Exactly! Union busting is a tax on working people to protect the rich.

What percentage of the Slog frontpage is lifted entirely from Reddit?

To make the analogy more accurate, there would be fifty large boxes of cookies.

Never before have I Googled a phrase (in this case the punch line) and found it essentially unchanged out to the thirty-ninth page, with most hits dated Feb. 28th or later. I think this is now officially part of the air we breathe.

@5 No, the union guy doesn't want the whole cookie. And even if he did, that's not the major problem. Does he also want the 11 cookies? You know, the ones the ceo has?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymCBvwOm…

I laughed at this video, that is until all this Union stuff started happening in Wisconsin. Now Illinois seems normal.

...and then the CEO said to the teapartier, "You know, you better take that last cookie, cause if that union guy is gay, you DON'T want to see how he eats it, and we better shut down the groceries, too, so he can't buy any ingredients, because God knows how he and his "boyfriend" bake cookies at home. This is why there are so many unwed mothers: Because we gave a gay a cookie, and you know what happens when you give a gay a cookie..."

The inevitable randian/TP response will be something about who owned the bakery, who baked the cookies, the moral supermen who somehow accumulated the capital in the first place conveniently forgetting how the owner got the capital in the first place (hint, usually by stealing labor)...

Never mentioning as well that CEO who takes one of the 11 cookies he is hoarding and gives it to people in Bangladesh (split 40 ways) who made the shipment of cookies.

You got one part wrong though, the teabagger wouldn't be sitting at the table, he'd be underneath it, simultaneously shining the CEO's shoes, kissing his ass, and praising him for his hard work in earning all those cookies and creating so many cookie maker jobs.

Like many people I supported unions - until I had to deal with one. The level of lazy arrogance on the part of union officials is astonishing. I tried to get SEIU 925 to file a simple grievance on my behalf of my fellow workers and myself, only to be completly ignored. If the unoin disagreed with us - and told us why - that would be a different matter. But they simply ignored us. Emails and phone calls went unanswered. They feel no need to explain or justify anything. It's a nice racket. Union officials and reps are making VERY good money and they answer to no one.

Atomica, they answer to the union members who elect them.

I support unions, even after experiencing the union rep numbnuts I work with at my private-sector union job.

@13 In theory Unions answer to their members, but not so much in real life. Ever tired to get a union rep on the phone or to answer a simple email? Try it.

I like the IDEA of unions, but they seem to naturally tilt toward lazyness and arrogance. At least that is my experience with SEIU 925.

The Stranger has a sexual harassment policy?

I think credit goes to UW-Madison professor Steve Kantrowitz. Wow, small world.

@11:

Of course union reps answer to someone: they answer to the rank-and-file, who have the power to vote them both into and out of office, or have them dismissed if they don't like how they work on behalf of members. But of course, being a democratic organization, that means, if you want to do that, you have to get a majority of your brothers and sisters to agree with you.

Obviously, I know nothing about your grievance, and it does seem odd that it would garner no response whatsoever, which is why I would tend to reserve judgement until hearing the Local's side of the story; because, there are always two sides to the story.

@16:

If the CEO agreed to those terms in the form of a contract, then really, who's really at fault here? The union worker who asked for it, or the CEO who decided to give it to them?

@16: i thought the CEO came on last year after a cookie conglomerate bought the company in a hostile takeover and forced the original owner out.

@20: 2/10 troll.
I tire of your faggotry.

@20
In Wisconsin's case, the CEO bought the governor and the Republican majority in the legistlature.

@23: There's a not-so-subtle difference between gayness and faggotry, at least on the internet. Now go fuck yourself up the ass with a cactus.