Fox News, Murdoch media using scabs and calling for union-busting

Julius Civitatus

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:11 AM
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Fox News, Murdoch media using scabs and calling for union-busting

Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 09:15 AM by Julius Civitatus

Fox News using a scab bus during the NY transit strike (how low can these fuckers get)

http://scoutprime.blogspot.com/2005/12/fox-scabs.html

Murdoch-owned NY Post is calling for Pataki to use the Reagan union-busting tactics. Seriously. Check this out and barf:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59308.htm

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/59232.htm

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MSgt213

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:16 AM
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1. That's a brilliant idea. Put 34,000 people out of work and bust another

voice for people who have no voice. No one has a right in this country anymore to fight for their rights. The new standard will be if you stand up for yourself you will be label a criminal. Nice.

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Renew Deal

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:17 AM
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2. Throw him in jail and make him a martyr,

Go for it.

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acmejack

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:17 AM
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3. I can't believe he would do anything else!

Murdoch is a corporatist swine who epitomizes what is wrong with the media, and indeed, the entire corporate world!

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Monkey see Monkey Do

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Thu Dec-22-05 09:39 AM
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4. Murdoch vs the print unions in 80's England

BBC "On this Day - 1986: Printers and police clash in Wapping"

(...)

News International publishes some of Britain's best known newspapers - the Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun, and the News of the World.

Its owner, Australian press baron Rupert Murdoch, has been heavily criticised for his handling of the dispute.

He summarily dismissed the thousands of staff members who downed tools on 24 January, and brought in members of the maverick electricians union, the EETPU, to keep the printers running.

(...)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/15/newsid_3455000/3455083.stm

from John Pilger's "Hidden Agenda"
http://www.metaltype.co.uk/stories/story5.shtml

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Julius Civitatus

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Thu Dec-22-05 10:45 AM
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5. That Fox News scab bus is a TV moment waiting to happen

Roger Ailes truly can be a prick. Only Fox News/Murdoch Evil Empire could come up with this shit.

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