Next time you order pizza to be delivered, you better hope the pizzeria you’re ordering from is a union workplace, unless you want an extra ingredient on your pie.
That might be your mindset after seeing the August 27 segment on MSNBC about the “My Bad Boss” contest conducted by Working America, an arm of the AFL-CIO that actively promotes union ideals in non-union workplaces.
In something that more closely resembled a television commercial for unions than a news report, anchor David Shuster actually outdid the union’s “My Bad Boss” contest with a comment about one pregnant employee putting “placenta” on pizza because her boss wouldn’t let her go to the hospital.
“The pizza maker was a worker who works in a pizza parlor. She was pregnant and when she went into labor, the boss told her she had to stay and make pizzas between the contractions because he to go out to lunch,” said Robert Fox, deputy director of Working America.
Shuster had a very nauseating reaction to Fox’s story. “The person who was making pizzas might be then tempted instead of putting pepperoni, put I don’t know – placenta on the pizza,” said Shuster.
Despite that outlandish comment, give Shuster some credit. He did point out one major problem with the contest: the organization didn’t even bother to try and “verify that the stories are accurate.”
A good counterpoint to the report might have been “My Bad Union Boss” featuring the hundreds of instances the National Legal and Policy Center has posted on its Web site for such a contest where union bosses went awry.
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Hon! Did you order snake on your pizza?
August 27, 2007 - 15:36 ET by Mica the MagnificentI hope Lorena Bobbit doesn't work at a pizzaria.
This ran several times over
August 27, 2007 - 15:47 ET by ronberThis ran several times over the weekend. Either MSNBC is providing free air time to the union or the union paid for this time and MSNBC did not disclose that fact. Anyway, it is crystal clear that MSNBC is pimping for the AFL-CIO
Placenta or Union Mexicans sweating on Pizza
August 27, 2007 - 15:52 ET by Lame CherryThe only problem the unions have is that they are not getting paid or kickbacks from the placenta bosses. If they were they would be charging for the extra protein in that extra sauce.
Look for the union label and you will find the biggest of chicken poop in chicken and the worst cow crap in the cheese. Unions only are in it for the money and when they are running the show then everything is fine...........just like that bridge in Minnesota had union made steel in it....and that was just perfect.
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Disgusting... I know of
August 27, 2007 - 15:52 ET by Clear thinkerDisgusting...
I know of people that eat the placenta after the birth of their child. (Maybe they could get Papa Johns to add this to their list of ingredients.)
And yes, these people are all flaming liberals
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Hey, thanks I was starving,
August 27, 2007 - 16:35 ET by AtheistRepublicanHey, thanks I was starving, I didn't get lunch you see, but now I'm not hungry at all, in fact I may never eat again!
Commies
August 27, 2007 - 16:26 ET by mattmLabor unions are communist organizations. However, there is a place for organized labor in the free market, but only to the extent of preventing exploitation and getting a fair market value in compensation for the workers.
But the communistic tendencies of Unions have taken organized labor way beyond it's usefulness and has ended up hurting the economy, workers and even the unions themselves.
See: Economics In One Lesson - Hazlitt
I guess we just join in
August 27, 2007 - 16:32 ET by Dan The Man 2I guess we just join in with the Risky Business or Top Gun crowd by eating placenta.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Placenta Helper
August 27, 2007 - 16:45 ET by nkviking75Anyone else here old enough to remember a skit from the first season of SNL called "Placenta Helper"? It was co-written by none other than Al Franken. I didn't find a video online.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
As someone who is in the
August 27, 2007 - 18:17 ET by Conservative_in_mass.As someone who is in the foodservice business, I am always on the lookout for new menu suggestions for restaurant operators...
water bars
August 27, 2007 - 18:55 ET by Dr_LibertyA few months back it was reported that NYC is seeing the rise of trendy new "water bars" where you can taste (tap) water from different parts of the world. Yummy.
I guess ye olde placenta on the pizza is right in line for the next fad.
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Union labor
August 27, 2007 - 18:54 ET by Dr_LibertyThis is the most bizarre story I ever heard. Thankfully the media is on top of second hand accounts of off hand remarks.
As for the lady, it appears as if a "union" was previously responsible for her labor. <wink, wink, nudge, nudge>
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Anything coming from Shuster
August 27, 2007 - 22:11 ET by bigtimerAnything coming from Shuster is outlandish...to put it mildly.