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To: Wpin

FACT: 95% percent of the private sector workforce is non-union.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 4:43:23 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

FDR was no fan of public employee unions

Even President Franklin Roosevelt, a friend of private-sector unionism, drew a line when it came to government workers: “Meticulous attention,” the president insisted in 1937, “should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government….The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

The reason? F.D.R. believed that “[a] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/worth-recalling-fdr-was-no-fan-public-employee-unions


11 posted on 12/12/2012 5:14:12 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: central_va

FACT: protectionist laws for unions cover the entire workforce...unions are over buddy, and they should be. They are literally bad for everyone concerned.


12 posted on 12/12/2012 8:09:08 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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