Posted on 08/08/2018 6:46:08 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Missouri voters delivered a resounding victory to unions Tuesday, rejecting a right-to-work law against compulsory union fees that had been passed by Republican state officials but placed on hold for more than a year after organized labor petitioned for a referendum.
National and local labor unions spent millions of dollars to defeat Proposition A, hoping to reverse the momentum against them from a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the adoption of similar laws limiting labor powers in other historically strong union states.
Officials at the AFL-CIO called the Missouri vote "a truly historic moment."
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This is a surprise.
Self-inflicted extortion. Why??
Results like this are why liberals want control over everyone. They don’t want people to have the freedom to choose.
I bet it’s largely the government school teachers.
I have family there.
The union campaign was very well run. Focused on lost wages, lost jobs, and bad working conditions at some non union shops.
Funny thing is I expect that the same people who voted against this will vote for Trump’s platform in that both are protectionist.
Why did they do this during the primaries and not in Nov?
State law cannot overrule a Supreme Court ruling.
Public employee workers cannot be forced to pay union dues against their will.
Private employee workers time is coming.
Just under half of union workers in the U.S. are in public employee unions.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
More power to ignorance and evil.
Democrats are clever. They arranged for this critical issue to be decided in a mid summer low turnout election where they can get out their motivated base. Sadly most Republicans like to vote in November when it most matters. Better turnout in November will blunt any “blue wave”.
Was this one of those complex-worded voting issues where you needed to vote YES if you DID NOT want it?
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigned amid scandal on June 1 and disappeared from the public spotlight, he was supposed to rally the voters and supporters to endorse the law by referendum. Apparently the Republican sponsored bill was not supported by Republicans and Greitens who remained or went Swamp.
bummer
Possibly, Rats always game referendums any way they can.
Agreed.
“Democrats are clever. They arranged for this critical issue to be decided in a mid summer low turnout election where they can get out their motivated base.”
Don’t forget the most important factor, the 1,000’s of pubic school teachers that are off for summer with nothing to do but to campaign for demonrats and their causes.
That only applies to employees who are not members of the union being forced to pay “agency fees”.
In a closed-shop state, being a member of the union is compulsory to employment. It’s an outright racket - join the mafia or else.
The democrats are good at manipulating an outcome. The timing of this referendum likely fits turnout expectations. If there were no candidates for republicans to vote for, or none worth voting for, or none in danger (no opposition), then they likely pushed this on the ballot for this election to capitalize on low voter turnout.
It’s a game and democrats are better at playing the game that republicans, typically. Republicans bet on people being smart, and interested, and fair, and logical. Republicans try and play nice so as not to upset people who hate them.....
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