Things made/based in Wisconsin that you don't need anymore

[jmowreader]

The Miller Brewing Company is based in Milwaukee. It is connected to Coors and Molson through the MillerCoors partnership, so...

Harley-Davidson is headquartered in Milwaukee, although its main factories are in Pennsylvania and Missouri.

A vast amount of dairy is produced in Wisconsin.

[KamaAina]

1. The Green Bay Packers

oh, wait a minute, several Packers, past and present, openly supported the demonstrators. To my knowledge none, even the infamous Mark Chmura, backed Walker.

So fear not, dairy addicts: not everything from America's Dairyland is poison.

[nebenaube]

3. just the rgbh... n/t

[Pharaoh]

2. This is hurting workers when

you target a whole state. And frankly they don't care anyway. These people that took over the state of WI

Are fascists and will likely have to be removed by force.

[apocalypsehow]

9. "and will likely have to be removed by force." - Uh, what?

:shrug:

[Pharaoh]

33. I mean

As in Egypt the cops and national guard will eventually side with the people (they already do) and arrest Scott walker and others.

[apocalypsehow]

35. I see. n/t.

[slackmaster]

4. Let's kick those Badgers while they're down

:eyes:

[Tx4obama]

5. No dont' do that! Just boycott things made by the Koch Bros. instead. n/t

[apocalypsehow]

6. No, thanks. That does nothing but hurt innocent, hard-working people in Wisconsin. n/t.

[Blue Meany]

7. We ought to be targetting those who actually supported

Walker's union-busting, and many of them are out-of-state.

[Brickbat]

8. Many of the products on the Wisconsin boycott list and Koch list are made by union members.

I generally don't boycott union-made products.

[Atman]

19. Could this be behind the Koch's union-busting efforts?

If they buy all those Wisconsin power plants as Walker promised them, they'll have to hire workers to run them. Since they're currently government-owned, I assume they are staffed by union employees. I would guess it will save the Koch brothers millions if they can hire NON-UNION workers for their newly-acquired power plants. They need their patsy, Walker, to set the precedent and get the ball rolling.

Just thinking out loud...of course, I could be wrong. But I don't think so. Something is very, very stinky here.

[NightWatcher]

10. how about we support the Wisconsin unions instead?

[myrna minx]

11. Scott Walker's cooking Johnsonville brats!

I'm a vegetarian, so I don't eat those anyway. I think we should be buying American made union products in solidarity.

[jmowreader]

15. Johnsonville is in Pennsylvania, not Wisconsin

It seems to me there's not one German butcher in Milwaukee, so he's got to import bratwurst from out of state.

Then again, maybe the German butchers who actually are in Milwaukee refuse to sell to him...

[geardaddy]

21. No, Johnsonville Meat Co is in Sheboyan Falls, WI

[jmowreader]

30. The reason I thought it was in PA...

There is a town of Johnsonville, PA, and their logo is exactly the same as the Johnsonville Meat Company's.

[geardaddy]

32. Interesting.

Sounds like one or the other could sue.

[myrna minx]

22. I saw that Johnsonville was a donor to Walker and I made a really dumb joke.

:D I actually want to support local WI business, especially the union operated businesses. I grew up in WI, so I want those struggling to succeed.

[damntexdem]

12. I wish DUers would stop with this boycott-Wisconsin shit.

The masses of people of Wisconsin are rising up in opposition to what the fascist GOPers in Madison have done. If you're going to boycott, and you should, boycott Koch Industries products -- strike at the big money that has pushed the fascist agenda.

[Vinnie From Indy]

17. Amen!

These calls for some general boycott of Wisconsin based businesses is beyond idiotic.

Cheers!

[geardaddy]

24. You said it. n/t

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. Why punish WE the Wisconsin people with this?

I can understand (eg) boycotting companies that support Walker or products manufactured by the Koch brothers, but why boycott our dairy products? :(

[HereSince1628]

14. I'm trying to figure out why this would be written by someone in NC?

NC is an anti-union state as I recall...rather than all the negative boycott stuff, maybe there is another way to contribute...maybe you could name a product of Wisconsin that could substitute for one in your anti-union state? Then we could help 2 states.

[Ian David]

16. But which of those companies are Union? n/t

[Raven]

18. Why don't we try this for a change...support local WI business...

seek them out...try the web for local sites...purchase their products and let them know that you are supporting them as you and they support the unions. Maybe, before you buy, ask them where they stand. I'm thinking of that pizza place. I ordered $100 worth of pizza for the union troops from them plus a tip. I bet they understood from whence their bread was buttered. Maybe we need to keep this up. BTW, no objection to boycotting the big guys.

[subterranean]

25. That seems like a more reasonable approach.

We should not assume all companies in Wisconsin support Scott Wanker.

The only Wisconsin company I buy from (that I know of) is Land's End. But of course their products are not actually made in Wisconsin. I wonder where they stand on the union issue.

[notadmblnd]

20. cheese curds

[rucky]

23. Miller and Harley are union shops.

WTF

[Raven]

26. There ya go...we need to be thoughtful about this. n/t

[MarthaM]

27. As a Wisconsinite, I find these 'boycott WI' threads offensive

We didn't do anything to you. Some idiot officeholders did something to US.

This thread is just a slap in the face.

[SoCalDem]

31. these days boycotts are pretty ineffective anyway, since most major companies

are not singly owned or family owned.. They are part of a "family of businesses"...with the parent corporation being owned by a Koch-like entity who does not give a CRAP about what people think of them. They have the power and the money and that;s all they care about.. They have spread their net wide enough to be boycott-proof. It's not like when the ACME shoe store was one of two shoe stores in town, and a boycott of them, over the other, could bankrupt them. Once main Street went "global", we were done for.

These companies who are owned by evil bastards, also happen to employ the people who would be hurt the most from boycotts, and IF a boycott ever started to affect the evil bastards at the top, they would just sell it off for "parts", or move the company elsewhere to an even more desperate locale (not hard to find these days)

[MineralMan]

28. No thanks. I'm going to help the workers in Wisconsin KEEP

their jobs, not help to destroy them. Misguided. Unrecced.

[Freddie Stubbs]

29. How does further hurting WI workers make things better?

[Lefta Dissenter]

34. I'm with

the others, who understand that we don't need to be kicked in the teeth while we're down.

Boycott Koch, M&I Bank, etc.