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Fox's Crowley Calls Workers' Right To Strike "Extortionary Practices"

April 27, 2011 2:04 pm ET

From the April 27 edition of Fox News' America Live:

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    • Author by LiberalEagle422 (April 27, 2011 2:08 pm ET)
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      lol that's right, the group with little or no power has the ability to 'extort' those wielding all the power (money).

      good job guys. you nailed it.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (April 27, 2011 2:12 pm ET)
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        That damn Obama... ;>)
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      • Author by Lord of Light (April 27, 2011 3:28 pm ET)
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        She would know. All those desk jobs and Nixon speechwriting and right-wing think tanks really gave her a good idea of the real world. <sarcasm>
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    • Author by Tony195616 (April 27, 2011 2:10 pm ET)
         
      Did Crowley consider the Polish union workers in the 1980s extortionists?
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    • Author by JoeBtfsplk (April 27, 2011 2:12 pm ET)
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      America - stand up against Obama and the Unions.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (April 27, 2011 2:13 pm ET)
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        Yea...! And Obama wasn't even born here...he's a Muslim from Kenya! ;>)
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      • Author by blueline99 (April 27, 2011 2:20 pm ET)
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        The unions power in the private sector is so minimal today, which is a shame, because if they did have real power, we wouldn't have lost so many jobs to outsourcing overseas.

        Fox News is attempting to hype up the fear/hatred towards the unions for one reason! Unions are the largest contributor to the Democratic Party.

        If the Unions didn't contribute any money to the DNC than Fox/GOP wouldn't care about it at all.

        All this coverage/propaganda serves a political purpose only.

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      • Author by worrierking (April 27, 2011 2:23 pm ET)
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        My parents, siblings, children and grandchildren owe everything they have to unions. Workers in union shops built the middle class in this country.

        End of story.
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      • Author by worrierking (April 27, 2011 2:23 pm ET)
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        My parents, siblings, children and grandchildren owe everything they have to unions. Workers in union shops built the middle class in this country.

        End of story.
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      • Author by bintx (April 27, 2011 2:33 pm ET)
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        LOL! You are such an idiot. Go back to troll school, hon, you suck!
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        • Author by Saturnalian (April 27, 2011 3:32 pm ET)
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          JoeRumpRoast is a shill for the Koch Bros. And if not - he's just another brainwashed moron. Hard to tell the two apart.
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      • Author by Imbecile (April 27, 2011 2:35 pm ET)
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        A report just came out today that more than 3 in 10 Chicagoans spend more than half of their pretax income on rent and utilities alone. The national average is something like 25% of people spend more than half their pretax income on rent and utilities alone.

        To live affordably, one should not spend more than 30% of their pretax income on rent and utilities.

        This is clearly the unions' and president's fault for fighting for a more livable wage.
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        • Author by highliter (April 27, 2011 4:41 pm ET)
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          Umm utility workers are union, and in most places you have to be union to build a house or a residence. Forcing union labor upon companies greatly raises the price of their product. When I was a kid I worked construction and the companies I worked for could only work in rural areas because they were not union. If we would have been allowed to go into these cities we would have cleaned the union’s clock competing for jobs since we only made half of what the union thugs did.
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          • Author by The_Cat (April 27, 2011 6:15 pm ET)
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            Ah yes, the expendable work force. The dream of every corporatist in the world.

            Hey, got a question for you, highliter: How come, since everything else gets outsourced, how come MANAGEMENT never does? Corporate executive salaries cost more than the sum total of worker's wages, so why don't we send the boss's job overseas?
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        • Author by highliter (April 27, 2011 4:41 pm ET)
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          Umm utility workers are union, and in most places you have to be union to build a house or a residence. Forcing union labor upon companies greatly raises the price of their product. When I was a kid I worked construction and the companies I worked for could only work in rural areas because they were not union. If we would have been allowed to go into these cities we would have cleaned the union’s clock competing for jobs since we only made half of what the union thugs did.
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          • Author by Johaely (April 27, 2011 5:34 pm ET)
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            Yes and those non-union workers were completely expendable and could not either bargain for a raise or get any kind of benefit despite their high risk job. Unions are more expensive not only because they require and have standards but because they ensure workers are receiving something worthwhile out of their labor.
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      • Author by shaggles (April 27, 2011 3:08 pm ET)
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        I stand up for Obama and especially for Unions.
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      • Author by beDecent (April 27, 2011 3:21 pm ET)
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        Yea! Those damn unions that brought our economy to its knees! Those damn unions who needed a bailout from us, then rewarded themselves with exorbitant bonuses!

