Hey, All of You DUers that Support Unions... I'm Calling YOU Out

[The Doctor.]

and labeling you REAL Patriots, REAL Americans, and REAL Keepers of your Fellow Man!

If you stand by your brothers and sisters of the working class, let us hear you Roar!

I've had enough of these teabagging twits, let's hear from the REAL Patriots.


Solidarinosc!

[Uta]

1. ++

I've never been so fortunate as to have Union representaion in my work place.
I wish I could be in a union! I'm in Idaho, a "right to....(work) FIRE", stronghold. Probably the least Union friendly state.
only wish Union membership was available to me. I credit the influence of unions for any small gains employees such as I have ....like overtime after 40 hours, and my effing RETIREMENT program!

Carry on Union people. You're working for more than you realize. Huzzah!

[The Doctor.]

9. And even more than that....

Weekends FFS!

How far Unions went to enable even non-union employees to have maternity leave, sick-days, and holidays goes totally unappreciated by the Teabagging sect... even though they have enjoyed those benefits along with medical and the tepid 401k plans.

THEY HAVE NO CLUE that they are the beneficiaries of union efforts.

Cheers!

[blondeatlast]

23. Idaho has fierce competition in AZ, but I hear you. Keep fightin' the good fight! nt

[classof56]

54. Welcome to DU, neighbor! Glad for your input and participation.

I spent most of my state government career in management service, but never ever discounted the unions and their importance. The contracts they negotiated benefited us all. I know well the issues faced by those in right-to-work states like Idaho. Keep the faith and keep supporting those Union people who work on everyone's behalf. Huzzah indeed!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'm roaring!

[The Doctor.]

7. You're not just the cat's meow...

Love's ya!

[madamesilverspurs]

3. !

[markpkessinger]

4. Roaring as loudly as I can! n/t

I've never held a union job in my life, but I certainly recognize the way ALL of us have benefited as a result of unions!

[calimary]

5. WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Present and accounted for! Go Unions!!!

[mitchtv]

6. retired steward

TIU and CWA

[The Doctor.]

8. Glad to have the Best of the Best here.

In all sincerity; Thank you for the time you put in to making working lives better.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Thank you

I'm not going to fellate the elite in hopes they through me a cookie.

[unkachuck]

82. what if....

....it's a really really good cookie?

[alfredo]

11. Thank you. NALC member in good standing.

[The Doctor.]

13. Paying your dues, and then being told you don't 'sacrifice' enough.

Time, money, work... all to make the lives of working people better. I can't know how pissed off you could be after hearing the bullshit from the Wingnut News.

Solidarinosc!

[alfredo]

17. I sacrificed my body. I am now 100% disabled.

[Omaha Steve]

12. OS reporting in

K&R!

[The Doctor.]

14. You the man...

*Solidarinosc*

[joneschick]

15. Boycott Scott Walker Supporters

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Boycott-Scott-Walker-Contributors/101624709918554


:hi:

[Arkana]

16. Bring along your TARDIS and your sonic screwdriver, Doctor.

[needledriver]

18. Does this mean we can take the working man back?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x566687

[libodem]

19. Count me in

[old mark]

20. K&R- Thank you- agree!...nt

[mimitabby]

21. wrote to the white house yesterday

i told the president that he needed to put those comfortable shoes on and get himself to Wisconsin. I hope a lot of you did that too.

[Jack Rabbit]

22. Gotcha covered

To the right wing morons who divide America into those heroic producers who sit on their asses in the office all day long and those of us who sweat and toil and don't deserve even a thank you for it . . . .

This country had its best years when the producers of wealth had an easier time joining labor unions.

[The Doctor.]

25. Word.

That's the bottom line here; these people ignore the fact that we were a booming economy when unions were at their strongest.

When nearly everyone can afford to buy any household item made in the US, then everyone wins. These morons have been convinced of the cold prickly philosophy of reduction and hoarding.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. "The cold prickly philosophy of reduction and hoarding"

That's called objectivism*, isn't it?

*Objectivism: what passes for the philosophy of the hack writer and quack philosopher Ayn Rand. It is a moralistic justification of greed and selfishness based partially on a poor reading of Aristotle's Organon.

[blondeatlast]

24. Proud ex-AFSCME, daughter of an AFSCME steward and granddaughter of

a railroad union activist sounding off!

:patriot:

[Blue Owl]

26. +1

:kick:

[jschurchin]

27. Today and every day

A Very Proud Member of the Transport Workers Union Local 2035. We proudly stand side by side with our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin and throughout this great country.

Working men and women, union and non, need to stand UNITED and take our country back from those that intend us harm.

Brother Doctor, I am with you.

