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.
voters
That probably won’t be known for some time. Depends on how the recall efforts do and the elections in 2012 and 2014.
“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]
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.
“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.
A key provision of Walker's WI law is not only to eviscerate unions' bargaining power but ALSO the state's obligation to collect union dues out of employee's paychecks---(most of which goes to Dem campaigns).
The libs are paranoid that Obama did not join them in WI as he promised he would during the campaign. He couldn't go----B/C he couldn't appear to side with violent union workers intent on keeping collective bargaining "rights" ...rights Ohaha's army of federal employees do not have.
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THIS SAYS A LOT Obama's recent Boston fundraiser started out as a $5,000 a plate then dropped to $500 a plate ... but he still could not fill the room——ended up talking to a little over 100 people.
Heh---nice to see Ohaha between a rock and a hard place. In a word----l-o-s-e-r.
It’s over unions.
Everyone must sacrifice. Your boss says so.
On a side—If the healthcare bill was so great why
are they giving all their friends waivers?
The fair thing to do would be for the Union to give back to the members an amount equivalent to what they give to the democratic party, stop supporting Democrats and or Republicans
and let the Union members support the party of their choice.
I know this make too much sense to be seriously considered by A) the Union, or B)the Democratic party who forever spout fairness. They wouldn’t recognize fairness if it bit them in the ass.
A poll commissioned by the NY Times...right!!! Kindly refer to my tagline. Thank you.
The advice above about separating public sector unions from private sector ones politically (conceptually) is smart. Watch the progressives/liberals on MSNBC. They do the opposite and equate rhetorically the public sector unions with all workers. They try to create a picture of ‘the rich’ only paying for the public services like schools and that being overly generous to public workers somehow benefits the private sector worker who ends up footing the bill.
1) Control the message, 2) Split the opposition
The unions have actually taken out tv ads here in Wisconsin showing supposed union members crying and moaning because their paychecks will now be less since the mean, evil, nasty Tyrant er Governor Walker is making them pay more in contributions to their health and pensions. The fact is they paid little or nothing before, and now they’re bawling because they have to pay a little. The Wisconsin GOP better counter that stuff quick. If the unions are successful in making it look like their nonexistent “rights” were taken away, the unions will ultimately win.
The unions have actually taken out tv ads here in Wisconsin showing supposed union members crying and moaning because their paychecks will now be less since the mean, evil, nasty Tyrant er Governor Walker is making them pay more in contributions to their health and pensions. The fact is they paid little or nothing before, and now they’re bawling because they have to pay a little. The Wisconsin GOP better counter that stuff quick. If the unions are successful in making it look like their nonexistent “rights” were taken away, the unions will ultimately win.
Politically? Taxpayers.
The unions were shown to be selfish, and their win-win relationship with the Democratic party was clearly revealed. Unions IN GENERAL will be tainted from this display by the public sector unions.
Taxpayers are numerically superior to union members, this is a simple question to answer.
The unions and Dhims are pissed off that the Repubs were smarter than they were and used their own tactic of a deft use of the rules to pass the legislation.