House votes to restrict unions

Boston.com (Boston Globe) ^ | 4/27/2011 | Michael Levenson

[CharlesThe Hammer]

House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.

The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. But unlike those efforts, the push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Where are the mobs of chanting union members? What, no occupation of the capitol building, threats towards the governor, or intimidation of lawmakers? Absent are the satellite trucks and 24/7 coverage of Democrats voting to mimic Wisconsin-like curbs on public union power. Silence.

[cripplecreek]

Boston is outside the Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan union outrage tour circuit.

[caldera599]

And people want me to believe that the media is NOT the ally of the Democratic Party? Puh-leeze.

[blackdog]

Liberals are the most intellectually and physically inconsistant beings on the planet. Their initiative to react to something is predicated entirely on a chain of thought command. Their capacity to spot concerns, and act on what they process is frozen in space and time until an appointed community organizer rents a bus, calls the union halls, arranges for doctor's excuses, orders the catering, and sends the required tweets to the local judiciary for backup.

We obviously need more community organizers. That's the root cause.

[ghost of nixon]

Where are the mobs of chanting union members?

...the Dems & Union bosses are about to embark on a new method of screwing their fellow citizens...they have been getting killed in the polls on this collective bargaining/gold-plated benefits issue...not sure what the new scam will be though

[bjorn14]

I just tried Googling “Massachusetts Capitol Riots” and couldn’t.....never mind.

I guess ‘rats take it from other ‘rats