Sen. Dan Wolf challenges us to “do the right thing” [cct]
“We as Democrats need to be feeling 'fire in the belly'.
Sen. Dan Wolf added, “What's going on in Wisconsin is absolutely not acceptable. It's time to have an honest dialogue with labor” about saving the middle class
“What is happening in our generation is not sustainable & not acceptable… the economic disparity in this country is going to drag us all down.”
In addition to reporting on his first five weeks in the state senate, Mr. Wolf challenged his listeners to think deeply about what's happened in Wisconsin this past week with state workers by the hundred of thousand protesting over the that state's efforts to destroy unions both there and elsewhere. The scenes there resembled Cairo the week before.
Wolf pointed out that organized labor fallen from 35 percent to seven percent in his lifetime, and today the 400 wealthiest people in this country make more money each year than the lowest 100 million people in America.
He went on to say, “The filter I'm going to be looking at things up there (the State Senate) does it represent economic justice, does it represent strengthening the middle class, and strengthening the labor movement.”
Read the rest of the story and watch the video of his speech here.
Here is a 2009 thread from a message board run by professional pilots about the NEW union finally formed at Cape Air, and the charges of ‘election interference’ from management (aka Dan Wolf) at the time.
He didn’t say “No Union” as you seem to imply.
In mid-January, the CAPA union (which Wolf endorsed and which was called a puppet substitute to get rid of the real union) was decertified and the other union it had dethroned was back in place. By then, Wolf had stepped down as CEO of the airline.
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p>I don’t know how common it is for management to endorse one union over another, but the non-endorsed one was voted in as soon as he left, and his involvement was enough to generate interference charges.
The unions are undercutting themselves by supporting tax policies which cut growth in favor of continued payouts to current workers.
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p>The best times for unions are times of rapid job growth. Let’s face it, workers make gains during periods when labor is relatively scarce and wages are going up. Unemployment is 10% — most of those union members in Wisconsin could be replaced tomorrow.
Because the best thing in the U.S. for business would be single-payer, government-funded health care. But I don’t exactly see the business community beating that drum.
Where are you hiding all the teachers with experience and masters degrees willing to work for $10/hour?