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Union Members Summary
For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Friday, January 19, 2018 USDL-18-0080
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UNION MEMBERS -- 2017
The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were
members of unions--was unchanged at 10.7 percent in 2017, the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers
belonging to unions, at 14.8 million in 2017, edged up by 262,000 from 2016.
In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the
union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union
workers.
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Communist Party of Cuba
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Communist Party of Cuba founded in 1925, see Popular Socialist Party (Cuba).
The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the political party that rules in Republic of Cuba, although others exist. It is a communist party of the Marxist-Leninist model. The Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the Party to be the "leading force of society and of the state." Since April 2011, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba has been Raúl Castro, the President of Cuba, younger brother of the previous First Secretary and President of Cuba, Fidel Castro who died on 25 November 2016, and the Second Secretary has been José Ramón Machado Ventura.[2]
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originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: SR1TX
I am an immigrant as well, a legal immigrant. Like me, and many others, there are millions of legal immigrants who had to go through the process legally. It took my family and myself almost 10 years to be able to immigrate legally in the U.S. It is a slap in the face that illegal immigrants are getting more money, and more help not only than legal immigrants, but they are getting more money and help than U.S. citizens themselves get for the most part. I am Cuban-American, born and raised part of my life in Cuba, and also in Spain.
The open borders policy that many in the left claim "is good for the country and humanitarian" is neither good nor humanitarian. Mexico deports more people than the U.S. does. All those Cubans who tried to make it, illegally, into Mexico were sent back to Cuba. Hence Mexicans, and anyone else coming illegally to the U.S. should be put in the border and sent back home. If they want to migrate then do it legally. If you are poor and don't make enough money then work hard for years and eventually you will be able to afford it, just like my family and millions of legal immigrants had to do it.
Also, a very large percentage of immigrants these days don't have the same vision as immigrants who have come into this country legally, and assimilated into the American culture. This time immigrants want the U.S. to assimilate to them, want free things, and under former President Obama those people were more than welcomed.
We have not vetted most immigrants coming from the Middle East, and most of them come from areas where radical Islam is in full control. In those countries women are seen as second rate citizens, and in those regions "honor killings" are completely legal. The United States does not have the same laws that those countries have which allow men to treat women as they want. In those countries the women need at least 2 male witnesses that would testified they were raped. If the rapist says it was consensual and the woman does not have 2 male witnesses then authorities in those countries will believe the rapists...
Then we have got some morons even in the U.S. who think President Trump shouldn't have said "why are we allowing so many people from #hole countries"... Those same morons don't care that several of these refugees, not only from the Middle East but also from south of the border with Mexico, have committed many crimes including murder, robberies, assault, true sexual assaults on women, etc, etc...
We saw, and still see in Europe what happens when you have an open border policy, and we have seen how thousands of immigrants from the Middle East sexually assaulted women, robbed them, attacked their boyfriends or friends for trying to defend them etc...
The morons in the German government told women in several cities in response not to go out alone... Instead of actually going after the Muslim immigrants who have been violent and have committed these crimes... Then when these same Muslim radicals started attacking women in droves in music festivals the morons in the governments in Europe started giving women some wristbands in which it said something like "don't grope me"... As if that is going to stop any radical from any nation to stop sexually assaulting women... The same problems have been occurring in public pools...
The other morons in the governments in Europe have been doing the same thing the morons in the government of Germany have been doing... Not to mention that instead of actually addressing these real problems, these moronic world elites in the governments of Europe started going after citizens who would complain in social media about what the "refugees" have been doing in Europe... For example when an old lady posted in Facebook that she saw a "refugee" defecating in the streets her government decided to go after her and she has been facing jail time for doing this...
But hey, the Obama administration were also morons who have been trying to do the same things the idiots in charge in Europe have been doing... Obama ordered for all official reports to stop writing "radical Islam" in their reports... When "refuges" have been committing crimes the governments in Europe and the Obama administration tried to hide these crimes and instead call people who complain about these real problems as "being xenophobic and racists"... It doesn't matter if many of the people complaining are actually part of minorities, which it shouldn't matter because even if white men or women who were born in the U.S. are victims of crimes from "refugees" or "illegal immigrants" the victims shouldn't be treated or made to look like they are the criminals...
