Morning Joe journos can't name a successful unionized company, even though one signs their paychecks

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906030009

June 03, 2009 9:25 am ET by Jamison Foser

The Morning Joe crew was on an anti-union tear this morning, claiming the union label on a company means "sell." Mika Brzezinski went so far as to say of unions: "They cripple the system that makes a company work." Collectively, the journalists on Morning Joe couldn't name a single "successful" unionized company.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVnKO1khtvw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F200906030009&feature=player_embedded

This says more about their qualifications to discuss public policy and labor relations than it says about unions. To pick just one obvious example, UPS is unionized -- and the company made more than $3 billion last year. That's "billion" with a "b," and those are profits, not revenues.

Oh, what the heck, let's take one more example. GE is one of the world's largest companies; in 2006, its revenues were greater than the gross domestic products of 80 percent of UN nations. The company made more than $18 billion in 2008 -- again, billion with a b, and again, those are profits, not revenue. All that despite (or, perhaps, because of) the fact that 13 different unions represent GE workers.

Oh, and GE owns NBC-Universal, which owns MSNBC, which pays Joe Scarborough a handsome salary (and the unionized workers who help get his show on the air considerably less.)

Does Joe Scarborough think NBC and GE are not "successful" companies? Does Mika Brzezinski think the unionized workers she no doubt interacts with every day are crippling her ability to do her job, or her employer's ability to be successful?

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A few unionized winners:

* A. Zahner Company
* Addus Healthcare, Inc.
* Alabama Power
* Allina Hospitals & Clinics
* American Electric Power
* AT&T, Inc.
* Boh Bros. Construction Company
* Brightside Academy
* Catholic Healthcare West
* Cingular Wireless
* Company Directory
* Costco Wholesale Corporation
* Delta Construction Corporation
* DMAX-Ltd.
* DoubleTree Hotel San Jose
* Douglas County School District
* Edward Kraemer & Sons, Inc.
* Gamesa Technology Corporation, Inc.
* Harley-Davidson Motor Company
* Jackson & Perkins
* Justice Clothing
* Kaiser Permanente
* Maimonides Medical Center
* McAninch Corporation
* Montefiore Medical Center
* NHS Human Services
* North Philadelphia Health System
* SCA Tissue North America
* State of Kansas
* Stromberg Metal Works, Inc.
* Swanton Berry Farm
* Team Industries, Inc.
* Thompson Electric, Inc.
* Washington National Opera

the Huntington plant is doing just fine. In fact our facility is bringing product back from China.

Joe must be a dolt.

And reminded him that he works in a union shop?

Leno BRAGGED about being a union shop on his last show.