Union Thug Trumka: "We need to re-establish Popular Control Over Private Corporations

[red states rule]

Well, the unions sure have the right guy in WH to make this happen

Thank God November 2 will see the first step in preventing this from hapening




…In the short term, said Trumka, the labor movement has to “recapture the moment and take control of the national conversation.” Building for the future,

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now.

http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/09/27/afl-cio-prez-trumka-we-need-tore-establish-popular-control-over-private-corporations/

[Agnapostate]

Re-establish? That clearly implies some sort of previous popular control that the anti-democratic nature of capitalism would never permit.

[red states rule]

It is very telling as union membership was gone down - the growth of the US economy has increased

Now union are demanding taxpayer money to fund their insane pension requirement while at the same time they are spending hundreds of millions of union dues to elect Dempcrats

Unions are now worthless and are nothing more then a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat party

[DragonStryk72]

Unions have a purpose, up to a point. A good union keeps their workers from getting underpaid, or being pushed into unsafe working environments, but still allows for the firing of employees that are detrimental to the company. This can't be said for a lot of unions nowadays though, such as the teachers' union that keeps even shitty teachers in their classrooms simply because they are in the union.

[Gaffer]

Unions these days are about making the union administrators rich, nothing else. It's a back door to elitism.

[Pagan]

Re-establish? That clearly implies some sort of previous popular control that the anti-democratic nature of capitalism would never permit.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
-- Thomas Jefferson

Equal protection across the board by the rule of law is why the U.S. is a Republic, not a Democracy.