Posted on 08/04/2015 11:44:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....Unions may not matter much in American workplaces anymore but unions represent the main political obstacle to just about every kind of reform: School choice. Entitlements. Pensions. Health care.
Even causes that wouldn’t seem union business prompt union opposition. Labor has been the chief obstacle to overhauling California’s notorious Environmental Quality Act—a reform supported by Democrats and environmentalists—because unions like using the law’s excessive paperwork burdens to threaten projects important to employers.
Big labor is behind a New Jersey state senator’s proposal last week for a trillion-dollar federal bailout of state and local government pensions—pensions that most federal taxpayers who would be paying for the bailout can only dream about.
Big labor is behind $15 minimum-wage proposals in major cities—a high-risk experiment for low-skilled workers, who may find themselves without jobs. But it will be a winner for organized labor. Not only will it raise costs for nonunion businesses. In Los Angeles,unions seek their own exemption so they can conspire with employers to substitute untaxed benefits for taxable wages,which strengthens the union’s hold on workers while shifting costs to other taxpayers.
As Miles Kimball,a University of Michigan economist who calls himself a “supply-side liberal,”wrote on his blog a couple of years ago:“Most unions are middle-class organizations that in their political activities are ready and willing to sacrifice the interests of the poor to benefit their members and their leaders.”
Mr. Walker’s revolution was driven by voters in towns and small cities who noticed that government workers had morphed into a privileged class—with the best pay, best benefits, longest vacations,and job security that made them basically unremovable.
Their dues, meanwhile, funded a political class that seemed indifferent to anyone else’s problems. Not always a friendly source,the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel this year credited Mr. Walker with having “shifted the policies of his state more than anyone else in generations.”...........
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Governor Walker has faced them down. They know what he can do. They're working to raise an army of opposition to stop him from facing them down on the national stage.
Scott Walker has successfully pushed back against the The Wisconsin Idea - the incubator of policies that has fostered and driven national progressive policy in education, media and politics for over a century.
Maybe. But first they need a Pat Paulsen.
This is an impossible task. The modern democrat party has no place for a D that does not give full-barreled support of public employee unions. The unions are the bully-boy attack dogs of US politics, funded by mandatory collection of union dues.
Such a politician would be irrelevant in the modern dem party. He would be ridden out of town on a rail with no money and a well-funded primary everywhere he ran.
They used to have one... his name was George McGovern.
Also, FDR, while certainly an advocate for trade unions, was strongly opposed to public employee unions. He considered them a betrayal of the public trust.
The Democrats keep nominating dishonest, sleazy traitors.
What the Democrats really need is a good Christian candidate, someone honest, of good moral character. Of course, he would also need to support abortion and sodomy.
Tells you a lot about where the Democratic Party is today.
The Democrats abandoned that model years ago, now days they promote those accused of being deceitful anti-American activists.
“Labor Group Slams GOP Over Ties to For-Profit Colleges
August 5, 2015
In advance of the first Republican presidential debate this week, the American Federal of Teachers is trying to call attention to candidates’ ties to the for-profit education industry.
A website registered to the labor union says that “Republicans have embraced for-profits while tearing down public institutions to benefit their blue-chip friends.”
It outlines various connections between some of the GOP Presidential hopefuls and for-profit colleges, taking aim at the support that former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida and Governors Chris Christie of New Jersey and Scott Walker of Wisconsin have provided to for-profit colleges.
Some of the connections were less direct. The site, for instance, calls Ted Cruz “a Republican for profit,” citing his decision to launch his campaign at Liberty University, “which embraces the for-profit model.” Liberty University is a non-profit college with one the country’s largest online programs.
AFT has endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. Her financial disclosure last week revealed that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was paid $16.5 million by for-profit college chain Laureate Education for serving as honorary chancellor.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/08/05/labor-group-slams-gop-over-ties-profit-colleges
i know its red meat to some on here but there was a time unions were needed. Now i would state they’re needed in places like China but no longer here.
Once upon a time they served a noble purpose but they’ve outlived that and have morphed into, as most organizations if not all do, self serving, self perpetuating machines.
Walker’s positions on immigration should pose deep concerns for he’s been supporting amnesty etc for quite sometime up until his run......
In 2006, Walker backed the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. (Politico)
In 2010, Walker opposed the Arizona immigration enforcement law, but only a few days later decided to support it. (WKOW)
In 2013, Walker backed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. (The Hill)
In 2015, Walker opposed amnesty saying, “My view has changed. I’m flat out saying it. Candidates can say that.” (The Hill)
Later at a private dinner in 2015, Walker was reported as saying he supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. (WSJ)
Walker joined with 16 other governors in a suit to stop Obama’s November 2014 executive amnesty. (Gov. Walker’s Office)
Walker has expressed support for securing the border. (Laura Ingraham)
In March 2015, Walker publicly opposed Obama’s nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, saying Lynch was “unfit” to serve in the position because of her support for Obama’s executive amnesty. (Breitbart News)
In the spring of 2015, Walker publicly came out against Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell’s deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security – a deal that included funding for Obama’s executive amnesty. (Breitbart)
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin [ONLY Governor who HAS] "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 2015:“We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”
“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
April 26, 2015: Conservative Media Rallies to Walker After Tough Talk on Legal Immigration
"The conservative movement’s leading media icons lined up to back Scott Walker after the media attempted to lynch him for talking tough on immigration.
After being attacked by outlets such as MSNBC, Mother Jones magazine and the Huffington Post, Walker stayed the course, telling the Quad City Times on Friday that American workers had to come first.
“A couple years ago, when the unemployment rate was at incredibly high levels and labor participation was low, why would we want to flood the market with more workers?” he said. “So that would be a time when you would have arguably less. As the unemployment rate goes down and labor participation rates go up, the two have to go hand in hand. Then it could be conceivably more than we have today. So it’s not a set number.”
The New York Times reported that Walker told Glenn Beck that he favored restricting legal immigration in tough economic times and that Friday, answering two young Republicans, Walker asserted, “In terms of how wide or how narrow the door’s open, our No. 1 priority is American workers and American wages. I don’t know how anyone can argue against that.’’
The conservative backlash came after Walker had been pilloried not only by the media but also some establishment Republicans such as Senators Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Rob Portman........
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I think that WSJ’s assumption is that Democrats are just more liberal (in the original context) Americans. They aren’t. They are the New Socialist Party. In socialism the state is an instrument of violence. Unions are their private army.
that would be a Reagan democrat....the party pushed them out a long time ago.
A very naive opinion piece. Today’s Democratic party will never turn their back on Public Employee Unions — it’s too good a honeypot for them.
Today’s donkey party is just a glorified version of an organized crime family - the office holders are the capo’s, groups like the SEIU and “Organizing for America” make up the crews.
The Democrats as currently constituted can no more hold onto their power with out bowing to the desires of these groups than any capo could get by with his crew - that’s all one needs to know to understand how quickly the Dems fell in line when it came to defending the defenseless as exemplified in the current exposure of the activities of Planned Butcherhood.
Today’s Democratic Party is just full of loons. The fact they’re even defending the goriness that’s going on at Planned Parenthood without a second thought tells us they’re people without consciences or morals. Men like Scott Walker and Ted Cruz would make fine presidents, but the political class is so despised and that is why Trump is getting so much support. I don’t want that man anywhere near the presidency, but I’ll hold my nose to support him if he’s the nominee to deny Hillary or Joe Biden the presidency.
I agree with everything you wiggen... up to and including that Chinese workers need unions....
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