JD VANCE ATTACKS WORKERS WHILE CAMPAIGNING IN PENNSYLVANIA

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JD VANCE ATTACKS WORKERS WHILE CAMPAIGNING IN PENNSYLVANIA

JASON EASLEY JD VANCE, TOP NEWS SAT, OCT 12TH, 2024

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/10/12/jd-vance-attacks-workers-while-campaigning-in-pennsylvania.html

"SNIP...........

The Trump campaign sent JD Vance to Western Pennsylvania to explain to workers why they do not need workers’ rights like the PRO Act.

But private sector union participation went from about 33 percent when my papaw was a union steel worker, he was actually a welder, just like Bill. Um, 33 percent to now it’s about 7%. So we have to ask ourselves, what public policies have we enacted that have driven private sector union participation so low?

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There are a few details that JD Vance left out. Since the Reagan presidency, Republicans have tirelessly worked to dismantle the labor protects that allowed his grandfather to hold a good union job. The PRO Act would restore and expand labor protections to make it easier for people to organize and join a union.

JD Vance came to Western Pennsylvania and told people that they need a different approach than having rights as employees. That different way that Vance referred to was to shred the rest of the nation’s labor laws.

The best thing that Pennsylvania voters could do would be to reject the Trump-Vance anti-worker agenda.

...........SNIP"

[wolfie001]

1. I'm so glad I'm a Union worker

Even though retired, that small pension I get every month covers my housing and food!!! Thank you Unions and FUCK YOU RAYGUN AND TRUMP!!! J Dumb is a cipher brought to us by closet-case, self-hating Peter Thiel. Rant over!!!

[Orrex]

2. Here is the overwhelming trend in rural western PA thinking on the subject:

Businesses closed & downsized because of Democratic policies, and because unions make workers so expensive for these poor, good-hearted businesses. Also, there there's no opportunity because Democrats encourage "illegals" to sneak into the country to take all the jobs while cashing in their public assistance.

Western PA is every bit as racist as the worst caricature of the so-called racist south.

They've been mainlining extremist Reichwing anti-labor rhetoric for decades, marinating in their racist persecution fantasies all the while. I know quite a few older Pennsylvanians who worked union jobs for 30+ years and who will never vote Democrat again.