Red Rooster wrote: Hail Obama!

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Comrades, please allow me to give credit where it is due. The subject line at the top of this particular thread features spelling and punctuation supplied by a card-carrying member of the National Education Association, dedicated to Winning The Future™ by bringing you world class public education For The Children™ .

Because We Care™ .

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Comrades, please allow me to give credit where it is due. The subject line at the top of this particular thread features spelling and punctuation supplied by a card-carrying member of the National Education Association, dedicated to Winning The Future™ by bringing you world class public education For The Children™ .

Because We Care™ .

Grigori E.R. wrote:Hop on the bus Gus.............

50 Ways to Help Obama

ND4SPD wrote:Glorious! Our chicago brigade has arrived!

Grigori E.R. wrote: Take for instance the Comrade that Dig4Utopia pointed out. Could any Gulag Gal hope for more?

Igor Von Yugo wrote:(*sniff*sniff*)

Tale of two “workers” – back of the envelope guestimates here. Can this be correct??

Madison Teacher: works about 40 weeks a year? 9 to 5. $100k/yr. of which $56k is taxable. net net, they make ~ $50/hr worked. (45k in benefits and 40k post tax pay)

The avg “Rich”, “not paying his fair share” Wall Streeter:
$250k/yr. all taxable at higher rates. 3 weeks vacation, 11 hr days.
Roughly $52/hour worked!

guessing here: add in some company benefits of, say $40k/yr and the rate jumps to only $65/hr. or so.

add to it:
- teachers' jobs are tenured – lower stress, job security, relatively little accountability
- teachers have a paid subsititute to do your work for you when you're out sick. rarely does anyone do my work for me when i'm out sick.
- in contrast to school, wall street never sleeps. blackberrys are always on, night and weekend work is standard operating procedure, working on vacation is, too.

$50/hr in Madison goes A LOT further than $65 or $70 in manhattan. these teachers should take the money and RUN.

Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2011/02/25/wis- ... z1F0YId3JX

112 - Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service

Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt

August 16, 1937

My dear Mr. Steward:

As I am unable to accept your kind invitation to be present on the occasion of the Twentieth Jubilee Convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees, I am taking this method of sending greetings and a message.

Reading your letter of July 14, 1937, I was especially interested in the timeliness of your remark that the manner in which the activities of your organization have been carried on during the past two decades "has been in complete consonance with the best traditions of public employee relationships." Organizations of Government employees have a logical place in Government affairs.

The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."

I congratulate the National Federation of Federal Employees the twentieth anniversary of its founding and trust that the convention will, in every way, be successful.

Very sincerely yours,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President of the United States

Grigori E.R. wrote:Tax, tax, tax the rich
We can fix the def-i-cit
(I think that's kind of catchy)

Comrades, lets keep this chant rolling............
(I'll start. Maybe this to go with?)

Rage, rage, rage the tor-ment
We can beat the es-tab-lish-ment