Think Progress Fails At Disproving Pelosi Hypocrisy
Miserably, but I wouldn’t expect any differently of them. The accusation is:
If you follow the link to Think Progress and watch the video, it doesn’t take but a 5 year old to realize that nothing was debunked, but in fact proved Schweizer correct!
Nico states emphatically:
1) Pelosi treats her workers better than unionized vineyard workers. “The Pelosis pay more than union workers are paid in the same valley ” that from the pastor at St. Helena’s Catholic Church, a well known advocate for farm workers who’s involved in labor negotiations with the same labor manager the Pelosis use. : Monsignor Brenkle says the Pelosis pay a $1.25 an hour more than workers at Napa’s biggest union winery. : Of the more than 300 vineyards, fewer than four are union, and most of the farm workers in the Napa Valley get paid better.”
2) Pelosi is prohibited by law from helping her workers unionize. If Pelosi wanted to have union workers, “she could not ask the union for a contract. It’s illegal and has been since 1975.” Marc Grossman of the United Farm Workers Union explains: “It is patently illegal for any grower to even discuss a union contract, which is the only way you can supply union workers, without the workers first having voted in a state conducted secret ballot election.”
I am not sure who is more ignorant, Nico or the producer at ABC that allowed this piece on the air…
1) Pelosi doesn’t employ union workers but pays $1.25 more er hour than a union worker gets. No one qustioned her pay scale, they claimed she doesn’t employ union workers. As the reporter stated, she doesn’t. Strike 1
2) No one asked Pelosi to form a union for her vineyard. When they started the business, they had a choice to hire union or non union workers..they went with non-union. Strike 2
3) The Pelosis are investors in the Napa Valley Auberge Du Soleil Resort(250 employees) and the restaurant chain called Piatti(900 employees). No union.. Why no mention of those in the piece? Strike 3
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November 30, 2006 - 08:00 AM on November 30th, 2006
Why Peejz don’t you know????????? Nancy’s do-do does’nt stink!!!!!!!!
January 12, 2007 - 10:11 AM on January 12th, 2007
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