Union aims to organize the unemployed

[Geee]

Daily Caller:

America’s jobless are unionizing, or at least furthering an agenda of one of the nation’s biggest unions.

An organization aimed at giving the unemployed more influence has announced it now has more than 100,000 jobless activists in their ranks.

The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) Activists is an Internet-centric “community service project” of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) — one of the country’s largest industrial trade unions.

“Our objective is to pull together unemployed Americans in a way that allows them to connect, communicate and press their political leaders for policies that will get them back to work,” Rick Sloan, UCubed’s executive director and IAM communications director, told The Daily Caller.

According to the group’s website, jobless “Jobs Activists” assert their influence through coordinated communication with public officials.

“Jobs Activists, organized by their zip codes, advocate for sound public policy, emailing public officials to alert them about policies that directly impact the jobless,” the website explains.

Among those policies the group advocates is a second Works Progress Administration or WPA 2.0.

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“We’d like to see [policymakers] recreate the Works Progress Administration, WPA 2.0. Which in the 1930s put between 6.5 and 8 million people back to work,” Sloan said.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

So what happens when the go on strike?

[Geee]

@Geee

 

So what happens when the go on strike?

 

They will refuse to not work!!!!!

[Valin]

@Geee

 

So what happens when the go on strike?

 

They will refuse to not work!!!!!

 

That is just what I was thinking.

[logicnreason]

Daily Caller:

America’s jobless are unionizing, or at least furthering an agenda of one of the nation’s biggest unions.

An organization aimed at giving the unemployed more influence has announced it now has more than 100,000 jobless activists in their ranks.

The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) Activists is an Internet-centric “community service project” of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) — one of the country’s largest industrial trade unions.

“Our objective is to pull together unemployed Americans in a way that allows them to connect, communicate and press their political leaders for policies that will get them back to work,” Rick Sloan, UCubed’s executive director and IAM communications director, told The Daily Caller.

According to the group’s website, jobless “Jobs Activists” assert their influence through coordinated communication with public officials.

“Jobs Activists, organized by their zip codes, advocate for sound public policy, emailing public officials to alert them about policies that directly impact the jobless,” the website explains.

Among those policies the group advocates is a second Works Progress Administration or WPA 2.0.

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“We’d like to see [policymakers] recreate the Works Progress Administration, WPA 2.0. Which in the 1930s put between 6.5 and 8 million people back to work,” Sloan said.

 

"All your unemployment checks are belong to us!!"

[pollyannaish]

I'm getting confused. What is the mission of the Unions again? /

[Evad]

I'm getting confused. What is the mission of the Unions again? /

To collect money from union members and filter it back to the dim party.

[pollyannaish]

I'm getting confused. What is the mission of the Unions again? /

To collect money from union members and filter it back to the dim party.

 

Ok. Whew. That's what I thought.

 

Having said that a marketing perspective, I think that unionizing unemployed people is either the greatest recoup of government money ever...or the dumbest fund raising ploy in history.

 

It does however, inflate their membership numbers at a time when they are loosing members in droves. And THAT is what I think we should keep an eye on.