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turbinetree's JournalGM strike enters 2nd week with no clear end in sight
Source: Associated Press
By TOM KRISHER today
NEW YORK (AP) — The strike against General Motors by 49,000 United Auto Workers entered its second week Monday with progress reported in negotiations but no clear end in sight.
Bargainers met all weekend and returned to talks Monday morning as the strike entered its eighth day.
A person briefed on the negotiations says they’re haggling about wages and profit sharing, new product for factories that GM wants to close, a faster route to full wages for new hires, and use of temporary workers. The person didn’t want to be identified because details of the bargaining are confidential.
Workers walked off their jobs early on Sept. 16, paralyzing production at about 30 manufacturing sites in nine states.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/cf1133e95fba4681b8ed80bf88cc0eeb
To the media placing a chyron (MSNBC) that the traitor is "grappling" with his Unkraine BS
Instead of trying to "normalize" his BS Hallie Jackson and Kirsten Welker why didn't you tell your producer(s) on your show and on the chyron, that this asshole was extorting and trying to bribe and was seeking the assistance to undermine this democracy, the Chyron should have said that he has "ADMITTED" to seeking foreign help to do this ...................instead of the semantic word "Grappling"...............................what a manby pandy word............................treason is a better word.................
Are you trying to enable this crap.................just like Vogel tried to do but he got busted, and the NYT is full of right wing shit, to even have tried to normalize this crap through a Breibart soucre, that Vogel was using, did they and anyone else in the media not learn your lesson..............apparently not............
Donald Trump is no hero of the working class. And the GM strikers know it
Robert Reich
The walkout at General Motors is a predictable and powerful result of the president’s own kind of capitalism
Donald Trump pretends to be a tribune of the working class, standing up for American jobs. Last week nearly 50,000 General Motors workers went on strike to get what they see as their fair share of its profits and stop further layoffs. Trump’s response? A shrug.
In 2009, when GM was on the brink of collapse, the United Auto Workers (UAW) agreed to let the company hire new workers at about half the prevailing hourly wage and with skimpier retirement benefits, hire temp workers at even lower rates, and outsource more jobs abroad. American taxpayers also forked over $10bn to save the company.
When GM went public again in 2010, it boasted to Wall Street that 43% of its cars were made outside the US in places where labor cost less than $15 an hour, while in America it could now pay “lower-tiered” wages and benefits for new employees.
The corporation came roaring back. Over the last three years it’s made $35bn in North America.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/22/donald-trump-general-motors-strike
Trump walking a picket line............................
He walks up to a golf ball so that he can cheat at that game................and still be traitor.................
Judge orders Trump to testify in trial over 2015 protest outside Trump Tower
Source: CNN
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 4:41 PM ET, Sat September 21, 2019
Washington (CNN)A New York judge on Friday ordered President Donald Trump to provide video testimony as part of an upcoming lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were assaulted by Trump's security guards during a 2015 protest outside of Trump Tower.
Judge Doris M. Gonzalez wrote in her ruling that Trump's testimony is "indispensable" to the trial and so he must provide video testimony before the trial is set to begin Thursday. The Washington Post first reported the judge's ruling.
The trial centers around a protest in September 2015 in front of Trump Tower in New York City where two protesters wore parody Ku Klux Klan outfits to protest Trump's rhetoric on illegal immigration, according to the initial court filing.
The lawsuit brought by five men who describe themselves in a complaint as "human rights activists" alleges that Trump's head of security, Keith Schiller, hit a protester, Efrain Galicia, in the head after Galicia tried to stop Schiller from taking their large cardboard signs, which read, "Trump: Make America Racist Again." The filing says that when Galicia tried to hold onto one of the signs, Schiller ripped it away from him, tearing it to pieces.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/21/politics/judge-orders-trump-testify-protester-trump-tower/index.html
Brandi Carlile - The Joke (Live from Studio A) Nov 13, 2017
The Joke
Brandi Carlile
You're feeling nervous, aren't you, boy?
With your quiet voice and impeccable style
Don't ever let them steal your joy
And your gentle ways, to keep 'em from running wild
They can kick dirt in your face
Dress you down, and tell you that your place
Is in the middle, when they hate the way you shine
I see you tugging on your shirt
Trying to hide inside of it and hide how much it hurts
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
You get discouraged, don't you, girl?
It's your brother's world for a while longer
We gotta dance with the devil on a river
To beat the stream
Call it living the dream, call it kicking the ladder
They come to kick dirt in your face
To call you weak and then displace you
After carrying your baby on your back across the desert
I saw your eyes behind your hair
And you're looking tired, but you don't look scared
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
Trump's anti-worker labor nominee is more like the 'Secretary of Corporate Interests'
Published 3 hours ago
on September 21, 2019
By Common Dreams
Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers expressed serious concerns Thursday about corporate attorney Eugene Scalia — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department — as the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee met to consider his nomination.
