Page 92 - Union Support News Today

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.

>> since 1988. >> and this is a referendum. >> neil: ben stein, the union money involved if it fails to get the result it wants then what? >> i think we see an inflection point to use charles extraordinarily good phrase against the unions. union membership is falling apart only not only in the private sector but you starting to collect downward in the public sector. union money has never won an election. i think mr. obama should be extreme le worried. union support is not going to pull him out o...

We know that president came out, i guess last week, days and weeks began melding into one. he said very firmly he would reject any package that came across his desk to extend the payroll tax cut that had keystone in it. that seemed to be a dog whistle for conservatives on the hill to come together and it sound like when john boehner said okay, lets put keystone in this. >> right. and there is a famous quote from last week. jim jordon, very conservative head of the house, the reason i like this n...

Its fear and its driven by fear of losing power. they need their base. they need to get the unions and fire up their base. they have been weakened in colorado and wisconsin and i think this is coordinated by the unions to send the message to obama saying you better have some goodies for us. there has been stories, one last point. in the huffington post, saying obama is losing union support. they are trying to put that out to have the administration react. >> this is an amazing moment. its a prim...

The plant was set to provide electricity later this month. >> union support around the country joining in a show of solidarity for wisconsin. labor secretary delivering a passionate speech at todays democratic national committee winter committee. acknowledging many states are facing tough budget decisions and says there is room for shared sacrifice. mike tobin is live from the center of the action in wisconsin. mike, what can you tell us? >> reporter: i can tell you what we are looking at now is...

This demonstration today i know was billed really as a show of solidarity, a show of union support. can you just guesstimate as we look at aerial pictures how many people turn out at the state capitol? >> reporter: well, they were anticipating between 15,000 and 20,000 people. we saw a lot of buses dropping off union members. so probably just walking around the capitol earlier, there are probably between 10,000 and 15,000 people. you dont get a great vantage point. youre getting better shots fro...

Democrats blug dogs concerned about the size of the deficit there is a push back saying were going have to have to cut programs in order to pass this, one of the things they decided to cut was billions in aid for food stamps for the poor. >> wow. >> food stamps. what in effect democrats did in passing the bailout is that were putting on our priority list union workers, public employees ahead of the poor who use food stamp autos what is a good liberal to do? their whole moral reason for being is ...

Latest updates on this topic.