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Indiana House Democrats end long right-to-work fight, unions dealt blow in Rust Belt
Washington Post ^
| 1/26/2012
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Posted on 01/26/2012 9:40:58 AM PST by tobyhill
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Another win for America. Now let's win some more states, win the US Senate and get the Marxist out of the White House.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:41:04 AM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Funny how thorny issues supported by conservatives and Republicans are “divisive”, but those pushed by Democrats never are...
To: tobyhill
That giant sucking sound you hear will be the mass exodus of automobile related companies from Michigan truckin’ on down I-69 and just over the border.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Once upon a time Indiana had a significant portion of the auto industry. That was part of why that track got built in Indianapolis.
I’d have to look ‘em up to find all of the companies that did business there, but I do recall off the top of my head that Studebaker was based in South Bend.
To: tobyhill
Now, get rid of all the Federal/State and Local Unions and cut the damn pensions. We’ve been raped!!
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:49:36 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Michigan got the auto industry due to the Detroit river. Iron mined in the UP could be delivered to Detroit at minimal cost.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:51:34 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
Even the unions know that their days in Michigan are numbered. When hyenas start gnawing on the bone, they know it's time to find another carcass.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:52:48 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
To: tobyhill
Indiana needs to find out who those 6 Republicans were ,that voted against this bill, and think about a change.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:54:48 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: cripplecreek
“Even the unions know that their days in Michigan are numbered.”
That’s so much crap. Your boy Snynerd has already made it clear on countless occasions that he doesn’t want to see any RTW bills on his desk, that he views taking on organized labor as akin to touching the 3rd rail in Michigan politics. His boy Randy Richardville (faux conservative) Monroe, is holding up a RTW bill in the senate and has been for months.
Yeah, there’re some goonion members who don’t allow the goonions to do their thinking. There are a hell of a lot more who love their goonions and are glad to have someone else do their thinking.
Rick Snynerd is no Scott Walker or Mitch Daniels—that takes gonads.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:56:34 AM PST
by
RushLake
(Liberalism/Progressivism--Domestic terrorism financed by your tax dollars.)
To: tobyhill
I think it important to note that the right-to-work bill doesn't HAVE to have any effect on unions. Union are still allowed to solicit members. If they can prove to prospective members that they provide services that justify the dues, there need not be any reduction.
Unless, of course, unions don't supply value to their members. Or cause them to be unemployed because they insist on above-market wages.
Unions seem to think it's no problem for corporations to compete in the marketplace; so why is it a big problem for unions to compete in the marketplace?
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:57:23 AM PST
by
In Maryland
("Truth? We don't need no stinkin' truth!" - Official Motto of the Main Stream Media)
To: RushLake
Snyder will sign it if it lands on his desk just like Jenny Granholm signed a lot of things she hated.
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posted on
01/26/2012 10:03:28 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
What the MSM fails to remember is that Indiana was a right to work state before the Democrat landslide of 1964. The Democrats were more than happy to repeal right to work without submitting it to a referendum.
It's taken Hoosiers 47 years to return a sufficient Republican majority to restore the law.
To: RushLake
Mitch Daniels was initially opposed to RTW Law. Teamsters even had a video of such. However, he changed a year or so ago. Hopefully Gov. Snyder will do likewise....
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posted on
01/26/2012 10:08:35 AM PST
by
donozark
(SAVE THE MANATEE! PUT THEM IN PENS SO THEY DON'T DAMAGE THE PROPS ON OUR YACHTS!)
To: Mr. Lucky
I believe Delaware and NH lost their RTW status at that time as well due to LBJ landslide.
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posted on
01/26/2012 10:10:40 AM PST
by
donozark
(SAVE THE MANATEE! PUT THEM IN PENS SO THEY DON'T DAMAGE THE PROPS ON OUR YACHTS!)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
01/26/2012 10:14:47 AM PST
by
fortheDeclaration
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
30 or 40 different brands of cars and trucks were made in Indiana...
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posted on
01/26/2012 10:51:10 AM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
And now some of the best known are in a museum in Auburn...
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posted on
01/26/2012 11:07:33 AM PST
by
donozark
(SAVE THE MANATEE! PUT THEM IN PENS SO THEY DON'T DAMAGE THE PROPS ON OUR YACHTS!)
To: tobyhill
Public employee unions should be banned outright.
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posted on
01/26/2012 11:23:01 AM PST
by
SC_Pete
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