Coward.
Unions are going to have to burn a lot of money fighting state budget battles over the next few monthsks. Thats less money they’ll have for the 2012 elections.
Thank God for the Citizens United case...we will be able to financially overwhelm the left in 2012.
The larger reality is that collective bargaining for government workers is not a God-given or constitutional right. It is the result of the growing union dominance inside the Democratic Party during the middle of the last century. John Kennedy only granted it to federal workers in 1962 and Jerry Brown to California workers in 1978. Other states, including Indiana and Missouri, have taken away collective bargaining rights for public employees in recent years, and some 24 states have either limited it or banned it outright.
It CAN be done!
..”tens of thousands:...
Really?
See, politicians have given the store away to get elected. Unions pay into re-election campaigns and all's the better, right? NO. There are no good reason to have PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS in America beyond those who provide public safety. These are socialist front groups and as we see, un-affordable in the long run (just like socialism itself).
Mrs. Thatcher was right, we've run out of money to proceed with any more socialism.
The Democrats’ problem is the unions’ private interests clash with the needs of other constituents and in an era where the public pie is shrinking its hard to claim public union workers should be paid more than non-union private sector workers are. There’s little taxpayer sympathy for union demands to foot unfunded pension costs at a time when they are struggling in a sour economy. And the Democrats who are owned by the unions have shown clearly they don’t side with the voters who want costs reined in.
Translation: From each according to his ability (except the union); to each according to his need (including the unions). Mr. Snyder is big on "shared sacrifice".
Some people in Michigan were worried that they might have to hold their noses and vote for a guy who was strongly 2A, supported anti-affirmative action ballot initiative, was one of the attorneys general who sued the Maobama Administration over Maobamacare, and just may have taken on the unions. Thank God they didn't have to make that awful choice.
Yea , right Rick Synder Governor of Michigan wants to work with the citizens of Michigan and the collective bargaining rights of the union. Being from the UP of Michigan screw you Synder, you just announced you will take a $1.00 salary for the year of 2010. More buinesses have moved out of Michigan because of the dirt bag Granholm ruined Michigan for 8 years. The unions have vitually stripped Michigan of any value. Collective bargaining rights is BS. The prisons in Michigan are being shut down, more and more each year and the prison guards are unemployed, the foreclosure rate on houses is going up and up. Yet the Michigan State Government irregardless of their being a republican or democrat are beholding to the union.
Here in the Up there people whom want to work, but guess what the jobs are either going or already gone to Mexico Emerson in Menomonee, Mi - 2006, other jobs are going to the southern US. state prison in newberry closed. KI Sawyer AFB shut down by the Federal government base closures years ago. there are manufacturing facilities that are left vacant. Ford Motors Plant in Kingsford, Mi is virtually empty, owned yet by Ford of dearborn, Mi, there are occupants utilizing some of the plant, but on a whole it is empty.
I can count the number of houses in my neighborhood which are abandoned - 17, the owners just walked away from the houses anmd took jobs elsewhere. the homes are awaiting foreclosre by the State for back taxes.
Rick Synder needs to rethink the issue of collective bargaining with the Union. Pretty soon he will have to sell the Up of Michigan to either Wisconsin or canada. Probably canada will buy it, because Wisconsin is broke too, just like Michigan
I hope Corbett here in Pa has the guts. We’re on this list too.