Posted on 03/21/2015 2:27:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
You’d think Wisconsin Republicans would reward themselves with some rest after pulling off—via a great deal of misdirection from Scott Walker—the enactment of a southern-style “right to work” law banning union shop agreements reached via voluntary free-market contract negotiations. But no: as The Nation’s Moshe Marvit explains, Badger State GOPers are back with a bill to revoke the right to a day off after seven days of labor.
The new bill, which is being sponsored by Republican Van Wanggaard in the State Senate alongside [Rep. Mark] Born in the Assembly, would add a provision to the “day of rest” law that could effectively nullify it. The bill would create an exemption that would allow employees to “voluntarily choose” to slave away for seven days in a row without at least twenty-four hours of rest.
Yeah, right, it’s “voluntary” because employers and employees are free agents conducting arms-length negotiations across a level bargaining table.
As Marquette University law professor Paul Secunda explained, the idea “completely ignores the power dynamic in the workplace, where workers often have a proverbial gun to the head.” Indeed, the reason Wisconsin had passed a “day of rest” law in the first place was because employers had been abusing employees by pressing them to work too many days without break. “Now this bill will force many workers to strike a bargain with the devil,” Secunda said.
Speaking of the devil, I don’t know about the religious views of the bill’s prime sponsors, but before it reaches his desk someone needs to remind the conservative evangelical Governor of Wisconsin of that item in the Decalogue about “remembering the Sabbath and keeping it holy.” Those Republicans who worship at the Church of the Golden Calf are important to his presidential ambitions, I suppose, but it’s going to be hard for him to pose as a “populist” if he’s for getting rid of the Sabbath and the weekend as protected areas of family life.
Here is a bill to remove restrictions in order to give workers job flexibility and the Dems want it to die. Walker's trimming big government and union control over workers, helping people move into the private sector and off the government dole, out from union control - giving them freedom - something the Left cannot tolerate or allow if they are to continue the destruction of the middle class. This direction shrinks Democratic party muscle and money.
This "Walker's taking away your weekend" story is making the rounds nationally.
As a top tier candidate parked over the target, Hillary's and Jeb's devotes are doing their best to combat the positive visibility Walker's receiving.
Except for when it can be used as a weapon against their enemies...
And then call anyone who disagrees with them wicked via the “golden calf” remark.
And have no shame with the flagrant hypocrisy of it all...
"Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will forever be blind-sided by the malice of the left—by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on principle, by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity, by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal, and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the downtrodden by those who preen themselves as social saints.
Conservatives are caught by surprise because they see progressives as merely misguided, when in fact they are fundamentally misdirected. They are the messianists of a religious faith. But it is a false faith and a self-serving religion. Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them." David Horowitz - June 2000
"You dirty rat!"
Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin - Hispanic News Network USA Blog ^ | June 27, 2011 | H. Nelson Goodson
FR post and comments on that story.
My my! : ) Good catch.
From the Nation link:
“Currently, the law in Wisconsin requires that workers employed in a “factory or mercantile establishment” must receive “at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in every 7 consecutive days.” If an employer would like a worker to work seven days in a row for a limited period of time, then the two can jointly petition the Department of Workforce Development for a waiver. According to the office of Republican Representative Mark Born, who is introducing this bill in the State Assembly, there were 169 waivers requested in 2013 and 232 in 2014, and all of them were granted. Under the current system, the waiver requests must state the necessity for the waiver, and they are granted only for a limited period of time.”
http://www.thenation.com/article/201817/these-republicans-want-take-away-your-weekend#
Nation link is embedded in the article of the thread but here it is again.
For 2016 Run, Scott Walker Washes ‘Wiscahnsin’ Out of His Mouth
"COLUMBIA, S.C. — Out on the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Scott Walker has left “Wiscahnsin” back home in Wisconsin. He now wants to strengthen the economy, not the “ecahnahmy.” And while he once had the “ahnor” of meeting fellow Republicans, he told one group here this week that he simply enjoyed “talkin’ with y’all.”
The classic Upper Midwest accent — nasal and full of flat a’s — is one of several Walker trademarks to have fallen away this month after an intense period of strategizing and coaching designed to help Mr. Walker capitalize on his popularity in early polls and show that he is not some provincial politician out of his depth....
And at the dinner, as well as in his Concord speech, his Wisconsin honk was noticeably absent."
To pay my way through college I spend a summer once working in a factory. My work hours were: 8 am-4 pm for seven days, one day off; 4 pm-midnight for seven days, two days off; midnight to 8 am for seven days, four days off. Then the rotation began again. Many people at that factory worked that schedule for decades. I don’t know if my state had Wisconsin’s law but it seems it would limit my flexibility if I had wanted to work more days to get more overtime or to get a special lump of time off.
Similarly, a couple of years later I saved up for graduate school by working a normal 40-hour week and then staying on duty another four hours at least three days a week, adding up to 50-60 hours a week. I was young, single and ambitious.
I don’t recommend that as a lifestyle but it really helped me financially when I could do it.
Why do leftist atheists care about the Sabbath?
“Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them.” David Horowitz - June 2000”
I keep it simple. It’s satan.
My husband had a similar situation where his employer would let him set his hours around his classes. He worked and paid his way up to and through graduate school.
I once worked 365 days in a row, but it was a part time job and I was very young.
I really do like to work.
"WI has an 8 day week?"
I've been ponder this and have concluded it must somehow tie in with global warming.
They don't.
Remember when they voted 3 times at the DNC to deny God a place on their national platform? The Chair had to push it through.
DNC 2012: DNC Platform Changes on God, Jerusalem Spur Contentious Floor Vote [2:45 YouTube]
Ever been in the military?
7/24/365 and sometime{s} people are shooting at you.
Interesting. In an article that invokes the Sabboth, the author misses the connection that God rested on the seventh day.
and funny how the nonreligious can get all snicky about getting the “Sabbath” as a day of rest
The “Sabbath” is Saturday for Jews, so what day is it for the nonreligious?
What atheist or agnostic ideology declares the inherent right to a “Sabbath” and for what? To worship at the temple of WalMart?
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