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16 States Going to War on Unions
Daily Beast ^ | 02/23/11

Posted on 02/24/2011 5:56:03 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

16 States Going to War on Unions

The Daily Beast

Wed Feb 23, 11:52 pm ET

NEW YORK – With Wisconsin locked in a union battle, The Daily Beast looks at the 15 states that could blow up next and crunches the numbers to find whether they're really on shaky financial footing—or playing politics.

Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have toppled despotic governments, while Libyans are on the verge of doing the same. The stakes are not as high in Wisconsin and the 15 other states that have proposed or are expected to propose various levels of de-engagement from both public- and private-sector unions, but the spirit of the demonstrations throughout the Midwest has been as fierce as those in the Middle East.

At issue in the U.S. are the collective-bargaining rights of unionized public employees. States facing budget shortfalls and high debt payments want to curtail workers' collective-bargaining ability to in part gain flexibility in dealing with financial crises. Protesters in Wisconsin have found plenty of support and will be joined in solidarity Saturday by protests in every state capital.

By our count 16 states have proposed legislation similar to the bill cleared for vote last Wednesday by Wisconsin's Republican legislators, which would strip public-sector union workers of the right to bargain collectively about any on-the-job issue besides wages.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biglabor; bluestates; righttowork; states; union; wisconsinshowdown
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1 posted on 02/24/2011 5:56:09 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...

P!


2 posted on 02/24/2011 5:56:54 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! :)


3 posted on 02/24/2011 6:00:04 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hopefully this get’s the ball rolling with the country. At least now it’s going in the right direction.


4 posted on 02/24/2011 6:02:29 AM PST by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The simple solution with unions is the one that Ronald Reagan used on the Air Traffic Controllers - FIRE THEM ALL! The pundits said he couldn’t do it and the system would be compromised, but things worked out fine.


5 posted on 02/24/2011 6:02:52 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Rick Snyder tried to sidestep a fight with unions in Michigan but it looks like he’ll get one anyway.


6 posted on 02/24/2011 6:04:07 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

About time, unions have been at war against us for a 100 years.


7 posted on 02/24/2011 6:06:41 AM PST by AU72
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ohio and Indiana are the first casualties. They’ve thrown in the towel and are waving the white flag of surrender to the unions.

The unions are now establishing beachheads in both states and will bolster their bretheren in Wisconsin - thanks to Micth Daniels in Indianapolis and the Ohio Sentae Majority Leader in Columbus.


8 posted on 02/24/2011 6:07:33 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (At DiDi's Used Guns, if we can't kill it, it's immortal - DiDi Snavely, Proprietor)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Gov. Chris Christie (R):

There are “two classes of people in New Jersey: Public employees who receive rich benefits, and those who pay for them.”

9 posted on 02/24/2011 6:07:49 AM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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10 posted on 02/24/2011 6:08:50 AM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Was _itch Daniels Bill Kristal’s presidential pick?

Pray for America


11 posted on 02/24/2011 6:10:31 AM PST by bray (Sarah Palin can see the White House from her Blackberry)
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To: AU72

Public sector unions are nothing but money laundering schemes to steal taxpayer money and give it to democrats.

If the rats lose the government employee unions,
and we get voter ID in a significant number of states,

they’ll not see power for a LONG time.


12 posted on 02/24/2011 6:10:52 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Ohio and Indiana are the first casualties. They’ve thrown in the towel and are waving the white flag of surrender to the unions.

I know about IN but what is going on in Ohio that you see as throwing in the towel?

Spell checker is required for lawyers.

13 posted on 02/24/2011 6:13:59 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, in honor of Standing Wolf.)
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To: MrB

I think the real fight is over mandatory deductions and pension control.

Imagine if public employees could have their NRA dues come directly out of the paycheck and have them pro-rated to income!


14 posted on 02/24/2011 6:15:39 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You STUPID union worshippers, if your elected idiot President hadn’t totally ruined our economy, we would not be in this position of taking down all of your precious union agreements.


15 posted on 02/24/2011 6:16:56 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

forcing the AFL-CIO and Organizing for America to bus mobs into 16 different states will likely break them


16 posted on 02/24/2011 6:17:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Many states require that teachers have an education degree, a few only require any kind of college degree.

How many unemployed degree holders would jump on a teachers job in a heart beat? Fire these and hire new ones.

I publicly and vehemently agreed with Reagan’s firing the PATCO workers, when it was a very unpopular move in the quarters I was in at the time. Public workers should not have the right to strike over any issue, especially teachers and air traffic controllers, fire fighters, police and many other public workers, nor should they be negotiating with the very people they buy into office, a clear conflict of interest

I am a 31 year retired union member and one time union officer.


17 posted on 02/24/2011 6:17:25 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: bray

No, I think B Krystal wants the big fat bully from NJ.


18 posted on 02/24/2011 6:18:07 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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To: Huck

The picture must have been taken with a wide, wide, wide angle lense.


19 posted on 02/24/2011 6:18:44 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I’m interested what the states are, but not enough to go through their fancy-schmancy multi-page graphics.


20 posted on 02/24/2011 6:19:37 AM PST by FourPeas
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