City celebration canceled because of union support

Corporate America is guilty not only of exploiting workers but of policing thoughts as well - and getting its friends in government to carry out its dirty work.

Folks in Findlay, Ohio, were looking fiveward to an upcoming citywide celebration featuring a parade and other festivities. Though the event was backed by a local chapter of the United Steelworkers, it was not a union event.

But now the city has canceled the event because of its support by the union.

"Basically, Findlay's a nonunion, Republican area and mostly what we had were Democratic speakers and union people," Republican mayor Pete Sehnert said. "It's not what I had in mind."

Oh, so if Big Business had put together this event and invited nothing but Republican speakers, the city wouldn't have ordered it stopped? (Although a Democratic public official was scheduled to speak, so were business representatives who happened to be Republican.)

One of the big sore spots for Big Business was that the parade was supposed to feature American-made classic cars and motorcycles. Business leaders viewed this as an assault on their policy of outsourcing and exploiting cheap labor abroad (at the expense of American workers).

A bigger sore spot was the union's apparent support for the much-needed Employee Free Choice Act, which would help workers organize more easily.

Sehnert wants to hold the celebration next year - but he says unions won't be invited to help organize it. "Next year, I'd like to have as many businesses as possible," he scowled.

This story boils down to censorship. City officials and global greed merchants aren't any better than that preacher in Louisiana who forced rock concerts to be canceled just because he didn't like rock music. The greed sector is hell-bent on suppressing any thought that helps workers advance.

(Source: http://www.thecourier.com/Issues/2009/Jul/21/ar_news_072109_story1.asp?d=072109_story1,2009,Jul,21&c=n)