Allah:
Imagine it. Imagine a movement so selfish that it would sabotage the operations of a venture on which vast numbers of people depend simply to gain leverage for its own agenda. Then imagine that that movement grew in numbers to the point where it could elect its own bought-and-paid-for politicians to do its bidding. Who knows how much havoc it could wreak? When you think about it, Democrats are right: It really is a sort of terrorism.
Am I awake?
The very term, ”sabotage,” comes from the foreign word for shoe, ”sabat” which workers threw into early assembly lines machinery.
Late last night I read how hundreds of CA farm workers (who are paid $10/hr PLUS bene’s) have sat down from their jobs.
Not because they want anything more from their employer.
Nope.
A UNION came in and TOOK 3% of their paycheck and told them they are ”in the union now.”
So, they sat down.
We’ll see how this shakes out.
But it is CA, so it might end badly for the workers.
This was plain idiotic, which means it likely will sail over the heads of the lapdog press.
I have two words for the brain dead Organizer in Chief:
Hostess Brands
Someone needs to find a Picard facepalm and post the picture.
The Unions have been doing exactly that since their inception…it is called a “Strike” or a “Wild Cat Strike”.
retire05 #3, My thoughts exactly.
The Republicans won’t fund Obama’s teleprompter. He always sticks his foot in his mouth when he goes off teleprompter.
Nan G:
The word is French and refers to not to a shoe in general but a wooden one (like the Dutch famously wear). This is the sabot. Imagine tossing one of those into a mechanical spinning loom.
Sabotage has a bad name, made so most notoriously by the dear Soviets who, convinced their idiot system could work, ordered anyone who was even late for work be condemned as a saboteur, the punishment being the GULAG at best, torture and/or death otherwise.
The farm workers need beware, lest they be judged saboteurs by the king and his minions.
We all must beware.
@inMAGICn: The Politburo in Commiefornia will force them back to work, or they’ll threaten to check their papers. More likely, as long as the Unions keep supporting the Facists in the Statehouse, nothing will happen.
Same thought process as the Occupy movement, isn’t it? Didn’t the lefties fawn all over them?
@Thirteen: #5
Years ago the unions could tell a company that the workers will go on strike if the company doesn’t pay the union what they demand. Not for the workers, but for the union. This was prosecuted as extortion, and the prosecutors won, so the unions don’t do that any more.
Unless the practice has changed, in the union contracts with the employees, there is a clause that says the if the top union bosses say that employees of a company have to go on strike, then they have to go on strike, even if they don’t have any complaint with the company. If a union is on strike at a company, and the company can continue with non-union workers, then the union bosses tell the unionized companies that supply stuff to the company being struck, to go on strike.
Stuff like this went on a long time ago. I don’t know if it still does, but I am guessing that it is.
My observation is our president doesn’t know how to negotiate. We never see him working with congress he just calls meetings and then lectures his opponents. Then he goes out to some friendly venue, where no one else gets to speak or ask questions, and he whines about his opponents. It’s like a campaign that never stops. He doesn’t lead anything he just complains when he doesn’t get his way. Ii wonder how far he will go down this destructive path to try to force his way on this?
@Mully: #12
If you watch obama’s head when he is with his cabinet talking to reporters, he is sitting behind the table, and his head is going back-and-forth looking at the two TOTUSes, just like every other place he talks, even Town Hall meetings where the questions aren’t supposed to be known. The TOTUSes must be psychic, because they have the answers to questions that haven’t even been asked yet.
@DrJohn:
It is a sure bet they will do all they can to not print it or cover it on tv. A non-event for Dimocrats