Posted on 03/15/2011 5:48:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like labor leadership was ever going to urge their membership to vote Republican. Give us a break.
CBS/New York Times poll found that 56 percent of those surveyed opposed reducing pay or benefits of public employees in order to balance state budgets, and 60 percent opposed weakening the bargaining rights of public employees.
I’m betting this poll was taken in heavily union areas.
The media are really great at skewing a poll to meet their agenda.
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Agree. I just don’t see that the unions won anything. Nor will they win in Ohio. Our reps, who talked to us about two weeks ago, seemed pretty calm yet convicted in insisting that they had to deal with these issues, and there was only one way, break the gubmint unions.
That probably won’t be known for some time. Depends on how the recall efforts do and the elections in 2012 and 2014.
Or just making it up out of whole cloth.
Rush Limbaugh has always said that you don’t win by losing. The Republicans won Wisconsin, the Democrats, Labor, and their Communist handlers lost.
“The sticking issue for all of us is the pension issue,’said a labor activist who attended the meeting with Mr. Emanuel. ‘ can’t tell my members we are going to support a guy who is going to cut your pensions.’ The labor leader and others who attended the meeting said they did not want to be identified for fear that Mr. Emanuel would retaliate if he were elected.”
Emanuel informs union leaders of intention to cut pensions, not just for new hires..so they kept their members in the dark.
Feb 22, 2011 ... Rahm Emanuel declared victory in the Chicago mayor's race
My Illinois friend remarked: "Rahm knows where the bodies are buried."[an expression]
A couple weeks ago we stripped the unions of between 16 and 20 thousand forced members here in Michigan. The teachers are screaming about being treated like slaves. The strategy of coercion and threats is being ramped up.
They’re “winning” like Charlie Sheen.
With the LSM it will be hard for the GOP to get out the correct message. We must keep working hard to get the truth and the fact out there. The libtards own the media.
The key to the public union demise is giving state government employees the right to opt out of automatic union dues collection.
I’m betting that given a choice, at least half will opt out.
The Tea Party and the people who voted in November won.
meanwhile the latest generic ballot results show Republicans with a 46% to 37% lead over Democrats.
That’s all that matters, we are WINNING!
“Republicans have done organized labor a great favor by putting the movement back in (the) labor movement, creating a level of passion and activism for workers’ rights that hasn’t been seen in generations,” crowed Democratic strategist Mike Lux.
Republicans didn’t do it. The labor movement and the Democrat party created a situation that almost ended in riots, and almost created a Constututional crisis, all over a change in law that put WI public unions on the same playing field as federal employees and numerous other states. This was completely and purposely orchestrated by people wanting Obama re-elected.
they need to poll on the question “Are you willing to have your taxes raised in order to maintain current levels of pay and benefits for public employees?”
Even Democrat governors and legislatures smell the coffee. There’s no way underwater states (of which IL is one of those in the worst shape) can balance their budgets without renegotiating the public workers’ contracts. To do anything else would just be nibbling around the edges.
Negating the collective bargaining privileges is key to the process because it takes away the power of unions to buy off sympathetic politicians who will give them everything they want-taxpayers be damned.
The polls that show support for unions are the result of how little people know about where the big pieces of pie are in the local, state and federal budgets and a fundamental misunderstanding of what collective bargaining is.
Wisconsin brought this whole issue to the forefront and it was very instructive to many. More battles such as that will help inform the public. Walker was quite articulate in making his points.
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