[drm604]

28. I'm fortunate enough at the moment to have a good job that treats me well

even though there is no union. But I recognize how fortunate I am, and that my circumstances are nowhere near universal. My father worked at a union job and because of that my mother now has a relatively comfortable retirement.

So yes, I support unions!

[TBF]

30. Solidarity K&R nt

[Bozita]

31. Solidarity!

[blackspade]

32. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

A lot of win in the OP!

[Wolf Frankula]

33. Member of 2 Unions

Newspaper Guild and Teamsters. I'm Union All the Way.

Wolf

[TheKentuckian]

34. Proud supporter

[Plucketeer]

35. We'd be true slaves

without unions to fight for us!

[Populist_Prole]

36. Member and supporter here

[jtown1123]

37. Solidarity K&R

[BobbyBoring]

38. USA USA USA!

I'm wavin my flag as I type!

[RoccoR5955]

39. Thanks for that... K & R n/t

[Deep13]

40. I'm merely recognizing...

...the rights won by the blood, suffering and determination of others.

[shanti]

41. solidarity!

yes!

[Sherman A1]

Union!

:kick:

[Sherman A1]

42. Union!

:kick:

[stevenleser]

43. Solidarity! n/t

Just google or youtube my name and "Unions"

[Enthusiast]

44. K&R! nt

[louslobbs]

45. Reading your headline, I created a story right away in my head

and was ready to do battle with and let you have it lol. The stories we create lol. Thank you for this post Doc, we are the real patriots, not those long winded, spelling challenged, Koch funded, idiot rabble dirtbaggers.......I mean teabaggers....sorry. Let them water their tree of lies and faux "Liberty", and we'll water ours. They are nothing less than tyrannical, hateful sheep, their actions always speak louder than their big mouths or their misspelled signage. Solidarinosc! +1000
Lou

[MissDeeds]

46. I'm standing with the unions

K&R

[Divernan]

47. Proud granddaughter of a coal miner who fought the coal company hired thugs

My grandfather was a coal miner in Mt. Olive, Illinois and managed to survive the mines and live to the age of 81. Mt. Olive has a proud union history. Starting in 1892, miners there started to recruit miners into the union. In 1923, Mother Jones said that the miners there were responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America. If you want to know just how hard the union fought, and how miners were killed and wounded in that fight which produced:

AN EIGHT HOUR DAY,
A MUTUALLY AGREED UPON WAGE (i.e, collective bargaining)and
THE ELIMINATION OF THE NOTORIOUS COMPANY STORES,

read the history below.
I spent family holidays and summer vacations in Mt. Olive - a quiet, tiny town in the '50's - the coal mines had closed down by then. I never knew it's history until recently.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/il-mtolive.html
Starting on July 15, 1892, in Mt. Olive, Illinois, a bastion of union miners began to march south through one coal town after another, calling miners out of the pits. Holding impromptu rallies, they won much moral and material support from the communities and their residents. Though gaining the support of the community members, they were not successful in recruiting many miners into the union, due to low wages and fear on the part of the miners. By the great strike of 1897, only about 400 out of 35,000 Illinois coal miners belonged to the United Mine Workers of America. However, the dedication of a few began to make a difference and by early 1898 an agreement was made between the union and management that workers would be restricted to an eight hour day, receive a mutually agreed upon wage, and company stores would be eliminated.
*********************************************************************************************************************
Ever wonder why the magazine "Mother Jones" has that name? Read on.

"The Union Miners' Cemetery Mount Olive, Illinois"
http://macoupinctygenealogy.org/history/miner-cem.html
(this information is taken from a 1930's union history pamphlet - out of print, no copyright, so no 4 paragraph limit)

"As Moslems go to Mecca, there is a Shrine in Illinois that deserves a pilgrimage by all labor-minded persons. It is the Union Miners' Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois.

It offers no miraculous visions or cures; but each one who visits will be touched, for this is the resting place of that "grandmother of agitators," Mary "Mother" Jones; and this is a place filled with the spirit of good union men.

They are the coal miners she called "her boys," among whom she asked to be buried at the time of her death in 1930, at the age of 100.

Beyond the wrought iron gate to the little burial ground rises a granite obelisk on which is a great medallion bearing the likeness of Mother Jones. She is guarded on either side by a larger-than-life bronze statue of a coal miner with his sledge. At the base is a simple stone nestled in the grass, Mother Mary Jones.

Among the tombstones in the Union Miners Cemetery is that of "General" Alexander Bradley, surely the most flamboyant figure in all of labor history. Bradley got his military nickname as a reference to his service in Coxey's Army, that fabulous cross-country march of the unemployed which culminated in a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on May 1, 1894.

Home again in Mt. Olive, Bradley became a self-appointed organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, which had scarcely 400 members in Illinois at that time. Yet, Bradley and a handful of area miners resolved at a secret meeting in the woods to join in a nation wide strike called by the UMWA for July 4, 1897.

