And we can't forget...
Posted on 12/11/2012 9:41:12 AM PST by jazusamo
UPDATE 12:15 pm EST: The Republican controlled legislature has passed the right-to-work legislation 58-51. Michigan Governor Snyder is expected to sign the bill into law later today.
The vote to turn Michigan into a right-to-work state will take place today after days of protests in Lansing about the pro-worker legislation that prevents having to pay dues to a union. Not surprisingly, local police are bracing for possible violence today as more protests are planned.
Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan shows no sign of cooling.
Authorities in Lansing were bracing for an onslaught of demonstrators Tuesday at the Michigan Capitol as the Legislature reconvenes for what could be final votes on bills. Hundreds of people gathered early Tuesday to get inside.
Yesterday while in Michigan campaigning for his new $1.6 trillion tax increase, President Obama slammed right-to-work states all over the country, saying legislation on the table in Lansing isn't about economics but about attacking unions.
"These so-called right-to-work laws, they don't have anything to do with economics, they have everything to do with politics," Obama told cheering workers Monday during a visit to an engine plant in Redford, Mich. "What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
Schools have also been closed so teachers can go protest today because afterall, "it's all about the kids."
At least two Michigan school districts have announced plans to cancel classes Tuesday – the same day some teachers and other union protesters are expected to converge at the state Capitol to protest right-to-work legislation.
Warren Consolidated Schools in southeast Michigan is canceling school “due to the number of staff who has notified us that they will be absent” Tuesday, according to a letter from Superintendent Robert Livernois posted on the district website.
Let's not forget that President Obama refused to comment when his former chief of staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to give protesting unionized teachers exactly what they wanted. Apparently his criticism only applies to Republicans.
Before this week, the last time the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike was September 8, 1987. It lasted until October 3, during which officials, teachers and parents clashed in the city's longest teachers strike ever. After it ended, I called the Chicago school system the worst in the country.
President Obama has been noticeably silent. He shouldn't be. The nation deserves to know whether his allegiances lie with his political allies in the public sector unions or with Emanuel and Duncan. This power struggle will reveal much about the constitution of the modern Democratic Party.
If the legislation in Michigan passed and singed into law by Republican Governor Richard Snyder, the Wolverine State will become the 24th in the country to have a right-to-work law on the books.
UPDATE: Much like Wisconsin in 2011, out of state union workers are being bused in to help storm the capitol.
Michigan is getting bombarded by out-of-state union activists, including protestors from Wisconsin. They're expecting union protestors from Ohio and elsewhere, too.
Look for a surge in notes from doctors practicing near the state capitol for union members skipping work on Tuesday.
May we all live long enough to pass our excretions on the dead heap of union corruption. If not for unions, the US auto industry would have continued to lead the world. Same with the steel industry.
Employment contingent on joining a union is an assault on liberty, a violation of our unalienable right to associate with those we wish and no others.””
Absolutely, and if any judge worth a pinch of crap would stand and say it is indeed not right and not constitutional for unions to have “legal standing” thereby allowing the forced extortion of other employee’s wages isn’t corruption, I don’t know what is.
Here’s the Facebook page of the thug who was screaming about shooting 20 people.
http://www.facebook.com/chrisandrea.opalewski
......here’s an idea...........business has been kind of slow for the SEALS lately............how bout shipping all 2,500 of them to Lansing!
Then, after the Union Thugs have been run through a weapons check, turn all 10,000 of them loose on the 2,500 SEALS and then just stand back and watch the fun!
Seriously speaking, these Thugs need to run up against someone besides old men, women and children!!...do em all good!
The 300lb go go girl on the label as "Miss Frothingslosh" danced by the name of "Tiny Bubbles" out at the 84 bar and grill.
I'm getting all choked up at these great memories.
Next we have to talk about KDKA and Porky Chedwick!
“..Seriously speaking, these Thugs need to run up against someone besides old men, women and children!!...do em all good!..”
It is about “Brown Shirt tactics” Hitler 1928-1933
And we can't forget...
It is pretty basic, isn’t it? Sadly, the state of affairs in Canada is that one cannot have employment unless they join that company or government union.
Pork the Torque was my mom’s second cousin. I guess that makes him my third cousin. Started at WAMO in Homestead where I was born. Never heard the end of stories about my famous relatives when I was a kid. And Terry Lee in McKeesport.
Everyone who was anyone went to the Porky dances in Bethel Park at the skating rink, and the Terry Lee dances at Glassport Firehall.
And leave us not forget the KDKA Jaybird and Rockin’ Robin. I had my mom’s whole collection until there was a fire and everything was lost...except the stories that stayed in my head. I always wished I could go back there and experience it all for myself.
“about the pro-worker legislation that prevents having to pay dues to a union.”
Parsed that reads:about the legislation that makes union dues voluntary.
Naturally, unions are furious about this. They know that nobody wants to support them.
They should also have to pay the dues in person, not have it deducted from the checks
surprised KY, MT, CO, NM , MO are union states.
KY should be next to fall for them, then MT, CO
That show is still on, !!!
I tried to watch that show but just can;t, it;s too awful.
Beckel is al mouth and I;d love to get him in the ring.
The guy who thinks he;s funny is not funny.
Perino is the typical elitist RINO.
Then the woman with legs and no brains or common sense and laps it up to Beckel
Only one person is worth listening to and he;s still not enough to have me watch whilst the other goons are on.
Not always keen on Beck but at least he told us about how th eleft works and where the money goes and he calls the left out unlike most on TV
Hammerhead for President 2016.
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