Minimum wage, friendlier rules on labor's agenda

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06318/738107-28.stm

Minimum wage, friendlier rules on labor's agenda

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
By Will Lester, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Unions spent more than $100 million getting out the vote, knocked on millions of doors and delivered Election Day support to Democrats running for the House by a more than 2-to-1 margin.

Now organized labor is spelling out what it wants from the new Democratic Congress.

The priorities include raising the minimum wage, expanding health care and improving pension protections.

Union workers voted Democratic in the House races, 67 percent to 30 percent. And others in union households voted almost as strongly Democratic, according to exit polls.

FULL story at link above.

[Mythsaje]

1. 30 percent of Union members voted Republican?

Or otherwise didn't support the Dems?

How sad.

[Union Thug]

2. remnants of the so-called "reagan democrats"

Many of these guys bought into the big lie 25 years ago and some continue to do so to this day. These are the ones who suck up the liberal stereotype dreamed up by the repukes to divide and conquer working class men and turn them against a liberal strawman - a composite stereotype blending gun-haters, vegans, and homosexuals into a single target of their collective disdain.

The repukes were successful at dividing and conquering using this imagery and continue to be even to this very day. It's amazing how quickly people get in line to hate, and forget that politics is, first and foremost, about class struggle.