"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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John Gaquin wrote:
Waddya know?!?! That heartless, ruthless, cut-throat,
capitalistic, slimy, sleazy, underhanded, abusive, lying, cheating
oppressor of defenseless working-class Americans - Wal-Mart - has
donated $23 Million to Katrina relief. [Actually $15M from WalMart
and $8M from the Walton Family Trust.] That's more than most
nations of the world have pledged. WalMart has also stated that any
WalMart employee displaced by the storm is guaranteed a job at the
nearest WalMart to their resettlement point.
If they each work three wal-mart jobs, they might make enough to
rent an apartment and buy health insurance.
How much did the AFL-CIO donate?


I don't work for the AFL-CIO, but the labor movement has always been
on the front lines in responding to these situations. As of the middle
of last week, the following had been publicized by the AFL and some of
its member unions:

* The AFL-CIO has created a special Hurricane Relief Fund as part
of the Union Community Fund. Go to http://www.aflcio.org/hurricane to
make a tax-deductible contribution and be part of the largest relief
effort in the nation's history.
* Delegates to the CWA convention in Chicago voted to send up to
$4 million in hurricane relief aid to help CWA families in the area.
* Several unions have established hurricane relief funds to aid
their members' recovery. Visit their websites for more information:
AFT (http://www.aft.org); Air Line Pilots (http://www.alpa.org); Fire
Fighters (http://www.iaff.org); Machinists (http://www.iamaw.org);
National Air Traffic Controllers Association (http://www.natca.org);
and Postal Workers (http://www.apwu.org).
* AFGE has partnered with the Federal Employee Education &
Assistance Fund to provide support and direct assistance to hurricane
victims. Go to http://www.afge.org for more information or to
http://www.feea.org to donate.
* The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the
Screen Actors are asking members to contribute to the Actors' Fund of
America or the Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund. Go to
http://www.aftra.org or http://www.sag.org for more information.
* Go to http://www.aflcio.org/hurricane for information on other
organizations that also are accepting donations for hurricane relief.
Check that site regularly for updates.
* IAFF President Harold Schaitberger traveled to the disaster area
Sept. 1 to help coordinate the union's relief effort at the IAFF
Command Response Center. Several IAFF locals from around the country
sent members for immediate rescue and recovery operations as part of
urban search-and-rescue teams. In addition, many of the local
firefighters and paramedics working around the clock in the disaster
areas are IAFF members.
* NATCA is planning to organize caravans of relief supplies,
including food, water, baby wipes, bug spray, generators and other
critically needed supplies.

And all of it combined doesn't add up to the $23 million in cash that
Wal-Mart has donated...plus all of the other things that they've given
to the relief effort.

D'oh. The AFL is a trade association of labor unions, not the world's \
largest retailer, with unlimited resources.

They sure seem to have unlimited resources for campaign contributions
come election time.







Nope. Compared to the cons, just a pittance.

Yes. Their Katrina donations compared to their election campaign donations
*are* a pittance.


If you compare campaign contributions vs. Katrina donations, you'll find the
AFL-CIO ratio to be a lot higher than the Wal-Mart ratio.