Wonder why Obama and the Dems are so hot to support labor unions (particularly government employee unions)...?
Check out these contributions...
Leading Union Political Campaign Contributors 1990-2010 | |||
Democrats | Republicans | ||
American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees | $40,281,900 | $547,700 | |
Intel Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | 29,705,600 | 679,000 | |
National Education Association | 27,679,300 | 2,005,200 | |
Service Employees International Union | 26,368,470 | 98,700 | |
Communication Workers of America | 26,305,500 | 125,300 | |
Service Employees International Union | 26,252,000 | 1,086,200 | |
Laborers Union | 25,734,000 | 2,138,000 | |
American Federation of Teachers | 25,682,800 | 200,000 | |
United Auto Workers | 25,082,200 | 182,700 | |
Teamsters Union | 24,926,400 | 1,822,000 | |
Carpenters and Joiners Union | 24,094,100 | 2,658,000 | |
Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union | 23,875,600 | 226,300 | |
United Food and Commercial Workers Union | 23,182,000 | 334,200 | |
AFL-CIO | 17,124,300 | 713,500 | |
Sheet Metal Workers Union | 16,347,200 | 342,800 | |
Plumbers & Pipefitters Union | 14,790,000 | 818,500 | |
Operating Engineers Union | 13,840,000 | 2,309,500 | |
Airline Pilots Association | 12,806,600 | 2,398,300 | |
International Association of Firefighters | 12,421,700 | 2,685,400 | |
United Transportation Workers | 11,807,000 | 1,459,300 | |
Ironworkers Union | 11,638,900 | 936,000 | |
American Postal Workers Union | 11,633,100 | 544,300 | |
Nat'l Active & Retired Fed. Employees Association | 8,135,400 | 2,294,600 | |
Seafarers International Union | 6,726,800 | 1,281,300 | |
Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C. | |||
Democrats supported by teachers, pilots, and engineers.
ReplyDeleteShame on them.
Democrats- bought and paid for.
ReplyDeleteShame on them.
9:20
ReplyDeleteYou can't be serious. 10:15 hits in dead on the nail.
Labor unions represent the workers. They support Democrats. Big Business supports the Republicans. Who do you think the Republicans represent?
ReplyDeleteWho is going to give you a job, 12:47?
ReplyDeleteThe union, or a big business?
The unions are COSTING us jobs.
Dresser. Crown Cork. Etc.
What business can afford to pay $70/hr for somebody to shoot a few screws into a car door? (Can you say GM?)
Businesses support conservatives so they can stay in business, rather than being nationalized by the liberal dems.
Labor unions represent THEMSELVES, and in the end, that's who wins.
I remember seeing a union guy out chatting up the Crown Cork workers toward the end of their strike, and I said 'You watch-- when this is over, they'll all be gone, but he will still have a job.'
Sure enough.
Unions have long outlived their usefulness. They are now counter-productive (literally.)
Unions are not all bad. They developed to serve a needed purpose, to protect the workers. The workers need protection now more than ever. We have a rapidly disappearing middle class. Soon we will all be mostly poor lower class with a few rich people reaping all the benefits and calling all the shots. Revolutions have been caused over less.
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