Posted on 01/05/2011 7:18:35 AM PST by Biggirl
This has been one of the big causes of Fox New Radio host John Gibson, and may I say with good reason. Charges were made last week that NYC Sanitation workers staged a slowdown during the blizzard, leaving streets unplowed and generally causing chaos. That investigation continues now with video obtained by our sister station in NYC, CBS 2, as the evidence continues to mount that union supervisors orchestrated the slowdown as a protest to proposed salary and labor cuts. Is it time to outlaw public worker unions?
Two videos for you. First up the original charge made by New York City Councilman Dan Halloran. He made the charges on the Fox show “Your World”. It was he said, part of a job action against the City for proposed cuts in Sanitation staff and supervisors. Unreal.
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Your government unions and tax dollars at work!
the problem isn’t the unions, it’s the politicians who cater to them. if somebody offers you something you want for free, you’d be a fool not to take it. the politicians co-opted the unions a long time ago.
eyes on the prize people. the problem isn’t the symptom.
keep it up and they are going to start coming in below food poisoning, jock itch, and Helen Thomas in popularity polls...
Disagree. The union bosses control the politicians, not the other way around.
The bosses can throw their support to another pol in the Dem primary, and he will win, defeating any pol that gets in the bosses’ way.
The politicians can do little directly to affect the bosses.
Essentially, in the states where unions dominate, the union bosses elect the politicians, who then “negotiate” with the people who elected them and who control whether they will be reelected.
Is it too late to blame this on George Bush?
the politicians have been bought and paid for by the unions. they launder union money by throwing tax dollars at the unions. that’s the dirty little secret. by scapegoating the unions, the pols escape their responsibility for whoring themselves.
its’ kind alike blaming the wolf for raiding the henhouse, whtn the farmer opens the door, and invities the fox in, and they share the booty.
I obviously agree the politicians are whores.
My point is that the politicians work for the union bosses, not the other way around. It’s the question of who is in control. As long as the bosses control the elections, replacing one political whore with another won’t change a thing.
funny how you seem to think the unions are in charge. if they were, think of this: why, after decades gettign godo health care benifits for their workers, did they go all out to DILLUTE these bennies by supporting the democrat’s health care bill? time and time again? it’s against their best interests.
like the unions supporting amnesty.
it shows just who’s running whom.
Here is a case where trash should be picked up by private contractors and the streets plowed by private contractors. What an unusual thought. The unions have stepped on their cranks big time.
The problem is that people who receive more in payment from the government than they pay in taxes are allowed to vote.
ML/NJ
The feds just want to find out who the whistle blowers are.
are you including the welfare class in this?
disagree - it’s those charged with reining them in, who let them get out so they can be coopted that are the real culprits. when a child becomes a spoiled brat, it isn’t the child’s fault - it’s the parents. union beifits are the symptom, teh politicians who give them away - that’s thre problem.
Er, that’s incorrect. You need only visit any govt office and see the lazy clowns surfing the internet all day long.
Reduce govt employees by 50%. and I don’t mean their ample waistlines.
You may notice I spoke of the union bosses being in charge, not the unions. The bosses are more focused on ideology than on the actual best interests of their members. Which is why they support things like public health care, which is pretty irrelevant to their members, usually. Also amnesty for illegals, which is definitely against the interests of union members.
Yes, the problem is the unions. There never should have been public sector unions in the first place. Even FDR had that much sense. The feedback loop of electing those who set your salary, yet don’t actually pay it leads to horribly bad incentives.
this is my point. if the pols worked for the unnions, they would be supplying people to walk picket lines, rather than the unions supplying people to go attend democorat rallies, beat up people, etc..
by putting the squeeze on the union membership, you not only penalize the innocent, but you let the reap perps skate.
whilst i don’t disagree with yout premise, the real problem is that the pols - who have the responsibility of guarding the henhouse (public purse), have managed to open the doors and hand out all sorts of goodies. AND those who elected them also haven’t been doing their due dilligence.
but hold on, the unions in the automotive industry got far more gains for their membership then public sector unions. again the unions aren’t working for their members, they’re working for the politicians. and we let them.
but i don’t see how you can really get rid of public sector unions without defining the rights of workers as dependant upon who their employer might be.
in the old days, the pols would shake down public employees for campaign contributions, now they shake down the unions.
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