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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
16. You are so correct we the working class------------------------
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:04 PM
May 2016

never forget---------------because we are the ones that die ----------------------for sake of greed.

And as we speak the CWA Verizon Union workers are currently locked-out, because some CEO made 18 million last year doing exactly what-----------------sitting in a board room with other corporate suits determined to outsource work, for Wall Street, and because in 1992, The Telecommunication Act was signed by one Bill Clinton, so that these corporate suit can make millions.

Just like they did at Nabisco the Mondelz group, they were offered 130 million to upgrade the plants in Chicago, so now if people look on the back of chocolate chip cookies, Chip's Ahoy, they will see they are made in Mexico, and Hersey is doing the same thing---------because of NAFTA--------------and they wonder why people are upset-----------use one country against another------------------just for greed.







Honk---------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016




It was only introduced here late in the day. Bad Dog May 2016 #1
Thanks. Originally, the first sentence of my post referenced the pagan holiday, but I decided merrily May 2016 #2
Getting rid of a bank holiday is a vote loser. Bad Dog May 2016 #3
But, they could rename it and obscure its significance. Hell, if Grover Cleveland merrily May 2016 #4
Why rename it? Bad Dog May 2016 #5
International Workers Day deserves its name and also deserves observances. merrily May 2016 #6
We've always called it May Day. Bad Dog May 2016 #15
Great Post! afertal May 2016 #7
Thank you so much! merrily May 2016 #8
K&R------------------------- turbinetree May 2016 #9
They wanted us to forget, to think Labor Day was just another day off, merrily May 2016 #12
You are so correct we the working class------------------------ turbinetree May 2016 #16
Yep Greed is the root cause. merrily May 2016 #18
Agree with turbinetree Beartooth Bronsky May 2016 #24
When I was a child in the 1940s, we made May baskets full of goodies and put them JDPriestly May 2016 #10
That is how Grover Cleveland wanted May Day to remain. merrily May 2016 #11
Haymarket Square ReRe May 2016 #13
You are very welcome. I thought that while I was writing it. What Hollywood loves to make merrily May 2016 #19
I wonder how long they would lock one up for printing off things like this and handing them jtuck004 May 2016 #14
People who are not teaching it may not know about it either. merrily May 2016 #21
Excellent post. I've pinned it. demwing May 2016 #17
Thank you for the kind words. Of course, I don't mind. merrily May 2016 #20
Trade Unionism Beartooth Bronsky May 2016 #22
Very interesting post. Thank you! merrily May 2016 #23
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