Sara Nelson, President of the Flight Attendants Union, called for a General Strike during Trump's Government Shutdown. She has some brilliant Ideas about how to FIX America.

MORE Labor Unions fighting for Increased Wages, Better Working Conditions, Healthcare, Childcare, Retirement, Full Time Jobs, Profit Sharing Safety... 

Corporations have reaped a massive windfall from Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law BUT... WORKERS have gotten Nothing... NOTHING... All that money has been used for "Stock Buybacks" (putting more money in Rich People's Pockets) instead of Raising Wages, bringing Factories back to the USA or Making Equipment Better, Safer... 

The Workers Have Increased Productivity over the Last Few Decades but ALL THAT increased Wealth has been Pocketed by The Rich. Jobs these days are mostly - Low Pay, No Benefits, TEMP,  UBER-Like (sub contractors with No Benefits, ALL the risk) or Part Time... Gone are the Jobs that enabled a Man to Raise a Family using His Paycheck from ONE JOB. 

Her Slogan is: "ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Nelson_(union_leader)

https://twitter.com/flyingwithsara?lang=en

I saw her on the Rick Smith Show on Free Speech TV. a show devoted to Pro Labor Union interviews...   

Free Speech TV is Viewer Financed so they have the freedom to publish Ideas that are NOT blessed by Corporate Masters. Link TV, PBS and RT ( Russian Television) are Pllaces that broadcast Shows Forbidden by Advertisers... It becomes obvious when I Compare their NEWS Shows with CNN, FOX, and MSNBC. They just show what will attract the MOST VIEWERS so they can sell Advertising Time... They Repeat the same subjects again and again and again because that's the best way to get high ratings... NO Concern with Informing The Public, it's all INFOTAINMENT... Consider that they typically show One Minute of News and then Five Minutes of Talking Heads telling You What to Think.  and Yowsa, Yousa some of those Talking Heads are Stunningly Beautiful Women! What they say seems so Significant! and the Some Talking Heads play a Character... (Symone Sanders as the Angry Black Lady) but she's gone! She went to work for her Father, Bernie Sanders and is rarely seen on TV... Deep Sigh... Talking Heads are a proven formula for attracting an audience... 

I enjoy Democracy NOW!... I enjoy Pirate Television... I enjoy ACT OUT!... I enjoy Economic Update... I enjoy The Keiser Report... I enjoy The World according to Jesse... I enjoy Bioneers... I enjoy Redacted Tonight... I enjoy BOOM BUST...                                                                                                                                                 

LOCK HIM UP! Alexander Acosta (Trump's Labor Secretary) broke the law in 2008... HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT HE IS NOT ARRESTED?

A federal judge has ruled that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta broke the law in 2008 along with other prosecutors. At the time, Acosta was the U.S. attorney in Miami. He and his team reached a plea deal with hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. The judge ruled that Acosta illegally hid that deal from Epstein's victims.

 https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697152922/judge-rules-that-prosecutors-in-jeffrey-epstein-sexual-abuse-case-broke-the-law

"I will hire the BEST People." Said Trump - Promises Made, Promises Broken. 

TEN (10) TrumpNiks were arrested and Seven (7) went to prison already. Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwann=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, Rodger Stone=NOT Guilty YET. Steven Calk, the banker who wanted to be Secretary of the Army using fraudulent loans to Paul Manafort as Resume Padding was Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges = Plead not Guilty. Maria Butina's Boyfriend, Paul Erickson Arrested, Plead Not Guilty... 


Mueller left Impeachment of Trump up to Congress but provided a roadmap. 

ANOTHER Corrupt Republican: Trump's Labor Secretary BROKE THE LAW when he let Convicted Child Molester Have a Sweetheart Plea Deal...

HEADLINE: JEFFREY EPSTEIN SEX TRAFFICKED UNDERAGE GIRLS AND TRUMP’S SECRETARY OF LABOR ILLEGALLY KEPT PLEA DEAL FROM VICTIMS, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS...

https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-alexander-acosta-trump-sex-trafficking-underage-minor-1339974

Donald Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, then a federal prosecutor in Miami, illegally kept details of Epstein's plea deal from victims, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

In a 33-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra of Palm Beach County, described how evidence showed that Epstein—a multimillionaire hedge fund manager known for his friendships with influential political figures, including former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew—paid employees to “obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification but also for the sexual gratification of others.”

In a series of explosive stories, the Miami Herald documented how, in 2017, federal prosecutors worked with Epstein’s lawyers to put together a plea deal that required the financier to plead guilty to two prostitution charges and serve 13 months in prison, despite overwhelming evidence of a widespread pattern of sex trafficking and sexual assault, and 103 “Jane Doe” victims.
  The deal ensured Epstein—and his unidentified co-conspirators—immunity from federal prosecution.



President Trump’s current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta—broke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

Read More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-acosta-trumps-labor-secretary-broke-the-law-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-judge?source=articles&via=rss

Arizona Teachers Strike. WONDERFUL! We should pay teachers a living wage and fund schools. Buy books, computers and pencils.

Let's have teacher strikes in all 50 states. They deserve a better deal. In general, Labor Unions make people's lives better...

Labor Union Strike at Mental Hospital in Eureka, CA. Unsafe Working Conditions. In 2015, Half of the Employees at our Mental Hospital (Sempervirens) Quit. The County of Humboldt Refuses to Hire Security Guards and an Employee got Hurt.

