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Posted on 02/20/2011 10:53:11 AM PST by apillar
SEIU brothers and sisters,
As I write, 30,000 people are gathered outside of the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin speaking out against Republican Governor Scott Walker's attempt to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Almost 14,000 of our SEIU brothers and sisters stand to lose their rights if Governor Walker gets his way: 9,000 nurses and nursing home staff, along with about 5,000 home care workers.
They've been out there among the demonstrators all week.
We've set up a page on our website that allows you to send a message of support to our SEIU family and everyone else fighting for their rights outside the Capitol.
Share your well-wishes for the working families in Wisconsin and we'll make sure they receive them this weekend.
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
While the collective bargaining rights of our members are at stake, it's important to note that the conversation taking place is about more than that alone. When Scott Walker manufactured this crisis by giving tax cuts to corporations and his special interest friends last month, it escalated a state legislative debate into a struggle for economic justice with large corporations not paying their fair share to get Americans back to work.
When you see the news of our members in Wisconsin on the television and online, those are the things they're fighting for.
Send a message to your SEIU brothers and sisters who have been outside the Capitol all week and we'll make sure they receive it.
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
Scott Walker claims this is about saving money, but President Obama said it best: this is an "assault on unions."
But it's not just union members at risk; it's the services these members provide-whether that be as teachers, public safety personnel or home health care workers.
I'll be in touch soon with updates from Wisconsin and other states where working families are under attack from a new crop of Republican governors.
In solidarity,
Mary Kay Henry
President, SEIU
PS - Republicans are trying to take away workers' rights in at least ten states. But if we stop them in Wisconsin, we'll make a strong statement that America will not tolerate any more Republican attacks on the middle class. Stand with workers in Wisconsin now:
http://www.seiu.me/wisconsin
I sent the goons a message all right. It’ll make their eyes burn when they read it.
Unfortunately, in Maine we do not have that choice.
Uncovered Video Obama Leads SEIU Chant After Vowing to Paint the Nation Purple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQj-xBH30-I
I’ve been thinking about this, all the ‘Hitler’ equivalences thrown at Scott Walker AND at 0bama. I’m bored with the WWII references. And with the “This is just like Egypt” meme.
Let’s go back a hundred and fifty years, to something that is really quite apt: The Civil War:
November 2010: 0bama’s ‘Ft. Sumter’
Wisconsin, February, 2011: 0bama’s First Manassas.
Ironic isn’t it that 0bama is the Commander in Chief of the UNION forces?
And that this is an attack by the titular head of the Federal Government on States Rights / 10th Amendment?.
Instead of sending General McDowell and the blue-coated U.S. Army, 0bama has sent Richard Trumka and the SEIU purple-shirted thug brigades. ...
Lets just hope that Governor Walker remains a Stone wall, Jackson.
Bttt
It would seem that the “public” employees are struggling under some misguided ideas. Public...as in paid by tax dollars....as in the tax payers pay their salary...thus the tax payers are their bosses. As their boss, I wouldn’t be pleased to have them thumbing their noses at me,making demands of me, the one paying their salary. As the employer of public workers, the tax payer has the right to make the rules through the legislature of their state. They do this by voting. The taxpayers of WI should tell their employees that they’re fired for insubordination.
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Besides the examples you cited, regulation in general works against startups and small companies. A big company can afford a large staff making sure that the company is in compliance with all the regulations. A small company can't.
When the government workers are not getting any pay they will beg the 14 to go back to work!
The new budget in Wisconsin is coming up shortly.
If the SEIU exec. Vice President made in the neighborhood of $199.000 in 2009, what does Ms. Mary make in 2011 as the SEIU president?
words to live by!
Thank you devolve. They never fail to bring a laugh to someone.
That story has played out over and over again in every state in the USA. What lesson have the teamsters learned? Try it again! In some books... to keep trying the same thing over and over with the same result (ALL jobs lost) is the definition of Insanity.
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Good post potlatch!
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Thank you. Been a long time since I “created”.
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Lots of opportunities to post them now -
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Cordially,
that was my thought as well ... thank you
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