Labor & Employment Law

Tell Fox: Union Members ARE Rocket Scientists

By admin

Amaya Tune, AFL-CIO Media Outreach specialist, is p’od. She’ll tell you why.

Stuart Varney, a Fox blowhard, had a segment today hitting the AFL-CIO for pushing for a “No” vote on Michael Dell. 

The Fox crew jested that we shouldn’t be weighing in because unions don’t create innovative technology and went so far as to say: ”Imagine if unions made an iPhone.”

This made me reach out to my brothers and sisters at the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), whose membership includes rocket scientists. They gave me a list of really cool things their members innovate and create. 

Here’s a list of stuff I plan to tweet at Fox all day under the hashtag #unionsbuild with some of these examples:

* Nuclears subs and carriers;
* Space shuttle;
* Dams and waterways;
* B-52;
* Unmanned aircrafts; and
* 787 fuselages.

If folks want to join my angry tirade, I welcome your tweets or retweet this: 

RT @amayatune @Foxnews so what have you invented lately? NASA union scientists had over 30,000 inventions last year. #unionsbuild

Also, if you have your own examples of things that unions build that are critical to society (like our next generation of workers by teaching our kids) then throw ‘em in!

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 12, 2010 (boomark / email).