WI Unions Will Destroy Walker-Loving Bank By Pulling $1 Billion
M&I Bank is Wisconsin's biggest, and it gave a ton of money to union-busting kochsucker Scott Walker. Now the unions are targeting both M&I and the Canadian banking giant in the process of acquiring it. A couple of firemen stomped in on Saturday and withdrew $192,000 on Saturday, in the branch across from the state capitol, and now the WI unions are deciding how to best leverage the $1 billion in pension funds held by the Walker-lovin' bank.
“It’s good to remind these corporations that there are risks as well as profits involved in supporting right-wing political campaigns,” says Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “Unions must use their economic power to fight for labor rights.”
With over $6 trillion of workers’ money in retirement plans, pension funds, profit-sharing and stock plans and union reserve funds, workers have the ability to reshape the economy and political priorities of the economic elite.
Ha ha, good. [ The Nation ]
Props to you on that, my folks are 70+ and that's the main reason they are still together. Had separate bedrooms for the last 20+ ! And yeah, I'm gonna blame my divorce on that goddamn one bedroom we had, I mean seriously, the same cold feet and (no)pussy every night?? I think not!
Solidarity, brother.