Posted on 03/12/2011 11:29:40 AM PST by jazusamo
Labor thugs threaten murder to preserve payola
“I’m not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly.” So predicts “Goldfish,” a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., “on the Front Lines of the Class War.” Now, “Goldfish” is predicting a general strike, like the ones in Greece whenever the bankrupt government tries to cut ruinous spending.
A bigger fish, film director Michael Moore, announced on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Wednesday that, “This is war. This is class war,” and that a national walkout of government school students would happen Friday. Jesse Jackson told Fox News that public unions will retain collective bargaining or “you’re going to have it through the streets. People here will fight back because they think their cause is moral.”
Moral? Public employee unions are bankrupting local and state governments, including Wisconsin’s. They have it cushier than the folks who are taxed to pay for it all. A Spectrum Research Group report found that public employees make up 15 percent of the work force but lay claim to more than a third of the nation’s $9.3 trillion in pension assets. Many retire in their 50s and then double-dip with new jobs.
Union members have been demonstrating in Madison for days, but became enraged Wednesday when the Republican Senate finally bypassed the 14 AWOL Democratic senators holed up in Illinois and voted to send GOPGov. Scott Walker’s budget reform bill to the House. The law, which the House quickly passed and Mr. Walker signed, requires state employees to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries to pensions and 12.6 percent to health care benefits, which is still less than most private employees pay.
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That incident has been running through my mind since this Wisconsin public union issue began to get ugly.
Obama claims to want "volunteers" to do "good things", but his own union thug buddies "don't want no volunteers".
How can anybody miss the thuggery these unions employ in outright extortion of the public treasury? Collective bargaining and union "rights" are giving the unions the upper hand. The taxpayers need to take the upper hand back.
I’m not a violent person, but my desire to punch that fool in the snotlocker is huge - fortunately he’s 2,000 miles away.
That happened here in Allentown. Boy did the union get a black eye with that. These idiots just can’t help but do things to turn off the public. It is in their mindless Lib Rat nature.
No, it’s not class war, it’s ideological war... between the givers and the takers... and the givers are taking their givings back.
Ne Kulturny. (Meaning “uncultured,” a grave insult in Russian.)
It’s transliterated “ne kulturniy”, sometimes as just one word (sorry, don’t have a Russian font on this computer).
Pronounced: nyeh kool-toor-knee, accent on the ‘toor’.
And it is NOT a term you want to use to a Russian. MANY fights have begun by using the term.
Did the national walkout of students happen? I didn’t hear anything about it here in Texas. Just wondering!
Isn’t that for this coming Friday? I don’t know.
As I said the companies of this country brought Unions on themselves.
Every word you wrote is incorrect. Read the sources I mentioned when they talk about sweatshops and working conditions, and what is “fair”, etc.
CHAMPION NEWS.NET
Job Stress: Comparing teaching with other occupations (Part 1)
Posted: March 06, 2011
Editor’s note: Back by popular demand and in light of the events in Wisconsin, this series of articles from last year is being reposted for your reading pleasure.
By John Sullivan
It is hardly unusual for employees in any field to complain about stress related to their jobs. Teachers are certainly no exception, but what are actual job stressors and do teachers suffer more than most? This is an important issue because job stress should have a relationship to compensation.
For example, it would be argued that running backs in the NFL deserve high compensation because their average working life in that position is very short. It could be argued that air traffic controllers deserve high compensation because they spend their entire working day with the lives of others in their hands. It is difficult to list or even imagine all job stressors, but an incomplete list follows.
1. Loss of job.
2. Low pay.
3. Uncertain pay.
4. Uncertain working hours.
5.Weekend work.
6. Little vacation time.
7. Work related travel.
8. Safety on the job.
9. Responsibility for employees.
10. Uncertainty of raises.
11. Saving for retirement.
12. Late retirement.
13. Job relocation.
14. Increased regulation and paperwork.
15. Problems with customers.
“Loss of job” is considered the most important stressor and can come about in many ways, including product obsolescence, structural unemployment, job elimination, discharge, etc. How many autoworkers, steelworkers, keypunch operators, tech employees and so on lose their jobs? The numbers are usually announced in the tens of thousands. Due to tenure, union protection, and leverage against parents, teacher job loss is almost nil. I read recently that 46% of employees are afraid of losing their job. I would guess that few of these are teachers.
Low pay would certainly not be a source of job stress for teachers. Teachers are required to work about six hours a day, five days a week, 180 days a year with 15 paid sick days per year that can be accumulated. They may-or may not- work additional hours for no pay. On a monthly basis, the average teacher makes 2-3 times what a private-sector employee makes with similar credentials.
The amount of pay is known, sometimes years in advance. Compare this to a commission-only salesman of business software that works now for an uncertain payoff six months from now or perhaps a trader on the Chicago Exchange who might make $10,000 today and lose $10,000 tomorrow. These are occupations where “uncertain pay” is truly a job stressor!
