ain’t what is
Cuz, see, I’d think that unions would want to get people back to work.
“Our objective is to pull together unemployed Americans in a way that allows them to connect, communicate and press their political leaders for policies that will get them back to work,” Rick Sloan, UCubed’s executive director and IAM communications director, told The Daily Caller.
So with unions enlisting the jobless to work for unions’ political benefit, hey — that’s almost as as good as dues-payers, right?
…The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) Activists is an Internet-centric “community service project” of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)
U1nion of U2nemployed Activists. That’s two [2] U’s. U3 would be three [3] U’s. Or is this some sort of gestalt thing?
“We’d like to see [policymakers] recreate the Works Progress Administration, WPA 2.0. Which in the 1930s put between 6.5 and 8 million people back to work,” Sloan said.
…New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s recent “21st Century WPA Act” to reinstate the New Deal employment program, and Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s attempt to rejuvenate another New Deal program with her “21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act.”
Now there’s some Shovel-Ready thinking.
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When the WPA and CCC existed there was no law that required public works projects to pay union wages. And no union members screaming that such projects were destroying union jobs.
Like the shovel ready in your horse barn?
“21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act.” no is should be “21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Policy so “CCCP”.”
The UAW destroyed itself when it shifted to being a political entity. Instead of allowing more automation in manufacturing the pushed employers and government arbitrators for more employees that equaled more members. The auto industry was forced to hire. GM and Dodge were building a single car with 2.4 to 2.7 men while the newer BMW, Honda, VW and even the Ford facility in Hapeville, Ga. were building with less than 2.0. With that many members to accommodate it became cheaper to move manufacturing to other non-union locales. If they would have frozen their numbers and embraced automation the cost increased would have amply supported their members. Now they continue to erode the benefits of their retirees.
Also, How can you tell if the unemployed are on strike?
Not U-cubed (U3 = UxUxU),
more like 3U = U+U+U,
but I’d recommend the notation U3.
No, wait … U‘nU‘nU
But, you’re right, Claire. Why isn’t it U-2?
What’ve they got against U-2s?
Around here the unions have been “using” the jobless/homeless for years. They are always protesting some company/entity that doesn’t use union labor with unemployed people. For a while you could drive around Phoenix and see the same people protesting under different union banners against all sorts of companies, I think the local news even actually covered the craziness.
WE’RE F****** BROKE, YOU DUMBASSES!
You don’t fix that by spending like mad.
Ugh.
Will they deduct dues from members’ unemployment checks?
“U3 would be three [3] U’s.”
Math was never their strong point.
“21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act.”
That’ll be called “CSquared”.
DougM: (#5) Or even U-235.
mech: (#8): Probably not. But any day now, they’ll go on strike.
Do any of you Students of Recent History know where the money for the WPA and the CCC came from?