Union calls for removal of member from Obama's jobs council

[Ichingcarpenter]

President Obama met with leaders from his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in Pittsburgh today, where they presented him with proposals including upgrading the nation's transportation infrastructure and attracting foreign investment.

But some labor advocates are growing increasingly upset with the makeup of the council, which includes CEOs of companies such as Boeing and GE that have received bad marks from unions on labor issues, according to a story in Monday's Los Angeles Times.

Discontent grew Tuesday, when members of the Newspaper Guild of New York called on the President to remove Monica Lozano, CEO of ImpreMedia, from the panel. ImpreMedia wants to lay off a third of unionized workers at El Diario, the guild says, and is outsourcing jobs. The guild created a website, outsourcemonica.com, to host its grievances.

"The hypocrisy of Monica Lozano serving on President Obama’s Jobs Council is shocking," said Bill O’Meara, president of the New York guild. "ImpreMedia is outsourcing American jobs to other countries and undermining hard-won protections for middle-class workers."

University of California students have protested against Lozano in the past. She is a UC regent and has served during a time of tuition hikes, and also serves on the board of Disney, which students say unfairly receives tax breaks.. Many of the CEOs on the jobs council have also overseen significant layoffs this year. Companies such as Xerox and American Express have cut jobs. Other companies whose CEOs serve on the panel have received hundreds of millions of dollars of stimulus funding, without creating many jobs.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/obama-jobs-council.html

[Brickbat]

1. K&R for my Guild brothers and sisters. This is shameful.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. ....

[Bluenorthwest]

4. So perfect

and so sad, sad, sad.

[NYC_SKP]

10. It's a totally imaginary poster, nobody here was alive for FDR's administration.

And if he was president today he'd probably be the victim of the same kind of criticism.

I find it a silly and unproductive enterprise.

[Chan790]

11. You can't be certain of that.

Either of those assertions actually.

The first one is demonstrably false. FDR left office in 1945, 67 years ago. You don't think we have any 68 year old posters? :rofl:

The second one is an unknowable and thus specious assertion. You lose.

Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy - "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera... "Fax mentis, incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera... Memo bis punitor delicatum! It's all there! Black and white, clear as crystal! You STOLE Fizzy-Lifting Drinks! You BUMPED into the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get... NOTHING!!! You lose! GOOD DAY, SIR!

[NYC_SKP]

12. A 68 year old poster would have been 12 months old during FDR's last year in office.

And to the second point, I used the qualifier "probably".

And ZO!

Game, set, match, no need to apologize!

:hi:

[Chan790]

13. And an 81 year old would have been 14.

Not old enough to vote but definitely old enough to remember FDR. Older people still are out there, I just don't know if they're on DU. My grandfather the POW in Italy during WW II is still alive, he's 103.

[Chan790]

9. Absolutely.

Another K&R for labor and writers.

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[Starry Messenger]

5. k&r

[Bake]

6. How many jobs has Jeff Immelt sent overseas?

But we wouldn't want to piss off GE ... what's good for General Electric is good for the USA ...

:sarcasm:

Bake

[Doctor_J]

7. I can't believe the prez is this tone deaf

he must actually be a "moderate" republican

[Major Hogwash]

8. How come Bush never had a Monica in his cabinet?

I can't believe Obama didn't learn his lesson from Clinton.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.