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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 2:12pm
oldviolin wrote: I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet. Howdy

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 2:12pm
RASPUTIN wrote: I'm union. That's all. oh, it's a popular thing to be in many fields.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 2:11pm
oldslabsides wrote: Proud to say that I have never worked for a labor union. I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 1:54pm
oldslabsides wrote: why is this funny? I'm union. That's all.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 1:51pm
RASPUTIN wrote: why is this funny?

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 1:38pm
oldslabsides wrote: Proud to say that I have never worked for a labor union.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 11:18am
As of January 31, 2012, most private sector employers are required to post a notice advising employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act: https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1562/employee_rights_fnl.pdf

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 8:41am
former Teamster, Local 52 Bakery Drivers, Cleveland, Ohio. Jackie Presser's Home Council.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 8:02am
former member of the Teacher's Union in Florida and former member of the International Typographical Union or some such I forget I was working at the Herald-Leader in Lex-tucky. uh.... thirty-six years ago.

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Posted: Nov 7, 2011 - 7:55am
Am I wrong, or is this guy a really really unappealing spokesperson.

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Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 6:25pm

oldslabsides wrote:

Proud to say that I have never worked for a labor union.

Former member of a Teamsters local - dues paid by company I worked for.
Former member of a Boilers union. Job in Pa, paid for by company.
Former member USW. Had to join to work there.
Again with the Teamsters - Cab driver
Former member of an Machinists and Aerospace workers union.. as a low man I actually gained more than a machinist.
In Texas? Wouldn't have em'.

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Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 8:47am

oldslabsides wrote:

Proud to say that I have never worked for a labor union.

Mom worked at GM. Dad worked at Ford. Neither was ever union.

But me? I was a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, which decided to join up with the UAW to strengthen their advocacy work. (No surprise, the union was absolutely no help to us.)

So, it was me, the ARTIST, who became a member of the Auto union.

Life is stranger than fiction.

On the other hand, for us artists, it is only through some form of solidarity that we will ever be able to be artists for a living. It just looks to me like the unions just took it too far.

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Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 8:43am
oldviolin wrote: What! Am I being born again? Because if I am... I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me. Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead" "I never died" said he, "I never died" said he.

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Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 8:29am
samiyam wrote: NAFTA will never work until the unions can go south of the border... One Big Union, anyone?

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Posted: Mar 17, 2009 - 4:26am
Proud to say that I have never worked for a labor union.

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Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 10:41pm
manbirdexperiment wrote: Happy Labor Day, Oldviolin! What! Am I being born again? Because if I am...

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Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 8:22pm
dionysius wrote: Go get 'em, Norma Rae! NAFTA will never work until the unions can go south of the border...

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Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 8:18pm

romeotuma wrote:

"The heart of Southern conservatism is the preservation of a status quo that serves elite interests."

Southern Oligarchy and the Labor Unions

Joseph B. Atkins is a veteran journalist, professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi and author of Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2008), a book that details the Southern labor movement and its treatment in the press. A version of this column appeared in the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American and the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger.

Go get 'em, Norma Rae!

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Posted: Mar 16, 2009 - 8:10pm
Happy Labor Day, Oldviolin!

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