Union Life: What the Obama White House Fails to Understand about Worker Safety, Security

By: Thursday June 10, 2010 7:05 am

Union guys are angry right now. They are sitting on the benches, they are paying union dues, and losing insurance benefits. They are watching corporate America gain strength and infiltrate the environment at big industrial sites. They are feeling like pieces of meat, instead of skilled human beings. Imagine middle class life in America without the unions? It’s the beginning of the slippery slope where humans are just cogs in a wheel.

Union Leader Says: Tell Young Workers the Truth

By: Thursday October 8, 2009 5:43 am
(Promoted by lancesteagall - Tragic that \"guaranteed security retirement\" now seems like an antiquated idea.)

A recent report issued by the AFL-CIO revealed the scope of the economic crisis facing young people: rising unemployment and anxiety about their futures, inability to buy their own homes or even move out of their parents’ houses and lack of basic health care and retirement security.

More anti-union, anti-UAW propaganda from the point of origin: The Heritage Foundation

By: Friday December 12, 2008 10:08 pm

The outright lies about UAW wages came from The Heritage Foundation; they’re not stopping at that, either.

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