Jason Goray opined:
When he ignored the reasonably priced local union printing shops and instead gave his printing job to a non union shop.Dyna, When did Samuels bash the unions?
In politics it is. Printing is a very competitive business and the rates quoted by union and nonunion shops will be pretty similar. There is thusly no financial incentive to excuse Don Samuels' use of a non union printer. Unless he's getting the printing "donated"... In which case a bit of financial disclosure is in order.Provide evidence. Going to a small local print shop that has not unionized is NOT union bashing.
If union shop printing costs no more, why do Don Samuels' campaign and many republicans' take their business to non union shops. Plain and simple- to send a message. The message Don Samuels' is sending to working folks is simple- he doesn't respect us. Virtually every DFL candidate uses union printers, as do most Independence and Green candidates and many RepublicansIf you do have some actual example of bashing, the rest of this email does not apply. A month ago, I'd never heard of Don Samuels or Olin Moore so for all I know they could spend every Tuesday morning lobbing rotten eggs at picket lines, but unless you give actual evidence, I've got to assume you're basing everything on the the use of a non-union print shop.
The shop Don Samuels' campaign took it's printing to may well be one of the ones that broke the union in a brutal strike a few years ago. Maybe that's why Don Samuels' campaign still hasn't told us who their printer is? As for the "fitting union designations", that's the kind of anti-union lies I expect to hear from anti labor Republicans.If the shop has worked to keep their workers from organizing and Samuels has knowlege of it, then you have a point, but you've provided no evidence and someone from Samuels' campaign suggested something to the contrary (something about job responsibilities not really fitting union designations).
Jason, are you saying that working folks are so dumb that we'll be persuaded by "lies and propaganda"?If people go to Olin because they think Don, is a union basher, it will apparently be because of lies and propaganda.
So when is Don Samuels going to answer these questions- especially the "living wage" one?If you do not have anything to back your statements, you should apologize for your deception and move on to talking about why your preferred candidate would actually be good for the ward.How will he be good for: * Reducing crime and increasing quality of life * Improving relationships between the police and the community, especially when it comes to preceptions of racism and brutality. * Balancing the previous two questions * Balancing the city's budget in terms of the current deficit and upcoming cuts from the state and fed * Deal with problems of homelessness and joblessness * Deal with corporate welfare and making sure those who have already received handouts live up to their ends of the bargains. * Making sure living wage work is available. etc., etc., etc.
More anti union lies. Union leadership is elected by the workers. Corporate bullies are not.More Full Disclosure: I support organized labor, but I am torn when it comes to some of the unions. Interestingly, a steward I spoke with a couple months ago seemed to share these perceptions: Unions as a organizing tool for labor is a good thing. Unions as another hierarchy of bullies controlling labor is a bad thing.
Dyna Sluyter, union and proud in Hawthorne
- Jason Goray, Sheridan, NE. st, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
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