Labor unions have been a real force for good in the life of my family, and in so many other families like mine. I am who I am, and who I have been able to become, in large part because of the strength and resources my parents and aunts were able to gather from their unions.
That is why I have used my celebrity to support unions and organizing drives, pro-union political candidates and Employee Free Choice. I will always be a union activist, and I am proud of that.
What I am not proud of is what the fight between UNITE HERE and Workers United/SEIU is doing to this movement I care so much about. I stood side by side with UNITE HERE throughout the merger, but it was obvious even from the outside that that organization was not reaching its potential. I supported Workers United members when they decided to go their own way. But now, even after the formation of that new union the fighting has not stopped.
I was just in Niagara Falls, Canada with workers who finally won their union, but now can't get a contract because their employer has gotten wrapped up in this intra-union battle. That is unacceptable and I raise my voice and add to the others that are calling for a quick and fair end to the UNITE HERE merger which ends all this infighting. The stakes for folks like these hotel workers in Canada are too high to let this drag on.
I call on President Wilhelm to accept President Raynor and President Stern's offer to enter into binding arbitration. The sooner the better.
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I AM PROUD
I AM UNION PROUD
I AM PROUD UNITE HERE MEMBER!
For those of you who don't believe me, then YOU need to take a BIG step back. Look at the facts, talk to (not threathen them) members, (THE REAL MEMBERS) and you'll know I'm telling you the truth!
Mr Glover, you must be Mr. Raynor's good friend (or is it Mr. Stern's?) to turn such a blind eye. I always thought of you as a smart and fair man. I just hope you rethink what you've stated and take a better look at what your friends have done to us UNITE HERE union members.
And speak of Mr. Raynor and Mr. Stern...I just to say from all of us at my work place, "Thanks for giving our employers the right to do whatever they please to us. And Thanks for making our lives HELL! THIS IS OUR LIVES YOU ARE MESSING WITH!!!"
Remember there is ALWAYS 2 sides of a story!
You could not possibly heard the UNITE HERE's MEMBERS speak out about the way they were treated and the "vote" was RUSHED, PUSHED, THREATHEN and PROMISED on them!
I'm not going into the small details, but I will tell you this...
Some members were confused on the name of the "NEWLY UNWANTED" union. It went from UNITE HERE (wanted) to "Workers United-SEI
On some properties only 50+ (not 50%) Members knew about the vote and voted. There is a total of about 300 members (possibly more) on that property! And most of the 50 (that voted), voted NO, But it was still past as the "new" union! How is that FAIR? They DIDN'T WANT or need a "new" union or even treated unfairly from the "new" union upper members. (There's a lot more things, but I'll just leave it at this for now. Short.)
Prop 8
Union Members 56% Yes 44% No
Non Union Members 49.91% Yes 50.09% No
Without Union Members ... same sex marriage would still occur in California
Union Members as a constituen
Union Members as a constituen
Union Members as a constiuenc
Union Members as a constituen
In fact, straight down the line. Union Members vote with the "values voters" of the Republican party.
Now if the republican Party could just get off their asses and actually support "collectiv
Hell for every oil well in the U.S. 18 Union members are employed, but for every oil well outside of the U.S. only four are employed ... republican
(Standard Union members already believe that Environmen
Proud member IATSE ( yep I work with Mr. Glover )
As a union organizer I know most unions are committed to equal rights for all. My union has negotiated benefits for same-sex domestic partners that are exactly the same as those offered to spouses.
Where I live in New York state labor is fighting for same-sex marriage in the state legislatur
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I know union leadership in California was against Prop. 8
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I know union members certainly don't vote "with the "values voters" of the Republican party"
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I know both Gore and Kerry received 59% of union votes.
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So I would really like to know where you got your informatio
Scroll down a tiny bit.
And if you think the rank and file trade union members vote with their leadership
Take a look at Gore's speech to the union members in PA in 2000. He had them going and cheering and tossing their hats in the air. And going with the moment he said something along the lines of "And I will get the guns out of the hands of all those kooks and make America safe again!"
And all the sudden you could hear crickets chirping.
In that one moment, he lost PA and the presidency
And 59% support means 41% do not agree. Furthermor
There is no data that separates out the type of vote from trade and profession
The leadership ... well ... if you DO know something about union members, leaders are NOT often respected by the rank and file. IN fact disrespect behind the backs of the "point and gaff" leadership is common.
Now WHY do we tend to vote Democrat instead of Republican
Because the Republican
But if the ISSUE is separated from the PARTY? Rank and file members vote pretty much down the line conservati
Why didn't SEIU agree to binding arbitratio
His Union associatio
Mr. Glover, your honor is to be admired.
Kenneth R. Jackson
CPO USN Ret.
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Some 82 percent of employers hire high-price
•30 percent fire pro-union workers.
•49 percent threaten to close a worksite when workers try to form a union, but only 2 percent actually do.
•51 percent coerce workers into opposing unions with bribery or favoritism
•91 percent force employees to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with their supervisor
Those members never decided to go their own way. The decision was that of former UNITE president Bruce Raynor and those in the UNITE-HERE leadership loyal to him to leave a union where member-led democracy got in the way of their control, and their designs on the member-own
If you are not proud of the fight between UNITE-HERE and SEIU, then you can't support Workers United.
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Unions are one of the big downfall of the auto industries as well as the steel industry. Unions seem to have been invented by someone who purposely came up with the most horrible way to make companies inefficien
However, since they are a guaranteed vote for democrats, dems love them.
Have a nice day.
Oh, wait, you're a rightwingn
1) loans, loans, and issuing bonds (never paid back of course)
2) GM's truck division which made money to cover losses by other division
3) GMAC which provided financial cover
The unions ruined GM. It's common knowledge. Next you'll deny global warming?
The internal pissing contests/d
In addition to the split of the AFL-CIO, this is the labor leadership who are to shepard the American worker out of the economic wasteland through union membership and the employee free choice act.
Card check neutrality agreements were spearheade
How is it these "leaders" expect to unify Congress to pass legislatio
Blame declining density upon unfair labor law practices all they want but it has been obvious for some time that the biggest problem facing the labor movement is the labor movement itself.
Get it together Gentlemen.