I’ve been hiring a lot of contractors through elance.com rather than hiring Minnesota employees.
I’m planning to do some layoffs when the new health insurance costs come in.
When I hire using Elance again, I’m going to make a point to hire those from red states.
Unions Ramp Up in Wake of Obama Victory
Thursday, 08 Nov 2012 12:01 PM
By Stephen Feller
Calling President Barack Obama’s re-election a victory for “working class people,” energized unions are ramping up nationwide campaigns in an effort to win greater support for the president’s heavily pro-union political agenda over the next four years.
And that means business owners will have to put strikes, sitdowns and other union tactics on their list of worries along with higher taxes.
Unions found that many Obama proposals were looked on positively in exit polls from Tuesday’s election. They were especially emboldened by a successful $75 million-effort that defeated Proposition 32 on Tuesday’s California ballot.
That measure would have starved unions of the tens of millions of dollars in mandatory dues they use to finance campaigns and political organizing. Across the country, government workers have been facing political pressure to roll back pension and retiree health care benefits that in many cases are much more generous than those received by their private-sector counterparts and are straining state and municipal budgets.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a right-to-work law in February banning unions from collecting mandatory fees for representation, and labor suffered a defeat in Wisconsin earlier this year when Republican Gov. Scott Walker defeated a recall challenge following his push to limit collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
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