Posted on 11/10/2010 6:45:34 PM PST by FreeKeys
Here come the howls of outrage. "You are anti-union." Well, you're only partially right. I'm anti-government employee union. I don't have a particular problem with the legality of private-sector unions, so long as: (1) Employees vote by secret ballot as to whether or not the union will be formed; and (2) No employee should ever be forced to join a union nor should they be forced to pay dues to any union.
Government employee unions? Those are a completely different matter. These are people who spend millions of dollars to elect their bosses and then demand raises, pension plans and other benefits of those very bosses with threats that they will fire them if they refuse to go along. The taxpayers then have to pay for these bloated salaries, pensions and benefits. If more money is needed to pay the union tab, the unions then start spending millions on campaigns to raise taxes. It was government labor unions that were the primary financiers of the recent campaign to initiate a state income tax in the State of Washington. Why? The state needed the money to fund their classy ride.
It was John F. Kennedy who gave federal government employee unions the right to engage in collective bargaining. This was done not through legislation, but through an executive order. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned federal employee unions ... Kennedy presented this wonderful gift to the American taxpayer.
Here's something the Republicans can address. They need to begin making the case immediately for decertifying all federal government employee unions. For decades the primary advantage of being a federal employee was relative job security. Now these people make more than their counterparts in the private sector, they have better pension plans and better benefits ... and, as I said, they elect their own bosses. It needs to end.
When she is at work is when the long distance phone calls start, just checking in with long distance relatives. If she travels for work before or after normal 8 to 5 time, she gets comp time. So there are many weeks she doesn't go to work at all.
Yes, they are. They are THE enemy, and they need to be defeated.
“Correction: ALL UNIONS ARE OUR ENEMY.”
Addendum: All Unions are our enemy, as well as most other government employees.
Fact is that unions, including those for government employees, are just subsidiaries/auxiliaries of the Democrat Party.
Case in point: President Bush took pretty good care of Federal employees (annual “have a pulse” raises in the 4% range) and their unions (he was the first President to sign a document stating that public employee unions are in the national interest.
For that he was slapped around by the very unions/membership that he actually helped a great deal.
Obama, OTOH, has treated public employees much worse ... not only giving some of the lowest raises in recent memory but also discontinuing the practice of indexing civil pay increases to military pay increases.
For which he has been praised and supported by the Federal Employee unions. It was sweet music to my ears when the head of the AFGE, after annually criticizing the “too low” pay increases of the Bush years, suddenly thought lower raises under Obama were “necessary” belt-tightening measures.
Yes, they should. I was too hasty and generalizing. But shouldn't there be some mechanism for limiting how much non-military public employees can contribute to political campaigns or something?
Journalists are another. Academics (in the liberal arts and soft sciences) are another. The plaintiff’s bar is another."
Yep. Pretty much in that order.
Between journalists and acedemics though, I would insert celebrity/entertainment media.
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