Ba ha ha

And I live in Sheboygan!

except car wrecks, fires and court cases where they can send a "reporter" to yap in front of a building.

Isnt that the name of the grocery store in That 70s show

Kelso and Fez went there to pick up on older woman. LOL

I have read several posts today in which Republicans were referring to Obama being a Socialist, Communist and Nazi.

Well it is Republicans who are wanting to end labor unions.

Help me out please, it seems I remember in history some groups wanting to end labor unions in Europe and I don't think they were Democrats.

If the Republicans are going to call Obama a Socialist, Communist and Nazi shouldn't they first know what those groups did or stood for and realize their party is doing some of the thing they did?

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/trade_unions_nazi_germany.htm

When Hitler came to power in January 1933, he saw trade unions as exercising more power over the workers than he could. Therefore, trade unions were seen as a challenge to be dispensed with. Hitler knew that he needed the workers to be on his side but he could not allow trade unions to exert the potential power they had. Therefore, trade unions were banned in Nazi Germany and the state took over the role of looking after the working class.

Just months after Hitler was appointed Chancellor, he took the decision to end trade unions in Nazi Germany. On May 2nd, 1933, police units occupied all trade unions headquarters and union officials and leaders were arrested. The funds that belonged to the trade unions – effectively this was workers money – were confiscated. However, Hitler had to be careful. He had only been in power for a few months and there were many members of the working class he had to deal with. If the working class movement in Germany organised itself, it would have presented the new Chancellor with a lot of major issues that would have to be dealt with. Removing trade union leaders helped this but it did not fully guarantee that the working class would ‘behave’ itself. Hitler had to offer the workers something more. Hitler announced that the German Labour Force, headed by Robert Ley, would replace all trade unions and would look after the working class. The title was chosen carefully. The new organisation was deliberately cloaked in patriotism, as it was now a German entity as was seen in its title. The working class was now a ‘labour force’. The Nazi Party did all that it could to ensure the workers felt that they were better off under the guidance of the Nazi Party via the German Labour Front.

They had to be brought onto the side of the Nazis as Hitler had major plans for the workers. There were simply too many of them to brutalise into submission, so the workers were offered the ‘Strength Through Joy’ movement (Kraft durch Freude’) which offered them subsidised holidays, cheap theatre trips etc.

Hitler offered the working class an improved leisure life in one hand and took away their traditional rights in the other. Strikes – the traditional way for the working class to vent their anger over an issue – were banned. Strikes had been a thorn in the side of Weimar Germany in its final years. In 1928, the equivalent of 20,339,000 days had been lost as a result of strikes. In 1930, 4,029,000 days had been lost. In 1933, it was just 96,000 days and from 1934 to 1939 there were none. New laws had been brought in after the burning down of the Reichstag and one covered ‘un-German activities’ and strikes were classed as un-German. In January 1934, the Law Regulating National Labour (the ‘Charter of Labour’) banned strikes at statute level.



FULL info at link.

I've heard this from my wingnut father a lot in the past few years. I can only add exclamation points: I can't convey the bulging temple and neck veins, the broken voice ( out of utter rage ) and his fist pouding a table, dashboard whatever.

Great news though.

Cons are goin' down!!! Woooooooo.

The 'winner' is Pic and Save, a company with a VERY Walmart style business plan that doesn't include full time store clerks, sick days, etc.

'Pic' drove Jewel out of the Milwaukee area, using undercutting practices that have resulted in self-injury to 'Pic'. In the face of this competition and competition elsewhere in the US, Kohl's just gave up the grocery business that was the original interest of that corporation.

in a stripmall in Milwaukee already containing a Pick and Save. The Pick has driven Kohls entirely out of business and there are only a few Sentry stores left. We'll see how Pick and Save likes being treated the same way.

It has always been like that
and I don't see anything but min wage jobs out there in the cut throat startup stores that are springing up replacing those with legacy costs.
It is what it is.

I wish unions would stop donating to politicians and spend that money advertising to the common people how much good can be done by forming new unions.

n/t

A court-enforceable CONTRACT between employer and workers, with ALL terms spelled out.

And BOTH parties able to enforce the terms and details of that contract.

Isn't that the very definition of fairness?

and the demotion of longtime full-time employees to part-time, with the loss of health care benefits to maximize corporate profits IS THE FUTURE STANDARD IF EITHER WALKER IS RETAINED, OR ROMNEY IS ELECTED

The problem is that the non-union employees don't believe it will happen to them, when the only reason they have made the gains that they have is due to the Unions negotiated just compensation for labor