With Bradley at their head, the miners marched to coal camps in Belleville, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, Collinsville exhorting the men to "pour the oil from their lamps" and join the strike, which they did.

Wearing his favorite outfit, a top hat and Prince Albert coat, an umbrella in hand, "General" Bradley took the train, alone, to DuQuoin, 75 miles away. Again, his eloquence (and perhaps his appearance) was rewarded. DuQuoin's miners agreed to join the strike. The Union Miners' Cemetery is linked to an episode in the strike known as "The Virden Riot," in which four Mt. Olive men (and still others from nearby towns) were killed in a shoot out with mine guards on October 10, 1898, as a train carrying 180 black strike-breakers recruited from the south, attempted to pass through a band of armed strikers, and reach safety within a fortified stockade at Virden.

The mine guards, imported from St. Louis, were better armed and had the advantage of the stockade. The firing was intense, lasting about ten minutes. The train's engineer was wounded and he returned to Springfield, with his cargo still aboard. Dead were seven miners and five guards. Forty other miners and four guards were wounded.

The National Guard arrived several hours later. Interestingly, the next day they turned back a second train carrying strike-breakers, a sensible action for which Governor Tanner was denounced in newspapers all over the state.

The men from Mt. Olive were buried originally in the town cemetery, but the owner of the land objected to the ceremonies and other activities which the miners held there. The Lutheran cemetery was barred to them because that minister denounced the miners as "murderers."

The local union, thereupon, purchased a one-acre site, and the bodies were moved to the new Union Miners Cemetery in 1899. Additional land was acquired in 1902, and again in 1918 and 1931, in order to accommodate the monument which was dedicated on October 11, 1936.The cash raised for the monument was $16,393.25. All of the labor involved was donated. It stands 22 ft. high on a 20 x 18 ft. base. It is built of 80 tons of pink Minnesota granite. The name of the sculptor is lost from the record.

The dedication was, itself, a monumental event. Five special trains and 25 Greyhound busses brought celebrants to Mt. Olive. Others came in private cars or hitch-hiked to the town. The crowd was estimated at 50,000. There were 32,000 in the line of march. Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia, the state in which Mother Jones had been court-martialed and imprisoned during the 1912 Cabin Creek Strike, was a speaker. North Dakota Congressman William Lemke spoke. The socialist leader from Springfield, Duncan McDonald was a speaker, too. The dedication was recorded for the newsreels by Pathe' News. There was a broadcast by radio station KMOX, St Louis.

For many years, Miners Day, October 12 (Columbus Day), was the occasion for a big gathering in Mt. Olive and a visit to the Monument. With the years, however, interest began to flag. A renewed concern for the Cemetery and the traditions connected to it has been revived in recent times. A Springfield-based organization, the Friends of Mother Jones, holds an annual Saturday night event, with a Sunday motorcade to Mt. Olive. For information write to Jack Dyer, Mother Jones Foundation, Box 20412, Springfield, IL 62708.

In Mt. Olive, itself, there is an on-going effort by the Mother Jones Jubilee Committee to raise funds for monument maintenance and a museum. They hold an annual craft and food fair, and sell collector's items, a cup for $5.00, and a tee- shirt for $13.00. Also available is a cancellation commemorative stamped envelope for $3.00. Write to the Jubilee Committee at PO Box 185. Mt. Olive, IL 62069. These folks have the dedication, but they need help.

The present owner of the Cemetery is the Union Miners Cemetery Association, the Progressive Miners of America having turned over the deed to the Association, said to be composed largely of elderly ladies. The Union Miners Cemetery appears in the National Register of Historic Places, a list maintained by the United States Department of Interior. Chicago, November 12, 1923 A Special Request to the Miners of Mt. Olive, Illinois: "When the last call comes for me to take my final rest, will the miners see that I get a resting place in the same clay that shelters the miners who gave up their lives of the hills of Virden, Illinois on the morning of October 12, 1897 , for their heroic sacrifice of their fellow men. They are responsible for Illinois being the best organized labor state in America. I hope it will be my consolation when I pass away to feel I sleep under the clay with those brave boys." Mother Jones

[juxtaposed]

62. What happened to the Pope when he went up to Mt. Olive?

Popeye beat the shit out of him

[Rabblevox]

48. I grew up on the picket lines with my grandfather, hellz YEAH, I'm roaring! /nt

[urbuddha]

49. Agree...

There are far more of us than them. We need to stand together.

[ChoralScholar]

50. I've lived it, all my life

My dad is retired from Teamsters local 878 in Little Rock.

He was fired for Organizing, way back in 1980. But he fought back - for 14 years in appeals court after appeals court, and he won. Now it's landmark case law for Labor litigation.

