Posted on 09/13/2015 11:44:51 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker plans to focus Monday on weakening labor by proposing to abolish unions for federal workers, create a national "right-to-work law" and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board.
At a Las Vegas manufacturer, he also plans to call for requiring all unions to hold periodic votes so workers can decide whether they should continue to exist, according to his campaign. He will also cancel President Barack Obama's Labor Day order that federal contractors provide paid sick leave and work to end policies requiring some salaried workers to receive overtime—saying in some cases they should get time off instead.
"It's time to address the problems with collective bargaining in public service rather than tinker around the edges. As president, I will work with Congress to eliminate big-government,federal unions on behalf of the American taxpayer."
..In 2011, just weeks after he became governor, Walker proposed all but eliminating collective bargaining for most public workers in Wisconsin. That sparked massive protests and prompted Senate Democrats to leave the state for three weeks in an attempt to block the legislation.
Walker and Republican lawmakers overcame that opposition and put the measure now known as Act 10 into law. Their opponents tried to recall Walker from office, but he survived the effort, becoming the first governor in American history to win a recall election..
At construction equipment maker Xtreme Manufacturing in Las Vegas, Walker also plans to propose:
Ending the ability of unions to require government workers in some states to pay fees to unions.
Banning the federal government from withholding union fees from workers' paychecks if they go toward political activities.
Barring caps that would prevent employees from being rewarded for exceptional work..
Establishing protections for union whistleblowers to protect them from retaliation.
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
It is pretty darn terrific.
"Governor Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled state legislature freed government employees from involuntary forced union membership, enabling them to choose or not choose to pay dues. The results have shown that roughly two-thirds have not chosen union membership when given the opportunity. And that has meant big cutbacks for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the most left wing and biggest political contributors to Democrats among American unions.......
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.....Keep in mind that AFSCME [American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees] was founded in Wisconsin, the state that was the birthplace of the Progressive political movement. Thus, the rejection of forced union membership is doubly painful. And it is already painful for the union bosses:........"
....No mention is made of political donations by the unions, but in the past AFSCME has been a major source of money and manpower for the Democrats. That racket is now ending for workers in Wisconsin, and one of Scott Walker’s strongest appeals will be to extend these reforms nationwide."
“What happens when you are a proud union member and you have a governor that wants to drive you out?” Hillary declared, according to The New York Times."
Sept 07, 2015: Scott Walker fires back at Obama on collective bargaining
Walker's remarks came in response to the president's Labor Day speech in Boston, in which Mr. Obama alluded to Republican presidential candidates who have worked to weaken unions.
"He is bragging about how he destroyed collective bargaining rights in his state, and says that busting workers prepares him to fight ISIL. I didn't make that up!" the president said of Walker, without naming him.
When Donald Trump is president...
The total eradication of unions will lead to American economic dominance and will reduce Red China to its rightful status of an irrelevant, weak, third-world cesspool.
Yea! And don’t allow people to meet in groups. And if they want something from their employer they should not be able to talk to anyone about it except for the employers officially designated representative.
In case you did not notice, it is the communist that don’t allow unions. In America we are still free and have the right to meet and organize our thoughts in a group. Under your plan, this forum known as Free Republic will not be allowed to exist. I am very much hoping your post was put up in jest and I just missed the sarcasm.
Do you or a family member belong to a union?
“Right to work” doesn’t mean people can’t meet or voluntarily belong to or give money to a union.
They just can’t force membership and confiscate money from their paycheck.
Unions are evil and must be exterminated to allow America's economy to roar!
Even a casual study of history will reveal that unionism and communism are kin. The IWW (which still exists to this day) is a subversive outfit with a commie puppetmaster, The names of union leaders from Eugene V. Debs to I.W. Abel to Walter Reuther to John L. Lewis is a rogues gallery of fifth columnists. The goal of labor unions is to destroy free enterprise by holding the worker a bondage to union goons.
We may not agree on everything CW, but on this there is not an iota of daylight between us. Well said and thanks!
Need I also add that the full name of the Nazi party is the National Socialists Workers Party. That evil outfit was formed by union members and Hitler himself was pro-union. Even one of the Nazi flags uses a well-known symbol of unionism, little different from the UAW!