        Damn unions, they make me so mad!
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      • Author by The_Cat (April 27, 2011 6:17 pm ET)
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        America - stand up against willful stupidity like that of JoeBtfsplk.
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    • Author by blueline99 (April 27, 2011 2:18 pm ET)
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      Striking is the only leverage workers have over the owners... if you want to call that tactic extortion, well, someone would need to look at the history of strikes and it's ability to effectively create change.

      To question the right to strike in the public sector is so unbelievable to me.
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    • Author by CAL (April 27, 2011 2:19 pm ET)
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      Thanks right Monica dear, and there's no extortionary element whatsoever to corporations having unfettered ability to impose at their whim on a labor force. Monica dear.....you are a hopeless pea brain.
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      • Author by heresyoursign (April 27, 2011 2:37 pm ET)
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        And the Fed Govt falls in this same category as the corporations, (but don't tell anybody our dirty little secret).

        "Here's your sign".
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    • Author by goesto11 (April 27, 2011 2:23 pm ET)
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      Yes, the right to strike is truly extortionary -- just like the right to vote.

      Geez.
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    • Author by JJJ (April 27, 2011 2:24 pm ET)
         
      Wow. This isn't a news story. It's just two dumb@sses speculating wildy. Why not get a quote from the NLRB?
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    • Author by todd rosenberg (April 27, 2011 2:24 pm ET)
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      If you are building aircraft for the US government, we have the right to have some say over labor contracts. Boeing should give up the government contracts and they can go anywhere they want!!
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    • Author by scooter51 (April 27, 2011 2:47 pm ET)
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      Crowley is such a tool. She is a walking knee-jerk reaction against ANYTHING Obama does. He could save her from drowning and she'd find a way to blame him for falling in the water.
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    • Author by David2012 (April 27, 2011 3:28 pm ET)
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      This union-busting, pure and simple. These people won't be happy until the country consists of a handful of plutocrats and a mass of serfs.

      Which, I suppose, means they're happy today.

      Crowley is a loathsome person. Truly loathsome.
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    • Author by highliter (April 27, 2011 4:45 pm ET)
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      Dam you Boeing for trying to employ people in a red state you should know better!! Dam you for building your plant in a state that encourages you to move there! Dam you for wanting to cuts cost and stay in business.
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      • Author by David2012 (April 27, 2011 5:18 pm ET)
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        And congratulations on the latest attack on the rights of working Americans to organize themselve in the 30-year class war that capital has successfully fought against labor, decimating the middle-class, destroying the United States as we once knew it, and creating a new class of uber-wealthy robber barons who care for nothing but the maintenance of their wealth and power and who will do anything to keep it, including successfully making both major political parties their wholly-owned subsidiaries.

        I cannot for the life of me see how anybody who doesn't belong to that class or isn't one of their paid lackeys can support them.
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        • Author by Johaely (April 27, 2011 5:35 pm ET)
             
          Because they are delusional and think they will one day by the sweat of their brow, get there so they should be softening the bed for when they are at the top.
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        • Author by highliter (April 29, 2011 11:00 am ET)
             
          Ya I’m sure that plant in South Carolina was going to pay minimum wage employ child labor and mandated 80 hour work weeks in unsafe conditions.
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        • Author by highliter (April 29, 2011 11:00 am ET)
             
          Ya I’m sure that plant in South Carolina was going to pay minimum wage employ child labor and mandated 80 hour work weeks in unsafe conditions.
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      • Author by David2012 (April 27, 2011 5:37 pm ET)
           
        And congratulations on the latest attack on the rights of working Americans to organize themselve in the 30-year class war that capital has successfully fought against labor, decimating the middle-class, destroying the United States as we once knew it, and creating a new class of uber-wealthy robber barons who care for nothing but the maintenance of their wealth and power and who will do anything to keep it, including successfully making both major political parties their wholly-owned subsidiaries.

        I cannot for the life of me see how anybody who doesn't belong to that class or isn't one of their paid lackeys can support them.
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    • Author by The_Cat (April 27, 2011 6:12 pm ET)
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      Right, Monica. We workers should all just bow down to our corporate masters and be glad for whatever crumbs they let fall from their table.

      Bad news, little girl. You're just another dumb bottle blond talking head on Fox Propaganda, and completely irrelevant.
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