It is with great pride that I share this news.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

My brother Sheet Metal Workers have stepped up to the plate.



SMWIA ENDORSES NON-VIOLENT GOALS OF OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT

Oct 20, 2011 (11:13:00)
Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association (SMWIA) was born in an era that saw America dominated by wealthy big money interests. It was a time when not a single banker or corporate executive was punished for behavior that saw families destroyed, thrown out of their homes and penniless while workers were arrested for the simple act of standing up for their First Amendment rights.

Because of the efforts of the working people who founded the Labor Movement and our Union, later generations saw a country that included social and economic reform that created the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world while opening doors to economic opportunity for millions of Americans families.

Unfortunately, the days that spurned working people to take to the streets are back. And this Union, like previous generations of sheet metal workers and today’s Wall Street occupiers, will rise up to the challenge.  (read full article here)

 
edited to add link to full statement below
http://www.smwia.org/News/NewsOverview/tabid/87/EntryID/349/Default.aspx
 

[Scuba]

1. Thank you sheet metal workers!!!

[Ohio Joe]

2. Most excellent! - nt

[PETRUS]

3. Awesome. Can you add a link? nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Done.

http://www.smwia.org/News/NewsOverview/tabid/87/EntryID/349/Default.aspx

[PETRUS]

8. Gratzi! nt

[EFerrari]

4. Awesome, thank you.

:)

[RKP5637]

5. K&R!!! n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. WOOHOO! Kudos, Sheet Metal Workers! K&R!

[RagAss]

9. Brothers !

[stevedeshazer]

10. As a former sheet metal worker,

this makes me proud, too.

+1

[OffWithTheirHeads]

11. I need to make an important revision.

I'm getting old and my views are sometimes still affected by the world I grew up in so I really need to say this.

I am so proud of my brother AND MY SISTER Sheet Metal Workers!

[Ishoutandscream2]

29. It's all good!

Thanks for the wonderful news.

[Booster]

12. K&R Yea for Sheet Metal Workers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Awesome !!!!!

:thumbsup:

[LadyInAZ]

14. AWESOME...

wondering when will the bill be actually law... many of us out of work... and the middle classes has been stripped of status due no fault of their own... we have lost EVERYTHING. its time for change.... yaya.... sheet metals works... way to go...

[TBF]

15. K&R nt

[roguevalley]

16. uni0ns are awesome

[leftstreet]

17. K&R

[Gemini Cat]

18. That's Great News! nmt

[Laelth]

19. k&r for labor. n/t

-Laelth

[cornflake_31]

20. Good news.

Glad the international is showing solidarity with the movement. As a union tin knocker myself this makes me proud.

[SnowCritter]

21. Super!

One thing, though.

I think the author meant to use the word "spurred" instead of "spurned" in the third paragraph.

[Whisp]

22. K&R

[orbitalman]

23. This is excellent ! n/t

[Starry Messenger]

24. k&r

[kestrel91316]

25. YAY!!!

[Enthusiast]

26. kr

I love it!

[SkyDaddy7]

27. That is my UNION!

I worked through Local 85 in Atlanta.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

33. 104 S.F. bay area. Doesn't it make you proud?

I almost had tears when I first read it.

[SkyDaddy7]

38. Yes, very proud! I just hope...

We all come together & put every bit of effort we have in preventing the Republicans from taking full control of the country. Seriously, if the GOP wins they will lower the unemployment rate by slashing the Corp. tax rate, lowering the minimum wage & folks will have to take the jobs out of desperation...Then this will convince enough people that the republicans are the best for this country & we may have to endure another 8 or more years of watching them crush what is left of the Unions, kill Medicare & SS, repeal Health Care reform, Financial reform, DADT, etc.,

It just seems to me that many here on DU would LOVE to see a wedge driven between Obama & OWS so that folks either don't vote for POTUS or someone like Nader co-opts OWS so that enough people vote for him or whoever so that the Republicans win...And in their minds they think that would teach Obama & the Democrats a lesson when in reality it would just make the pain many of us are feeling far worse & much longer.

I apologize for the rant...If you disagree with what I have said here I swear I was not trying to start a fight I am just very worried we are going to hand control of the country back to the people who got us into the mess we are in.

Thank-you!

[myrna minx]

28. Excellent. K&R n/t

[Name removed]

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[TygrBright]

32. In Minnesota there is no Democratic Party. Instead, there is the DFL.

Which stands for "Democratic Farmer-Labor" Party.

Google the history. Farmers (REAL farmers, not the corporate mega-farms sucking off the subsidy teat) and labor need to have each others' backs. It was too easy, in the early part of the 20th Century, for the Oligarchs to split them and reduce their effectiveness.

Farmers are workers, too! Some of the hardest workers there are. So... SOLIDARITY, Bro (or Sis)!

helpfully,
Bright

[aquart]

31. k&r with joy.

[defendandprotect]

34. We are all labor -- "anything that does harm to labor is treason" -- !!!

[katty]

35. K&R

[MrMickeysMom]

36. Big respek!

[Raksha]

37. THANK YOU, sheet metal workers! Solidarity forever!