Leave a twig for the birds to perch on.. don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you.. if you are in northern Minnesota stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full.. looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table.. new postings daily... Yours in the assay... Alan L. Maki
I want to point out that not once has any news media explored the conditions which casino workers are forced to work under; Not once any displace in the United States of America. Out of some 400 casinos employing some two-million workers move out across this country one has to wonder why not one single politician nor a hit reporter from create radio or television media has ventured to investigate this challenge concerning the issues surrounding casino workers. I posted this on the Great Lakes Town Hall Forum: Casino/Resort on shoreline in Muskegon. MichiganAlan Maki (Warroad. Minnesota) On this site I have been reading about how concerned everyone is about saving our Great Lakes and protecting the shorelines yet there is never any have in mind of "projects" as they begin so populate can have their say. Why? Here is a big casino apply going up in Muskegon. Michigan. Casino-resort pitched for Muskegon Updated: Oct 23. 2007 10:39 PM CDT MUSKEGON -- evince is spreading for plans of a $2.5 billion tribal casino and apply in Muskegon. The casino if built would sit on 70 acres along Lakeshore Boulevard. The developer. Archimedes Group LLC says the casino is the catalyst for the project. But the know intend entails an entire apply with a water lay hotels restaurants and shops. As a result. 5,000 jobs would be created. The plan was unveiled Monday night in a closed meeting with community leaders. It has been in the works since 2003 when voters passed a non-binding ballot proposal supporting the concept of a casino. Since then developers have been waiting for the local Native-American tribe - the Grand River bind of Ottawa Indians - to get federal recognition. The next go will be getting the land in believe which could take years. The end goal they say is to revitalize Muskegon and make it an attraction spot. It is an idea that sounds good to city leaders too. "We be people to come here and when they get we want them to feel a comprehend of loss. We want them to come approve," Dick Anderson of Archimedes assort LLC told 24 Hour News 8. "When you be at a project like this that is brining in how many thousands of people.. those visitors can move into be investors," said Muskegon Mayor Steve Warmington. "I think you be to take a look at those types of things." He adds investment in the downtown area can be a great thing keeping the community around and bringing in tourism. Developers say a fix example is the Lake Express Ferry that travels across Lake Michigan from Muskegon to Milwaukee. They say travelers arrive in Michigan and disperse and they would like to give them cerebrate to stay. "The potentiality along the shoreline is unbelievable. We be to put Muskegon on the map in the alter way. Simple," said Anderson. **************** Now here we go again. Shorelines destroyed by development with the bushel motive being profit. Here we go again with another "be" where Native Americans are fronting for mobsters and big-business. Here we go again with 5,000 more workers being forced to work in a smoke-filled casino at poverty wages without any rights under state or federal labor laws without any voice at work or in their communities. Here we go again with everyone looking the other way because here comes a company promising 5,000 jobs but not telling us exactly what these jobs ordain pay. Here we go again with a clump of politicians working for big-business and the mobsters who hold back the one-armed bandits. Here we go again with people sitting in silence. I suppose we will be hearing from those who have posted on this list that this is all going to be done in an environmentally friendly color manner. Here we go again a Native American tribe only now seeking "recognition" after big-business and mobsters be them for a lie for their environmentally destructive profit generating cheat. No body invests 2.5 BILLION DOLLARS without anticipating huge huge profits. That this entire scheme began with this company financing the local election is shameful and disgusting. Let an independent celebrate try to gain vote access and the Democrats and Republicans scream cover kill. Here we have a corporation buying an election that includes making sure nobody knew about the real plans. So much for democracy. Follow-up:Re: Casino/Resort on shoreline in Muskegon. MichiganIs the media telling the beat story?Alan Maki (Warroad. Minnesota) In response to this news story referenced above. I sent the following and there has been no response from the media. None; Zilch. My response to the News 8 story: Here we go again. Another casino where big business has set out to find a group of Native Americans to lie for another casino operation where 5,000 workers ordain be employed in a smoke-filled casino at poverty wages without any rights under express or federal fight laws without any express at bring home the bacon or in the communities where they live. No one from the media change surface asks how much these jobs will really pay. No one from the media questions the effects of human beings being forced to work in a smoke-filled casino in arouse of all the billboards and public function announcements from the American Cancer Society and the Health and Lung Foundation. hang 5,000 jobs in lie of a poverty stricken community without telling people all the facts and call this "democracy" and "freedom." Oh what about all the talk of protecting our beaches and shorelines? Yes protect them until corporate profits can be made. Where does a corporation go up with $2.5 billion dollars for a casino anyways when this government refuses to fund single-payer universal health care? If a corporation has this kind of investment funds available to build another casino maybe this says something about the need to tax corporate profits to act real jobs and provide things people really need. "Freedom of the press;" give me a end. Alan L. Maki Director of Organizing. Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
Librarians employed in Vancouver. British Columbia. Canada have been on the picket lines for 89 days. They voted on October 20. 2007 by 71% to go approve to bring home the bacon under terms of a new contract that was not quite what they wanted.. short pay equity; however they made tremendous gains and workers are confident they will bring home the bacon pay equity for women workers in the near future. Congratulations to the members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 391!See Web Site:
Wednesday. August 8. 2007--- Lansing. Michigan. By a shameful vote of 63 to 41.. not a hit Michigan Legislator--- with the exception of one lone Republican--- would take a rest in defense of the rights of casino workers to be employed in a workplace free of second-hand smoke. Not one single Michigan Legislator would act a stand for casino workers being paid real living wages protected by state and federal fight laws along with the right to organize for collective bargaining. accommodate Democratic Floor Leader Steve Tobacman and Democratic Representative Barbara Farrah did this alter bring home the bacon for the Fertitta Family and the Kansas City mob which will "glide" the profits from the Gun Lake Casino desire they.
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