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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 816292" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>The republican party has always been the party of big business.&nbsp; The only force that acts as a resistance to big business is labor unions.&nbsp; So it is natural that repubs would be against unions.&nbsp; Technically, it is not a party thing.&nbsp; It is mostly an ideological thing.&nbsp; Cons generally support business and libs support workers.&nbsp; Cons believe in supply side &quot;trickle down&quot; economics, progressives believe in demand side&nbsp; &quot;trickle up&quot; economics.&nbsp; You want hubrat to &quot;prove&quot; the GOP is coming after private unions??&nbsp; Look at the past 30 years.&nbsp; Reagan started it overtly in 1981 going after&nbsp; PATCO .&nbsp; &quot;Free trade&quot; agreements negotiated and pushed by repubs and cons killed and pushed good jobs overseas (mostly unionized manufacturing jobs).&nbsp; Lets not forget the repubs in congress going after Ron Carey right after the successful Teamster strike against UPS in 1997.&nbsp; The&nbsp; fact that&nbsp; repubs/cons constantly put anti union big business thugs on the NLRB that rule against workers, etc. Also it is the repub/cons party that pushed Taft/hartley in 1946 which weakened unions power in lots of ways.&nbsp; Plus recently it was repubs/cons who prevented workers the ability to form a union without company intimidation through card check.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; NO, no proof at all!!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="804brown, post: 816292, member: 29553"] The republican party has always been the party of big business. The only force that acts as a resistance to big business is labor unions. So it is natural that repubs would be against unions. Technically, it is not a party thing. It is mostly an ideological thing. Cons generally support business and libs support workers. Cons believe in supply side "trickle down" economics, progressives believe in demand side "trickle up" economics. You want hubrat to "prove" the GOP is coming after private unions?? Look at the past 30 years. Reagan started it overtly in 1981 going after PATCO . "Free trade" agreements negotiated and pushed by repubs and cons killed and pushed good jobs overseas (mostly unionized manufacturing jobs). Lets not forget the repubs in congress going after Ron Carey right after the successful Teamster strike against UPS in 1997. The fact that repubs/cons constantly put anti union big business thugs on the NLRB that rule against workers, etc. Also it is the repub/cons party that pushed Taft/hartley in 1946 which weakened unions power in lots of ways. Plus recently it was repubs/cons who prevented workers the ability to form a union without company intimidation through card check. NO, no proof at all!! [/QUOTE]

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