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Nurses Win Major Victory against Nazi Anti-Labor Schwarznegger
The cheers reverberated among all supporters of labor in all 58 counties of California and across the nation as the California Nurses Association won confirmation in Sacramento Superior Court on March 4, 2005 of its hard-fought victory to reduce nurse-patient ratios, saving our lives and mandating decent working conditions for nurses.
The cheers reverberated among all supporters of labor in all 58 counties of California and across the nation as the California Nurses Association won confirmation in Sacramento Superior Court on March 4, 2005 of its hard-fought victory to reduce nurse-patient ratios, saving our lives and mandating decent working conditions for nurses.
The press release is on the California Nurses Association website at:
http://www.calnurse.org/?Action=Content&id=715
The tentative ruling was by Judge Judy Holzer Hersher in Department 16, in pdf format at:
http://files.calnurse.org/assets/03032005Tentative_order.pdf
and Word format on the Sacramento Superior Court website, at
http://www.saccourt.com/courtrooms/trulings/dept16/mar04d16-04cs01725.doc
It was an injunction against viciously anti-labor Governor Schwarzenegger's emergency regulation preventing the implementation of better nurse-patient ratios on January 1, 2005 which the nurses had won through legislation, AB 394 or California Health & Safety Code Section 1276.4. Thus the nurse/patient ratio is now 1:5 in medical/surgical units.
As to the profiteering hospitals that claim they cannot afford this, labor certainly has a solution: National Healthcare System for all paid for with the progressive income tax, guaranteeing free and fabulous healthcare to all from cradle to grave, as exists in the rest of the industrialized world. It is time to take the profit motive out of healthcare, and eliminate the bankruptcy crisis that it promotes, with about 50% of all personal bankruptcies caused by inability to pay medical bills, even though the debtor has insurance. Most medical insurance does not cover 100% of major medical bills. We pay more for medical care in this country on a per capita basis than the rest of the industrialized world, and get far less for it, because it is all to enrich insurance companies and private profit medical corporations.
This victory by the nurses is hopefully a tide-turning, bellwhether action as Nazi Schwarzenegger plans to spend millions of our tax dollars on a special off-year election in November 2005 to promote viciously reactionary attacks on labor with various initiatives attacking government workers pensions, including those of firefighters and police, attacking teacher's tenure with the favoritism game known as merit pay, and redrawing assembly and congressional districts by a retired panel of judges instead of the Legislature so as to elect more fascists like Nazi Schwarzenegger.
Should this election take place, we expect every supporter of labor to be AT THE BARRICADES this fall, demanding everyone vote a BINGO NO on Schwarzenegger's ANTI-LABOR INITIATIVES!
The press release is on the California Nurses Association website at:
http://www.calnurse.org/?Action=Content&id=715
The tentative ruling was by Judge Judy Holzer Hersher in Department 16, in pdf format at:
http://files.calnurse.org/assets/03032005Tentative_order.pdf
and Word format on the Sacramento Superior Court website, at
http://www.saccourt.com/courtrooms/trulings/dept16/mar04d16-04cs01725.doc
It was an injunction against viciously anti-labor Governor Schwarzenegger's emergency regulation preventing the implementation of better nurse-patient ratios on January 1, 2005 which the nurses had won through legislation, AB 394 or California Health & Safety Code Section 1276.4. Thus the nurse/patient ratio is now 1:5 in medical/surgical units.
As to the profiteering hospitals that claim they cannot afford this, labor certainly has a solution: National Healthcare System for all paid for with the progressive income tax, guaranteeing free and fabulous healthcare to all from cradle to grave, as exists in the rest of the industrialized world. It is time to take the profit motive out of healthcare, and eliminate the bankruptcy crisis that it promotes, with about 50% of all personal bankruptcies caused by inability to pay medical bills, even though the debtor has insurance. Most medical insurance does not cover 100% of major medical bills. We pay more for medical care in this country on a per capita basis than the rest of the industrialized world, and get far less for it, because it is all to enrich insurance companies and private profit medical corporations.
This victory by the nurses is hopefully a tide-turning, bellwhether action as Nazi Schwarzenegger plans to spend millions of our tax dollars on a special off-year election in November 2005 to promote viciously reactionary attacks on labor with various initiatives attacking government workers pensions, including those of firefighters and police, attacking teacher's tenure with the favoritism game known as merit pay, and redrawing assembly and congressional districts by a retired panel of judges instead of the Legislature so as to elect more fascists like Nazi Schwarzenegger.
Should this election take place, we expect every supporter of labor to be AT THE BARRICADES this fall, demanding everyone vote a BINGO NO on Schwarzenegger's ANTI-LABOR INITIATIVES!
