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Cerridwen

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13. Are you in the tech industry? (not edited for your edit)

Reply to jeff47 (Reply #11)

Wed Sep 25, 2013, 10:50 PM

Sep 2013

I met a lot of guys in the tech industry who were embarrassed by their dad's union membership.

It was really ugly.

Fortunately, many of them were outsourced in the name of "union wages" as "too high" and they got to feel superior until it dawned on them they no longer had a paycheck.

Are you one of them? This is a serious question.

I ask because you seem to be of the "new" version of "techs" who can't read for comprehension or for word games.

For the record, I am tech, union, and female. You are fucking going to hate me.

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Correction of anti-union talking points currently being catapulted by wsj and others. (corrected) [View all] Cerridwen Sep 2013 OP

kick. n/t Cerridwen Sep 2013 #1

Another kick. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #2

K&R for James P. Hoffa Brickbat Sep 2013 #3

Thank you. Very much. n/t Cerridwen Sep 2013 #4

Another kick for the pro-union and Cerridwen Sep 2013 #5

Yeah....correction. jeff47 Sep 2013 #6

The correction was wsj rather than wapo. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #8

It's anti-Hoffa, not anti-union. jeff47 Sep 2013 #9

Your bias is showing. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #10

So's fighting against healthcare for 25M people jeff47 Sep 2013 #11

That's bullshit. Union Scribe Sep 2013 #12

No, I think his words are insincere. jeff47 Sep 2013 #31

Are you in the tech industry? (not edited for your edit) Cerridwen Sep 2013 #13

I'm tech, but I believe our industry is horrifically non-union. jeff47 Sep 2013 #30

Hoffa / Teamsters never did any such thing. Skeeter Barnes Sep 2013 #27

So....the letter discussed in the OP doesn't exist? (nt) jeff47 Sep 2013 #29

The "Cadillac" tax is ureasonable. A tax on hard won benefits for working class people. Skeeter Barnes Sep 2013 #26

The cadillac tax is a mechanism to gradually separate health care from employment jeff47 Sep 2013 #28

K&R Dragonfli Sep 2013 #7

Yeah people here are well aware of that propaganda. Rex Sep 2013 #14

"People" minus the 12 who thought Cerridwen Sep 2013 #15

Well the fella pushing that information is known for what it is too. Rex Sep 2013 #16

Good points. Thank you. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #17

Crap by the Cato Institute, The Weekly Standard Rex Sep 2013 #18

AEI and Conservative Voice or some such, too. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #19

Oh I've been called everything in the book here. Rex Sep 2013 #20

Rex...I think I might like you. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #21

We won't, I can promise you down the line. Rex Sep 2013 #22

A real pragmatist. Cerridwen Sep 2013 #23

Nah just cantankerous. Rex Sep 2013 #25

K&R suffragette Sep 2013 #24

K&R Excellent point, and well done. n/t Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #32