Crowds Descend As Ohio Debates Union Overhaul

AP and NBC4 ^ | 2/17/11

[muawiyah]

BTW, within in the environment of any government agency at any time in history under any political system, there cannot ever be any possibility of a merit pay system that actually makes pay adjustments based on the merit of the employee or employees affected.

That's because the bosses within the system are selected for ability to kiss butt ~ and are never penalized for failure to manage, or for wasting money.

No boss in any government agency is ever rewarded or punished based on performance of their organizational elements.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Exactly. And they lie they have no tea party people and fireman are generally volunteer up North. So I call BS!

[FrankR]

" The measure would end collective bargaining and replace negotiated salary schedules with merit raises."

Ahhhh...merit...what a concept. Pay raises based on how well you do your job...like the rest of us have to do.

Unions are the hotbed for hatching MEDIOCRITY. It' mini-socialism mentality is destroying business after business, and city after city. If you did that with fire, you'd be jailed for arson...but a business or city destroyed by unions is worse than fire - with fire, your insurance will help you rebuild. Nobody wants any part of a union-destroyed entity.

The sooner the entire country adopts these measures, the better. obama loves unions because they are the seed of socialism, breeding bloc voters for his majesty.

Upending unions is right up their with controlling spending and the deficit...it has GOT to be done.

One good rule of thumb to watch in the future is, whichever candidate - of either side - is getting big support from a union (any union), vote for the other guy/gal.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I would not doubt it. Obama is spending BILLIONS on his Hitler campaign of BS.

[Cheerio]

Saul Alinsky Lives!!!

Think Beck has been forcasting this for a while now.

[EBH]

Ohio Tea Party is there!

Hundreds of protesters and Tea Party activists were expected at the Statehouse in Columbus today — and they arrived.

About 500 Tea Party supporters along with more than 1,000 teachers and other public employees showed up in full force as senators gathered to hear additional testimony on the controversial Senate Bill 5.

The demonstrations were peaceful, but loud and boisterous. Members of the Ohio Education Association were chanting that “teachers are united and will never be defeated” and accusing Tea Party members of “hating children, firefighters and policemen.”

Tea Party backers were chanting that they are defending taxpayers.

http://www.wytv.com/content/news/local/story/Hundreds-at-Statehouse-Face-Off-on-Senate-Bill-5/FXyxBSZFDECybnmxQ4oZOA.cspx?rss=1664

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Notice that the teachers unions are absent. It’s been illegal for school teachers to strike in Ohio for over 30 years. They have no skin in this fight so they are sitting this one out. How’s that for union solidarity?

[sportutegrl]

. . . are wearing red in an effort to steer public opinion away from the idea that unions are all-Democrat organizations.”

And this does that how?

This reminds me that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian:

Brian: "You're all different."

Crowd: "We're all different."

[sportutegrl]

. . . are wearing red in an effort to steer public opinion away from the idea that unions are all-Democrat organizations.”

And this does that how?

This reminds me that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian:

Brian: "You're all different."

Crowd: "We're all different."

[dragnet2]

GOVERNMENT UNIONS WILL SEE AMERICA DEAD ON THE FLOOR BEFORE THEY GIVE UP THEIR FAT GOVERNMENT SALARIES AND LOTTERY STYLE TAX PAID GOVERNMENT PENSIONS

Private sector

The private sector is being robbed and gang raped by those in government

[crosshairs]

[Cheerio]

I would not doubt it.

Rush was talking about this on his show this morning

OFA Bussing Protesters Into Wisconsin!!

DNC playing role in Wisconsin protests

CW II has started - private v public sectors.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The Tennessee Senate voted yesterday to strip collective bargaining rights from government employees. It did not make such a news splash because Tennessee is a Right to Work state.

[EBH]

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/maryhough/gGMblC?override_wrapper_id=7w3hc

This is fascism in action.

[diverteach]

This is what you get when a “community organizer” is elected president and the man who gets to see him more than anybody is Andy Stern the head of SEIU.

[ilgipper]

I was thinking about Beck’s views on this earlier today. This has the potential to be the beginning of some clashes we have not seen since the Vietnam war era. It could get out of hand, and quickly.

[BenKenobi]

Awesome!!

[arrogantsob]

Ohio State red.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

They are also all ga-ga over the Egypt demonstrations...so they want a go at that themselves. The leftists never change.

[CSM]

From this article, “Crowds of public employees protesting a sweeping Ohio proposal to strip unions of collective bargaining rights..”

Then another article from an ANSWER article, “trying to stop Gov. Scott Walker and his allies from passing legislation designed to strip public-sector workers of collective bargaining rights, and to bust their unions.”

Hmm, strip of collective bargaining rights magically appears in both articles. Nope, no coordinated effort there.....