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Senate: Let first responders unionize
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/13/8

Posted on 05/13/2008 10:33:29 AM PDT by SmithL

The Senate has given critical approval to legislation to give all police, firefighters and other first responders the right to collective bargaining.

The 69-29 procedural vote proves the bill would survive any possible filibuster attempt. The Senate will vote to send the bill to President Bush later this week.

. . . Cabinet secretaries say they will suggest he veto the bill.

. . .The bill would guarantee public safety officers the right to join unions and bargain over wages, hours and conditions of employment. It also would ban them from going on strike.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: unionthugs
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Let's have a Right-to-Work law, first!
1 posted on 05/13/2008 10:33:29 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Which means the Taxpayer will take it up the backside again, the largest growing Union in the US is Public Sector, which means “We” are paying those increasing wages and benefits no matter how incompetently they do their jobs.

We will be seeing a ton of stuff like this next year...


2 posted on 05/13/2008 10:36:47 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: SmithL

This is the federal government forcing state and local governments to allow collective bargaining for workers they hire.


3 posted on 05/13/2008 10:39:06 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SmithL

-—and this is about when I cease calling myself a Republican of any kind-—


4 posted on 05/13/2008 10:39:32 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: SmithL

“I’d love to continue resuscitation , but it’s time for my mandatory break”.


5 posted on 05/13/2008 10:39:33 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: SmithL

It worked so well for the TSA.


6 posted on 05/13/2008 10:40:46 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: padre35

There goes the neighborhood...


7 posted on 05/13/2008 10:42:57 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: SmithL

“There is no right to strike against the public safety, anytime, anywhere.” - Calvin Coolidge


8 posted on 05/13/2008 10:43:02 AM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: Argus
“There is no right to strike against the public safety, anytime, anywhere.” - Calvin Coolidge

Did you read the article?

It also would ban them from going on strike.

9 posted on 05/13/2008 10:45:38 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: padre35

I say cut the government employees by about 90%. That would get us back to where we belong. As for the Unions, the government should start thinking about limiting their non-work related activities.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 10:47:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Who opposes John McCain's leftist agenda? The RNC, Rep Congress members, the Democrats? Good luck!)
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To: SmithL

The 10th amendment requires that the Feds leave to the States that which is not covered by the Constitution, including their employment practices.


11 posted on 05/13/2008 10:48:04 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Individualism is the Perfection of Diversity.)
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To: Alter Kaker
--they don't have to strike.

They have gained sufficient power in legislative bodies over the last twenty years that strikes aren't necessary--look at California, for example.

12 posted on 05/13/2008 10:49:53 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Alter Kaker

How long do you think that provision would survive?


13 posted on 05/13/2008 10:50:53 AM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: SmithL

They just took a big, fat dump on every volunteer firefighter, EMT, and deputy in the nation. Thanks, jerks.


14 posted on 05/13/2008 10:51:12 AM PDT by this is my name not yours (Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Unfortunately, that amendment has been redacted from their copy of the Constitution.


15 posted on 05/13/2008 10:52:29 AM PDT by joebellis (Politicians, if the lips are moving, it's a LIE.)
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To: SmithL
Anyone know if McCain has a position on this? I notice he was one of two senators not voting.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00126

16 posted on 05/13/2008 10:52:37 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: Alter Kaker
It also would ban them from going on strike.

Banning strikes is meaningless. Many states have bans against teacher strikes but teachers still strike without repurcussions. Even without strking, first responders will have many tools to force money from taxpayers. This bill is a terrible intrusion on states' rights and a green light to much higher labor costs.

17 posted on 05/13/2008 10:52:46 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: rellimpank
look at California, for example.

I assume you are referring to their 16 billion dollar budget deficit?

18 posted on 05/13/2008 10:52:53 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Argus
How long do you think that provision would survive?

Probably forever, or at least as long as we have at least 40 Republicans left in the Senate. The bill could never get passed without GOP support, and that provision is the major condition that GOP Senators set.

19 posted on 05/13/2008 10:53:33 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Arguendo

McCain’s position is to not annoy the unions while not actually supporting them.


20 posted on 05/13/2008 10:54:42 AM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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