Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is picking his latest fight with unions representing public workers, though the political context is markedly different than his bitter stand-offs with the Chicago Teachers Union, AFSCME and SEIU.
Emanuel has provoked the ire of the firefighter and police unions by planning significant cuts in the firefighter union's next contract and refusing to pay police officers all the overtime they say are due related to the NATO summit in late May. These unions aren't traditionally allied with the city's other public sector unions, which were among the key organizers of protests during the NATO summit, where Chicago police were accused of using excessive force.
While protest leaders circulated videos that they say show police mistreatment of protesters, city officials and business leaders proclaimed the city's handling of the summit a success and praised law enforcement. But the Fraternal Order of Police has filed four grievances related to the summit and overtime pay, charging that the city is not honoring their union contract or its promises in regards to paying 3,100 officers for overtime—part of a bill for taxpayers that is expected to be huge. Officers had their days off and furlough days cancelled over a two-week period and were ordered to work 12-hour days in preparation for and during the summit.


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Okay...so this is another elected official who is union busting, kicking unions in the teeth and pissing on workers rights. But this is a Democrat! I wonder how the CPUSA, those "champions of the working class", squares its ass-kissing of these guys? "The Democrats are the reps of the working class"? Isn't that what Webb and his peeps are claiming?


On the FOP's website, union president Mike Shields wrote, "We protected the mayor's residence from anarchists. You'd think he could at least pay us what we are owed."

I wonder if they were "anarchist-knuckleheads"?

So far the Democratic Mayor of Chicago has slashed the "Teachers Union, AFSCME and SEIU." He is bilking the Cops and has said that he plans on slashing the Firefighters Union, too.

You want to know what is the funniest thing in this article? It is something that isn't there: the word "Democrat". No where in this article does it identify the political party to which Mayor Emmanuel belongs. In all of the other articles about how evil politicians are breaking unions, the word "Republican" is written every two or three words; in this current article, "Democrat" does not appear even once. Now that is funny!

Okay...so this is another elected official who is union busting, kicking unions in the teeth and pissing on workers rights. But this is a Democrat! I wonder how the CPUSA, those "champions of the working class", squares its ass-kissing of these guys? "The Democrats are the reps of the working class"? Isn't that what Webb and his peeps are claiming?



I wonder if they were "anarchist-knuckleheads"?

So far the Democratic Mayor of Chicago has slashed the "Teachers Union, AFSCME and SEIU." He is bilking the Cops and has said that he plans on slashing the Firefighters Union, too.

You want to know what is the funniest thing in this article? It is something that isn't there: the word "Democrat". No where in this article does it identify the political party to which Mayor Emmanuel belongs. In all of the other articles about how evil politicians are breaking unions, the word "Republican" is written every two or three words; in this current article, "Democrat" does not appear even once. Now that is funny!

Your problem my man is that your Evil-o-meter needs adjustment, if you reset the scale to micrograms you would see that the Democrats really are the lesser of 2 evils, it's all the difference of being stomped to death by an elephant or being stomped to death by a mule.

it's all the difference of being stomped to death by an elephant or being stomped to death by a mule.

Now that is crystal-clear.