Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Employee Union Protest
February 20, 2011
The Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the employee union protest.
(If you just want to skim through the text, scroll down, there are videos and pictures are below.)
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IMHO, like it or not:
There are anti-monopoly laws, known as anti-Trust laws. Is there any difference between “price fixing” and “collective bargaining” except that one is illegal and the other is not?
“It’s for THE CHILDREN”
Madison Schools will be Closed Again Monday
The Democrats left Wisconsin to hide and avoid voting. Do they have any idea of how foolish they look? They are “on strike” and shut down the government. Democrats.
There is some good reporting about it, and some very poor reporting. I wonder how many journalists belong to The Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC and IFJ or The National Writers Union and “stand in solidarity”?
In many places public employees are compelled, required to pay union dues. Is there any difference between that and a TV-mob character forcing someone to pay “protection” money? Not only that but the employer (government) collects the union dues by withholding the money from the employee’s pay.
I imagine the union makes it all sound good, they make many promises of job security, high pay, vacation time, health insurance, lavish pension for retirement, early retirement, etc.
How is it that some people think that salary, benefits including health care, job protection (requiring more people than necessary), early retirement, lavish pensions, health care for life are “rights”? I have the suspicion the union told them that.
There must be many public employees who have never worked anywhere else – they go right from college into the classroom and do not know any better.
I suspect their fellow employees, their friends are union members too. There is probably a camaraderie, a comradeship with fellow union members. How many times do they say they “stand in solidarity?” In their worldview, it’s “normal.”
I’ve been told that a long, long time ago there apparently were some cases where the employer could really exploit people. In that case I guess a labor union might have been good. Fast forward to today – the labor union is exploiting the employees for union dues in exchange for promises of pay, benefits and pensions. To a much larger extent, the labor unions are exploiting the taxpayer. When the employee union exploits the employer to the point of bankruptcy, how does that help the worker? Detroit comes to mind.
There are anti-monopoly laws, known as anti-Trust laws. Is there any difference between “price fixing” and “collective bargaining” except that one is illegal and the other is not?
Unions “negotiate” as if there is a bottomless pot of cash available for worker’s salary, benefits including health care, job protection (requiring more people than necessary), early retirement, lavish pensions, health care for life. They make minor “concessions” and act as if they are making a noble, compassionate sacrifice.
The unions spend a lot of money to select and elect friendly legislators. They then promote, campaign for and contribute cash and manpower to the same legislators who then control public money. Legislators pass laws to spend public money on the union members – union members pay union dues – the union contributes to the legislator’s campaign. How is that even remotely legal?
At a minimum, Labor unions should not be allowed to contribute time or money to the campaigns of legislators who pass laws to spend public money on the union members, or contribute to any campaign.
“Collective bargaining” for salaries, benefits and pensions should be treated as “price fixing.”
Specifically, in Wisconson, there is no money to pay for the promises made by the union and the former politicians.
chicagotribune.com Lost: The common good
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has demanded that state workers contribute roughly 5.8 percent of their wages toward their retirement. He wants them to pay for 12 percent of their health-care premiums. Those modest employee contributions would be the envy of many workers in the private sector. “
People’s homes are being foreclosed on, underemployment is 19%, unemployment is 9.5% and they want the taxpayer to pay for ALL of their pension and health care premiums. According to the proposal, they have to pay only 12 percent of their health-care premiums… and 5.8 percent of their wages toward their retirement. They protest THAT????
It’s outrageous!
So the teachers LIE and say they are sick. They close the schools. The teachers make signs making the Governor look like Hiltler, and take students to the protest, where they whine and cry like spoiled little bratty children.
Fire the ones who lied about being sick.
Crybabies
He Does! Is that Presidential?
Organizing For America
Good Golly! Who said they don’t “have a right to organize”?
DNC playing role in Wisconsin protests
They are too? Mmmmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm.
ASTROTURF: Chicago Teachers Union Organizes for Wisconsin Protest CHICAGO?
I wonder why Obama would be on the side of the leftist labor unions?
SEIU for Obama
Guess where this link leads to:
Chicago Commies go to Wisconsin. Wait… CHICAGO? Isn’t that where Bill Ayers is “just a guy in the neighborhood?”
The Socialists join the union protest too.
The teachers, after lying about being sick, take students to the protest.
Where they can see signs such as:
And these:
Leftist Labor Union Signs
“It’s For THE CHILDREN”
It's for THE CHILDREN!!!
Get Your get-Out-Of-School Pass here, Play Hookey!
Are students going to look to some moral authority figure the next time they are tempted to skip a class? This is terrible.
There is much more I could say about this. That’s a snippet of what I found interesting. Please draw your own conclusions.
A few good tweets: “We’re broke.” Maybe they’d like it better if the checks bounced. Lefty logic at work…Oy Vey!
I saw the mob protesting in Wisconsin and couldn’t help noticing how WHITE the crowd is. I wonder if Rachel Maddow will notice.
Gee next time I go to Oympia to be heard I hope I can get a boxed lunch and a pre-made sign!
Why am I contributing to teachers penisons… ?? I need to focus on my own retirement.
There is just no money to pay for the promises made to them – the “deals” they got for their union dues.
Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket???
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