so apoplectic in wisconsin. they saw the salaries dwindle. just you don t think it s politics and union due goes to democratic politicians and walker trying to break the connection? andrea: you want to talk about it? juan: glad to. dana: he tried to balance a budget. it worked. andrea: we could have a discussion about the revolving door. eric: they deserve to make money as they can. but the dues are mandatory. dana: right. eric: members don t a choice. dana: that is why card check, legislation to make it mandatory failed. good thing. eric: leftist running the main stream media devoting time to mitt romney s faith. but is that a legitimate issue? i don t recall the same scal pescalpel used on barack obama.
romney/ryan is unbelievably anti-labor, romney is for national right to work. he s against card check. he s against project labor agreements. he s already said that. on top of that, you put ryan who voted against extending unemployment. he s against osha, he s against fair pay for women who do equal work. he voted against the bring the jobs home act. he s basically anti-labor. you have two anti-labor people out there right now, and that s what we re going to tell our members. that s what we re going to go out and articulate to our members and say this is a clear choice. if you want somebody who is out to end the union that protects you, to end your ability to be in the middle class, then you better make sure that you vote for barack obama. mr. cohen, what about what mr. hoffa said? wouldn t this be a big motivated moment for wage earners in the country to get out and do what they have to do? absolutely. politics is about choices. and the choice is more clear now than it was last
outsourcing, not a fighter for the workers, not a fighter for the middle class. he has no record of showing anything like that. for more, let s turn to james hoffa. internation brrth hood of teamsters and larry cohen, president of the communication workers for america. great to be here. let me just say that it has to be stated, president obama can t win without labor. the democrats can t win without labor. you have the infrastructure, you have the communication, you have the boots on the ground. now you also are facing the ticket, whether you agree with everything president obama has ever done for the labor, if you have any sins that need to be forgiven, now is kind of the time, isn t it, mr. hoffa? with this ticket, this is a radical push-back at labor, is it not? this is probably the most anti-labor slate you have ever seen before. romney/ryan is unbelievably anti-labor, romney is for national right to work. he s against card check.
national right to work. he s against card check. he s against project labor agreements. he s already said that. on top of that, you put ryan who voted against extending unemployment. he s againstotia, he s against fair pay for women who do equal work. he voted against the bring the jobs home act. he s basically anti-labor. you have two aten-labor people out there right now, and that s what we re going to tell our members. that s what we re going to go out and articulate to our members and say this is a clear choice. if you want somebody who is out to end the union that protects you, to end your ability to be in the middle class, then you better make sure that you vote for barack obama. mr. cohen, what about what mr. hoffa said? wouldn t this be a big motivated moment for wage earners in the country to get out and do what they have to do? absolutely. politics is about choices. and the choice is more clear now than it was last week. american workers want more and
more people to join and make it easier to join. they ve tried to make it easier for card check which would eliminate secret ballots and i think they re doing it the wrong way. what i think is we should embrace individual freedom and the right of employers by instituting members only or minority based unions. explain how you think that would work. let s take a dummy corporation, you know, some members want to start a union. some members some employees don t want to be in a union. right. so what would happen is you take this corporation and some members want to start a union so they get together. and say you have 35 out of 100 employees in, say, a factory that want to have a union. which is a minority. which is a minority and 65 that don t. 35 could get together with their economic power and say to the employer, i want to sit down and have a conversation as a union. now, what will happen is why would the employer feel