Posted on 11/01/2010 9:33:27 AM PDT by lbryce
Organized labor is deeply worried about what happens after Tuesday.
By many measures, labor unions have been the Republicans’ fiercest, biggest-spending opponents in this year’s campaign, laying out more than $200 million in hopes of safeguarding the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
So it should be no surprise that Republicans, who appear to stand a good chance of winning control of the House or Senate, are signaling that they plan to push bills and strategies to undermine labor’s political clout and ability to grow.
“Republicans are likely to pursue a version of what Samuel Gompers often said: ‘Reward your friends and punish your enemies,’ ” said Joseph McCartin, a labor historian at Georgetown University.
One bill that is popular among Republicans would prohibit employers from ever agreeing to unionization through “card check,” a process often used today in which an employer recognizes a union as soon as a majority of workers sign pro-union cards — without holding a secret-ballot election. Another bill would severely crimp labor’s campaign spending by barring unions from using any portion of a union member’s dues money for political purposes unless the member first gives written permission.
A Republican-led House or Senate is expected to be more eager than a Democratic-controlled one to approve free trade agreements that unions oppose, and to be more reluctant to enact stimulus plans that unions have supported, like the recent bill that gave states $26 billion to help save the jobs of teachers, police and other government employees. A Republican-controlled House or Senate would probably block a labor-backed bill that would give firefighters and police officers in every state the right to unionize.
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More specifically, the labor unions fear having to give back all the money they stole.
I would be satisfied if the fed passed a law which prohibited any state, county or city government agency from entering into a collective bargaining agreement.
At that time, I laughed my head off for hours. Reagan gave a very short deadline to anyone to get back his/her job. I don't remember if anyone did, thinking Reagan will back down because he didn't have enough trained replacements. Lo and behold, Reagan put Air Force personnel in charge, replaced them little by little with new, non-union trained civilians and the rest is history!
How sweet. This is the kind of rollback we have been waiting for.
Or at the very least, all public employee unions made illegal. How is it legal for those who are paid with our tax dollars to spend OUR money to support candidates against our wishes?
The private sector unions have been nearly extinguished by their friends, the Democrats.
Must be talking about the public sector unions.
They are illegally coerced blackmai/protection rackets, albeit "institutionalized" with a veneer of legitimacy.
Where in the Constitution are they listed?
I certainly hope so!
No rational society allows the public servants to set the rules or make demands.
They are free to go elsewhere and get (leglal) jobs that pay them what they're worth!
It isn’t about friends and enemies, it’s about common sense.
Pretty much everywhere a union has been, a closed business has followed. This is especially true in government.
Hope those policemen were all fired.
That is pathetic shooting.
Just sayin'
Nope, rights will take a move forward. The right to work, right to life, second amendment rights, right to property, right to assemble, right to choose your own doctor, right to your own thoughts...
all the rights at risk with the left in power
lol
Battle of River Rouge was a high point in trade union organization.
http://www.minneapolisapwu.org/This_Month_in_Labor_History/02Ford_Hunger_March.html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March?wasRedirected=true
Slick Willie said something like that:
"I take care of my friends and I **** with my enemies"
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith. . . and a union is different, exactly how?
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