Labor & Employment Law

Fox Spends Labor Day Attacking Working People

By Tula Connell

Most people celebrate working people on Labor Day. But not the extremists on Fox News. There, hate-mongering never takes a day off.

Here are a few ugly examples of Fox from our friends at Media Matters for America:

• Tucker Carlson attacks autoworkers.
• Glenn Beck assails an 80-year-old labor activist because she spoke at a high school.
• Stuart Varney criticizes a union-backed Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would allow more shareholders of public companies to use proxy votes to nominate board members. 

Clearly Fox opposes opening up the election process to shareholders who have a financial stake in a company because it would mean less chance for corporate greed and mismanagement.

Meanwhile, the anti-worker crowd doesn’t like being called out by Media Matters. So what do they do?they resort to thuggish suggestions of violence, saying Media Matters employees should be “curb-stomped.”

More here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).