Earlier tonight United Steelworkers Pres. Leo Gerard was on "The Ed Show." Ed Shultz interviewed him re: the (ongoing) tragedy of at least 25 miners killed at the Montcoal, WV, Performance Coal Company, a Massey Energy company. No doubt Massey's the bad guy here. Massey's the murder by spreadsheet perp.
With that said and acknowledged, how infuriating hearing Gerard go on, and on, and on, and on pitching for unionization while utterly neglecting to say anything akin to:
Look, Ed, you know I have my opinion about the need to unionize and about the strength that collective bargaining brings with it to negotiate and effectuate safer working conditions. But let's put that aside right now. These are my brothers, they are working Americans. They are coal miners. I don't care right now if their mine was unionized or not. I care only that more than two dozen have been killed, that their families are grieving and that we don't yet know about the fate of several others.
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