Posted on 11/03/2007 10:05:05 AM PDT by george76
Gov. Bill Ritter has signed an executive order giving state government's 49,000 workers the right to join unions or other employee associations but said strikes remain illegal under state law.
Ritter said his order authorizes "partnership agreements" that will make better use of workers' abilities and allow them to meet with management to discuss concerns.
Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, said "partnership" is another word for collective bargaining that would hurt state government.
"This is indeed collective bargaining,"
Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, reacted strongly against the executive order.
"Like reactions in the stock market, gestures like this send strong signals far and wide that Colorado is becoming a less friendly place for businesses to come to and to remain doing business. The governor's move is sure to create a larger division between labor and business, a division that cannot be good for the citizens of this state and our economy.
Calling it a `partnership' is giving it a fragrance that will shortly dissipate, leaving a potential stench that will please no one,"
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
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Nowhere in the article does it state which party the Governor is a member of but clearly states the party of the state representative opposing this move. Another clear example of objective reporting by the unbiased media.
In other words, the state employees get the right to pay dues to the democrat party, but nothing else.
I have never understood why government employees at any level should be allowed to join a labor union.
And yes, I used to work in government aside from my tour in the Corps.
—ditto—
No kidding. I can't think of a safer job with better benefits and perks than a government job. It's practically impossible to ever get rid of incompetent government workers.
Semper fi, Marine.
This is going to get worse before there is any chance of changing it. Already state workers receive phone calls and postal mail intended to influence their voting and working to organize state workers even more than they already are.
49,000 workers the right to join unions ...and pay union dues and ‘volunteer’ time to get democrats elected...
My cousin, the black sheep of the family, was a union organizer in the private sector. He quit to take a job organizing public employee unions because "it was so much easier since government has a bottomless pit of money from which to draw."
yup
Another clear example of objective reporting by the unbiased media.
I gave up my government job when my immediate supervisor called me on the carpet for being too gung-ho and making the rest of the department look “bad”. I told that slacker that they didn’t need me to make them look bad, they were stand-outs all by themselves. :-)
Ooh Rah!
My continuing complaint. This is not about helping workers, but the money and power it represents to Democrats and the unions.
The workers will not be helped.
It will be the democrat pols and the union bosses who will be helped.
It is a huge scam against the taxpayers :
” government employees at any level should be allowed to join a labor union...”
They do.
This is what we get for electing former Governor Owen.
All unions, including government unions, are simply guaranteed money sources for Democrats. It has nothing to do with the welfare of workers.
No kidding!
It’s just as disgusting as government agencies hiring lobbyists to influence our elected officials.
Both practices should be defined as illegal.
Yes, what an evil partnership, Big Governement and Big Union.
Unions are also a nice ‘free’ source of campaign ‘volunteers’ who help get out the vote.
/s
Democrat pols often hire these lobbyists to do studies on what decision to make.
The pols can not decide on their own.
The lobbyists make nice money from the taxpayers...which is recyled to the pols during the next campaign season.
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