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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:23 PM
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OMG OMG, one of the rarest of rarest occurrences is happening Right Now...
A labor leader is on MSNBC...

WOW, I can't remember the last time I saw a labor leader sitting at that desk.

Of course it's because president Trumpka af the AFL-CIO is being critical of president Obama.

But still, this is one of the rarest of the rare occasion, a voice of labor is speaking...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:25 PM
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1. OMG! *Rushes to turn on TV*
You mean........we still have labor leaders???

I thought they were all extinct!

:P

:hi:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:25 PM
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2. I have seen him a few time over the last few months
the fact that they are signaling they are ending their historic alliance with the conservative, business friendly, DEMOCRATIC party...

We are back in the 1880s in so many ways.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:32 PM
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3. That is what pisses me off so much....
They should be on once or twice a week to give the people an update...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:36 PM
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5. Our business friendly media do that?
He is on wiht big eddie and hartman on the radio far more often,
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:59 PM
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10. Yes indeed...

"...pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again."

Fortunately events seem to move at a quicker pace these days.
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GKirk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:34 PM
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4. I thought it was going to be a...
...politician admitting they were wrong about something, anything. :)
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:37 PM
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6. Or one telling the truth..
;)
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:42 PM
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7. Or a Democrat, making an absolute stand on principle?
:shrug:
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:54 PM
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8. Mainstream media recognizing labor? Yeah, wow!!!
Wow!!! I saw Trumka on Keith and I could just feel his frustration with the party. Good for him for standing up fir the working class, union and nonunion.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 12:55 PM
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9. I suppose it's because Chucky figured Trumpka would diss the president
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 02:57 PM
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11. Solidarity!

Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
The UNIONS WILL!!



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-11 03:45 PM
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12. Damn Straight.
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