One reason among many as to why I tire of noting stories and never get near reading so many of them these days.
"Worker advocacy groups gain clout, clash with businesses" by Steven Greenhouse | New York Times, January 17, 2014
NEW YORK — As America’s labor unions have lost members and clout, new types of worker advocacy groups have sprouted nationwide, and they have started to get on businesses’ nerves — protesting low wages at Capital Grille restaurants, for instance, and demonstrating outside Austin City Hall in Texas against giving Apple tax breaks.
Related: Fast Food Workers Co$ting Taxpayers
Uh-huh.
"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
Just forget about the food stamp cuts -- if you can over that growling belly.
And just try getting a tax hike on the rich through Congre$$!
"Apple Inc. reported
quarterly iPhone sales that trailed analysts’ estimates, even after
debuting new models for the holiday shopping season. Profit was $13.1 billion, or $14.50 a share, for the quarter
ended Dec. 28. The holiday results indicate that demand may be ebbing
for new iPhone models — Apple’s primary source of revenue — as
competitors crowd in with new smartphone and tablet offerings. The
numbers are highly anticipated by Apple’s investors because the
end-of-year shopping season is usually the company’s most lucrative
period. Chief executive Tim Cook is under pressure to boost financial
results that have stagnated without the introduction of an entirely new
product since the iPad’s debut in 2010. In its last fiscal year, the
company posted its first annual profit decline in at least a decade."
Also see: Pressure mounting for Apple to expand
An Apple a Day the Globe Way
More like an insult a day, but not for the poor slobs the Globe has been trying to help, as if raising the already abysmal poverty pay as inflation takes off will solve the problem of wealth inequality. Hell, the piece of $hit propaganda pre$$ is pimping for the IR$ as an increasing share of wealth is concentrated in the top 5%, with most going to the top 1%, concentrated more in the 0.1%.
Yeah, some chump change to the minimum wage is going to solve everything. What delusional fools.
After ignoring these groups for years, national business groups and powerful lobbyists, heavily backed by the restaurant industry, are mounting an aggressive campaign against them, maintaining that they are fronts for organized labor.
And we can't have that in corporate-governed AmeriKa, where workers are treated better than any labor force in history!
Representatives of business assert that these groups often demonize companies unfairly and inaccurately, while the groups question why big corporations have attacked such small, fledgling organizations.
I'll tell you why: MONEY!
The US Chamber of Commerce issued a detailed report in November criticizing what it calls “progressive activist foundations” that donate millions to these groups, which are often called worker centers.
Yeah, but it's okay for corporations to own damn near everything and pour millions if not billions into propaganda campaigns and political contributions.
The business-backed Worker Center Watch has asked Florida’s attorney general to investigate the finances of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. That group sponsored a protest in March in which more than 100 workers marched 200 miles to the headquarters of Publix supermarkets to urge it to pay more for tomatoes so farmworkers could be paid more.
It's called CORPORATE FA$CI$M, folks, and it has nothing to do with the misrepresented national movements of Hitler and Mussolini. It is the purest form, in what Mussolini paraphrased as "the complete melding of corporate interests and government."
And THAT is the kind of government we have in 21st-century AmeriKa.
A prominent Washington lobbyist, Richard Berman, has run full-page ads attacking the Restaurant Opportunities Center, accusing it of intimidating opponents and being a front for labor unions. He has even set up a separate website, ROCexposed.com, to attack the group.
As if anyone were reading newspapers these days. These guys are talking to them-f***ing-selves! And it seems like I've seen his name before.
Of course, it is okay for a CORPORATE FRONT GROUP to INTIMIDATE!
The Restaurant Opportunities Center is one of the nation’s largest worker centers, sponsoring repeated protests inside Capital Grille restaurants and winning sizable settlements from famous chefs.
Oh, NOW I $EE WHY they have gotten attention!
The group even infiltrated the National Restaurant Association’s lobbying day on Capitol Hill, learning about the association’s goals and strategies.
Oh, look at that, labor infiltrated. Whoreporate pre$$ must be angry because their slave government wasn't involved. You know, like infiltrating antiwar movements and Occupy Wall Street, the Civil Rights movement, the white supremacist groups, etc, etc, etc!
Business groups contend that worker centers should face the same strictures as labor unions under federal law, including detailed financial disclosure, regular election of leaders, and bans on certain types of picketing. Business groups say worker centers act essentially like unions by targeting specific employers and pushing them to improve wages and conditions.
Regarding the Restaurant Opportunities Center, Scott DeFife, an executive vice president at the National Restaurant Association, said: “They’re trying to have it both ways. They’re a union and not a union. They’re organizing workers but not organizing workers. They want recognition, but they don’t want recognition. They have a history of tactics unions couldn’t get away with.”
Of course, Pinkerton thugs could always break a strike no problem, and corporate-paid goons is a good thing.
This is RANK ROT WHOREPORATE $HIT, folks! It would get on ANYBODY'S NERVES!
Business groups say they have grown far more concerned about these new organizations since Richard L. Trumka, the AFL-CIO’s president, announced in March that organized labor would work closely with these groups, pledging to help them grow.
Trumka sold out workers on Obummercare so his views are dismissed. Besides, I don't believe in anyone who makes my corporate pre$$. They in$ide the $y$tem and benefit from its continuance.
Trumka’s calculus is that labor can do more for America’s workers if traditional unions join forces with these emerging groups, many of which were formed to help immigrant workers whom unions had long overlooked.
Yeah, let's organize the illegals to slave, I mean, save labor.
The unions are intere$ted in the $ame thing as the bo$$e$!
“For the employer community, it’s a question of what does this grow into,” said Glenn Spencer, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce’s Workforce Freedom Initiative, which commissioned the study on foundation funding. “Judging from Trumka’s remarks, organized labor sees a lot of potential in this model.”
According to the chamber’s report, millions of dollars have flowed to worker centers from 21 foundations. From 2009 to 2012, it found, the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation gave $15,000 to the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance and $15,000 to Warehouse Workers for Justice, while the Marguerite Casey Foundation gave $300,000 to the Southwest Workers Union and $300,000 to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The Ford Foundation gave $717,000 to the National Domestic Workers Alliance, $1.15 million to New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, and $2.4 million to the Restaurant Opportunities Center.
Related: Financing and Manufacturing "Dissent" in America: The Ford Foundation and the CIA
See why I really don't trust any of them. If I see them in my paper, they are $u$pect (looks like 60 Minutes melted your cause, which I link because I watched that pathetic pos and had the same reaction!).
Btw, this is the reason the wasteful program mu$t go on when even the Pentagon no longer wants them (or so I was told).
But I digre$$....
Berman, a lobbyist known for his hard-hitting tactics, acknowledges that he is using a hammer to prevent these groups from growing far more powerful and troublesome.
Next thing he will do is cite the Bush Doctrine.
“There’s quite a range of activity among worker centers,” said Berman, whose lobbying firm has spawned numerous spinoff nonprofits, including the Center for Union Facts and Worker Center Watch.
Nonprofits, huh?
"nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence"
Yup, and they DON'T PAY TAXES, either!
“They have yet to reach the point of being a long-term problem. We’re trying to stay ahead of the curve. I am quite frankly being preemptive.”
What did I tell you. Forget the distraction that is the "war on women."
We got a WAR on WORKERS, folks!
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You know what is EVEN $WEETER?
Government charges an EXTRA FEE so they can HELP CORPORATIONS ADVERTI$E -- as you go hungry!
Time to get the hell away from that $hit, just as you would anyone who gets on your nerves.
