Some of the country’s most powerful unions are providing the infrastructure and amenities to keep the Occupy D.C. encampment fortified going into the winter.
The camp’s portable toilets are being provided by the Service Employees International Union, the 2.1-million-member organization that helped Barack Obama win the presidency and recently backed his re-election bid.
The estimated 100 demonstrators staying each night in McPherson Square, just blocks from the White House, can take a hot shower at the AFL-CIO headquarters on 16th Street Northwest
LadyJazzer wrote: Good... If it serves no other purpose than to drive the teabaggers nuts, and keep the issues in front of the news organizations, I think it's great.
Good... If it serves no other purpose than I get to laugh at the nuts, and it keeps the clowns in front of the news organizations, I think it's great winter entertainment.
Here are a few more National Unions that are supporting the Occupy movement: (There are too many local union and Allied Organizations for me to list right now)
National Transit Union
United Steelworkers of America
Amalgamated Transit Union
United Federation of Teachers
National Nurses United
Communication Workers of America
Operational Weather Squadron
New York Transit Union
United Pilots Union
Teamsters Union
Local 802 American Federation of Musicians NYC
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
SEIU 1199
Retail works union
AFGE
AFSCME
American Assn. of University Professors
Assn. of Flight Attendants / CWA
ATU
Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCTGM)
Boilermakers
Communications Workers of America
IFPTE
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
ILWU
Laborers’ Intl. Union
RWDSU
Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA)
Utility Workers Union of America
United Auto Workers
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
United Steel Workers
1199 United Health Care Workers East
Writers Guild East
And as the workers of America join the stalwarts of the movement over the coming days, perhaps Corporate America will realize for the first time that they might be staring down the barrel of a general strike.
Photo-fish wrote: Here are a few more National Unions that are supporting the Occupy movement: (There are too many local union and Allied Organizations for me to list right now)
National Transit Union
United Steelworkers of America
Amalgamated Transit Union
United Federation of Teachers
National Nurses United
Communication Workers of America
Operational Weather Squadron
New York Transit Union
United Pilots Union
Teamsters Union
Local 802 American Federation of Musicians NYC
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
SEIU 1199
Retail works union
AFGE
AFSCME
American Assn. of University Professors
Assn. of Flight Attendants / CWA
ATU
Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCTGM)
Boilermakers
Communications Workers of America
IFPTE
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
ILWU
Laborers’ Intl. Union
RWDSU
Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA)
Utility Workers Union of America
United Auto Workers
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
United Steel Workers
1199 United Health Care Workers East
Writers Guild East
And as the workers of America join the stalwarts of the movement over the coming days, perhaps Corporate America will realize for the first time that they might be staring down the barrel of a general strike.
Works for me. I could use a little more contract work. If these lazy bastards are not interested in work, I sure can use some more.
Photo-fish wrote: Works for me. I could use a little more contract work. If these lazy bastards are not interested in work, I sure can use some more.
Careful, you may be required to join a Union to get those jobs.
Wink all you want idiot. I have belonged to unions and I have no problems with a union as long as it spends it time acting like a union and not a bank account for politicians. Union have been useful. And some unions have been a bed of criminals. It goes both ways. And if unions want to waste their time supporting the Occupy movement, a poor excuse for a grass roots effective organization, then they will have to take the part of the responsibility as these jerks go south.