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nycterrierist commented on the blog post Obama Nominating Major Campaign Contributor Penny Pritzker For Commerce Secretary
Obama’s pick for commerce secretary, ladies and gentleman:
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Pritzker turns heat lamps on striking Hyatt workers
It was already approaching 100° at 8 a.m. when I arrived at the Park Hyatt where, after 22 months of stalled negotiations, hotel workers were staging a one-day picket to protest the hotel chain’s intolerable treatment of their housekeeping staff.In case you didn’t know, Hyatt is owned by the Pritzker family. Heiress Penny Sue Pritzker chairs Obama’s national campaign finance committee. She is also big player in Democratic Party politics as well as in the world of anti-union, corporate school reform and was recently appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a seat on the Chicago school board.
Pritzker’s response to the Park Hyatt strikers was to turn on the hotel’s powerful heating lamps to try and bake the workers into submission on this brutally hot day. But this seemingly inhuman and probably illegal response seemed to have had just the opposite effect. Picketers began chanting, “Hyatt can’t take the heat, but we can!” The lamps were left on until word got out and media began to show up.
CBS News
Unite Here, the hotel and restaurant workers union, is holding large protests against Hyatt in 15 cities in the United States and Canada, among them Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco. If you join the picket line, be sure and dress light and drink plenty of water so you’ll be prepared for the Pritzkers’ toaster.http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2011/07/penny-pritzker-turns-heat-lamps-on.html
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post Nestle CEO Believes All Water On The Planet Should Be In Private Hands
good idea to boycott Nestle!
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post Obama Administration Giving LGBT Advocates The Runaround On Workplace Discrimination EO And Legislation?
That bleep-eating grin in the photo is as
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post Obama Signs Law Gutting Insider Trading Regulations For Congress
Great catch as usual, DSWright.
We need to speak more plainly, for the comatose.
How about:Obama Signs Bill: Insider Trading Now Easier for Congress
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Massachusetts Adjunct Professors Kick Off Union Organizing Drive by MassUniting.
Everyone needs to know about the adjunct-ization of the university. With skyrocketing tuition, it is a scandal that people don’t know that over 70% of faculty are not paid a living wage. While administrators live like corporate greedheads. Good luck to the organizers – unions are sorely needed. If unions are not in the cards, [...]
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Barack Obama: Wall Street’s Perfect Manchurian Candidate by probert06.
For anyone who missed it, here’s another
great read of the notorious speech: -
nycterrierist commented on the diary post Lovely Cat for Adoption by greenwarrior.
i just checked petfinder.com
and found several no-kill rescue groups
in san diego.
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Lovely Cat for Adoption by greenwarrior.
Good on ya for helping out this sweet kitty.
fyi, there should be no-kill rescue
groups in the san diego area.
(alternatives to animal control).
Check petfinder.com -
type in your zip code – and you should
be able to find no-kill rescue groups that you can contact.sending best wishes to you and kitty.
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post 2.3 Million Strong Petition Opposing Obama Budget Dropped Off At White House
Any lawyers here care to weigh in on this?
sounds promising.
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post They’re Making Love to the Third Rail: What Are We Gonna Do About It? by letsgetitdone.
We need to stop calling it his ‘legacy’
when it’s really his Payday (for being the 1%ers tool). -
nycterrierist commented on the blog post Obama Budget Splits The Democratic Party
and a corporatist-hawk-blue dog, too!
what could go wrong?
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post At what price?
Agree. The Obamabots are the ‘Good Germans’ who
refuse to see what’s happening + rationalize
every fresh catastrophe (drones, corporate fascism,
lawlessness for the feral rich) with ‘surely it can’t be that bad,
this is America, after all…’ -
nycterrierist commented on the diary post “Something’s Got To Give.” by TomThumb.
V. evocative post. + nice drawings. I’m hooked.
to be cont’d? -
nycterrierist commented on the diary post Keystone XL Coverup: Department of State Hides Oil Industry Connections by Jcoleman.
amen to this.
alas.
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post Dying Iraq War Veteran Writes Last Letter To Bush And Cheney
If the U.S. were not a kleptocracy,
this powerful letter would be considered national news.Shame on the criminal war profiteers who have captured
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nycterrierist commented on the blog post 10 Year Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq
“If you are part of the 1% you cannot commit a crime and you cannot be shamed, no matter what you have done. Some examples are Mozillo, Corzine, Woods, Cheney, etc. etc.”
good bumper sticker message
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
I would add, we’re on the
‘fast track’ to the third world.
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
Exactly. Worse, it’s going to make our lame
environmental and labor protections – even lamer.
Game over for the environment and labor… -
nycterrierist commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
from the article cited @23: “The leaked documents revealed that the Obama administration “intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations,” as Obama and Kirk have emerged as strong advocates “for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws.” In [...]
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nycterrierist commented on the diary post Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement News and Overviews by wendydavis.
here’s an intro to TPP ‘corporate coup’
or ‘NAFTA on steroids’:http://truth-out.org/news/item/12934-why-so-secretive?-the-trans-pacific-partnership-as-global-coup
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