Brit Hume ‏@Kimsfirst
Replacement refs doing the best they can. That's the problem. Sort of like President Obama.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Brit Hume ‏@Kimsfirst
Replacement refs doing the best they can. That's the problem. Sort of like President Obama.

BRIT

CalvinBall wrote:FAIR AND BALANCED

Eddie Jordan wrote:It's a little humorous because the NFL situation boils down to ultra rich white guys similar to Mitt Romney unwilling to share a piece of their mutlibillion dollar pie that's hurting the overall product.

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:FAIR AND BALANCED

BRIT is a commentator. He hasn't hosted a show in years.

Eddie Jordan wrote:It's a little humorous because the NFL situation boils down to ultra rich white guys similar to Mitt Romney unwilling to share a piece of their mutlibillion dollar pie that's hurting the overall product.

It's a private sector union locked out and not giving into the unreasonable demands of management. The workers are showing their value added, and that they truly deserve what they're asking for. Nothing wrong with what the refs are doing according to the GOP. The reason ownership has gotten away with it as long as they have is the NFL is for all practical purposes a monopoly. In any normal industry, with the labor lockout hurting the company's brand so badly, management would have settled weeks ago.

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jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:FAIR AND BALANCED

BRIT is a commentator. He hasn't hosted a show in years.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Eddie Jordan wrote:It's a little humorous because the NFL situation boils down to ultra rich white guys similar to Mitt Romney unwilling to share a piece of their mutlibillion dollar pie that's hurting the overall product.

It's a private sector union locked out and not giving into the unreasonable demands of management. The workers are showing their value added, and that they truly deserve what they're asking for. Nothing wrong with what the refs are doing according to the GOP. The reason ownership has gotten away with it as long as they have is the NFL is for all practical purposes a monopoly. In any normal industry, with the labor lockout hurting the company's brand so badly, management would have settled weeks ago.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:FAIR AND BALANCED

BRIT is a commentator. He hasn't hosted a show in years.

Senior political analyst, per Wikipedia. That's a bit more than a commentator.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Eddie Jordan wrote:It's a little humorous because the NFL situation boils down to ultra rich white guys similar to Mitt Romney unwilling to share a piece of their mutlibillion dollar pie that's hurting the overall product.

It's a private sector union locked out and not giving into the unreasonable demands of management. The workers are showing their value added, and that they truly deserve what they're asking for. Nothing wrong with what the refs are doing according to the GOP. The reason ownership has gotten away with it as long as they have is the NFL is for all practical purposes a monopoly. In any normal industry, with the labor lockout hurting the company's brand so badly, management would have settled weeks ago.

Please point to an example of a GOP politician supporting a union strike within the past decade.

The Republican war on unions continues apace. On a near-party-line vote Wednesday, the House passed a bill crafted to thwart a National Labor Relations Board decision, made earlier Wednesday, that would entitle workers to a timely vote on unionization once they’ve petitioned for it. By ruling that employers’ legal challenges can be entertained only after a vote, the board effectively denied employers the ability to hold up a vote for weeks, months or even years. Elections delayed, the NLRB essentially said, are elections denied.

The House legislation, by contrast, stipulated that such legal challenges can go forward before the vote. The bill will almost surely go nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but then, it’s just one foray in the Republicans’ battle to extirpate worker-controlled organizations in America.

But that won’t stop the GOP’s jihad. The term of NLRB member Craig Becker expires this month, which will winnow board membership down to a powerless two. GOP legislators won’t confirm more members as long as Obama is president, nor will they permit a congressional recess during which Obama could make recess appointments. Throughout 2012, then, the organization that governs labor relations in the United States will govern no more: Lower-level labor-board judges can issue rulings, but the board to which such rulings can be appealed will be MIA.

Some might reasonably wonder why the GOP war persists when union power has already been so greatly reduced. In the mid-20th century, 40 percent of private-sector workers belonged to unions; today, just 7 percent do. But the Republican struggle continues for two reasons. When it comes to elections, unions are still the most potent mobilizers of the Democratic vote — getting minorities to the polls and persuading members of the white working class to vote Democratic. Indeed, Republican gains among working-class whites (whom they carried by an unprecedented 63 percent to 33 percent in 2010) are, above all, the result of the deunionization of that class. An analysis of exit polling over the past 30 years shows that unionized white working-class men vote Democratic at a rate 20 percent higher than their non-union counterparts. For political reasons, Republicans are determined to de-unionize workers even more.

There’s another reason, too. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that in the third quarter, wages as a share of gross domestic product were the lowest they’ve been since 1929, and compensation (that includes health insurance) as a share of GDP was at its lowest point since 1955. Corporate profits as a share of GDP, by contrast, are the highest they’ve been since 1929. The destruction of private-sector unions has redistributed income to the rich, which is the Republican Party’s raison d’etre.

Which is why the Republican war on unions — which is also the Republican war on the 99 percent — rolls on.

jerseyhoya wrote:The GOP should go to war against Obama's NLRB. Union states shouldn't be privileged over right to work states by the federal government.

Doll Is Mine wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:The GOP should go to war against Obama's NLRB. Union states shouldn't be privileged over right to work states by the federal government.

Sounds to me like you think it's not fair.

pacino wrote:theyre the states that prop up the rest of the US, so maybe they should be?

Werthless wrote:yay for 3 posts in a row! I need to take a week off to recover.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/ ... /?iid=Lead

But we need some honesty and consistency in this discussion. If you're fine with the 47% taking full advantage of current tax law, you lose your standing to rag on Romney for doing the same thing. If you say that it's perfectly fine for Romney and other supposed job creators to pay less than what average workers pay just for Social Security and Medicare, you don't have standing to complain about the 47%.

jerseyhoya wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Eddie Jordan wrote:It's a little humorous because the NFL situation boils down to ultra rich white guys similar to Mitt Romney unwilling to share a piece of their mutlibillion dollar pie that's hurting the overall product.

It's a private sector union locked out and not giving into the unreasonable demands of management. The workers are showing their value added, and that they truly deserve what they're asking for. Nothing wrong with what the refs are doing according to the GOP. The reason ownership has gotten away with it as long as they have is the NFL is for all practical purposes a monopoly. In any normal industry, with the labor lockout hurting the company's brand so badly, management would have settled weeks ago.

Please point to an example of a GOP politician supporting a union strike within the past decade.

For the most part I don't think politicians should intervene or comment on labor disputes unless they directly affect the functioning of government or national security type things. I can't really think of too many (any) instances of GOP politicians weighing in on either side of a strike involving private sector unions since I started paying attention to politics. Google tells me GWB invoked Taft-Hartley in 2002 to end a lockout of a longshoremen union on the West Coast, and they subsequently did well for themselves when they came to an agreement on a new contract.