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kpete

(71,985 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 11:09 AM Feb 2014

'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher gets union job with Chrysler Group

Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher - a.k.a., “Joe the Plumber" - announced today on Facebook and earlier on his Web site that he has landed a union job with Chrysler Group LLC.

Mr. Wurzelbacher, 40, of Springfield Township, who once was vilified as an "unlicensed plumber," said he was on his fourth day today and taking a smoke break at the time, when he was accosted by a co-worker as a “teabagger,” a derogatory term used for Tea Party members.

In long message, Mr. Wurzelbacher said, “I was just recently hired on at Chrysler,” and explained that while he's known as a conservative, he's not an enemy of private unions.

“In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the Union, in this case UAW. There’s no choice – it’s a union shop – the employees voted to have it that way and in America that’s the way it is,” he wrote.


Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/02/17/Joe-the-Plumber-Wurzelbacher-hired-by-Chrysler-Corporation.html#kR0hT6fVtpUkGswd.99

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'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher gets union job with Chrysler Group (Original Post) kpete Feb 2014 OP
Juanita Jean is laughing at this idiot Gothmog Feb 2014 #1
Yeah, that's the way it is in America - no thanks to people like him! reformist2 Feb 2014 #2
LOL...I'm sure he'll be very popular there n/t Oilwellian Feb 2014 #3
thanks for posting. K&R Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #4

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
3. LOL...I'm sure he'll be very popular there n/t
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 04:36 PM
Feb 2014

"Horny" attention-monger Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher has been asked by Americans For Prosperity to serve as the group's labor-busting shill in the campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow labor unions to form through both a secret ballot or by card-check -- a choice that would reduce instances of anti-union intimidation common to the formative stages of organizing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/joe-the-plumber-speaks-ou_n_181696.html



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