Posted on 11/01/2010 9:33:27 AM PDT by lbryce
Organized labor is deeply worried about what happens after Tuesday.
By many measures, labor unions have been the Republicans’ fiercest, biggest-spending opponents in this year’s campaign, laying out more than $200 million in hopes of safeguarding the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
So it should be no surprise that Republicans, who appear to stand a good chance of winning control of the House or Senate, are signaling that they plan to push bills and strategies to undermine labor’s political clout and ability to grow.
“Republicans are likely to pursue a version of what Samuel Gompers often said: ‘Reward your friends and punish your enemies,’ ” said Joseph McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown University.
One bill that is popular among Republicans would prohibit employers from ever agreeing to unionization through “card check,” a process often used today in which an employer recognizes a union as soon as a majority of workers sign pro-union cards — without holding a secret-ballot election. Another bill would severely crimp labor’s campaign spending by barring unions from using any portion of a union member’s dues money for political purposes unless the member first gives written permission.
A Republican-led House or Senate is expected to be more eager than a Democratic-controlled one to approve free trade agreements that unions oppose, and to be more reluctant to enact stimulus plans that unions have supported, like the recent bill that gave states $26 billion to help save the jobs of teachers, police and other government employees. A Republican-controlled House or Senate would probably block a labor-backed bill that would give firefighters and police officers in every state the right to unionize.
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‘Reward your friends and punish your enemies,’
Now where did I recently hear those words?
They must also fear going back to work. There are a lot of union workers that are not earning a paycheck.
MAKE THEM DEFINE THE TERMS
What “rights” are they talking about?
MAKE THEM DEFINE THE TERMS
and leftists will always lose the argument.
Enact legislation that makes all unions illegal. Anyone caught organizing one will be executed.
I know, I can dream right?
The first thing that has to be done is a full scale investigation into SEIU. Their finances and intimidation tactics. Especially the pension funds.
I’m sure you were posting with your tongue firmly in your cheek, but...
no need to make unions illegal. Just as there is no need to make immoral behavior illegal.
Just repeal all laws that support union power,
give the choice back to the people,
enforce laws against intimidation and thuggery,
and unions will go bye bye all on their own.
Precisely. These aren't 'rights', they're Government enforced privileges.
The union scumbags have no rights to any of our tax dollars or any other rights not defined by the Constitution. Special deals made for them can and should be rolled back.
I hope the GOP rips the funding guts out of the unions. They’ve nearly destroyed Michigan, and the fight to defund the forced unionization of day care providers here is still in court.
They are despicable. Once upon a time they served a good purpose but not anymore. Screw ‘em.
Public unions need to be ended yesterday. Cops included.
401K is the way.
Unions. A boon to the working man 50 years ago
A boon to lazy rotten bastards and Union Boss Leadership nowadays.
Labor unions are monopolized labor and by definition should be illegal.
How about rolling FORWARD the rights of people who DON’T belong to unions?
How about rolling FORWARD the rights of people who DON’T belong to unions?
Samuel Gompers:
Gompers retained a certain sympathy for the ideas of Karl Marx throughout his life, although believing that the socialist movement had been captured by Lassallean advocates of “political party action” rather than the “militant economic program of Marx.”[15] /Wiki
He was one of socialist ‘founding fathers’ of the union movement in the US. Of course he was a British Jew.
Rights my @ss!
They should be dealt with a la Reagan’s confrontation with the Air Traffic Controllers!
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