Thursday, August 30th, 2007...6:49 am
Yeah, Now They Are For Card Check
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration has told families of six trapped Utah miners that the United Mine Workers can’t represent their interests in the upcoming safety investigation.
The reason: the workers themselves have to sign the paperwork. Maybe they haven’t noticed, but it’s a little dark there and hard to see where to sign.
I’m sure that MSHA believes the families can depend on CEO Robert Murray to look after their interests.
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August 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Card check has what to do with this?
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Yet another example of an important public agency that the Bush administration and GOP philosophy has destroyed. Now we are seeing what it means to have the public trust spent on Iraq and national defense (public programs folks). In the same breath the GOP calls all other government programs that support safety, disaster response and planning, infrastructure, and economic relief as wastes of money….and that we should receive tax relief instead. Even if cutting taxes grows the economy and produces more revenue as they say, shouldn’t that revenue be committed to essential public programs like these? They generally say no.
Remember all, over $600 Billion dollars has been spent on the war in Iraq. Much much more on defense and homeland security. The waste, missuse of funds, sweetheart deals, no-bid contracts…the very nature of what the GOP call big bad government…goes unchecked, unsolved, and unrepentent.
It is going to be very very very hard for them to say in one breath that this deficit and wasteful spending is somehow good and that education, healthcare, safety, etc should be cut and rationed.
2008 is going to be the worst of years for the Republican party.
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
That diatribe didn’t answer my question…ha ha ha.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Teej-
I was making a joke that the administration fought hard against card check, a signature authorizing the union to represent a worker, but here are asking the trapped miners to sign something to be represented by the union.
Yes, I know it is not exactly the same thing.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Tedski,
You know I was just givin you a hard time. No harm, no foul.
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