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© 2011 Eric Odom - Movement Politics
What a bizarre and interesting world we now live in…
Think about this for a minute. Taxpayers are picking up the entire bill for the teachers and the unions currently protesting the will of the taxpayers in Wisconsin.
It’s like I say to you I’ll give you a job at $xx.xx an hour and I’ll enter an agreement that gives you the right to demand more pay… and it will be virtually impossible for me to ever fire you.
On top of that, I’ll make it possible for you to be forced to pay a percentage of that money to an organization that will use the money to threaten me politically if I ever try to change the agreement.
Like I said… bizarre.
Some union protesters are suggesting this is their tea party moment. This is patently false, however, because I personally was not paid to attend the 2009 February protest where the modern day tea party movement began.
Union members are paid to attend these rallies. As Michelle Malkin points out, taxpayers will likely foot the $6 MILLION dollar bill for their protests.
But that’s juts the beginning. Remember the unpopular, unwanted stimulus bill Obama and his ilk in Congress shoved down our throats?
Check out the following chart.
The vast majority of jobs “saved or created” happened in the Department of Education. What’s worse is a whopping THIRD OF ALL UNION JOBS ARE IN EDUCATION!
Andy Stern, a powerful union leader who was given a seat on Obama’s debt panel, is quoted in the video below as saying the following:
“We’re trying to use the power of persuasion. If that doesn’t work we’re going to use the persuasion of power.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA&w=450&h=300]
Billions of stimulus dollars were pumped into Wisconsin. For a glance at how much was funneled into union contracts and public unions check out this chart.
Sorry folks, but we’ve been had.
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Public employee unions seem to border on extortion. I have great friends who are teachers and government workers who I respect.
That said, why should the private sector continue to loose benefits and wages as an adjustment to this horrible recession and continue to fund employees unwilling to make any percentage even just to their own health insurance?
The time of the protected class has to end.
Uh… “the protected class” is definitely not the hard-working union middle class. Try the wealthy, i.e., Koch Brothers. Money = protection.
Sad how that reality got skewed. Sort of like the Tea Party espousing all the things I believe – in the beginning, before being co-opted by Armey and $$.
This is a whole load of half-truths. A little bit of Koch?
Unions are the reason we all have decent working conditions and wages. Isn’t it curious that no one mentions the plank of the 1956 Republican party platform? Check it out.
The unions Koch-backed-Walker is trying to bust have given him every concession he’s asked for except the right to collective bargain – the one he wants to be able to break them.
It’s crazy that “we the people” are working against each other here. If all corporations had to shoulder their share of the tax burden, all states’ budgets would not have to struggle – forcing the struggle onto us, its taxpayers.
Get your information from a variety of sources. It’s amazing what you’ll learn!
There’s a whole load of facts out there that you won’t learn from the blaze or drudge.
“There’s a word in the very first line of the Constitution of the United States that describes the instrument through which freedom is held. It’s a term for people acting in concert to secure their liberty and hold those rights against any opponent. That word is union.
From its founding, the story of this nation has been the story of union. It is the story of two centuries spent in building up the ability of ordinary citizens to treat with wealthy, powerful, politically connected entities. That story contains instances of tragedy. Thousands died in the struggle, many thousands more suffered poverty or were outcast from communities. But the story of union also contains far-reaching triumphs. Every paid vacation, every weekend, every overtime dollar, every protection from arbitrary dismissal and unfair treatment, everything that makes your working life tolerable, came because people stood together in union at risk to their own livelihoods and often their own lives. Some of those laws exist only because workers stood in union when not only corporations but their own government attacked them not just with guns, but with bombers. They paid the price. You reap the benefits.”
Read the rest at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/20/947294/-Union-is-the-measure
“The campaign against state and local workers is often justified with claims that they are privileged relative to their private-sector peers or have somehow been cushioned from the effects of the recent recession and slow recovery. These claims are clearly false.”
Read the rest at: http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/wisconsin_public_servants_already_face_a_compensation_penalty/