I remember people making fun of my dad, growing up, telling him he'd never get what he was owed...

I'll never forget what he said one morning down at the downtown cafe: "All you old farts sittin' around here, drawing your retirement, let me tell ya' somethin' - They didn't give it to you because they LIKED you - they gave it to you, because somebody FOUGHT for it."

To me, my dad is one of these Patriots. 46 years behind the wheel of a truck, and still going.

[Dappleganger]

51. rawr!

[Hubert Flottz]

52. UBC&J of America since 1973.

UMWA member before that.

America needs a STRONG Labor Party. I have gone toe to toe with the fat cats over the years. It's about time for working Americans to wake up and smell the fascist takeover and to work together to defeat it.

We need to take America back and let the people rule, instead of the 1%.

[jtrockville]

53. OH YEAH BABY!

Stand up!
Get LOUD!

[Segami]

55. K&R.....YABA - DABA - DOOOOO,...WILLLLLMA!

[Shining Jack]

56. +1 n/t

[erodriguez]

57. AAAAOOOOOOGAAAAAAA!

[lunatica]

58. We Are One

[LawnKorn]

59. K&R

[proud patriot]

60. ROAR

:patriot:

[juxtaposed]

61. I've been union most of my life

I was a Union Shipfitter many years ago until the yard was closed down and the jobs were shipped to non-union yards.

Worked non-union for a time until I was able to hookup in the UBC, "Carpenters Union".
Held different offices in the union from Vice President, Financial Secretary, and President.
Chaired organizing committees, Sat on Pension fund, Health and welfare fund, and Training Fund.
Worked in collaboration, (joint ventures) with ACORN and other groups dealing with Get Out the Vote, Livable Wage ordinances, and many other things.
Negotiated contracts with contractors, collective bargaining.

Salted non-union jobs covertly and overtly during organizing campaigns, Brought ULP's against non-union Co. that discriminating against employees wanting to organize.

I couldn't think of a better way to spend a life.
I'm truly humbled by and proud of my Brothers and Sisters in Wisconsin.

[AsahinaKimi]

63. REC for calling us out... wait..

isn't that agai.... never mind :D

[kwassa]

64. Union member here. Solidarity forever.

[martymar64]

65. Solidarity, Brothers and Sisters!

[opihimoimoi]

66. FishWrappers of America Checking in to support the Wi 14. Local 358 Kaneohe Hawaii

sends Laulaus and poke Ahi... to the Capital.

We want more Fish to Wrap....less Spam...

[femrap]

67. K and R!!!!!

In solidarity!

[ScottLand]

68. K&R

[Shagbark Hickory]

69. Less roaring, more ass whoopin'. Time to whoop some ass.

But that's just me. I'm impatient.

[Amsterdam Hooligan]

70. Proud Union Rep...

I worked 28 years for the City of Columbus,Ohio....13 of those years I was a Division Chief Union Steward.....Am I a patriot?.......17 mos and 22 days in Viet-Nam.......with 173rd Airborne Brigade.......I`m ready......

[DinahMoeHum]

71. Unions: The Folks That Brought Us The Weekends

:patriot::patriot::patriot:

[malaise]

72. Solidarity Forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8

[mike_c]

73. SOLIDARITY!

:patriot:

[tavalon]

74. First call out that won't get locked

Union nurse here and I support all unions and all workers and all people who want to work. The top 2% who won't pay their fair share, not so much.

[upstatecajun]

75. yes im with you

:fistbump:

[senseandsensibility]

76. KICK!

Unions built the middle class in this country.

[Bluzmann57]

77. Well, here I am

Union and damn proud of it! My dad was a Union man, as was my uncle and apparently so was their dad. So we are Union proud and know what organized labor has meant to our country. SOLIDARITY!

[Martysbestcatch]

78. Daughter of an Ironworker and wife of a Teamster here. nt

[Initech]

79. I wish I could join one.

[femmocrat]

80. NEA here!

Proud public school teacher: Building rep. and strike team member.

Granddaughter, DIL, and niece of Steelworkers.

Solidarity forever!

[deacon]

81. Solidarity!

[Veracious]

83. BRING IT TEA BAG BITCHES

We have been victorious against your (hate filled teabagger)kind before, and we will be again.

VIGILANCE!!!!

[jdadd]

84. Retired now....

One of the first bad words I learned was Scab...My father was a union man, from the 1930s....I grew up in a union household...I have been a proud member of three Unions, IUE,(now CWA) SMWI, and USWA. :patriot:

[juxtaposed]

86. my first day as a fitter was for the union boss to show me what a scab was.

I know what a SCAB is. When I was a kid I learned,

[kentuck]

85. Kick

and raise hand.

[BillyJack]

87. aww....can't recommend anymore. But I CAN still kick

:KICK: