This will backfire, and not just in the court of public opinion.
Businesses that receive this extortion letter, whether or not they seem to comply, will resent it bitterly. There will be consequences.
FIRE THEM ALL, post for REPLACEMENTS, and move on.
One more reason to ‘save big money at Menards’ !
...plus the have a bathroom renovation sale on now.
They should be handed a cease and desist order for attempted extortion.
Just as the media never exposed Jackson's strong-arm tactics, they won't report on Wisconsin, either.
Here's where we MUST participate. Attach this thread and get it out to your emailing list. CONSIDER THIS A FREEP. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR, CORRECT? Does no good to complain about this to each other!
The word must go around that the ramparts must be mounted to stop this goon thugocracy from attacking our relatives and friends and fellow citizens who own or work in small businesses anywhere and everywhere in our communities. Their heads are barely above water now, anyhow, from Obama's marxist economy.
Union violence by threats, extortion, blackmail and boycotts MUST BE STOPPED before it touches every one of us....and it will!
E-MAIL NOW!
Leni
Sounds rather like a police state.
If they didn’t have anti-trust exemptions unions would be dissolved for conspiracy to fix the price of labor. Perhaps the municipalities, States and Feds should re-visit these exemptions.
So the message is “back us in this fight or you might not get Police and Fire protection”?
These people are evil.
Sounds like extortion to me. They is NO difference between these union goons and a mafioso thug in a cheap suit demanding protection money.
RICO this Filth right into prison.
Our “public servants” are threatening businesses, behaving like the criminals they are supposed to protect us from. We can’t say that we weren’t warned about the dangers of collective bargaining “rights” for public sector workers.
They = There...
What I wouldn’t give for a fracking edit feature...
Bolsheviks.
For any naively pro-LEO conservatives still hanging around with their heads in the sand, this should provide a bit of a wake-up call: should, but probably won’t.
The Founders had an answer to thug law enforcement by British Tory occupiers called Committees of Safety. They worked well.
Waiting for all the good little cops and firefighters to publicly stand up to their union leadership in the same way they stand up to bad cops in their ranks... /s
I know that it's not necessarily the employees themselves but the thugish behavior of their union leadership and representatives leave a stench on the whole group - and fish stinks from the head down!
if just one of these businesses pulled a James O’Keefe on them, unions in this country are DOOMED!
This is illegal if I remember right: boycotting someone who doesn’t join your boycott, organizing against them - ‘secondary boycott’. Goodbye, unions. Goodbye, Democratic Party.
http://radioviceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/union-wisconsin-letter.pdf
If you would like to discuss this further call:
608-273-3840
James L. Palmer, Executive Director, Wisconsin Professtional Police Association
Mahlon Mitchell, Presidtn, Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin
Joe Conway, President International Association of Fire Fighters Local 311
John Matthews, Executive Director Madison Teachers, Inc.
Keith Patt, Executive Director Green Bay Education Association
Bob Richardson, President Dane County Deputy sheriffs Association
Dan Frei, President Madison Professional Police Officers Association
The undersigned groups would like your company to publicly oppose Governor Walker’s efforts to virtually eliminate collective bargaining for public employees in Wisconsin. While we appreciate that you may need some time to consider this request, we ask for your response by March 17. In the event that you do not respond to this request by that date, we will assume that you stand with Governor Walker and against the teachers, nurses, police officers, fire fighters, and other dedicated public employees who serve our communities