As the UAW sends out layoff notices to its unionized office staff (after years of pay and benefit cuts), the UAW’s big-spending, hypocritical boss, Bob King, took time out of his busy schedule harassing non-union auto plants to chastise New York’s mayor for clearing out the squatters of Zuccotti Park.
According to a UAW press release:
“The right to protest and free assembly are sacrosanct in our country,” said UAW President Bob King. “Mayor Bloomberg has been publicly critical of raising taxes on the 1 percent and the message of Occupy Wall Street. The manner in which this raid was carried out can only lead one to believe that the mayor was doing the bidding of Wall Street once again.
“Cities across the country from Oakland to Portland and Chapel Hill took similar reprehensible actions, raiding encampments across the country in military fashion,” King added.
“Occupy Wall Street has driven home the stark reality of corporate greed and the ever-widening income gap in America,” said Julie Kushner, director of UAW Region 9A, which covers the northeast, including New York City. “It is highly suspicious that on the eve of a day of national action focusing on Wall Street, Mayor Bloomberg chooses to come in under the cover of darkness to squash the voice of the people.”
Never mind the seven deaths that have occurred at #Occupy protests, the 256 incidents of violence, rape and other crimes that have marked the two-month long siege upon American sensibilities…King and his union cronies have gone all-in for the lawlessness that the #OccupyMovement has become known for.
We can’t wait to see what they endorse tomorrow.
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
