Posted on 02/23/2011 8:02:30 AM PST by toma29
Amid battles over workers' rights in the Midwest, Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday passed a proclamation honoring public employees.
Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak, whose grandfather, Joseph Rudiak, was a labor organizer, assailed Wisconsin officials for trying to restrict collective bargaining rights and mandate pension contributions. Similar legislation is on the table in Ohio.
"It is a reactionary agenda that will end the livelihood of thousands of working Americans, and it must stop," Ms. Rudiak said at a news conference attended by a couple dozen union officials and supporters.
Jack Shea, president of Allegheny County Labor Council, said it was unfair for states to target the wages and benefits of everyday Americans when Wall Street financiers wrecked the nation's economy a couple of years ago.
Thousands of Wisconsin workers have taken part in protests over Gov. Scott Walker's proposals to impose new restriction on government employees, and thousands of Ohio workers have turned out in recent days to protest legislation that would limit public employees' bargaining rights in that state.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
The official statement read:
We'd like ta honor yinz, n'at.
Natalia, unless you can make up the budget shortfall in Wisconsin, shut the heck up and do your own job.
This is sort of like Hollywood inventing awards to give itself.
I couldn’t care less that the government elected because of funds provided by public sector unions wants to kiss the hands of the public sector unions.
They are corrupt, collusive, monopolistic enemies of freedom and democracy.
Wonder it they will ever honor the public sector workers who generate the money to pay the taxes.
Not everyone can work for the government. If everybody did the tax rate would have to be 100% to be able to pay everyone.
“It is a reactionary agenda that will end the livelihoods of thousands of working Americans”
How?
Not a surprise. Pittsburgh City Council does not have a Conservative, or even a business-friendly Moderate, anyplace on it.
1940... 672,000
2010...350,000
Lost 48% of our population due to progressive laws.
My family moved out of the Burgh in 1969, right after the MLK riots and looting and burning.
We moved into Westmoreland County and other than causing me to travel more than was really necessary, never regretted the move for a single second.
Change is coming to PA, it's just our new governor and associates have teeny, tiny balls {about the size of mouse nuts} and are just beginning to grow a spine.
It's coming because we are "keepen up the skeer" on these congress critters.
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