Posted on 12/07/2017 4:05:05 PM PST by mdittmar
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Trump administration’s brief to the Supreme Court on Janus v. AFSCME:
While President Trump boasts his support for working families, his administration is advocating a position in the United States Supreme Court that disregards decades of settled law and threatens our livelihoods. Yet again, his actions are failing his rhetoric and making clear that he has no intention of following through on his commitments to working people.
For more than forty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations, the law has recognized that unions and employers have the freedom to negotiate agreements under which everybody contributes his or her fair share. But now the Trump Administration is urging the Supreme Court to reverse this precedent and undermine working people and our unions. This is a shameful political payback to reward those who seek to do working people harm.
Arguing against our freedoms at work is not what working people expect of our government. Actions speak louder than words Mr. President, and these actions do not support working families as you so often claim.
Wisconsin has made great strides in crippling Unions since Governor Walker took over.
My Dad was a Union Guy; he feels Unions are no longer needed.
Beau was a Union Guy; he feels Unions are no longer needed.
The TEACHERS in our state, once given the option, fled their Union in DROVES in Wisconsin.
Funny how letting people KEEP THEIR OWN MONEY and not having it siphoned off to support the SOCIALISTS will change hearts and minds, isn’t it? ;)
Tell me about it. I work for a local gov’t in IT. We have a “Senior Programmer” who only knows Fox Pro and refuses to learn any new languages. He stonewalls on everything and is a general PITA, but earns just shy of six figures with a massive pension in store because he is a “lifer” (worked for the county well over 30 years).
He’s an obstructionist and never does a lick of work other than the bear minimum of what would be a helpdesk/desktop support worker’s job description. He actually called the manager to ask what the Dell support phone number was!!!
He will search engine nothing and constantly push back on everything. He’s almost 65 and we all pray for the day he signs up for medicare and walks out!
My step-father-in-law is a permanent member of our (blue) state’s arbitration board. It is a job for life overseeing union contract negotiations between municipalities and their public employees, as well as disciplinary actions. I asked him the same question. He said without public employee unions the employees would all get fired whenever elections change the leadership. I laughed. Then I said “So what”.
I know exactly zilch about this case, but if a vile scum like Trumka has one view, my wise is 180 degrees diametrically opposed.
I will read up on it though.
“Contributes”? WTF?
‘CRIPPLING’ Unions, not, ‘CONTRIBUTES.’
Or are you confusing my response with the Author?
Amicus brief of United States submitted.
Not directed at you.
Why thanks...very kind of you!
Ugh. I do know about this...this has made me bristle with anger for years. Of course that suckbag Trumka and his union goons are for it. Wow, this is an important one!
That "fair share" is, of course determined by union thugs against the will of the individual.
Liberals are so destructive and corrosive that perfectly good words like "diversity" and "fair" seem so corrupted by them that it is difficult to use them as they should be.
My Dad was a union guy too, and I have no problems with private sector unions. If they can help their companies make a profit and be competitive, more power to them, but private sector unions are an abomination. FDR was right about one thing for sure.
Forced union dues are "freedom". LOL
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson
Can you please define “working people?” ///
Someone who’s in a union.
Knew that but I want to see it from that thug Trumka. It’s an oxymoron; “working people” only serves the needs of union thugs—everyone is a “working person.”
>>We have a “Senior Programmer” who only knows Fox Pro and refuses to learn any new languages.
Wow, just wow!
For those unfamiliar, FoxPro got bought out by Microsoft about 25 years ago. My cousin worked for them, and ended up working for Microsoft as a result, and did very well with that. But FoxPro was obsolescent 20 years ago, completely so say 15 years ago.
Incredible, regarding this employee.
Trumka, the turd that embraced the Muslim uprising during the “Arab Spring”
For the same reason as any other union - to protect the workers from their employers.
However, in the case of public sector unions, they are protecting themselves from us.
-PJ
The only problem was precisely the fact that Microsoft bought it to reduce competition and in order to quit update versions so as to phase it out in favor of other products. MS has a history of being anti-technology that way.
But that's the nice thing about good solid software, that it will just keep running stably.
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