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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:29 PM Original message |
How in the heck can there be historically low support for unions? |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. They seem to be winning the propaganda wars. It's really sad. |
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coti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. They've just been demonized. It's just that simple. |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. Another poster summed this up. Misery loves company. |
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jezebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Faux News and all rightwing assholes have waged a war on them, and unfortunately the sheep have |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. Rewriting history is big these days |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. They're greedy and out of control |
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Shandris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. Pure propaganda along with the fact that the things that people take... |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. Low support for unions is because most of the jobs held by union workers have been shipped |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. +1 |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Watching Fake News again? |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. This is a pew poll posted on TPM today. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I admit, there was a time I was against unions. My hubby was a unuin member |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. You said historically, not a recent poll. |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
11. Pretty simple |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. There's another angle... |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Do you mean to say this guy was just an actor? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 10:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. +1 |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. Unions have been demonized for a long time. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. I think it goes back a long way |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. Union membership itself is very low, I think I read. |
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alc (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. they need to work on marketing |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
20. There is an extremely low proportion of union households right now |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because there's been a nonstop 30 year long smear campaign |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
22. says who? |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-18-11 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. The corporate media gets my vote |
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