| Heather
Loughlin, daughter of CWA 7777 member, Diane Loughlin (LPC1), sent the
following letter to the Denver
Post. Apparently, they have
notified her they will be printing her letter in the newspaper. "I would like to respond to the February 22nd Sunday edition of the Post, for the article entitled 'Defining Choice.' I thought it only fair to depict both points of view on the Employee Free Choice Act but I noticed a serious missive that definitely grabbed my attention. Richard Trumka, I felt, beautifully explained his point of view providing research from Cornell and concrete statistics for his side of the argument. Mr. Trumka incorporated real-life situations, such as Dr. James King, chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians, being forced to tell a depleted middle-class that they must take medications they can no longer afford. The middle class is disintegrating because of people like Tony Gagliardi, who naturally is opposed to the expansion of unions and fair labor practice. Rather than provide statistical data and hard facts for his position, I felt that he insulted the average literate Coloradan's intelligence. He provided an essay based on hot air and oozing more like a whining toddler that is about to be grounded, rather than a business man opposed to legislation that would make, to quote Mr. Trumka, '...a level playing field between workers and bosses.' I've got news for Mr. Gagliardi and all who oppose this legislation: the party is over. Your corporate greed and corruption shine right through your lies about a worker's right to choose. It is frankly a bitter pill to swallow to read your propaganda and one can only hope that you can come up with more concrete evidence than what you have supplied. Come back to argue this legislation when you have a solid position to stand on, based on fact and not on the possible depletion of your hideously corrupt empire. "Heather L. Denver" opeiu #5, afl-cio/lll 03.09.2009 |