And the union he founded was 10 MILLION strong in the first wave of entrance.

That's how 'horrid' unions are. lollers.

Debating Jodark is like shooting fish in a barrel. So damn easy it takes all the fun out of it.

"Who has time to sit and watch the news? I got shit to do"

You must mean 1916. And a major force getting those laws passed was union activism. Of course the Supreme Court struck down that law 2 years later and they had to pass the law again in 1938 as a part of the Fair Labor Standards Act

Ha, I thought so.

Goddamn Lech Walesa !!!

Yeah because FUCK I miss Child Labor and working 7 days a week! FUCK UNIONS. You dumb fuck.

You spend a whole lot of time listening to talk radio, doncha.

I haven't looked at the Jalopnik comments in years (been using an RSS reader). After a cursory glance at this comment I thought to myself, "That sounds like something jodark would say." I looked again and... hey, it was! So congratulations on that.

What Lech Walesa did in Poland? You mean bring down a nominally communist dictatorship through independent trade union activism. You mean that you are anti-union even if they bring down a communist dictatorship?

You know he doesn't have to take the job, right? That he voluntarily joined the union? If he wants to quit, he's free to do so. But, why let choice get in your way when you have a useless talking point...

That's pretty funny. Pelosi voted to authorize the Iraq War, pass the No Child Left Behind Act, and reauthorize the Patriot Act.

So it's not actually the "right to work" it's the "right to possibly be employed for as long as I'm useful." I don't necessarily disagree with the notion that someone who is employing a useless person should be forced to continue the employment arrangement, lets just not kid ourselves here: the "right to work" is a…

I have been there, but somehow I doubt that you have.

Unions are not compulsory, he doesn't have to join the union but he has to pay the dues because he is benefiting from the union being there. Without the union he wouldn't be making the decent wage that he is.

Apparently in Jodark's world, any time you are asked to do anything you don't like, it's mega-Atlas-Shrugged-oppression.

Marxist echo chamber? Oh, I forgot, everything that isn't an Ayn Rand wetdream must be socialism...

You have a choice. Free Market says you can get a job somewhere else.

Enjoy.

Wipe off the spit and removing yourself from the situation.

tell me how thy doth uppercut, on the atlantic's shore! quoth the raven's camp, 'nevermore!'

He was released on his own recognizance due to the fact that he's no longer a threat to run.