The SEIU infomercial “Labor Day” came out this weekend. Here’s what a few people had to say.
By far the most honest review for the film comes from The New York Times. The rest vacillate between sappy and pandering. Read the New York Times one first.
Last things first: a credit at the end of “Labor Day” reads, “The film was partly financed by SEIU who cooperated fully with the filmmakers.” And how.
Glenn Silber was producing videos for the Service Employees International Union in 2007 when he decided to make a film about the union and its role in the presidential campaign. The result is, more than anything else,a slickly produced 76-minute commercial for the union; to call it a documentary is to stretch the term almost beyond meaning.
Not everyone caught the “financed by SEIU” note at the end apparently. From GapersBlock.com:
In fact, if you told me that the SEIU personally financed the making of this film, I’d have no trouble believing you.
I came across this video today on YouTube. I can’t say it’s Oscar quality, but it does provide a pretty concise description of the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act. Check it out.
Big labor unions have destroyed countless American industries, including the Detroit automakers who are now begging Congress for a bailout. But these unions don’t just control factories and assembly lines. Our public education system is a slow-motion car crash, driven the same union special interests that brought the auto companies to the brink of bankruptcy.
This new video from TeachersUnionExposed.com shows how teachers unions protect bad and incompetent teachers, and block school reform efforts.
Compared to other developed countries, the United States has the worst educational quality per dollar spent on schools, ranking 18th in reading and 28th in math. Millions of American children are being shortchanged by dysfunctional schools, but efforts for education reform are invariably stopped by powerful union interests.
These unions fight tooth and nail against any meaningful change to their comfortable status quo – while students and taxpayers pay the price.
After decades of denial, there is a growing realization around the country that teachers unions’ defense of the status quo cannot continue. A new generation of reformers, including Michelle Rhee, the chief of public schools in Washington DC, are fighting those unions and pushing for renewed accountability and an end to the broken tenure system.
In his video, Udall discusses completely unrelated topics of higher tuition, higher gas prices, and more expensive health care, none of which will be affected in the SLIGHTEST by EFCA legislation. The Employee Free Choice Act deals with the basic American freedom of a private ballot, labor law minutia, and the delicate relationship between workers, business, and labor interests. Udall has managed to skirt these realities throughout the campaign, instead resorting to platitudes such as “I support workers” that do not address this destructive legislation. Coloradans for Employee Freedom will continue to press Udall until he pledges to do the right thing by supporting American workers’ right to private ballot voting…
At a recent debate, Senate candidate Mark Udall arrived to a flurry of activist activity. Coloradans for Employee Freedom were there again, making sure that no one forgets that Udall is supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, which will remove the private ballot vote for union workers. In the video, you will see Udall surrounded by men in yellow shirts that are providing security and escort. These are union firefighters for Udall. Just like the major unions, they know that Mark Udall will continue to support union interests, despite the fact that the vast majority of Coloradans are opposed to the removal of the private ballot from union elections, and in spite of the fact that unions provide a large percentage of Udall’s campaign donations.
How can Udall continue to support this legislation? Just ask the guys in yellow shirts…they know.
Last Thursday, labor bosses from across the state joined Governor Steve Beshear, David Boswell (2nd Congressional District Candidate) and others to gear up for the fall elections.
Beshear used this time and the state funded Governor’s Mansion to promote his idea of Kentucky’s future, which includes sending union-endorsed candidates like David Boswell and Bruce Lunsford to D.C.
Do Beshear and Boswell realize that by aligning with the union bosses and partying with them on the back patio of the mansion they are actually supporting a measure – the Employee Free Choice Act – that would strip workers of their right to a private ballot vote?
Check out how Beshear and Boswell plead for the labor bosses’ help, time, and money to ensure that unions have a stronger voice in Congress.
Coloradans for Employee Freedom caught up with Congressman Mark Udall recently to ask his exact opinion on removing the private ballot from union organization elections. When asked, he claims that he doesn’t know what our concerned citizen is talking about. We know this to be false, as Udall not only voted for the Employee Free Choice Act in the House of Representatives in 2007, but actually cosponsored the bill. EFCA will remove the private ballot from union organization efforts, hurting US workers, and dramatically expanding union membership. Not suprising from someone who has received $1,105,525 from various union interests throughout his career…
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The SEIU infomercial “Labor Day” came out this weekend. Here’s what a few people had to say.
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