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Grinch McConnell Stole Autoworkers’ Christmas. Next Year, He Might Get Yours |
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The only items the Grinch stole from the good folks of Whoville were some jingtinglers, trumtookas and gardookas, along with their roast beast. But the Mitch who tried to steal Christmas from the autoworkers and their families was after a lot more serious loot—like health care, wages and their union cards.
In a new online campaign, “The Mitch Who Stole Christmas,” the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) says it’s time to tell Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that according to our list, all he gets for Christmas is a lump of coal. McConnell is one of the leading anti-worker lawmakers who killed an emergency loan to keep afloat the nation’s automakers, along with more than 3 million U.S. jobs.
CNA/NNOC Co-President Geri Jenkins, RN, says McConnell may have been after UAW members and their union this time,
but tomorrow it will be other working people’s wages and benefits.
The campaign (click here) invites people to send a message to McConnell and sign up for public protests and other actions to protect America’s working families.
CNA/NNOC’s Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro says McConnell and the other Republicans who scuttled the help for carmakers and workers were motivated by their hate for unions. As we’ve reported, an e-mail message circulated among Senate Republicans declared that denying the auto industry a loan was an opportunity for Republicans to “take their first shot against organized labor.” Says DeMoro:
The voices of labor will not be silenced. Not about our jobs, our healthcare, our respect, our dignity….These types of attacks on the working people who built this country are disgraceful all year but especially during the holidays. And, not surprisingly, his actions directly led to at least temporary layoffs for thousands of workers. Sen. McConnell can now add another title to his resume: The Mitch Who Stole Christmas.
While the Grinch returned the jingtinglers, roast beast and the rest, we shouldn’t wait for McConnell’s “two-sizes too small” heart to swell three sizes as the Grinch’s did when he saw the light. No, it’s likely, McConnell will remain, in the immortal words of Dr. Seuss:
a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich, with arsenic sauce.
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I am 86 years old and I didn’t need to read any books to know that there is a class war going on. It’s about time that Organized Labor began to to fully articulate this reality. Call it what it is.
last week,i wrote jim demint sen SC after his comments on loaning the big three money.his web-site had a link to learn more about card check.
it was full of lies about secret ballot,intimidation etc.people were allowed to register and comment.i wrote that if he was anti-union he had that right,but the piece was outright lies,and i said so in my post.i stated that the other viewpoints should be stated,so people could make an informed decision on working union or non-union.i placed three links in my comment,one from the afl-cio 10 key facts about the efca,one from the seiu’s web site faq’s about the efca,and american rights at work’s site has a page stated what this legislation is all about.
they put the post up that night.today i checked to see if anyone had commented.the post is gone.let’s let voters of sc know this.
the link to his page is here
http://www.jimdemint.com/blog/2008/10/unions-un-american-activities/
i also wrote to mcconnell,shelby,and of course corker.