Comments on: Global Labor and Politics: Solis for Labor: SEIU Gets Pay Off, Blago Under Arrest

By: justsomeone

justsomeone — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:21:12 +0000

Here’s a blog that ran an excellent post today on Solis & Salazar, complete with their voting records: Dustin Inman Society, click on blog. & Yes, it’s a site done by an activist who opposes illegal immigration

By: athy

athy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:09:08 +0000

Good article Steve. Thank you.
Served as a great introduction for me into the world of labor unions. Excellent background, easy to understand. Good overview. Article provides enough of a background to help me continue to connect some dots…

By: NoBamaNoWay

NoBamaNoWay — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:22:46 +0000

that’s what my experience with unions suggests, too. it’s a bummer, cuz workers get screwed with or without unions.

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:07:56 +0000

Thanks for a informative read Steve Diamond.

By: getfitnow

getfitnow — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:14:20 +0000

Thanks, Dr. Diamond

By: Karma

Karma — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:36:51 +0000

Why is it so difficult to understand he is speaking out for all of the workers?

Those displaced from good paying jobs then. And those trying to feed families now…on much less.

It is a labor union, not concerned with the workers, working to lessen their strength by fragmenting their leaders. And now that thought process has a cabinet position.

How can that be good for the rest of us?

By: Karma

Karma — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:01:38 +0000

Thank you for covering Solis and this labor issue. I didn’t realize her ties to all of this, but was intending to research her background. Obama’s history with Magtag doesn’t give me faith about his commitment to unions.

During the CA debate one of Obama’s answers to this situation was of interest to me.

It seemed like he threw the AA community under the bus. While he was denying that all those good paying blue collar jobs were undercut by illegal immigration. He stated that ‘it was a case of scapegoating he didn’t believe in’.

After his applause line was finished. Obama immediately contradicts himself. Stating if conditions remain, the illegal immigrants would ‘continue to undermine U.S. wages.’

As a CA resident, I remember this whole thing unraveling on the nightly news with the huge state construction bids as well. The same formula was also used on housing construction workers.

Good jobs, that young men could get after high school, to pay their way through college. Or build a construction career and raise a family. Gone and replaced with shameful wages…in expensive CA no less.

Obviously, those well paying construction and janitorial jobs paid for mortgages and school supplies. The community losing those good jobs and eventually their homes brought chaos to their lives. In my opinion, it is one piece of the puzzle which helped to pave the way for the crack epidemic. The dispair of lost homes and lost jobs….

Catherine Austin Fitts has a map of the area and homes lost during this time. Stunning.

“MOST OF THESE HUD/FHA SINGLE FAMILY LOANS DEFAULTED BETWEEN 1982 AND 1990.”

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/images/ethnic2.gif

Transcript of the CA debate for Obama quotes upbove.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/31/dem.debate.transcript/

By: kat in your hat

kat in your hat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:27:46 +0000

Steve Diamond! I have missed you.

Good work, as always!

By: justsomeone

justsomeone — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:44:44 +0000

there’s tv on in another room. I just heard Obama talking about his infrastructure projects & he actually said, “We’re going to need MORE workers, blah, blah…& part of Solis’ job will be to make sure we get them.” Hello Open Borders advocates

By: justsomeone

justsomeone — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:09:56 +0000

Repeal the Worker Replacement Act, crank up domestic manufacturing & close the borders if you want decent wages & benefits for blue collar workers. All the politically correct mumbo jumbo ain’t gonna get it. It would take generations to to get safety regs, fair wages & benefit standards enacted throughout the entire world.

By: justsomeone

justsomeone — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:52:18 +0000

I’ve read this a couple of times & am confused as to what is being advocated. All the unionization in the world can’t trump the basic laws of supply & demand. When the number of workers wanting (willing) to be janitors vastly outnumbers the number of jobs in the field wages decline. It’s just that simple. Handing out union cards to the teaming hordes of illegal workers daily crossing our borders won’t remedy the problem. Unions make the most progress in good economic times & in tight labor markets, so the Left’s call for open borders is just music to the ears of corporate America. Turning this place into a debtor nation/3rd world country is not my idea of a solution.

By: Woman Voter

Woman Voter — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:36:06 +0000

As I recall Solis is no friend to the business community and with the economy in the ‘recession’ toilet I would have thought that they would have brought someone in with business knowledge not someone that there to do the unions bidding.

Meg Whitman would have been a better choice, but then it was an appointment by Obama ‘Chicago’ politician, which says it all for me.

By: LD

LD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:20:04 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for your insightful analysis on these topics. Very enlightening.

By: bert

bert — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:32:51 +0000

Excellent insight, S.D. into the NEW “union” mentality. From my days as a memebr of the retail clerks union through my days as a teacher’s union member and officer and then paid staff I sadly see unions sure are not what they used to be in far too many cases. It is no longer about the member – the worker – it is about the union and the perks for officers and staff. It is about looking good on paper, not being the best and achieving the best for members. Just another example of the downward spiral of America.

By: touchet

touchet — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:06:19 +0000

How did Obama put it. “Maybe they should take a couple of cues from the Chinese Auto Makers”. I believe it went something like that. This is what they want. Pretty soon you will be staying at your work place in communes, hours from where you live. Waking up doing exercises, chanting cheers of loyalty to the “Company” and making a dollar for every car you put together. Oh but don’t worry, the government will give you a house, and a 2000 calorie a day food allowance. Say good buy kids, to the iphones, game consoles, flat panel TV’s, and that sweet sixteen car, because in Obama Land, you got to live like the Chinese and “spread the wealth around”.

The only person who will be buying those luxury goods is your local politician and your friendly Congress and their Administration, who also happen to be chairman for .

I mean come on really, when are people going to realize that the government is no longer ran by the people. It has been effectively seized by corporations and their puppet politicians. FDR warned people of this impending corruption and its potential when he brought government regulation of the market. There is nothing that is going to stop it beside another “seizure” of congress by the people. And folks, that is our constitutional right. We have every right to go right into congress and boot the whole lot of them out.