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
My god you have a really messed up world view.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
You tube is so cool. Did you see the one where all the stuff is moving around on its own in someone's kitchen? Totally legit, I'm sure...
Instead of making a generalized comment which is false, how about you post which of those videos is "fake" and post evidence that those videos are fake?...
Your asking the member to prove a negative.... I've got one... Your fake news...
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
I'm sorry if I struck a nerve but you are constantly posting hoaxes which is why I called you fake news, as far as todays comment goes you made a claim that you yourself are an immigrant yet you are so against immigration so yeah, your world view is messed up and for the most part wrong.
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personally I'm prepared to just drive off into the sunset in my truck, with nothing but a sleeping bag and gas cooker.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
The real winners of this us vs them are the status quo who are profiting off our division.
You want to know what scares the hell out of "tptb". A united US populace, if that happens they loose bigly. Because in the end 96% of people want the same thing.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: SR1TX
I am an immigrant as well, a legal immigrant. Like me, and many others, there are millions of legal immigrants who had to go through the process legally. It took my family and myself almost 10 years to be able to immigrate legally in the U.S. It is a slap in the face that illegal immigrants are getting more money, and more help not only than legal immigrants, but they are getting more money and help than U.S. citizens themselves get for the most part. I am Cuban-American, born and raised part of my life in Cuba, and also in Spain.
The open borders policy that many in the left claim "is good for the country and humanitarian" is neither good nor humanitarian. Mexico deports more people than the U.S. does. All those Cubans who tried to make it, illegally, into Mexico were sent back to Cuba. Hence Mexicans, and anyone else coming illegally to the U.S. should be put in the border and sent back home. If they want to migrate then do it legally. If you are poor and don't make enough money then work hard for years and eventually you will be able to afford it, just like my family and millions of legal immigrants had to do it.
Also, a very large percentage of immigrants these days don't have the same vision as immigrants who have come into this country legally, and assimilated into the American culture. This time immigrants want the U.S. to assimilate to them, want free things, and under former President Obama those people were more than welcomed.
We have not vetted most immigrants coming from the Middle East, and most of them come from areas where radical Islam is in full control. In those countries women are seen as second rate citizens, and in those regions "honor killings" are completely legal. The United States does not have the same laws that those countries have which allow men to treat women as they want. In those countries the women need at least 2 male witnesses that would testified they were raped. If the rapist says it was consensual and the woman does not have 2 male witnesses then authorities in those countries will believe the rapists...
Then we have got some morons even in the U.S. who think President Trump shouldn't have said "why are we allowing so many people from #hole countries"... Those same morons don't care that several of these refugees, not only from the Middle East but also from south of the border with Mexico, have committed many crimes including murder, robberies, assault, true sexual assaults on women, etc, etc...
We saw, and still see in Europe what happens when you have an open border policy, and we have seen how thousands of immigrants from the Middle East sexually assaulted women, robbed them, attacked their boyfriends or friends for trying to defend them etc...
The morons in the German government told women in several cities in response not to go out alone... Instead of actually going after the Muslim immigrants who have been violent and have committed these crimes... Then when these same Muslim radicals started attacking women in droves in music festivals the morons in the governments in Europe started giving women some wristbands in which it said something like "don't grope me"... As if that is going to stop any radical from any nation to stop sexually assaulting women... The same problems have been occurring in public pools...
The other morons in the governments in Europe have been doing the same thing the morons in the government of Germany have been doing... Not to mention that instead of actually addressing these real problems, these moronic world elites in the governments of Europe started going after citizens who would complain in social media about what the "refugees" have been doing in Europe... For example when an old lady posted in Facebook that she saw a "refugee" defecating in the streets her government decided to go after her and she has been facing jail time for doing this...