For more information:
http://www.calnurse.org/?Action=Content&am...
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"Nazi" as an epithet is totally uncalled for. KNOCK IT OFF. It's offensive.
No, Leo, I--for one--WON'T "knock it off", and I encourage everyone else who uses this site to also keep calling a spade a spade.
No, Schwarzenegger has not hearded anyone into gas chambers (yet), but the context of this article is the boobengrabber's treatment of organized labor and workers which are ENTIRELY consistent with the extremist positions the Nazi's took towards organized labor and as such, COMPLETELY appropriate.
In any case, Leo, YOUR comments have been consistently anti-worker and anti-labor, so why should any of us take anything you say even remotely seriously?
I certainly don't; in fact I consider you to be an idiotic troll and your comment is par for the course.
No, Schwarzenegger has not hearded anyone into gas chambers (yet), but the context of this article is the boobengrabber's treatment of organized labor and workers which are ENTIRELY consistent with the extremist positions the Nazi's took towards organized labor and as such, COMPLETELY appropriate.
In any case, Leo, YOUR comments have been consistently anti-worker and anti-labor, so why should any of us take anything you say even remotely seriously?
I certainly don't; in fact I consider you to be an idiotic troll and your comment is par for the course.
For more information:
http://www.iww.org
If you knew anyone who experienced Nazism first hand, you wouldn't be such an insentive oaf. Schwarzenegger is a politican, not a murderer and it's time people like you were told to back off when you use unacceptable comparisons to real, historical monsters. Deal with it. I am not anti-worker. I work for the city of SF, and I am a member fo SEIU. Before that I was a member of the Newspaper Guild for 17 years. DO NOT put words in my mouth when you don't know what you're talking about. For your information, I am a realist. You should spend some time dealing with the reality of life in California as it is rather than blathering on about the workers' revolution that is never going to come. Grow up and deal with what's out there rather than your blinding ideology that is not based reality. Sorry, but that's the way the world works.
Swartzenegger has not killed yet, but he fully supports Bush's murderous rampage through Iraq. I believe he has earned the label Nazi for supporting No. 1 neo-Nazi Bush.
Excuse me, Leo, do you even know who I am?!? Do you know how insulting and condescending you are?
You should spend some time dealing with the reality of life in California as it is rather than blathering on about the workers' revolution that is never going to come. Grow up and deal with what's out there rather than your blinding ideology that is not based reality. Sorry, but that's the way the world works.
I am a transit worker, a dues paying member of the IBU, and I have been dealing with the reality of life in California since 1978 (when I moved back here). You do not know me and your use of insultiung stereotypes demonstrates to me that you are pretty clueless about many things. I suppose you think I quote the Little Red Songbook or read Ralph Chaplin poetry to my fellow workers too?
The truth is that I am an adult, working for a living, struggling at it too. I also happen to be part of one of the most active IWW branches in the world, and most of our current IWW shops and organizing projects deal with what you would call "real" workers. We have absolutely no problem communicating to them and with them on a real world basis.
I have read comment after comment by you on this site and nine times out of ten they are condescending and insulting. Why do you even bother? You're not offering constructive criticism, you're just being an jerk. You may be a member of an SEIU local (would that be Local 911 perhaps?), but you sound exactly like what the Wobblies of old would call a "scissorbill".
As for revolutions that "may never come", my response to you is, "don't be too sure". You don't have a crystal ball, so don't tempt fate.
For more information:
http://www.iww.org
a few months ago Leo said he was a former teacher in the West Contra Costa district.
today he says he's in the SEIU and a former 17 year-long member of the Newspaper Guild.
who's he gonna be tomorrow?
Ronald McDonald?
today he says he's in the SEIU and a former 17 year-long member of the Newspaper Guild.
who's he gonna be tomorrow?
Ronald McDonald?
Although this hypothesis is really too convenient, do any of you suppose that Leo is a code name?
Perhaps L.E.O. = Law Enforcement Official?
It would explain a great many things, wouldn't it?
Perhaps L.E.O. = Law Enforcement Official?
It would explain a great many things, wouldn't it?
Steve, you can not honestly compare Ahnuld to Hitler, can you? I mean, he may be advocating some wack policies, but Hitler? Really dude????
Dear "Easy Bay"
I never specifically compared Schwarzenegger to Hitler. I am mainly disgusted that Leo would chastise the original poster for calling Schwarzenegger a "Nazi". But I will own up to comparing Schwarzenegger to a fascist, which is entirely appropriate in my opinion.
