Corker: Classless
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America’s economy is in a tailspin and millions of the nation’s autoworkers could lose family-supporting jobs if the industry tanks, but Republican Sen. Bob Corker knows what he’s concerned about: the “Valentine’s” Day cards autoworkers and their allies delivered to his Tennessee office.
I think delivering 4,200 incredibly tacky Valentine’s to my office was a classless thing to do.
Classless. The gall! The gall of workers who, if Corker had his way, would lose their jobs or get such severe cuts in pay they would become more casualties of the lingering Bush war on the middle class. Corker fought against assistance to the auto industry in December and voted against the economic recovery package that would save or create 3.5 million U.S. jobs.
Working America AND UAW Don’t ♥ Sen. Corker
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The hundreds of UAW members who rallied Friday were among the thousands who have written Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) letters protesting his anti-worker stance and attempts to require major concessions from the UAW.
Working America, the AFL-CIO community affiliate, recently sent a canvass team into Nashville and surrounding communities that collected more than 1,400 letters. Seven canvassers knocked on doors and greeted passers-by on busy streets and college campuses. Michigan State Working America Director Cara Alcantar, who helped with the canvass action in Tennessee, reported that
people are really supportive of what we’re doing, they’re supportive of the union, because they’re going through tough times. Most of the people we’ve spoken to do not believe that what Corker is doing is right.
UAW Members Don’t ♥ Sen. Corker
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, members of the UAW have sent a “love-note” to Sen. Bob Corker, a highly conservative Republican from Tennessee.
Corker, as you recall, introduced a pay-cut amendment to the auto rescue package last December that would have required the UAW to accept deep concessions. Far be it from Corker to try to save the jobs of thousands of autoworkers at a time when the nation’s jobless rate is worsening at an alarming rate.
Members signed a giant-sized card letting Corker know what they thought of his union-busting tactics and then delivered the valentine to Corker’s Nashville office.
