Workers In California Block Wal-Mart Warehouse In Civil Disobedience Union Organizing Action

[billyoc]

Hundreds of warehouse workers organizing to form a union at warehouses operated by huge U.S. retailers east of Los Angeles rallied Thursday. They shut down a Wal-Mart warehouse with civil disobedience. During the action Daniel Medress of Warehouse Workers United described the scene.

: "Eight people, five clergy members and three workers in the driveway. This warehouse, this Wal-Mart warehouse, has been shut down. There has not been a single truck to exit or enter this facility in well over an hour."

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11120

[bluestateguy]

1. Union thugs

and I wish them the best of luck.

We need more, not less, union thuggery in America.

[RandomThoughts]

2. I don't think the 'thug' label is accurate.

The definitions I looked up mostly say 'thugs' are violence related. I do not think violence was part of there protest.

Although your comment may have meant it in different meaning.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. I read it as a sarcastic dig at anti-union rhetoric

Anti-union rhetoric always attempts to frame the public perception of any form of protest, activism or such by labor organizations or union workers as being the actions of "union thugs" or some similar connotation.

At least I hope it was sarcasm.:-)

[billyoc]

4. Mayor Bloomberg here in NYC called me a thug.

I was never more flattered.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. Lol...You ARE...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Borrowed this from the "Matt Santos I am a Liberal" speech on The West Wing...

"So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Union-thug,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor."

[Omaha Steve]

6. A BIG R!

I just wish I could have been there.

[dcsmart]

7. Now we are cooking with righteous solidarity..K & R

the more direct action from workers and activists, the louder the populace voice gets.

[billyoc]

8. Direct Action gets the goods.