Archive for the ‘Corporate Profits’ Category

Union jobs with Living Wage for All

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Verizon workers in the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and CWA (Communication Workers of America) rallied for good union jobs on Saturday July 30. They demand that the profitable and highly subsidized telcom company stop trying to take workers’ conditions back to the 19th century. [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="487" caption="Workers ...

Health Care Reform, It’s a No brainier

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Health care reform, it’s a no brainier, and it’s called single payer.  Why is single payer better than pay-the-insurance-company health care?  Simple, insurance company’s “administration expenses” and profits add exorbitant overhead to every bill.  Time consuming paper work means additional labor for health care providers and staff.  A single payer ...

Union Democracy Now

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

That’s no thermometer, friend.  Look over your shoulder and you will see a familiar smirking face.  Yes, that’s right, it’s your union boss holding the tub of lubrication and watching exuberantly as the company boss gives it to you good.   Here in IBEW Local 827, the foreplay between the ...

The Denial Economy

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m tired of people giving me the “wink,wink” about the economy and the government/banks plan to “fix” it. I was talking to some dude recently and at first he was like, “We have to spend this money to get things going again.”    “Like hell we do,” says me. ...

The Line Must be Drawn Here

Friday, August 1st, 2008

As the clock ticks down toward a strike Verizon negotiators continue to claim that the IBEW and CWA unions’ demands are unreasonable, even though Verizon is raking in more money than this time last year. Revenue rose 3.7 percent this quarter totaling $24.12 billion. The communication ...

Unreasonable Demands

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Verizon representatives and union leaders from the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) have been negotiating a new contract for several months. It’s coming down to crunch time now. The agreement expires August 2, but all the talking has produced very little ...

The Big Bossman Speaks on Immigration

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I’m the big bossman, and I’m fat. Some people think I’m a no good rat. Today I’m white, and that’s all right, But I can be as dark as night.   I have many tricks up my sleeve. Sometimes I just can’t believe, How so many are so naïve To the deceptions that I weave.   Ya’ll fight over ...

Bear Stearns Bankers: The Weapons of Mass Destruction

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Hey I finally found the weapons of mass destruction and guess what? They were right here in the good ol’ USA all the time. They’ve been hiding in plain sight, and quite frankly I’m sad to say that only a country that has been blinded by a government and ...

Big Ideas (BI) x 0 = 0

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Do you ever scratch your head and wonder what the hell these Masters of the Universe types(MOTUTs) are thinking, and how the frak they come up with some of the moron infused ideas that dribble from their over endowed cranial areas? Peon that I am, I guess I just ...

Forgotten Where He Came From

Monday, March 24th, 2008

  The contract between Verizon and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) that has kept labor peace at the communications giant for the last five years expires in August. The unions represent more than 70,000 workers at Verizon, and even though ...