Posted on 05/20/2010 7:44:47 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Forcing government workers to join a union as a condition of employment is an old New York State Democrat trick. This sneaky stunt is known as the “Agency Shop” rule.
Now thanks to Democrat union puppets, and a few surprising Republican dupes, Congress is working toward making the whole country an “agency shop.”
Called the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act , it’s just another trick to force unwilling workers into unions so they can pay dues unions that will be passed to Democrats to help them win back Congress in 2012.
The National Right to Work Committee aptly described this plot to bailout unions as The Police & Fire Monopoly-Bargaining Act. The NRWC sees this scheme as an attempt to make union thugs the only bargaining agents for the men and women who risk their lives everyday for us but it is much more.
Giving exclusive rights to represent workers who neither want nor need unions will be little more than a way to siphon off taxpayer money to fund under the table payoffs to Democrats.
Where unions spring up, efficiency drops and increased costs certainly follow. This is why the list of supposedly knowledgeable and conservative Republicans who support this Chicagoland stunt is so shocking.
For reasons that are hard to fathom, these Republicans actually cosponsored this sellout of freedom.
Duncan Hunter Vern Buchanan Dan Burton Michael Rogers Candice Miller Thaddeus McCotter Denny Rehberg Peter King Steven LaTourette Shelley Capito Ted Poe and Paul Ryan.
Here are some of the Democrats these Republicans joined in co-sponsoring this trick. George Miller Barbara Lee Henry Waxman Alan Grayson Debbie Wasserman Schultz Alcee Hastings John Lewis Janice Schakowsky Luis Gutierrez John Conyers John Dingell Dennis Kucinich Sheila Jackson Lee and Jim McDermott.
America becoming France
The specter of totally unionized government workers...
(Excerpt) Read more at collinsreport.net ...
Since nobody is hiring, this will have little affect.
I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they just don’t understand the ramifications of this bill. I noticed when looking it up on THOMAS that Zack Wamp of TN had been a cosponsor, but withdrew it last July. Perhaps these other GOPers can be reasoned with, or leaned on, to withdraw cosponsorship as well.
I’ll post my first reaction, which these days is typically cynical.
The “conservative revolution” is fueling the anti-incumbent rage. This scares everyone in Congress, (incumbents, obviously). The political elites wish for a more docile, easily controlled electorate. Maybe those GOP’ers know exactly what they’re doing?
My first job in New York was in a supermarket deli. I told them I didn’t want to join the union and pay the crazy dues when I was making $7 an hour and was only working there for a few months until I went off to college. They told me I HAD to join since it was a “union shop” otherwise I’d be fired. Needless to say I joined the union then and they pretty much halved my first 3 paychecks in order to get the cash for the initial dues. Later I found out I could seek reimbursement since I was only there for such a limited time. I spent 5 hours looking for the small unmarked and non-descript union office to find out my “reimbursement” was for $50.
We’re all Greeks now.
The Stupid Party strikes again!
“Good unions don’t need compulsory unionism; bad unions don’t deserve it.” — Samuel Gompers
“Good unions don’t need compulsory unionism; bad unions don’t deserve it.” — Samuel Gompers
I have a feeling the whole story isn't being told.
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