Anti-Union CPAC Being Serviced By ‘Terrific’ Union Employees

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Labor unions are one of the right wing’s biggest targets. Fox News host Glenn Beck frequently attacks them, and Republicans have done everything they can to block the Employee Free Choice Act. “Why don’t we make things in American anymore?” Beck asked in January. “Because of the labor unions.”

This anti-union fervor is on display at CPAC. There will be a panel tomorrow discussing the perils of “Big Labor,” for example. ThinkProgress is attending the conference, and we also noticed that the conservative National Right to Work organization has a table full of anti-union literature, including a book about “how union bosses have hijacked our government,” a photograph of a pig’s head on the hood of a car with the caption “union organizing tool,” and a cartoon showing a greedy union boss dragging along workers in shackles:





However, as Campus Progress noted this morning, CPAC — going on at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. — is being serviced by unionized employees.

ThinkProgress asked some conference attendees if they were pleased with the service provided by these union employees. All those interviewed praised their experience at the hotel thus far:

– “It’s been wonderful considering all of the people who are here. I think they’ve done a tremendous job.”

– “I’ve been very satisfied. It’s been very accommodating. absolutely terrific.”

We also asked Anthony Riedel of National Right to Work how he felt about attending a conference being supported by union staff and if that goes against anything that his organization supports. “We have no problem with that,” Riedel claimed. Watch the compilation:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/18/cpac-union-hotel/

Campus Progress reported that it saw one hotel employee proudly displaying a Unite Here Local 25 button on his uniform. ThinkProgress also spoke to another employee wearing his local union’s pin, who didn’t want to be photographed.

CPAC’s Saturday night keynote speaker will be the anti-union Beck.

[Brickbat]

1. As I said in the other thread, I find it hilarious that they didn't go through the effort of finding

a non-union hotel.

[MineralMan]

2. But that would require thought and consistency.

Those people are not good at those things.

[Brickbat]

3. You'd think all the sad workers in chains and the mean union bosses wrenching paychecks out of their

hands would have been distracting and unpleasant. Hm.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. They probably found some ... but they were dumps.

Happy to benefit from unions, while whining about the "damage" they do.

[Brickbat]

5. Exactly.

:)

[BrklynLiberal]

6. If I were a union member working that venue, I would find a few subtle ways

to set a few "landmines"....not killers of course...just a few things that would embarrass the idiots.

[pnorman]

7. I was a delegate to the Washington State Labor Council convention several years back.

It was held in Tacoma at a pretty good downtown hotel (I can't recall the name). I recall noticing that all the hotel workers were wearing their union pins. At the banquet on the last day towards the end, all the serving staff entered the dining room, and marched PROUDLY before us all. There was a BOISTEROUS standing ovation that went on for a very long time. That was the convention highlight for me --- and no doubt for them too!

[Omaha Steve]

8. I made a duplicate post of this yesterday, sorry

K&R for this post!