies in order to rebuild manufacturing in America and create the millions of jobs that need to be created."
"but many mid-western workers don't give a damn about unions...only jobs" Trump did very well in that same mid-west.
Coming away from one sentence from Bernie can be very misleading.
Again what other D's are out doing this? Maybe you should point to those staying home instead.
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/01/bernie-sanders-denounces-trumps-carrier-deal-for-endangering-the-jobs-of-workers-who-were-previously-safe/
THURSDAY, DEC 1, 2016 2:50 PM UTC
Bernie Sanders denounces Trump’s Carrier deal for “endangering the jobs of workers who were previously safe”
President-elect Donald Trump may be touting his deal with Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is hearing none of it.
“Today, about 1,000 Carrier workers and their families should be rejoicing,” Sanders wrote in a Thursday op-ed for The Washington Post. “But the rest of our nation’s workers should be very nervous.”
Sanders proceeded to point out what Salon’s Gary Legum had noticed earlier on Thursday — namely, that Trump’s deal saved fewer than half the manufacturing jobs that Carrier was planning to ship to the Mexican city of Monterrey and did so only by having Gov. Mike Pence (in his final weeks as Indiana leader) offer Carrier tax breaks that will cost Indiana $700,000 annually for an indefinite period.
Trump also seemed to promise that his planned tax and regulatory reforms will amount to more savings for Carrier.
FULL story at link.
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BTW my last new car was a 09 Cobalt made in Lordstown. Our house buys USA union MADE first. We went from 79 to 09 without a new car. Two in 09. One in 15. Two Chevys and a Buick.
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Just what the DU is for!
