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Occupy Wall Street Plans “General Strike” On May Day, Unions Say No…

by Admin on March 21, 2012 in AFL/CIO, AFSCME, Anarchy, CAIR, CPUSA, Creeping Communism, Creeping Sharia, CWA, Marxism, Union Thugery with No comments

Via: Weaselzippers

Below is the official OWS poster for their May Day general strike, note the references “no work” and “no chores.”

Via Buzzfeed:

Occupy Wall Street, largely forgotten over the last few months, aims to make a comeback from this winter’s hibernation with an ambitious plan: a crippling May Day “general strike” in the tradition of 1930s radicalism.

The grand promise is what one occupier, Brendan Burke, described to BuzzFeed as “a day without the 99%.” But in the city where the movement was born, it’s already suffering from what has emerged as one of Occupy’s signal weaknesses, the lack of ability or interest to make alliances with liberal institutions. Despite public solidarity, there’s little relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor. And as a result, even the most progressive New York labor leaders say their members will not participate in the May 1 strike.

“It won’t happen,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and one of the first labor leaders to embrace the Occupy movement. “They are not working with the unions in a serious way yet; nor are the unions working with them in a serious way. And it is the wrong strategy.”

“I think the concept is a great one but the reality is very tough,” said Arthur Cheliotes, the President of Local 1180, Communications Workers of America and a stalwart of the New York left.

Even Transit Workers Union Local 100, the New York City subway union with a tradition of being one of the most radical mainstream unions in the country, won’t take a side.

“I don’t think we’d take a position on that,” said Cheska Tolentino, a TWU Local 100 organizer in New York, whose union is still paying the price for a 2005 strike courts ruled illegal.

Keep reading…

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Nearly $200,000 paid to Ed Schultz By Unions in 2011, According to Labor Dept.

by Admin on March 9, 2012 in AFL/CIO, CWA, Media Bias, Media Corruption, Union Thugery with No comments

Communications Workers of America

Via: Newsbusters

What a shock — labor unions paying one of their biggest cheerleaders in the media.

Perhaps Ed Schultz could explain what he does for unions to warrant such largesse. I don’t recall hearing anything along these lines on his radio program or MSNBC show.

In fiscal 2011, Schultz received $190,000 from the Communications Workers of America for what the U.S. Department of Labor categorized as “representational activities.”

For swag like that, you’d think Schultz could at least get it right about the CWA name. Instead, he invariably refers to it as the “Communication” Workers of America when its president, Larry Cohen, is a guest on Schultz’s radio show, as Cohen often is.

Schultz also received $9,900 in fiscal 2011 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), putting his union haul for the year at almost $200,000.

This represented a fivefold increase over the $37,350 Schultz received from unions in fiscal 2010 — $15,000 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), $14,850 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and $7,500 from the Communications Workers of America.

A Labor Department spokesman confirmed to NewsBusters that Schultz received $190,000 from CWA  in fiscal 2011, far from than the $7,500 he was paid by the union a year earlier. The spokesman said unions are mandated to report such payments as required by the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

For its fiscal 2010 payment to Schultz, the union characterized the payment as pertaining to “union administration,” according to Labor Department records.

The fiscal year before that, unions paid Schultz $42,500 — $17,500 from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, $10,000 from AFSMCE, and $7,500 each from the Building and Construction Trades union and International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. All were for “political activities,” according to the Labor Department.

In fiscal 2008, Schultz was paid $22,304 by unions — $10,000 from United Steelworkers (for “union administration”), $7,304 from Air Traffic Controllers (“general overhead”), and $5,000 from Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 189 in Columbus, Ohio. (“general overhead” again).

Worth noting is that Schultz’s cable program on MSNBC, “The Ed Show,” debuted in April 2009 — and that union payments to Schultz nearly doubled from a year earlier.

In fiscal 2007, Schultz was paid by only a single union, receiving $8,616 from the IBEW for “representational activities,” according to the Labor Department.

