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Originally Posted by waynet
I truly do not understand the hatred for unions by some people. They would make us believe that public employees are solely responsible for everything that is wrong with America. Wall street and corporate giants rip us off for countless billions pay nothing and yet it's the unions. I'm not drinking that Kool-aid ever. If workers are not allowed to negotiate they are slaves to that company. Even companies without unions(Pfizer)negotiate. It's a sad day for American labor and The USA in general.
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Public Employees do not have a right to unionize. It was granted by an elected body and PARTS or ALL of it can be withdrawn by the elected body. The federal gov employees do not have the right to union and half the states already have significant restrictions on those rights. The unions and employees have no right to become disruptive, and intimidating, or run out of state. They should take their issue to the voters in the next election.
The REASON Wisconsin elected reps want to limit.. NOT END.. the collective bargaining rights is because they have a 3 billion dollar deficit that was caused IN PART by the current collective bargaining rights. It does not fix the problem to accept the belated offer to reduce benefits but leave in effect the imbalance in collective bargaining rights by public employees that IN PART caused it.. they must fix the imbalance. How can those employees complain when they have higher salaries and benefits than the taxpayers that pay their salaries? They should not.
It is wrong for unions to have a law that requires new hirees to pay union dues when they never got to vote on the union.. then take that money and give it to politicians that the worker opposes.. and then bargain with the politician they supported with their dues to get sweet deals on pay and benefits. It is wrong and must be changed.
JJ