Posted on 09/14/2015 11:41:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[Hillary] used the social media platform to accuse Walker of employing “bullying” tactics when dealing with unions.
“Unions help keep working families strong. Scott Walker’s attacks on unions and workers’ rights aren’t leadership—they’re bullying,” Clinton wrote.
The tweet was signed with her initial, indicating she personally authored the tweet.
A few hours later, Walker responded — and hit back hard.
@HillaryClinton Actually, we’re protecting the American worker from being forced to support candidates like you,” [SW]
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
“The question that labor leaders must be asking is, 'can unions survive a Scott Walker presidency?’” he said.
Chaison added that candidates for the Republican party nomination, including front-runner Donald Trump, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich, have not broached union power in their economic platforms, and labor leaders would likely prefer to be ignored than strongly opposed as Walker is doing.
Walker is trying to use that to his political advantage, telling his audience, “Nobody else in this race is talking about this.”
..Trying to pique Republican interest as he previewed his proposals in a post on conservative website Hot Air, Walker wrote: “The fact that this is occurring at a time when the IRS and VA lurch from one scandal to another and struggle to provide basic services to those they are charged with serving underscores the need for reform.”
Beyond his stated goal of saving U.S. taxpayers money and make the federal government more efficient, part of Walker's pitch includes curbing the political spending power of unions that benefit Democrats almost exclusively.
He would use his executive authority once in office to stop government unions from deducting money from paychecks of federal employees used for political activities. Source
"@HillaryClinton Actually, we’re protecting the American worker from being forced to support candidates like you,” [SW]"
........"Scott Walker can now add one-trick pony to his resume, right underneath national disgrace," said AFL-CIO spokesman Eric Hauser. "His campaign is floundering and so he does what he always does when he can't think of real solutions. He attacks workers."
J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union of federal workers, representing about 750,000 people, said it's a last-ditch effort by a failing candidate.
The Democratic National Committee, through spokesman TJ Helmstetter, called the plan a "desperate and disgusting" attempt to revive a "flailing campaign on the backs of middle-class workers and families."
And Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, piled on, saying in a sarcastic statement, "If Scott Walker thinks the way to save his ever-sinking campaign is to disparage Nevada's and America's working class, well then best of luck to him."
Labor law experts were taken aback by the scope of Walker's proposal, which seek to undo decades of law and would gut the landmark National Labor Relations Act - adopted in 1935 and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression.
"I've never seen anything like this," said Ann Hodges, a professor at the University of Richmond who has studied labor law for more than 40 years. "This will take the breath away from anyone who's worked in labor relations for any length of time. ... It's pretty draconian."
Walker's plan also calls for prohibiting the automatic withdrawal of union dues to be used for political purposes and forbidding union organizers from accessing employees' personal information, such as their phone numbers. Source
Seems obvious. Scott Walker as Sec of Labor in a Trump administration.
The Unions will try to secede if that happens.
"The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments. The department is headed by the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
In carrying out this mission, the Department of Labor administers and enforces more than 180 federal laws and thousands of federal regulations. These mandates and the regulations that implement them cover many workplace activities for about 10 million employers and 125 million workers."
Good one, Gov. Walker. ;-D
Those damn unions are still bellyaching over what he did in WI, aren’t they? How it must kill their miserable souls to lose that money which they put into the Democratic coffers - not to mention their greedy pockets. I’d like to see Walker in a cabinet position too - he’s a pretty good guy.
"Governor Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled state legislature freed government employees from involuntary forced union membership, enabling them to choose or not choose to pay dues. The results have shown that roughly two-thirds have not chosen union membership when given the opportunity. And that has meant big cutbacks for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the most left wing and biggest political contributors to Democrats among American unions.......
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.....Keep in mind that AFSCME [American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees] was founded in Wisconsin, the state that was the birthplace of the Progressive political movement. Thus, the rejection of forced union membership is doubly painful. And it is already painful for the union bosses:........"
....No mention is made of political donations by the unions, but in the past AFSCME has been a major source of money and manpower for the Democrats. That racket is now ending for workers in Wisconsin, and one of Scott Walker’s strongest appeals will be to extend these reforms nationwide."
Should be another interesting debate.
Right now I take Cruz, Trump and Walker in that order.
But that’s what debates are for :)
“What happens when you are a proud union member and you have a governor that wants to drive you out?” Hillary declared, according to The New York Times."
Sept 07, 2015: Scott Walker fires back at Obama on collective bargaining
No debates are for ratings, gotcha questions and having the candidates attack each other. Some are good debaters, but lousy at governing. I don’t put much stock in debates.
