Police And Firefighter Unions Demand Businesses Publicly Oppose Wisconsin Governor

http://radioviceonline.com/ ^ | March 15, 2011 | Steve McGough

[Biggirl]

Wow. Here is another reason public unions should not be allowed to collectively bargain with politicians running a local or state government. Union leadership – including those from law enforcement and firefighters – have sent letters out to local businesses demanding they publicly oppose the efforts of Wisconsin’s legislature and governor or face the consequences.

Not only are they suggesting they publicly oppose the fiscal-sanity measures in Wisconsin, they are flat out telling them they will publicly boycott businesses who do not proactively do so. From James Taranto’s opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.

[kcvl]

Unions are threatening businesses across Wisconsin. Union leaders are telling members to “put pressure on businesses” to post this graphic in their window.

These graphics were sent to the Wausau Tea Party from a Wisconsin County Employee. The employee received them via government emails in messages from an AFSCME Union Rep. The instructions were to put pressure on local businesses to make them aware that the unions are watching. “All public employees are being urged to look for this sign in business windows.”

From the Union Rep: “I encourage you to utilize your own business contacts and urge them to hang this prominently in their window. The explanation that I’ve found works best if they are apprehensive is that this is about local dollars, not politics. If our buying power is destroyed—their business will be affected adversely. Please let your area lead know which businesses you get to participate so that they might compile a list to distribute to the members.”

The County Employee also received an email with the Union “Business Card” and was instructed to “make copies of the business cards” and “distribute to each business where you spend money.”

[meyer]

Thanks - I guess I’ll be buying Sargento cheese and Johnsonville sausage a little more often now.