These are the type of heavily Democrat voters that Reagan got to vote for him and that a conservative Republican could again garner votes from. This, of course, would leave out Rudy.
Except the vast majority of union members vote dem so they support the very people who violate their Rights. There are too many Fudds who believe in guys like kerry who claim they support the Second Amendment.
The dem party is doing everything they can to abolish the Second Amendment.
Union-democrats are the most "conservative" of democrats.
They respect the second ammendment, hate abortion and hate gay marriage.
But they are socialists to the core.
Business is not on any side other than protecting itself. One worker shoots another in the parking lot after work, who do you think is going to get sued for millions?
The vast majority of union members strongly support gun rights.
Maybe 40 years ago when unions were mostly blue collar. Today, the majority of union members are paper pushing government employees or public school teachers.
The AFL-CIO isn't in this because they support gun rights. This is about what Union organizers can do in the parking lot.
As predictable as night following day.
I don't know about how most businesses think about this, but I was so surprised about it when I started my current job that I specifically asked one of the heads of the company about it. (I was just stunned by how the employee handbook, which was almost entirely an off-the-shelf, fill-in-the-blanks piece of boredom about sick days and filing for business expense reimbursement, had a section shoved into it about "no guns on the property under any circumstances; if you're caught, you're fired.") He told me it's not political or ideological at all, but that they're terrified of a company-bankrupting lawsuit if anyone was ever to get shot on their property, even if it was to stop a violent assault.
He said flat out that if the government would pass a law protecting businesses from civil claims against gun use on private property, they'd allow guns tomorrow.
Wow, the AFL-CIO actually taking issue with something the majority of its members care about. Cool.
Well, in Texas we have a similar bill (actually a couple of them) that are going to do the same thing...
And the Texas NRA affiliate, the TSRA, got a boost from the ACLU to advocate for the passage of these bills...
Strange bedfellows I have to say...
Looks like these and a few other "pro" bills will pass this session...
Kudos to my old union (I'm now retired) on this issue.