But hey, the Obama administration were also morons who have been trying to do the same things the idiots in charge in Europe have been doing... Obama ordered for all official reports to stop writing "radical Islam" in their reports... When "refuges" have been committing crimes the governments in Europe and the Obama administration tried to hide these crimes and instead call people who complain about these real problems as "being xenophobic and racists"... It doesn't matter if many of the people complaining are actually part of minorities, which it shouldn't matter because even if white men or women who were born in the U.S. are victims of crimes from "refugees" or "illegal immigrants" the victims shouldn't be treated or made to look like they are the criminals...
My god you have a really messed up world view.
originally posted by: mtnshredder
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: SR1TX
I am an immigrant as well, a legal immigrant. Like me, and many others, there are millions of legal immigrants who had to go through the process legally. It took my family and myself almost 10 years to be able to immigrate legally in the U.S. It is a slap in the face that illegal immigrants are getting more money, and more help not only than legal immigrants, but they are getting more money and help than U.S. citizens themselves get for the most part. I am Cuban-American, born and raised part of my life in Cuba, and also in Spain.
The open borders policy that many in the left claim "is good for the country and humanitarian" is neither good nor humanitarian. Mexico deports more people than the U.S. does. All those Cubans who tried to make it, illegally, into Mexico were sent back to Cuba. Hence Mexicans, and anyone else coming illegally to the U.S. should be put in the border and sent back home. If they want to migrate then do it legally. If you are poor and don't make enough money then work hard for years and eventually you will be able to afford it, just like my family and millions of legal immigrants had to do it.
Also, a very large percentage of immigrants these days don't have the same vision as immigrants who have come into this country legally, and assimilated into the American culture. This time immigrants want the U.S. to assimilate to them, want free things, and under former President Obama those people were more than welcomed.
We have not vetted most immigrants coming from the Middle East, and most of them come from areas where radical Islam is in full control. In those countries women are seen as second rate citizens, and in those regions "honor killings" are completely legal. The United States does not have the same laws that those countries have which allow men to treat women as they want. In those countries the women need at least 2 male witnesses that would testified they were raped. If the rapist says it was consensual and the woman does not have 2 male witnesses then authorities in those countries will believe the rapists...
Then we have got some morons even in the U.S. who think President Trump shouldn't have said "why are we allowing so many people from #hole countries"... Those same morons don't care that several of these refugees, not only from the Middle East but also from south of the border with Mexico, have committed many crimes including murder, robberies, assault, true sexual assaults on women, etc, etc...
We saw, and still see in Europe what happens when you have an open border policy, and we have seen how thousands of immigrants from the Middle East sexually assaulted women, robbed them, attacked their boyfriends or friends for trying to defend them etc...
The morons in the German government told women in several cities in response not to go out alone... Instead of actually going after the Muslim immigrants who have been violent and have committed these crimes... Then when these same Muslim radicals started attacking women in droves in music festivals the morons in the governments in Europe started giving women some wristbands in which it said something like "don't grope me"... As if that is going to stop any radical from any nation to stop sexually assaulting women... The same problems have been occurring in public pools...
The other morons in the governments in Europe have been doing the same thing the morons in the government of Germany have been doing... Not to mention that instead of actually addressing these real problems, these moronic world elites in the governments of Europe started going after citizens who would complain in social media about what the "refugees" have been doing in Europe... For example when an old lady posted in Facebook that she saw a "refugee" defecating in the streets her government decided to go after her and she has been facing jail time for doing this...
But hey, the Obama administration were also morons who have been trying to do the same things the idiots in charge in Europe have been doing... Obama ordered for all official reports to stop writing "radical Islam" in their reports... When "refuges" have been committing crimes the governments in Europe and the Obama administration tried to hide these crimes and instead call people who complain about these real problems as "being xenophobic and racists"... It doesn't matter if many of the people complaining are actually part of minorities, which it shouldn't matter because even if white men or women who were born in the U.S. are victims of crimes from "refugees" or "illegal immigrants" the victims shouldn't be treated or made to look like they are the criminals...
My god you have a really messed up world view.
Yeah Electric... enough of this common sense stuff you speak of, we're having nothing to do with it.
originally posted by: mtnshredder
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
We do have immigration laws for many reasons. Do you not think they should be enforced?
We also have more vanishing natural resources than most people want to admit. At the rate we're going the quality of life for future generations looks bleak.