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Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)

While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history. Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain this year, and the on-going student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012. This in and of itself is a tremendous victory. For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 125 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.
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Well, I won't be participating, because I'm a lawyer and there's just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
 
Warning to any of the OWS get in my way to an appointment and I will walk through you scum!
 
KingOrfeo said:
Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)

While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history. Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain this year, and the on-going student strike in Quebec, the Occupy Movement has called for A Day Without the 99% on May 1st, 2012. This in and of itself is a tremendous victory. For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 125 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.
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Well, I won't be participating, because I'm a lawyer and there's just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
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How exactly are the unemployed supposed to go on strike? ;)
 
This in and of itself is a tremendous victory. For the first time, workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 125 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice.

So just the idea itself is a tremendous victory? The fact that it will end up being a few unemployed people not going to work does not really matter I guess.


I think I will go sign a fortune 500 client today........woooohoooo Tremendous victory for me!
 
isn't that a fantasy, I mean that union workers actually do work?



KingOrfeo said:
Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)



Well, I won't be participating, because I'm a lawyer and there's just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
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JackAssJim said:
Ooooo,,,,,who was the woman.......dman it........grrrrrrrr.....she turned out to be a paralegal in training or something..........grrrr...:cool:
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I would imagine there's been a ton of those. Every paralegal I've ever met thought they were Perry Mason.
 
Occupy Wall Street? Didn't those bitches fold like paper once it got cold out?

I hope we get another day without a migrant. It's been a while since I got to really cut loose on the freeway.
 
KingOrfeo said:
Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)



Well, I won't be participating, because I'm a lawyer and there's just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
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So busy you have time to post on Lit.
 
KingOrfeo said:
Yes, May Day. (Why do Americans have to put Labor Day in September anyway?!)



Well, I won't be participating, because I'm a lawyer and there's just too much to get done around the office right now to take an arbitrary day off . . . How about you?
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Nope. I joined the Tea Party instead.

All I need is the cool gear. Gun rack, flag shirt, and a copy of Atlas Shrugged to wave around.
 
Wok said:
Nope. I joined the Tea Party instead.

All I need is the cool gear. Gun rack, flag shirt, and a copy of Atlas Shrugged to wave around.
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Oh, well, in case you hadn't heard, the Tea Partiers are counterprotesting by going naked all day on May Day, and certainly at work. ("This is what Obama's taxes and failures have reduced me to!" is the intended message, I think.) Have fun.
 
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ing-ceo-pay-also-in-top-1-bgov-barometer.html



Union Leaders in Top 1%
By William McQuillen
April 27, 2012

Some leaders of U.S. labor unions, who decry the widening differences between the salaries of corporate chief executive officers and their workers, earn compensation that also places them in the top 1 percent.

The BGOV Barometer shows the heads of the top 10 U.S. labor unions took home average salary and other compensation of $394,925 last year, according to union reports filed with the U.S. Labor Department. Taxpayers in the top 1 percent had adjusted gross income higher than $343,927, according to IRS statistics published in 2011.

...Trumka’s own 2011 compensation of $293,750 puts him with the 99 percent, leaders of several unions under his organization’s umbrella earned much more, led by Terence O’Sullivan of the Laborers’ International Union of America, at $589,124.

“It’s tremendously embarrassing for the union officers,” said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. “It distances them from the rank and file. How can you represent workers and their problems when you’re in the 1 percent?”

The AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation, last week outlined a searchable database of salaries of the chief executive officers of the largest U.S. companies in an effort to highlight the disparity, which union leaders say is bad for economic growth.

Top 1 Percent
“Inequality threatens America’s greatness,” James Hoffa, the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said in an April 10 statement. “Last year, the top 1 percent of America took in 23 percent of all income. It’s time everyone starts to play by the same rules.”

Hoffa, whose union represents 1.38 million workers, received $372,489 in 2011 in salary and other disbursements for items such as meals, entertainment and other expenses.

Besides O’Sullivan and Hoffa, union leaders whose pay puts them in the top 1 percent include Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, Edwin Hill of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Dennis Van Roekel of the National Education Association and Joseph Hansen of the United Food and Commercial Workers Association...


“I’d argue they are out of touch, said Chaison. “It’s wrong to compare them to corporate leaders; they should be compared to the workers themselves.”




http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ing-ceo-pay-also-in-top-1-bgov-barometer.html
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KingOrfeo said:
Oh, well, in case you hadn't heard, the Tea Partiers are counterprotesting by going naked all day on May Day, and certainly at work. ("This is what Obama's taxes and failures have reduced me to!" is the intended message, I think.) Have fun.
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You jest!
 
I'm not really all that fired up. Maybe I'll buy a toy cop car and take a dump on it.
 
Apparently they're intending more of a general demonstration than a general strike:

The plan initially drew the ire of some labor leaders who quickly declared their members would not participate in the so-called strike.

“It won’t happen,” Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, flatly told Buzzfeed. “They are not working with the unions in a serious way yet; nor are the unions working with them in a serious way. And it is the wrong strategy.”

Under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, a general strike in support of other workers is illegal. Furthermore, individual unions must call for a strike, so the participation of workers in a protest does not constitute a general strike.

The official OWS press release about May Day mentions the phrase “general strike” twice: once in the headline, and once in quotation marks in the first paragraph. Perhaps keenly aware of the likelihood that an across-the-board labor strike is not only unlikely but illegal, the day is now being described by organizers as a nationwide protest with themes of economic noncompliance. (Poster by Nina Montenegro, via Occuprint.)

“We wanted to create a broad space for people in all different circumstances from all sorts of backgrounds to be able to participate,” the OWS press release states. “But we also recognize that for some people skipping work is not feasible so we are encouraging people to participate how they can whether that involves wearing a button at work or leaving early or simply showing up to the march after work.”
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