A year earlier, unions paid Schultz $21,820 — $8,820 from AFSCME, $7,500 from Laborers’ International (both for “union administration”), and $5,500 from Air Traffic Controllers (“political activities”). In fiscal 2005, the same year Schultz launched his radio show, he was paid by only one union, $5,000 from Laborers’ International. (“union administration”) The payment from the Air Traffic Controllers union was made to the “Ed Schultz Show,” Labor Department records show.

All told, Schultz has been paid $337,490 by unions in the last seven years, according to the Labor Department. These same records show no payments from unions to Schultz between fiscal years 2000 to 2004 — before Schultz became such a passionate advocate for unions over the airwaves.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/03/09/ed-schultz-paid-nearly-200000-unions-2011-according-labor-dept#ixzz1oeFI5VGo
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EXCLUSIVE: SEIU HELPS OCCUPY ‘ABOLISH CAPITALISM’

by Admin on March 5, 2012 in ACORN, AFL/CIO, CPUSA, Creeping Communism, CWA, Occupier and Chief, Occupy Wall Street, Saul Alinsky, SEIU with 1 Comment

With the highest respect and heartfelt loss in Andrew Breitbart’s passing,  we will be posting some of his most groundbreaking pieces here, and leading you over to the new Breitbart site. He was a General in the war against the left and we salute him. With that please enjoy and go over to the new site and get informed. Get off the couch and join in the battle against the leftist/marxist/communist/Islamist’s taking control of our country. “We are all Breitbart now”!
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Breitbart.com has received exclusive tape of an Occupy Strategy Session at New York University, billed as a group talk on “The Abolition of Capitalism.” One of the headline speakers at this session was Stephen Lerner, former leader and International Board Member of the SEIU and frequent Obama White House visitor. Lerner argued in favor of people not paying their mortgages and “occupying” their homes; he spoke in favor of invading annual shareholders meetings to shut them down. But his big goal was to get workers to shut down their workplaces. That’s where the SEIU agenda and the Occupy agenda truly meet: once workers begin to occupy.

Here are the relevant portions of the transcript:

Let me just throw out a couple ideas here. One, I think a theme here that’s really important is Occupy Homes as a key part of the stew in multiple spheres. There’s eviction defense, there’s folks who are moving back into homes that they were evicted from that have been sitting empty, there’s community organizing, there’s a fight with Fannie and Freddie, but this notion that millions of people are losing their homes and we can physically help them save it, very important … This second question, this question of moving money, which has mainly been an individual act so far, you know, move your account out of a bank, getting institutions, schools, universities, school boards, to move money out of banks as a way to put them into either credit unions or things that do economic development, it captures both what is wrong with finance capital, but then it’s something everybody can do … In fact, it’s infused by the energy of somebody that just got thrown in jail for trying to keep their home …

Annual meetings, shareholder meetings. We have this wonderful myth that goes on which is corporations get together and they so-called have shareholders vote on what’s gonna happen … Maybe our goal ought to be able to shut down as many of the shareholder meetings as possible. Inside and outside, saying this is where they gather to make the decisions about the fate of the world, and we’re sick and tired of them doing it in a little room. So why don’t we all go to those meetings? $5 a share right now, Bank of America … The eyes of the nation will see the first convention in Charlotte, which is thousands of people coming to the Bank of American meeting saying “Let’s shut it down … Who the hell are these people to be meeting and deciding our fate without us there?”

But here’s the real crux of the matter:

How do we give workers the confidence? … How do we create a mood in the nation where we’re occupying our workplaces, where we’re shutting down our workplaces? … Where workers are sitting in, where workers are shutting down their places of work, and when the police come, when the injunctions come, we’re all there with them, so we can really deal with part of the reason that the economy’s so screwed up … which is a few people have got all the power. Think stew, think hope, death to the Stockholm Syndrome!

Lerner wasn’t the only one preaching this communist propaganda.  The panel’s title told the whole story. This was an anti-capitalism panel. Lerner’s fellow panel members included David Graeber, who billed himself as “one of the original mobilizers behind Occupy Wall Street.” Graeber announced, “It strikes me that if one is going to pursue this to its logical conclusion, the only way to have a genuinely democratic society would also be to abolish capitalism and the state.”

