So Tired of Hearing United Steel Worker from Palin's mouth

[postmanisu]

If I was a USW working I would puke everytime I hear her say that her husband is a card carrying member. I am a Union worker who's job is on the line if McCaine or we say McSame wins. What do the REAL members of USW think? any word from their president?

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Good point.

The GOP want the image of unions surrounding them, but hate them just like Wal-Mart.

[supernova]

2. If he were truely conservative

he'd renounce his Union membership.

[postmanisu]

3. damn right.. someone needs to contact his local and see if he pays dues now..

OH ya he has been BLACKBALLED or shutout, now..

[liberal_patriot_md]

4. Here's the USW's opinion on Palin

http://usw.articulatedman.com/media_center/releases_advisories?id=0074

[postmanisu]

7. thank you very much kind person for that

Statement by USW International president Leo W. Gerard on John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate:

“It is important to realize that while the governor's husband is a member of a union, this does not automatically qualify her for an on-the-job training program to become a heartbeat away from the presidency. And while her husband is one of 850,000 dues-paying members of the steelworkers union, it does nothing to absolve Sen. McCain of his long history of anti-union sentiment and anti-worker actions, including continuously pushing an anti-working family agenda that:

• Opposes giving workers the right to bargain collectively;
• Jeopardizes retirement security by privatizing social security;
• Further threatens job security by signing more job-stealing trade deals without regard to human rights and environmental standards, and
• Erodes the ability of working families to secure quality health care by taxing their employer-provided coverage for both active and retired workers.

McCain's choice is another example of his poor judgment and his desire to play politics as usual. McCain-Palin is not a team that works for working families. The first-term governor's record is thin and divisive. And John McCain has a life-long record of being for the rich and powerful. No union card can hide that - not any more than Ronald Regan's union card did."

[Cattledog]

5. Vito Spatafore

[Arctic Dave]

6. Her husband is USW member but he IS NOT a steel worker.

He is a facility operator for British Petroleum. She needs to be asked if she supports other oilfield workers unionizing like her husband. The drilling rig hands voted to go union but BP still hasn't negotiated a contract with them. Without the rig hands her husband wouldn't even have a job. So, how is it fair that he enjoys the benefit of being a union member but other people who want to be can't.

[postmanisu]

9. Support the Free Choice act and they can be...

i have to find a link somewhere on that. mccain doesn't support it

[liberal_patriot_md]

8. What I think is sick

Is that in last week's Businessweek Palin talked about how her husband had a "good union job" you know the kind of union job that Repubs always say are dragging down the economy.

Funny how one thing seems to be good for her and her family, while it's bad for the rest of the country.

[Virginia Dare]

10. If they could have outsourced his job, they would have by now...n/t

[Virginia Dare]

11. So they're hard working blue collar union people?..

sounds like the kind of people that repubs like McCain have nothing but disdain for.

[gizmo1979]

12. I'd divorce my

wife if she was a Republican.Not to mention the guys would slash my tires and smash my windows if I was Palins old man.