Despicable smear artist attacks fast-food strikers

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMfrGlXapycxRV2XEurFWYEVR-VIMGArtN6bY-PvUQXQqzQkVtxrQWsuJiFZIZaUTOYdBEPwY7cG7VxQKdgylHO5VUXn6dfma9iAp2ZhxDaX7dt9h-xg7z21koCdxFGybQ9dsQeAhMHF9/s1600/fast+food+strikers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMfrGlXapycxRV2XEurFWYEVR-VIMGArtN6bY-PvUQXQqzQkVtxrQWsuJiFZIZaUTOYdBEPwY7cG7VxQKdgylHO5VUXn6dfma9iAp2ZhxDaX7dt9h-xg7z21koCdxFGybQ9dsQeAhMHF9/s400/fast+food+strikers.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Our old enemy, the despicable smear artist <a href="http://bermanexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">Rick Berman</a>, is back, making up crap on Fox News to discredit fast-food strikers.<br /><br />Berman is a shill for the restaurant industry, which is clearly spooked by the thousands of<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/08/low-wage-workers-in-Chicago-Milwaukee-Seattle-walk-off-jobs.html"> fast-food strikers</a> who've elicited broad public outrage over their poverty wages and abuse at work. The fast-food strikers want higher wages and an end to retaliation for trying to form a union.<br /><br />This week, fast-food workers walked off the job in a wave of one-day strikes, first in New York, then in St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Milwaukee and Seattle. Workers who hadn't planned on joining the fast-food strikers suddenly decided to join them. Scabs refused to cross picket lines, according to Bud Meyers at <a href="http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/low-pay-keeps-millennials-stuck-home5319" rel="nofollow">The Economic Populist</a>.<br /><br />Berman is an old corporate hit man whose own son has called him despicable. This is what <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;"> </span><a href="http://ethanbeute.com/wordpress/like-son-dont-like-father-berman/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #336699; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">he has said about dear old dad</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;">: </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px; margin: 1em 20px;">“My father is a despicable man.  My father is a sort of human molestor.  An exploiter.  A scoundrel.  A world historical motherf*cking son of a b*itch.  (sorry grandma)”<br /><br />“He props up fast food/soda/factory farming/childhood obesity and diabetes/drunk driving/secondhand smoke.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px; margin: 1em 20px;">He attacks animal lovers, ecologists, civil action attorneys, scientists, dieticians, doctors, teachers.</blockquote>Meyers has more about Berman's recent appearance on Fox News:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Recently on July 29th, on the Fox News business channel, host Stuart Varney interviewed Richard Berman of the Employment Policies Institute to provide a "critical analysis" of the walk outs. Berman dismissed the idea of raising fast food employee wages, claiming that a hike in pay would result in lower employment: </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The business model just does not support those kind of wages. If people are feeling that they are not being paid adequately, then they have got to find a job someplace else." </blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbMgZFVxYJhIPUzT2FSkVJ0DUom6uIZv3p8kaiE1r-GXs7M2Sw0mxvkD5j0ug5q0RPcLFeGJwsgyvX7PJZr6pg3eUrJltBgixALY_FSIhGmQKhdbUky9LnsHLO4hnq77Ourov_-U5f5SC/s1600/rick+berman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbMgZFVxYJhIPUzT2FSkVJ0DUom6uIZv3p8kaiE1r-GXs7M2Sw0mxvkD5j0ug5q0RPcLFeGJwsgyvX7PJZr6pg3eUrJltBgixALY_FSIhGmQKhdbUky9LnsHLO4hnq77Ourov_-U5f5SC/s1600/rick+berman.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Berman</td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote class="tr_bq">Berman, a corporate lobbyist, did not disclose his organization's ties to the fast food industry. According to <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/" rel="nofollow">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a>, the Employment Policies Institute is one of many front groups associated with Berman which provides political cover for clients in the restaurant, hospitality, alcohol, and tobacco industries. Berman specializes in a so-called "aggressive media outreach" approach intended to "change the debate" in favor of major clients. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Berman, who says the fast-food industry can't support paying $15 an hour, is trying to convince the general public that this raises the incentive for fast-food businesses to replace workers with some automated method of preparing, serving and selling fast-food via an iPad. According to the Employment Policies Institute's 2011 990 form, Berman is paid $1.16 million to use scare tactics to convince others that they aren't worth $15 an hour.</blockquote>It's the same old story of powerful corporations trying to crush their workers using devious means. Let's hope the fast-food strikers can write a new chapter with a happier ending.<br /><br />

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Our old enemy, the despicable smear artist Rick Berman , is back, making up crap on Fox News to discredit fast-food strikers. Berman is a sh...

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