Yotam Marom, an Occupy Zuccotti Park “veteran,” said, “Capitalism doesn’t wither away just because we don’t like it. It’s something you that you have to crash into and have an alternative to.”

Steve Max, a community organizer who worked closely with the revolutionary group Students for a Democratic Society, the parent group that spawned the Weathermen Underground, was also present. This is the same fellow who said after 9/11 that this was an opportunity to push the socialist program – because, after all, “How can anyone now say that they are for national security but not health funding”? He has walked in the same circles as President Obama.

At this event, Max grabbed the mic and said that he understood political violence. Members of the audience also argued in favor of political violence, citing the beauty of the Weathermen Underground.

This is where the unions and the Occupy movement and the academy all come together under one big anti-capitalist umbrella. Lerner, representing labor, says that the job of labor is to shut down business; Occupy says that its job is to smash the machines of capitalism; academia provides them the forum to recruit.

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Obama’s NLRB Considers Forcing Businesses To Turn Over Employee Phone Numbers, Email Addresses To Union Bosses…

by Admin on January 27, 2012 in ACORN, AFL/CIO, AFSCME, CWA, NLRB, Union Thugery with No comments

H/T Weaselzippers: Hey, it’s not like union thugs have a predisposition to violence . . . no, wait?

Socialist SEIU Leader on the Future of Unions and the O.W.S. Movement

by Admin on January 12, 2012 in ACORN, Crony Capitalism, CWA, Occupy Wall Street, SEIU, Soros, Van Jones with No comments

Via New Zeal, By   

Français : Logo SEIU

Jessica Shearer, labor and faith organizer, speaking at Personal Democracy Media’s From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond on December 12th, 2011.

Shearer has been active in SEIU, Democratic Socialists of America, Working Families Party, Occupy Wall Street and in 2008, ran Barack Obama‘s campaign in eight states.

She makes some very interesting revelations about October 2010′s union organized One Nation Rally and the future of unions and the Occupy movement.

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Unions, community groups to launch ‘Occupy Congress’

by Admin on November 27, 2011 in CWA, SEIU, Union Thugery with No comments
Service Employees International Union

WASHINGTON - The Occupy movement is coming to Capitol Hill, as the Communications Workers, the Service Employees and other groups will launch “Occupy Congress” in early December.

The plan, also backed by MoveOn.org and the Center for Community Change, is to confront lawmakers with the people whom the Great Recession has trashed, and force action on job creation legislation.

“We decided to take back the Capitol. We want them to stare the unemployed workers in the face” during the event, scheduled for Dec. 6-9, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry told a telephone press conference. “We’ll set up a people’s camp.”

Tentative plans call for tents representing jobless workers from each state, with the number of unemployed listed on a sign, news reports said. Particular targets would be congressional Republicans, whose Senate filibusters and House opposition have killed job-creation legislation so far this year.

“Occupy Congress” would be the third “Occupy” camp in the Nation’s Capitol, but the first to focus on jobs as the #1 issue. The others, starting with Occupy Wall Street, focus on yawning income inequality – “We are the 99%” campers chant – and opposition to subsidies to Wall Street, not Main Street, and rampant corporate clout.

Occupy Congress will focus on the demands of the 99%, Henry and others said in the telephone press conference. Prominent among them, she said, is passage of legislation that advocates say could put the jobless back to work by January.

The legislation includes measures to rebuild crumbling infrastructure and to tax financial trading to help provide money to pay for fixing the employment damage the financiers caused when they drove the U.S. into the Great Recession.

It also includes “protecting middle class wages through a rise in the minimum wage and passage of the Employee Free Choice Act” according to a fact sheet distributed by the Center for American Progress, which hosted the press conference, and which issued “The 9 Demands of the 99%” just before Thanksgiving.

This article was written by Press Associates, Inc., news service.

 

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