Labor & Employment Law

Fox Admits It: Union Members? Work Is ?Awesome?

By Tula Connell

Looks like we got the attention of Stuart Varney at Fox News. After we challenged as grossly false his assault on the ability of union workers to produce high-tech products, Fox this morning ran a list of the “awesome” things unions build.

The talking heads there then tried to backtrack on their attacks on union members, denying they said union workers were not highly skilled?but that they think that unions bog down corporations with too many rules.

Rules like safety and health to ensure workers stay safe?and alive?on the job. And getting paid for overtime. And then there’s the weekend….

Watch Fox backtrack here.

Thanks to the unions who sent us some of the other highly-skilled jobs their members perform every day, adding to the top-notch list the Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) originally helped us put together.

AFT notes the union represents most of the people holding patents. Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), reminds everyone that (feel free to retweet):

@WGAEast: #unionsbuild every movie you love & whatever you’re watching after dinner tonight. (tx @amayatune)

Electrical Workers (IBEW) retweeted a cool video of the space shuttle, built by union members, and noted that union members also build nuclear subs and power plants.

And as WGAE noted, New York City’s Fox 5’s writers, graphic designers and other staff are all union members.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).