Nikki Haley: Unions Aren't Welcome In South Carolina

Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2014 | Leah Barkoukis

[jazusamo]

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley didn

[cableguymn]

that and dumping the union may buy them sometime.

[nascarnation]

I’ve read that the folks who opposed the UAW in VW Chattanooga TN did a good job of showing the voters that the UAW supports gun control and abortion.
Supposedly that was an excellent wedge issue.

[jazusamo]

I hadn’t read that but it’s not only smart but true.

When I first read about VW giving a green light to the union I thought it was all over.

My hat is off to the workers that they shot it down, let’s hope 0bummer’s NLRB doesn’t undo it.

[re_nortex]

...the UAW supports gun control and abortion.

Unions have always been on the wrong side of every issue that are vital to America's interests. Aside from FDR's evil witch, Frances Perkins (mentioned by me in an earlier post), the racketeers of the Big Labor mobocracy are rooted in communism. The Wobblies paved the way for pinko thugs such as I.W. Able, David Dubinsky, Samuel Gompers and host of other anti-American traitors. Of course, the notorious Eugene V. Debs was an ally of unionism.

[BTC USNRET]

I only have one thing to say to those who think that all government employees are union members. We aren't, joining a union is optional. The union has no, I repeat, no bargaining powers for wages, annual or sick leave, government workers can't strike and wages are set by Congress. Federal workers, until this year, haven't had a raise for 4 years.

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[re_nortex]

Federal workers, until this year, haven't had a raise for 4 years.

So what? Real Americans are rewarded for their contributions in the free market not the artificial environment of a government (read featherbedding) "work"place.

[fso301]

What about your public education system?

[autumnraine]

Yep. And not all sit behind a desk collecting fat salaries. Some even have production rates.

[jazusamo]

And your point is?

[mdmathis6]

I don’t necessarily want politicians who are “perfect” which makes them too rigid to deal with real life exigencies. But I demand that they be honest...at least as honest as faith and the Holy Spirit empowers them to be!

[Balding_Eagle]

You got a raise just 4 years ago?

[nascarnation]

The Reuther brothers worked in Russian factories to learn the communist system. It was no secret even at the time they were first organizing Ford and GM in the 30s.

[Salvavida]

I wish North Carolina could break out, but the Triangle of liberal universities has enslaved this state. It will follow Virginia if it doesn’t take immediate, radical steps.

[nfldgirl]

The boom in jobs created in the great, right-to-work state of South Carolina, will eventually, in all probability, result in an influx of northern liberals working their way down here to the south and, thus, spreading their liberal/progressive nonsense on the rest of us. Everywhere they go, eventually you see the bi-product of progressive/liberal "spread" and it's not pretty! (see Filthadelphia, NYC, Detroit, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Trenton, et al.)

No thanks! Keep it up north where it belongs!

[Syncro]

...joining a union is optional

Yeah, but unless you are in a right to work state, they take dues out of your check even if you are not a member.

And they probably try in RTW states too.

Here in California if you work 40 hours a month (that's a month, the hours normally worked in a week) they take close to 3 hours pay every month.

That's hundreds of $'s a year to the SEIU thugs that beat up a friend of mine and took his Gadsden Don't Tread On Me flags at a tea party rally.

They got off after a very long court battle with a finger shaking.

Unions are seeped in illegal activities and sell their votes to dems.

[Rome2000]

In order to defeat the CPUSA they must be defunded.

Forced unionization and withholding of union dues from paychecks must be outlawed.

Federal worker unions can be abolished with the stroke of a pen.

[Popman]

Federal workers, until this year, haven't had a raise for 4 years.

Well, at least you have a job...

Millions of Americans don't...

Just how hard is it to get fired from a federal job...anyway?

I know for three years from 2009 to 2012 I woke up everyday not knowing if the company would shut down the place I run for them...

Believe me I wasn't worried about getting a raise !!!

[re_nortex]

IBTZ.

So what have we here. Hmmmm. A leftist government employee signed on just today to whine about not getting a RAISE when real Americans don't even know that that term means since the obama regime has been in power. Your post, to which you deign to not stick around and engage with true Conservatives, has an implicit approval of unionism in it. Unions are evil -- they champion abortion on demand, the homosexual agenda, destruction of the precious Second Amendment and a number of other causes near and dear to commies.

I think it's pretty evident by your "post and run" behavior that you favor big government and other forms of anti-American liberalism. The founder of Free Republic, Mr. Jim Robinson, said it best four years or so ago:

Unionists be damned!! Unite against the damned unionists!!

[Graybeard58]

joining a union is optional. The union has no, I repeat, no bargaining powers for wages, annual or sick leave, government workers can't strike and wages are set by Congress. Federal workers, until this year, haven't had a raise for 4 years.

Welcome aboard Navy. I think you are supposed to be here awhile before you go spoiling people''s rants.

It's just good form.