“Instead of nominating a Secretary of Labor, President Trump has nominated a Secretary of Corporate Interests,” declared Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the committee’s ranking member. “If there’s one consistent pattern in Mr. Scalia’s long career, it’s hostility to the very workers he would be charged with protecting, and the very laws he would be charged with enforcing if he were confirmed.”
The committee is expected to decide next week whether to advance Scalia, the son of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to a full Senate vote. Given the Republican majority in the Senate, he is expected to be appointed to the post in Trump’s cabinet. However, that has not stopped lawmakers and others from sounding the alarm on Scalia’s record as an attorney representing corporate giants like Walmart and the Labor Department’s chief legal officer during President George W. Bush’s administration.
“Eugene Scalia has demonstrated that he remains committed to protecting corporations over working people and is unfit to lead as Secretary of Labor,” Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, the country’s largest trade union, said in a statement after Thursday’s hearing.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/trumps-anti-worker-labor-nominee-is-more-like-the-secretary-of-corporate-interests/
I guess son and father from the Federalist Society reign of BS, never read this part during there examination to get a license:
The Preamble..................
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of ...
'We're not through': After biggest climate protest in history draws 4 million worldwide,
campaigners prepare for week of action
Published 3 hours ago
on September 21, 2019
By Common Dream
September 20th was a demonstration of intent, of 4 million people who took time off from work or school to say that they are ready to move on and make the changes we need.”
As organizers behind Friday’s Global Climate Strike reported that four million children and adults attended marches and rallies all over the world—making it the biggest climate protest ever—they assured leaders who have been reticent to take bold climate action that the campaigners’ work is far from over.
The Global Climate Strike was just the first day in a week of public actions ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/were-not-through-after-biggest-climate-protest-in-history-draws-4-million-worldwide-campaigners-prepare-for-week-of-action/
'I've seen smarter cabinets at IKEA': See the most memorable signs from the global climate strike
Published 3 hours ago
on September 21, 2019
By Common Dreams
“Why should we go to class if you won’t listen to the educated?” one homemade sign asked.
With millions marching to demand bold climate action in more than 150 countries around the world on Friday, a number of sentiments expressed on homemade signs and through other demonstrations captured the world’s attention.
An estimated 400,000 people attended strikes across Australia to start off the day of action. The Australian Conservation Foundation shared a video of some of the young people, including one marcher who proclaimed, “You’ll die of old age, we’ll die of climate change,” addressing the world leaders who climate scientists say are not working nearly fast enough to end fossil fuel extraction and the resulting carbon emissions which are causing global warming, rising sea levels, droughts, and other extreme weather events.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/ive-seen-smarter-cabinets-at-ikea-the-most-memorable-signs-from-the-global-climate-strike/
Journalists behaving badly--the rush to frame the whistleblower story to help Trump
Mark Sumner
Daily Kos Staff
Saturday September 21, 2019
Donald Trump withheld military aid from a United States ally in order to force that ally into providing him with ammunition he could use against a potential opponent in the 2020 election. That’s the story. Full stop. There are no circumstances in which what Trump has done are in any sense acceptable. The only option is for Congress to immediately begin impeachment. Not an inquiry into whether there should be an inquiry. Impeachment.
But astoundingly, there are members of the media who are already rushing to ignore Trump’s gross misuse of power, vault past an astounding measure of “ends justify the means,” and go straight into how this is good for Trump. And bad for Joe Biden.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel was astoundingly willing to ignore all the forest in the search for a shrub in an MSNBC interview where he declared that Hunter Biden being on the board of oil and gas company Burisma was "a significant liability for Joe Biden." And to make it clear that the Times was going to unpack every keyboard that’s been gathering dust since “but her emails,” Vogel added, “There is a story here. We're going to continue to, sort of, pull that back."
On Saturday morning, Politico joined in the Great Justification by declaring that this scandal “could backfire on Biden.” They go on to find a pollster that says that this story puts Biden “on the ropes.” and that this whole story is more “perilous” for Biden than for Trump.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/21/1886926/-Journalists-behaving-badly-the-rush-to-frame-the-whistleblower-story-to-help-Trump#read-more
And then the public wonders why they are confused..................
Trump plans to take another $3.6 billion from military families next year
By
Dan Desai Martin -
September 20, 2019
Donald Trump has no intention of using defense funds for actual defense programs — he wants them for his wall.
If Congress agrees to backfill funding for the military projects Donald Trump raided to build a border wall, the administration plans to raid them all over again next year, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
"The plan is to sell it as replenishment money to the Defense Department for the $3.6 billion they took this year," an administration official told the Post. "Then once they got it from Congress, they [the administration] would take it again" for the border wall.
The blunt admission comes as Congress is debating a spending package for next year, since government funding runs out on Sept. 30. At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, Trump forced a partial government shutdown for 35 days as he demanded billions of dollars for a border wall.
In the end, Trump caved and agreed to reopen the government with the funding, only to then declare a "national emergency" at the border and claiming the ability to take money from military projects to build a border wall. (During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised over and over that Mexico would pay for the wall, not American taxpayers.)
https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-military-funding-border-wall-mexico-defense-department/
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