From LINKS in Post #30:
“...The CPSU, according to its party statute, adhered to Marxism–Leninism, an ideology based on the writings of Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, and formalized under Joseph Stalin. The party pursued state socialism, under which all industries were nationalized and a planned economy was implemented.”...
“...Employment contracts created under the Weimar Republic were abolished and renewed under new circumstances in the DAF. Employers could demand more of their workers, while at the same time workers were given increased security of work and increasingly enrolled into social security programmes for workers. The organisation, by its own definition, combated capitalism, liberalism, but also revolution against the factory owners and the national socialist state. The DAF however did openly prefer to have large companies nationalised by the German state, instead of privately owned companies.
DAF membership was theoretically voluntary, but any workers in any area of German commerce or industry would have found it hard to get a job without being a member. Membership required a fee within the range of 15 pfennig to 3 Reichsmark, depending on the category a member fell into in a large scale of 20 membership groups. A substantially large amount of income was raised through fees. In 1934, the total intake was 300,000,000 Reichsmark.”...
Bump to Post #33.
The Wisconsin Idea 100 years of spreading socialism through academic activism in 3 main areas, education, politics and media.
"..The Wisconsin Idea was created by the state's progressives to do away with monopolies, trusts, high cost of living, and predatory wealth, which they saw as the problem that must be solved or else "no advancement of human welfare or progress can take place". Reforms in labor rights were one of the major aspects of the Wisconsin Idea."...
- Three years after Frank Little was lynched, a strike by Butte miners was suppressed with gunfire when deputized mine guards suddenly fired upon unarmed picketers in the Anaconda Road Massacre. Seventeen were shot in the back as they tried to flee, and one man died.
- In 1914 when mine guards and the state militia fired into a tent colony of striking miners in Colorado, an incident that came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre.[42] During that strike, the company hired the Baldwin Felts agency, which built an armored car so their agents could approach the strikers’ tent colonies with impunity. The strikers called it the “Death Special”. At the Forbes tent colony,
“The Death Special opened fire, a protracted spurt that sent some six hundred bullets tearing through the thin tents. One of the shots struck miner Luka Vahernik, fifty, in the head, killing him instantly. Another striker, Marco Zamboni, eighteen ... suffered nine bullet wounds to his legs... One tent was later found to have about 150 bullet holes...”
Sure does not sound like the goons were the workers
These were men with families- daughters and sons, wifes - and you condone this? I’m floored anyone would suggest the above is where we need to go as a country. You really want to regress 100 years?
I have actually been a union member -- because when living in Pennsylvania at the time, one has no choice in the matter. It wasn't and still isn't a Right to Work state. So I have direct experience with the evils of unionism. But I ultimately won by busting the evil union and their gang of lowlife goons. Among the more significant moments of my long life (70+ years) are when I led a successful rebellion to oust a private sector union in the Big Labor stronghold of Western Pennsylvania more than 30 years ago.
After the decertification election, when the union was ousted from our company, profits improved and management was able to rightsize the staff. The harsh adversarial relationship between we workers and the bosses vanished. Additionally, the burdensome work regulations that actually were detrimental to the employees were eliminated. For example, the minimum turnaround time rule was tossed, allowing those of us who desired to work additional hours with some nice, healthy paychecks. We also had the freedom to work holidays which had previously been prohibited by the union.
The deadwood was eliminated. Over a period of months, just about all of those who voted in favor of unionism during the decertification election were fired. I'll confess to taking real glee when a 25-year vet of the company was dismissed. He was a bad seed from the get-to, a featherbedder who thought tenure and seniority were his protection. When I engaged in the action to bust the union, this hateful creep uttered these words: "I was here when you got here and I'll be here when you leave". The Na-Na-Hey-Hey-Goodbye song was popular around that time and we who were loyal to the American spirit of free enterprise gave that union goon a serenade as he slinked out the door for good. This guy and his fellow unionistas were real communist sympathizers since they favored collectivism.
Well, I have to respect your age and your experience. Thanks for that account. I still disagree with you.
Frankly, yes. The opposite of a regressive is progressive. And communism advocates progressive causes.
What next? A rehash of the worn-out story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -- a favorite tale of anti-American liberals. What's not told in these sob stories uttered in song by Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie and other subversives is the sabotage inflicted on the job producer's facilities by union goons. They actually sought a reaction by the factory and mine owners and were willing to have their members perish to advance their collectivist aims.
Agreed. Is the SUV version available?
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