Unions Threatened Riots if No Bailout
-By Warner Todd Huston
Last week, Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers union, threatened to foster riots if the $900 billion bailout didn’t get through Congress. “If we have Republicans who oppose us, we are going to take to the streets, we are going to occupy places. We are not going to allow any more of our members’ lives to be destroyed,” he warned in a conference call to journalists over the weekend.
A new coalition of union welfare seekers has been formed that goes by the name Campaign for America’s Future (CAF).
CAF, made up of more than two dozen labor unions, 127 lesser-known economists and assorted activists, hosted a press conference call to announce the proposed $900 billion Main Street proposal, which the group hopes will be ready for President-elect Barack Obama’s signature when he takes office on Jan. 20.
Yes, it’s all supposed to be legitimate and grown up of these folks lining up in front of Congress with their hands out for our tax dollars to be stuffed into their pockets to come together in a democratic styled coalition. But, as soon as a reporter seems to question these union thugs at all, the yelling begins.
On the CAF conference call, when Monica Showalter, a reporter for Investor’s Business Daily, pointed out that exports are the strongest sector of the U.S. economy (according to the National Association of Manufacturers, exports accounted for 46 percent of the growth in the U.S. economy in 2007), and asked why Gerard’s union opposes the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, he answered: “My union and I, and most of the labor movement, are not opposed to trade. What we are opposed at [sic] is the kind of trade that throws our jobs on the altar of this ideological dialogue. The fact of the matter is we can’t sustain a strong industrial base or a strong manufacturing economy if we are running ongoing trade deficits on an annual basis.”
When Showalter asked what blue jean factory workers in Medellin might have to do with the agenda of the United Steelworkers, Gerard shouted at her, “We should not do deals with countries that allow the shooting of people who represent the workers!”
A few minutes later, when the Sunday Paper asked him what the United Steelworkers union has done for the past 20 years to make the U.S. more competitive in the global market, Gerard said the union has reduced man-hours for production.
“Do you know what that means? Do you know?” he said, raising his voice.
“That there should be fewer employees?” I asked.
To which Gerard angrily responded, “Do you want us to work for nothing?”
In other words, these guys don’t care about any legitimate, democratic process. If they don’t get their pockets filled with our tax dollars, they’ll take to the streets and riot. Yeah. That’s really adult of them.
Figures.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on December 16, 2008 10:29 am
» Filed Under Crime, Democrats, Economy, News, Union Mafias/Thugs, liberalism
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Gee, I guess McCarthyism is alive and well in the good ole uSofA. You people make me sick, with your fostering of class warfare and divisive politics. The ACLU has helped MANY MANY people when the government turned a blind eye to their problems. Grow the f#ck up already!