[FR thread] Scott Walker Stands By Claim Reagan's Union-Busting Was 'Most Significant' Foreign Policy Decision
[FR thread] Scott Walker Stands By Claim Reagan's Union-Busting Was 'Most Significant' Foreign Policy Decision
Wow. Walker sounds pretty awesome.
“SEIU, for example, was one of the Wisconsin unions in 2011 that got their teeth kicked in.”
....and they filed and unfair labor practice lawsuit because kicking teeth in is THEIR job.
This author is a douche. I am not part of the 1% and I despise unions. I hope he gets elected and makes fedgov unions illegal as they should be. I can just imagine the whining now.
all those words come down to this.” For example, Walker’s anti-union laws have reduced union membership in Wisconsin by 50 percent since he defeated the “Wisconsin Uprising” in 2011, a battle victory that the super rich consider more heroic than the campaigns of any current military general.”
People opted out. They weren’t forced. All the arguments in the world can’t get past that.
I had to supervise Union thugs (Teamsters) for decades before moving on.
There is typically a percentage of whom are absolutely devoted to that gang of rogues who simply refuse to behave reasonably or rationally consistently. The threat of violence, usually against non conforming ‘brothers’ is enduring. Most members in my experience are regular working people who simply pay their dues and get their work done.
For those few, the union is akin to their religion, and they are absolute cultists.
More frightening to me however is the union movement in the public sector. These groups are fundamentally undermining the country with their antics but mostly their completely unsustainable benefits and pension plans.
There is absolutely no valid reason that government employees should be involved with organized labor. Politicians who agree to deal with these groups should be tarred and feathered.
Do these people not notice Detroit?
the real issue is, the one the people leaching off the workers refuse to admit, is that unions have succeeded. If you agree with that premise then theres no reason for their jobs. If there are no jobs for them there are no perks to hand out.
Theres no doubt ( though some here have argued otherwise) that there was a time and place for unions. Look no further than coal miners. There are laws protecting workers here that no politician will ever overturn. In truth theres still a need for unions but not in this nation. Try Pakistan or China or India. In this nation they did their job. Now they’re overstaying their welcome.
CPAC the 1%?
Somehow I doubt it.
The folks who own the Democrat party?
Yeah. That’s the 1%.
Shamus Cooke is a social worker, trade unionist and activist in the Occupy movement. Shamus Cooke is is a writer for Workers Action and a prolific writer on political and social issues. nuf said
Just a few selected words from this author's repertoire. You cannot discuss, much less reason with, socialist zealots like this. There is no point.
50% of union members, when given the option, to pay dues or not, chose not to and that's Walker's fault?
Graybeard58, 30+ year, retired union member.
How many unions had “Jihadi John” tried to bust?
oops.... walker is for profits. since profits not paid to the workers are evil, Walker is evil
QED
from the Code of Virginia:
§40.1-57.2 - Prohibition against collective bargaining.
No state, county, municipal, or like governmental officer, agent or governing body is vested with or possesses any authority to recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent of any public officers or employees, or to collectively bargain or enter into any collective bargaining contract with any such union or association or its agents with respect to any matter relating to them or their employment or service.
§ 40.1-55 - Employee striking terminates, and becomes temporarily ineligible for, public employment.
Any employee of the Commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or other political subdivision thereof, or of any agency of any one of them, who, in concert with two or more other such employees, for the purpose of obstructing, impeding or suspending any activity or operation of his employing agency or any other governmental agency, strikes or willfully refuses to perform the duties of his employment shall, by such action, be deemed to have terminated his employment and shall thereafter be ineligible for employment in any position or capacity during the next twelve months by the Commonwealth, or any county, city, town or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or by any department or agency of any of them.
One reform I would like to see (if we can not ban public employee unions all together) would be any pension from the state government could only be paid to legal residence of that state.
This way they would have live in the nightmare they created and not move on to infest other states.
Walker compared to Jihad Johnny!
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Oh, please, what a flaming crock. The teachers stopped having their dues automatically deducted from their paychecks, and vast numbers, in effect, said "Screw this, I'm free---ain't paying no more. Buh-bye."