Most people have jobs that require flexibility re working hours. Construction workers might find out on Friday that they have to work until the job is done. Attorneys might find out that an important case means that they cannot take any time off indefinitely. Pilots may get stuck on the other side of the world due to snow in Chicago. These are certainly job stressors, but not for teachers.
In that vein, it is certainly stressful to realize that your employer considers your weekends off to be optional. How many employees have to change their weekend plans because they have to work? Do Chicago snow-plowing personnel get to enjoy the weekend off during a blizzard? Not if they want to keep their jobs! In contrast, I have never heard of a teacher who was required to work on a weekend.
Typically, in the private sector, one receives a week of vacation after the first year of employment, followed by two weeks after five years, three weeks after ten years, and four weeks after twenty-five years. The private sector of this country works more hours per year than every other developed nation in the world. I know people who haven’t had a week off in ten years. Teachers have about four months off per year beginning immediately. My guess is that “lack of vacation time” is not a stressor for teachers.
Travel, while always a stressor, has become much more so due to increased security at airports. I used to travel moderately in my career, but I certainly wouldn’t want to today. In other words, I would have to receive a lot more compensation to take a job that required travel. Teachers do not have this stressor.
Teachers have some safety concerns in the workplace. Teachers can be assaulted like anyone else and there is always the possibility of accidents. This is a stressor for anyone either on or off the job. However, teachers do not work with machinery or equipment, around hazardous or dangerous materials, come into contact with dangerous people like policemen do, work underground, underwater or high in the air, or have any kind of activity that would be considered inherently dangerous. They do not have to evade tacklers or work for a contractor in Iraq. They do not lose arms or legs on the job. As a job class, teaching must be among the safest.
Up next: Part 2.
Job Stress: Comparing teaching with other occupations (Part 2)
Posted: March 09, 2011
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=3211
John Sullivan has an MBA from NIU and has 20 years of management experience supervising both union and non-union labor. He currently resides in Palatine, Illinois.
My mother with two young sons,father deceased, was barely able to keep the necessary food on the table. It was the early 1930s when unions were coming on strong. There were many nights Mom came home and cried. She cried not only because she felt discriminated against as an immigrant with an accent not being given some of the good material to work with on piecework( management) but she cried also as a very self determined immigrant who was being bullied by union organizers/thugs to continually be on strike, no pay. I believe Mom ended up being unionized but it never increased her take home pay much,if any. The experiences of those times have no doubt influenced my thought that a person is generally if not much better off to find/do work where they can be recognized for their worth as individuals as contrasted to getting paid on a herd basis. No doubt some people are better suited by character, ambition, greed/jealousy to be members of the herd. And of course there are those like my mother who in spite of desire for free choice get caught up in the web of other peoples ambition.
My mother with two young sons,father deceased, was barely able to keep the necessary food on the table. It was the early 1930s when unions were coming on strong. There were many nights Mom came home and cried. She cried not only because she felt discriminated against as an immigrant with an accent not being given some of the good material to work with on piecework( management) but she cried also as a very self determined immigrant who was being bullied by union organizers/thugs to continually be on strike, no pay. I believe Mom ended up being unionized but it never increased her take home pay much,if any. The experiences of those times have no doubt influenced my thought that a person is generally if not much better off to find/do work where they can be recognized for their worth as individuals as contrasted to getting paid on a herd basis. No doubt some people are better suited by character, ambition, greed/jealousy to be members of the herd. And of course there are those like my mother who in spite of desire for free choice get caught up in the web of other peoples ambition.
The government should not be able to force a businessman to bargain collectively with employees if the employer doesn't want to bargain collectively.
Likewise, the government should not be able to force a professional person to get medical "license" before opening a medical practice. Ditto lawyer licenses, dental licenses, and real estate licenses. Let customers decide if the professional is qualified.
Likewise, the government should not be able to force me to locate my business in one location rather than another. Zoning laws have no place in a free society.
Don't get me started!! an use our private property to open a medical practice?
Bravo to you, sir.
The quality of medicine is really **privately** controlled, now, through certified residencies, privately administer board specialist exams, malpractice insurance, peer review boards, and hospital demands that physicians and surgeons be certified before joining their staff.
If they did away with the state licenses, I can't see how it would make much difference to the patient. The medical licenses that states give out now are very basic. For instance, a psychiatrist is licensed to do heart surgery. Psychiatrists have no access to surgical facilities because of the above controls.
And....( This is really important because unions that do the following are nothing more than a mafia.)
If you do not agree to our demands, we will go on strike, make your life miserable, harass and threaten and/or MURDER IN COLD BLOOD anybody you may want to hire in our place.”
The above is an offer that the employer can't refuse.
As I say, it’s a truly mind-boggling situation.
To hell with collective bargaining rights. How about granting individual bargaining rights instead? If I am the best damn teacher the state of Wisconsin has, I should be able to levy my ability to teach in order to gain a raise in salary from the school district. Without individual bargaining rights, my salary is set by the performance of the very worst teacher in the district.
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