Jeff Binkley -> Ross Sauer wrote:


 RS>> The Plumbers Union is steaming over the news that Joe the Plumber has
 RS>> been enlisted by groups opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act to
 RS>> campaign at a number of Pennsylvania rallies against the measure.

 RS>> A Plumbers Union official tells me that Joe is "selling out real
 RS>> plumbers."

 RS>> I checked in with Rick Terven, the political and legislative director
 RS>> for The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the
 RS>> Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.
 RS>> (Sorry, I couldn't resist sharing the full name.) He tore into his
 RS>> high-profile plumber colleague as follows:

 RS>> Joe the plumber is selling out real plumbers. Right now, labor law is
 RS>> stacked against real plumbers. Real plumbers want and need the
 RS>> Employee Free Choice Act as a way to empower themselves to join a
 RS>> union, without fear of intimidation or losing their jobs. Joe the
 RS>> Plumber doesn't speak for real plumbers.

 RS>> http://tinyurl.com/d22fyl

 JB> Why don't you join a labor union ?

Doesn't one have to have and *USE* a marketable skill to join a union?

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