Posted on 02/17/2011 1:47:38 PM PST by Jean S
Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker's move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely.
The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent message for the rest of us: Voters can vote all they want. We can elect a cheapskate governor and a Legislature to match. But come the moment, unions will have the last, loudest word.
They'll have it if takes marches. They'll have it if it takes what amounts to an illegal strike, with so many Madison teachers calling in sick Wednesday that the district closed schools. If it takes showing up for a we-know-where-your-family-is protest on Walker's Wauwatosa lawn while he was at work, the unions are sure they can outshout any election result.
This is exactly why Walker is right to limit the unions' power over government spending.
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Despicable.
Get a life, Union fools.....your days on the gravy train are numbered.
They should all be fired for misusing sick time, but of course, that won't happen.
Bunch of thugs.
Let's see how fast you fill the jobs.
Funny. You almost never hear about Tea Partiers doing such things.
The unions are having a tough time in NJ, too; they are in denial that not only was “Hatchetman” Christie elected, but for years voters have rejected school budgets that are put to the vote annually. In the past, deals were made to circumvent the outcomes of those elections; now with a property tax cap those deals can’t be made. They’re in a position now where if a town’s budget PASSES, 3 teachers are let go; if it FAILS, then 8 are let go. They’ve destroyed our middle class in NJ, many of whom have fled to greener pastures following the companies they worked for that also fled.
In El Paso, the university pumps out 500 education majors a semester and roughly 100 of them find jobs as actual teachers. These are mostly young, single girls and they don’t want to move out of town so those that don’t get to be teachers take any lower paying job they can find. Every one of those graduates is chomping at the bit to get into a full time teaching postiion. 1000 teachers could be replaced in a single afternoon in my town.
Rush Limbaugh was saying today that these kinds of bullying tactics by public service employee unionists and Democrat politicians has the benefit of demonstrating the arrogance and total disregard for the state’s voters and the process of democracy. These union jerks have grown so sure of their power over politicians that they go apoplectic when confronted by a small dose of fiscal reality. That they will attempt to shut down vital services to flex their muscle and humble both politicians and citizens is almost guaranteed. That they will succeed is not beyond possible but one hopes that this time, the tide has really changed. We’ll see.
Unions are digging their own graves . . . the American public is tired of them. They are spoiled brats in the workplace.
It’s time to disband the Unions or at least remove them from their throne of power.
In the words of Obama “we won, you lost” “Get out of our way so that we can clean up this mess” I could go on and on with the rhetoric he used to get his way...Oh, I forgot, they’re hypocrates.
Totally agree. Unions are communists controlled thugs.
Taxpayers to Union Thugs: WE WON!!!
There are enough teachers being laid off around the other 49 states to bring in all new teachers for the state of Wisconsin. I would likely step lightly here because you would have to bring each teacher into a room and offer a contract, then give them a day or two to accept or refuse. At that point...you’d advertise and likely find 20,000 teachers ready to step in. The only other issue is accreditation. But you could pass a simple rule that accreditation in one state is good enough in Wisconsin.
If I were a teacher in Wisconsin currently....I might start asking my union rep more questions and start to add up my expenses. If you owe money on a house...you might not want to screw up anything. Teachers don’t exactly have a second career to fall back on....and you might be homeless in Wisconsin....which means you move back in with dad or your brother...which might be acceptable there but I doubt it.
I would love to see that happen.
I remember where I was (13yo, in an old fantastic family restaurant just NW of Austin) when Reagan fired their asses.
Everybody cheered. We’d been subject to every crying man on the tarmac and his family for weeks, and were sick of it already.
problem is that there isn’t a pattern. Since it is a single incident, the best that they can do is put a letter in their file and tell them they will go to a 30.20A hearing (move to dismissal) if it happens again. Tomorrow is another day and even next week. But the school administration (HR) needed to be at the protest taking pictures of their absent teachers to bolster their records for the arbitration.
While it is appalling, it doesn’t make it illegal or even actionable beyond this incident. They have to be out of work for 10 work days for it to be job abandonment.
>I propose a tax on public sector wages and benefits that are higher than private sector counterparts. The money will be used for boosting benefits to private sector employees. It’s time to take back.
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Or you could tax the public sector more to give the public sector the benefits and raises they want. Make for their own closed little “ecosystem”.
“jerks were protesting at Scott Walker’s Wauwatosa home yesterday. His sons live there with their grandparents”
The morons are attacking children and the elderly. What happened to the journalists that were throwing tantrums that people were not civil enough. Haven’t heard any civility talk from them in Wisconsin. Barry’s even adding fuel to the fire with recent statements. This is what you get when you elect a protege of Bill Ayers as President.
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