One rally attendee, Tim McDermond, explained the purpose of the rally to KHUM’s Mike Dronkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcYYz0L39s

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/apr/28/union-workers-rally-outside-sempervirens/

So, this blog post is about the Labor Union Rally by AFSCME.

I really enjoyed the comments section of the newspaper website. Many people had interesting opinions but... Most of the Conservative Posts were from Anonymous People that used Fake Names and No Photo... Just a Grey Man Icon.  ...and... The Comments seemed to be Copied and Pasted from a Standard Template of Ayn Rand Philosophy. Tea Party Trolls. Paid Puppets of Koch Industries.

greg vanderlaan:
What's up with everyone using Secret Identities and Grey Man pictures for your thumbnail? Why not use your real name? Why not Upload a Picture of Yourself? Why be Anonymous when you can be A NOM NOM NOM MOUSE?

'face reality' replied: Bla Bla Bla

greg vanderlaan:
Many Grey Man Commenters are Paid employees of Koch Industries. They refuse to reveal their real names because often ONE employee can post under Many different screen names to give the illusion of a Grass Roots Movement when in fact it's just Astroturf. Come out of the closet 'face reality'... Are you the same person as 'you know why', 'Groff' and 'Go Team' ? Who Are You?

'you know why' Replied: Quack Quack Quack

'Groff' Stated...

'Go Team' Stated...

'aiko' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 

Some County Employees are Simply Paid Too Much. Dr Phillip Crandall's 2009 salary somehow exceeded $215,000 despite the fact that his position's maximum annual salary is listed as $161,692. I wonder what it is now... If Dr. Phil could somehow squeak by on merely $161,692 we would have enough money to hire security guards... Source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com

greg vanderlaan: 

Thank You Tim McDermond! Unsafe working conditions at 720 Wood Street.

'DAV ' Stated...

'Not The 60's Anymore' Stated... 

'California Conservative' Stated...
'Jim' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 

I prefer Private Sector jobs like Radio Shack also but they went bankrupt...

guest: 

Hey, Jim dude, you're swinging both ways on this thread. Below you support the generous public employee benefits but here you're critical of the same.

'Hillary didn't either' Replied...

'Curiouser & Curiouser' Summed it all up by Singing: I Don't Want to Work, Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! a song by Todd Rundgren...   

Great Book: "The Common Good" by Robert Reich

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Work of Nations, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.

With the warmth and lucidity that have made him one of our most important public voices, Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good, as well as vicious cycles that undermine it. Over the course of the past five decades, Reich contends, America has been in a slowly accelerating vicious cycle--one that can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh what really matters, and how we as a country should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership.
Powerful, urgent, and utterly vital, this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers: a fundamental statement about the purpose of society and a cri de coeur to save America's soul.

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Good-Robert-B-Reich/dp/052552049X

Labor Union Strike at Mental Hospital in Eureka, CA. Unsafe Working Conditions.

In 2015, Half of the Employees at our Mental Hospital (Sempervirens) Quit. The County of Humboldt Refuses to Hire Security Guards and an Employee got Hurt.

One rally attendee, Tim McDermond, explained the purpose of the rally to KHUM’s Mike Dronkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcYYz0L39s

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/apr/28/union-workers-rally-outside-sempervirens/

So, this blog post is about the Labor Union Rally by AFSCME.

I really enjoyed the comments section of the newspaper website. Many people had interesting opinions but... Most of the Conservative Posts were from Anonymous People that used Fake Names and No Photo... Just a Grey Man Icon.  ...and... The Comments seemed to be Copied and Pasted from a Standard Template of Ayn Rand Philosophy. Tea Party Trolls. Paid Puppets of Koch Industries.

greg vanderlaan:
What's up with everyone using Secret Identities and Grey Man pictures for your thumbnail? Why not use your real name? Why not Upload a Picture of Yourself? Why be Anonymous when you can be A NOM NOM NOM MOUSE?

'face reality' replied: Bla Bla Bla

greg vanderlaan:
Many Grey Man Commenters are Paid employees of Koch Industries. They refuse to reveal their real names because often ONE employee can post under Many different screen names to give the illusion of a Grass Roots Movement when in fact it's just Astroturf. Come out of the closet 'face reality'... Are you the same person as 'you know why', 'Groff' and 'Go Team' ? Who Are You?

'you know why' Replied: Quack Quack Quack

'Groff' Stated...

'Go Team' Stated...

'aiko' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 

Some County Employees are Simply Paid Too Much. Dr Phillip Crandall's 2009 salary somehow exceeded $215,000 despite the fact that his position's maximum annual salary is listed as $161,692. I wonder what it is now... If Dr. Phil could somehow squeak by on merely $161,692 we would have enough money to hire security guards... Source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com

greg vanderlaan: 

Thank You Tim McDermond! Unsafe working conditions at 720 Wood Street.

'DAV ' Stated...

'Not The 60's Anymore' Stated... 

'California Conservative' Stated...
'Jim' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 

I prefer Private Sector jobs like Radio Shack also but they went bankrupt...

guest: 

Hey, Jim dude, you're swinging both ways on this thread. Below you support the generous public employee benefits but here you're critical of the same.

'Hillary didn't either' Replied...

'Curiouser & Curiouser' Summed it all up by Singing: I Don't Want to Work, Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! a song by Todd Rundgren...