Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye (...and good riddance!)

American Thinker ^ | Feb 20, 2011 | Steve McCann

[Islander7]

The "Madison Uprising" is the beginning of the end of the incestuous relationship between government and the unions. That fact has been recognized by the public sector unions and the Democratic Party and is why they have pulled out all the stops and reverted to their 1960's playbook in order to maintain the status quo. However, it is a battle that the unions and the Democratic Party will lose regardless of the immediate outcome in Wisconsin.

The Democratic Party has sold its soul to the public sector unions. In the 2010 mid-term election, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees poured over $87 million dollars into the election. (A new spending record). AFSCME's $87 million was greater than the campaign spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($75 million) and American Crossroads ($65 million). Other public sector unions also ratcheted up their spending such as SEIU ($44 million) and the National Education Association ($40 million).

[Islander7]

It is wholly inappropriate for public employees to spend dues money on political contributions. Public officials are chosen through popular elections and the government employee should be indifferent as to the outcome of the election. However, by maintaining such a heavy hand in not only monetary contributions but election activity the politician becomes too dependent upon the union largess and is essentially blackmailed into acquiescing to all the demands of the union, particularly pay and benefits which have sky-rocketed and are now unsustainable

[bigbob]

“Madison Uprising”

I was hoping it would be known as “The Battle of Madistan”

Or

“Nah nah hey hey, SEIU goodbye!”

[pepperdog]

No one who is paid with taxpayers money, be it city, county, state, or federal should be allowed to belong to a union. If they don’t like it let them go out and get a job in the “real world”. I guarantee they’ll like it even less!

[Publius6961]

No one who is paid with taxpayers money, be it city, county, state, or federal should be allowed to belong to a union. If they don’t like it let them go out and get a job in the “real world”.

In a little-known letter he wrote to the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937, Roosevelt reasoned:

"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."

FDR could not have nailed it more accurately

Too bad it took 70 years to set things right.