Randi Weingarten AFT [American Federation of Teachers] President
and Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO President
and BCTD
are investing pension funds in Democrat initiatives [GREEN and CLINTON GLOBAL ready].
"......At the White House event today, the labor movement committed to work to invest $150 million in energy-efficient retrofit projects in the coming months.
President Obama announced that nearly $4 billion of investments have been committed already, including $2 billion by workers' pension funds, CEOs, mayors and university presidents for energy-saving upgrades. This builds on 14 private sector commitments announced at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in June, including the labor movement's aim to invest $10 billion in pension fund assets in job-creating infrastructure projects over the next five years.
"The Better Buildings initiative has all the right components to make a real difference—it will create profitable investment opportunities for worker pension funds, create badly needed good jobs, increase America's competitiveness around energy savings, and address the dangers of climate change," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
"This is about smart investments in America's future," AFT President Randi Weingarten said at the White House event. "The initiative is a win-win-win. It puts skilled laborers back to work on projects that will cut energy bills and pollution, reduce our dependency on foreign oil and create tens of thousands of new jobs. It's exactly what America needs now to strengthen our economy." The Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO said the initiative will have a profound impact on the U.S. construction industry, which is suffering a 14 percent unemployment rate nationwide, by providing apprenticeships and jobs.
"It will create much-needed pathways for Americans to gain access to job and career training while making great strides to address our critical energy and environmental challenges," said Mark H. Ayers, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department.
The AFT has been retrofitting its headquarters building in Washington, D.C., to become LEED Silver certified, and the AFL-CIO has committed to a Better Buildings Challenge retrofit of its headquarters, expected to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent.
"We not only are asking others to commit to energy-saving retrofits, but we're also doing it ourselves," Weingarten said.
Over the past year, the AFL-CIO, AFT and BCTD have been working with a broad coalition of pension funds, money managers, public officials and employers to focus investment in our nation's infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on energy-efficient retrofits.
The AFL-CIO has exceeded its initial Clinton Global Initiative commitment of working with existing real estate-focused investment funds to invest between $10 million and $20 million of additional capital in energy-efficient retrofits of commercial, industrial, institutional and public buildings over the next six months. -- AFL-CIO, AFT and BCTD Laud $4 Billion Commitment to Presidential ‘Better Buildings Challenge’ Initiative [Dec - 2011]
All these Democrat groups are aligned and coordinated.
UPDATED Sunday, May 1, 2011 -— 9:03 p.m.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Immigration-rights leaders in Wisconsin have teamed up with national labor leaders to fight for workers’ rights and support reform in Madison and Washington, D.C.
Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Milwaukee on Sunday as part of a coordinated series of May Day rallies across the nation.
Speakers at a rally afterward included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. He says it’s natural for the two groups to combine forces because they’re being attacked by the same conservative opponents.
The march was organized by Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant-rights group. Executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz told demonstrators that politicians are holding the working class responsible for Wall Street’s failures.”....
2013: Trumka and Bishop Blaire Urge Congress to Pass Immigration Reform, Ask Obama to Halt Deportations
Dead Man Walkering
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dead-man-walkering
The Wisconsin State Capitol had taken on an eerie quiet by late Friday. Gone were the throngs of protesters who had occupied its marble floors like it were a summer campground. The midnight honking of cars circling the white building had ceased. The chalk outlines around fake dead bodies etched with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's name remained in dismembered parts, not yet completely washed away by hoses.
It was the governor, however, who had walked away the legislative victor in the showdown. On Friday, as angry protesters chanted "Shame" and blew horns and vuvuzelas, Walker took up a dozen pens, one at a time, to sign into law a bill that not only takes away the ability of unions to bargain collectively over pensions and health care but also limits pay raises of public employees to the rate of inflation and ends automatic union dues collection by the state. It also requires public unions to recertify annually. It was a coup by Wisconsin Republicans against the labor movement in one of its strongholds.....
2012: A sad night for MSNBC: Video montage of Wisconsin recall race coverage
LoL!... I love it :-)
: )
....If you have not seen it yet, there is a story from the Associated Press about the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) laying off 42 workers and blaming Walker’s budget bill: ‘Wisconsin Education Association Council executive director Dan Burkhalter said the laying off of 42 workers resulted from what he called Walker’s “union-busting” bill.’
If you read further along in the story (where the liberal media hides the real content) you find that the WEAC has been on quite a spending spree: “Lobbying reports released last week showed that in 2009 and 2010, at a time when Democrats were in control of the Legislature and the governor’s office, WEAC spent $2.5 million twisting the arms of lawmakers, more than any other group.”.... WI Teachers Union Blows Cash, Lays Off Workers, and Blames Walker [2011]
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