It's Gotta Suck When Liberals Are Attacked By Unions

It's nice to be a liberal, until you get into power and you have to deal with day to day problems and deal with actual costs and dealing with unions and their union thugs.
From Philadelphia online: Thousands of union workers converged on Independence Mall on a crisp Saturday morning, calling on Mayor Nutter to negotiate with some of the city's biggest labor unions, which have been locked in a four-year standoff over their contracts.
Labeling Nutter a "dictator" and his labor negotiations akin to hostage-taking, national labor leaders took the stage with local union presidents just days after Nutter made a "final offer" to the local municipal workers' union - an offer that local labor leaders say is unacceptable.
Speakers praised the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a fighter for workers' rights. He died while advocating in Memphis for striking sanitation workers.
Nutter wasn't in the city Saturday - he was in Washington, heading the U.S. Conference of Mayors for the weekend with plans to stay for Monday's presidential inaugural. A truck with anti-Nutter billboards, sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was parked outside the hotel where the conference was taking place.
"He spends so much time in D.C. - he's got to have a SuperSaver pass for the Metro," said Cathy Scott, the president of AFSCME District Council 47. "We want to bring attention to the policies that this mayor is following in Philadelphia."...
"The mayor ran on a platform in 2007 that he would reform the pension system in the city, would reform health care, and would create an environment where there are work rules for city employees that are essentially sustainable, that city taxpayers can afford," he said.
D.C. 33 members say they're frustrated with stagnant wages and rising health-care costs.
"It's unfair - they're promising us stuff and taking away stuff at the same time," said Jeff Montgomery, 51, a Streets Department employee from Mount Airy. "We haven't gotten a raise in four years. We can't get promotions. That's enough sacrifice."   http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20130120_Union_members_slam_Nutter_on_negotiations.html
Union thugs in action: