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1 EPR-radar  May 27, 2015 6:12:32pm

This is a really stupid move on the part of these unions. Do they not realize that they are on the brink of having no political support at all?

2 EiMitch  May 27, 2015 6:50:44pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

You don’t say.

My father swallowed the wingnut poison pill of labeling all labor unions as corrupt with a wide brush. I’ve had plenty of arguments with him over this. So it bothers me greatly that I now must ask this: wtf are these union leaders up to? What ulterior motive are they hiding in almost plain sight?

3 Lord Of The Pies  May 27, 2015 7:00:31pm

Wingnuts are totally wetting themselves over this.

4 Great White Snark  May 27, 2015 7:37:11pm

re: #3 Lord Of The Pies

This level of hypocrisy = Opportunity handed over on a silver platter.

5 Lumberhead  May 28, 2015 9:56:29am

This article acknowledges the awful optics of this but also gives a reasonable explanation for the request:
LA’s labor unions want an exemption from the city’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage

6 Decatur Deb  May 28, 2015 10:07:05am

re: #5 Lumberhead

This article acknowledges the awful optics of this but also gives a reasonable explanation for the request:
LA’s labor unions want an exemption from the city’s new $15-an-hour minimum wage

All-in-all, I’d rather work a shop with a meaningful union, and no minimum wage, than in a non-union shop with a meaningless minimum wage.

OTOH

With the national electorate, if you are making reasonable explanations you are already screwed.

7 funky chicken  May 28, 2015 11:11:22am

WTF?!? Wow what a play for membership.
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

That’s exactly what it is. The union wants to make money off sub-minimum wages instead of the CEO. New boss, meet the old boss.

8 Great White Snark  May 28, 2015 12:19:57pm

re: #5 Lumberhead

I disagree that the global perspective is at all helpful.

9 EPR-radar  May 28, 2015 1:54:20pm

re: #8 Great White Snark

I disagree that the global perspective is at all helpful.

I agree that the global perspective is useless here, however reasonable the globalist explanation may be. Unions are on death’s door in the US, and they need to take that into account when choosing their battles.

10 Great White Snark  May 28, 2015 2:07:22pm

re: #9 EPR-radar

The lesson here is that in a power imbalance, corporations, unions, and agencies will cheerfully all make the same greedy mistakes.

11 EPR-radar  May 28, 2015 3:02:00pm

re: #10 Great White Snark

The lesson here is that in a power imbalance, corporations, unions, and agencies will cheerfully all make the same greedy mistakes.

I hope these unions lose this particular battle in LA. If they lose, this nonsense will be forgotten relatively soon. If they win, the political damage will be horrendous.


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