Schwarzenegger is absolutely no friend whatsoever to workers, and he is willing to use his (largely undserved) charisma (which is about half the result of his status as an actor and half a result of deeply ingrained preconceived ideals that white Americans have about the qualities of leadership) to achive his political agenda. Does anyone REALLY think that Schwarzenegger would get even a MILLIONTH of the uncritical support he does if he looked like Yoda?
Schwarzenegger DELIBERATELY manipulates a lot of very gullible people into supporting his political ideas and he succeeds because he conforms to a vulgar (racist) sterotype of a blong Aryan male superman. He may not be hearding anyone into gas chambers, but he plays the role the elite want him to gladly.
He tried to bust the nurses union with his attack on staffing ratios (a standard that millions of nurses in California have fought extremely hard for YEARS to get).
Now he is trying to gut a teachers' union security clause (carelessly and flippantly referred to as "tenure") that the extreme right--in their never ending crusade against public education (which they hate, because it is an example of a "socialist" program that works and works well when funded properly and when teachers are actually given the power of self management)--has been trying to gut for YEARS.
Manipulating popular will with lies (calling the unions "special interests") is nothingthat any politician wouldn't do, and certainly California has had charismatic actors (Ronald Regan) with reactionary political agendas running the show before, and it would be over doing it to call them Nazis in most cases. But Arnold is using his superman sterotype as political capital, and sadly, but not surprisingly, many (including a lot of liberals) are falling for it hook, line, and stinker.
This is a class war and the workers are on the receiving end of most of the offensive. If it takes somebody calling Schwarzenegger a Nazi to throw cold water on an illusion (such as the popular perception that Schwarzenegger is going to solve all or even a FRACTION of California's problems by serving as a benevolent dictator--with a blond, Aryan, stereotypical physique to boot) then so be it.
Schwarzenegger does not deserve a free ride. He deserves to be exposed for what he is, a lying, sexist, bigoted, elitist, idiotic hack who is no more qualified to run the state of California (if anyone can be qualified to serve in such an authoritarian role) than a common monkey.
I never specifically compared Schwarzenegger to Hitler. I am mainly disgusted that Leo would chastise the original poster for calling Schwarzenegger a "Nazi". But I will own up to comparing Schwarzenegger to a fascist, which is entirely appropriate in my opinion.
Schwarzenegger is absolutely no friend whatsoever to workers, and he is willing to use his (largely undserved) charisma (which is about half the result of his status as an actor and half a result of deeply ingrained preconceived ideals that white Americans have about the qualities of leadership) to achive his political agenda. Does anyone REALLY think that Schwarzenegger would get even a MILLIONTH of the uncritical support he does if he looked like Yoda?
Schwarzenegger DELIBERATELY manipulates a lot of very gullible people into supporting his political ideas and he succeeds because he conforms to a vulgar (racist) sterotype of a blong Aryan male superman. He may not be hearding anyone into gas chambers, but he plays the role the elite want him to gladly.
He tried to bust the nurses union with his attack on staffing ratios (a standard that millions of nurses in California have fought extremely hard for YEARS to get).
Now he is trying to gut a teachers' union security clause (carelessly and flippantly referred to as "tenure") that the extreme right--in their never ending crusade against public education (which they hate, because it is an example of a "socialist" program that works and works well when funded properly and when teachers are actually given the power of self management)--has been trying to gut for YEARS.
Manipulating popular will with lies (calling the unions "special interests") is nothingthat any politician wouldn't do, and certainly California has had charismatic actors (Ronald Regan) with reactionary political agendas running the show before, and it would be over doing it to call them Nazis in most cases. But Arnold is using his superman sterotype as political capital, and sadly, but not surprisingly, many (including a lot of liberals) are falling for it hook, line, and stinker.
This is a class war and the workers are on the receiving end of most of the offensive. If it takes somebody calling Schwarzenegger a Nazi to throw cold water on an illusion (such as the popular perception that Schwarzenegger is going to solve all or even a FRACTION of California's problems by serving as a benevolent dictator--with a blond, Aryan, stereotypical physique to boot) then so be it.
Schwarzenegger does not deserve a free ride. He deserves to be exposed for what he is, a lying, sexist, bigoted, elitist, idiotic hack who is no more qualified to run the state of California (if anyone can be qualified to serve in such an authoritarian role) than a common monkey.
For more information:
http://www.iww.org
I pretty much agree with everything you wrote. My problem is with the sloppy use of the words, "Nazi", "Nazism", "fascist", "fascism", etc. These terms seem to get thrown around willy-nilly by folks on the extreme left ("Ahnuld is a Nazi") and the extreme right ("femi-nazi") to simply mean someone you hate politically. Sometimes I think it is a function of immaturity, in your case I knew it wasn't and wanted some clarification. Thanks for providing that.
'nuff said.
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