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In reply to the discussion: VW threatens to block any future expansion plans in the South, citing conservative interference [View all]tsuki
(11,994 posts)204. Jesus, can you read, or are you locked into
the brilliance of your own argument? The poster said he felt anger, and so have most union members who have seen freeloading scabs cross the picket line and then be the first to belly up to the union bar for raises and representation in disputes.
Oh, he felt anger. How uncivil. Why can't he be more civil? Anger is uncivil?
Sounds like you are really angry with the unions. But, your anger is more civil than his? I don't think you need to be calling him a hypocrite.
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VW threatens to block any future expansion plans in the South, citing conservative interference [View all]
kpete
Feb 2014
OP
No the Southern folks that voted against....and the Republicans that convinced them to...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#13
It most certainly does NOT mean the same thing. The expression is "to spite" because it means a
WinkyDink
Feb 2014
#268
FFS, If you insist on being the first one to remove all doubt, at least get the fucking cliche right
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#188
you sound like someone who is ok with election results that are tampered with
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#4
the main problem did not lie with Volkswagon management. It was outside political interests headed
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#22
Politicians are prohibited from providing threats or incentives in labor votes.
eggplant
Feb 2014
#67
Of course! VW has a good reason to want a unionwhere workers are paid a living wage...who else
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#319
I do not support that behavior in the least. but it is not vote tampering
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#27
sounds like he already belonged to a union and wasn't willing to pay short term
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#57
snore. I said none of those things. you sound like most conservatives who try to
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#66
I'm not speaking for Pretzel Warrior, but no, destroying property etc. is not right.
A HERETIC I AM
Feb 2014
#292
if he was already in the union- then this is an example of something else, isn't it?
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#293
This is an absurbly false comparison, as has been repeatedly pointed out to you.
eggplant
Feb 2014
#68
I bet Joe doesn't know that EVEN if his friend voted AGAINST the Union....Union would STILL
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#165
Like I asked above, what do you think about attempts to remove the secret vote?
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#86
Fine. And a socialist state wouldn't interfere with your "passion"......
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2014
#334
THAT is called "working scab".......there is a reason for that....look it up...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#162
YOU Definitely do NOT know what you are talking about.....educate yourself
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#173
and screw YOU for taking the benefits YOU'VE received regardless of your support....
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#243
Nobody is advocating it....but if he crossed that picket line...he is stepping on OTHERS
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#301
WOW. That is like the scum who say a woman should expect to be raped based on their dress
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#254
Yes. Workers who scab on strikes are the true free-loaders in our country. They think they are
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#227
tampering would be politicians illegally making threats to influence the outcome of a labor vote
arely staircase
Feb 2014
#191
Expel these infiltrators? Infiltrators, by their very nature, seek to remain under the radar
Enthusiast
Feb 2014
#237
And I can appreciate that but do you need to piss on all unions for that one incident
madokie
Feb 2014
#96
and so amazingly like every single reichwing anti-union meme we ever hear. triangle? ludlow?
niyad
Feb 2014
#150
Because we know that corporations always go out of their way to provide the best
neverforget
Feb 2014
#154
You're proud of a 0.3 Productivity Factor? I'd be embarrassed, but to each his own.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#200
one experience, with one person? wow. . .just. . .wow. you mentioned other dealings--care to
niyad
Feb 2014
#98
"my experience be in one"?? huh?? do you mean "being in one"?? if so, which union? and what
niyad
Feb 2014
#90
You should stay off the bus. Drivers have unions and we know how much you hate unions.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#306
That's just not true. I do use the services, but they could also be provided by non-union workers.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#313
I think southerners are no less intelligent than any other demographic group.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#18
I am not discussing with you that YOU think you work harder than everyone else
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#126
sad how many people have no idea what those three words mean, and I know the anniversary
niyad
Feb 2014
#160
I am just fuming tonight over this turn of events....I guess we now know that there really ARE
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#161
as richard wolff was saying in one of his speeches (just happened to catch part of it the other day)
niyad
Feb 2014
#169
Yeah...doubling down...everyone that gets laid off....deserves it...they just don't work as hard as
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#62
In a non-union environment the guy that works harder doesn't always get rewarded. My father worked in
doc03
Feb 2014
#114
Unions are just bad? I worked 40 years in a steel mill and have a good pension and
doc03
Feb 2014
#140
So because you aren't concerned about asshole employers, that should comfort the rest of us?
eggplant
Feb 2014
#72
From this post it doesn't look like you have a clue what the "Right to Work" law
doc03
Feb 2014
#141
Because without context you are basically you are having an illogical argument.
fleabiscuit
Feb 2014
#247
After 20 years of working in my area (the average tenure for people at my level)
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#257
counting some pronouns: "I" = 15, "my" = 6, total words = 165, %(I,my) = 21/165 = 12.7% > 1/8
0rganism
Feb 2014
#275
And I believe that Right To Work is bullshit propaganda to fool the employees into thinking
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#151
Tennessee is a "Right to work" state, but still has plenty of Union jobs....
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2014
#143
Because you responded to someone from MY State with the following...
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2014
#187
That's because German management works with the workers, instead of against them
pangaia
Feb 2014
#46
Yep exactly....Southerners just don't understand why they are the POOREST states in the Union
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#48
right there in posts 91 and 118--thugs and lazy, worthless, no-good union workers. right on cue.
niyad
Feb 2014
#152
Because the union workers in the other plants aren't going to let Americans undercut them.
Xithras
Feb 2014
#28
It is the Rethugs who didn't respect the right of the majority. They knew that the majority
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#31
Didn't Reagan do that for Poland? And then cut the union's throat here at home. nt
kelliekat44
Feb 2014
#145
Workers in Germany have representation on corporate boards, giving them a say in citing decisions.
G_j
Feb 2014
#19
Volkswagen is welcome to expand in the State of Washington any time! And we have lots of
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#34
VW is scratching thier heads at the stupidity of the Southern American Workforce
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#50
The great advantage of ignore, is I do not see the feeding of them trolls
nadinbrzezinski
Feb 2014
#81
The NLRB should overturn the vote and the Governor of Tennessee should be impeached!
B Calm
Feb 2014
#101
I expected this. Corker and others aren't negotiating with wimpy democrats.
RickFromMN
Feb 2014
#104
I am going to say YOU can't be Anti-Union...good grief its practically the ONLY thing all
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#159
Great....I have never been a member. As I stated above...I was married to someone who joined the
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#168
There are a lot of conservative ideas/talking points appearing on here lately
neverforget
Feb 2014
#326
Let The Sorry Assholes Of Chattanooga Build Tricycles for $6.50 an hour...Move On
bkanderson76
Feb 2014
#260
Go VW! Due to all the anti Union bullshit flying in this thread I wanted to say I'm a Union member
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2014
#333