Posted on 06/10/2012 5:39:15 PM PDT by smoothsailing
We can only hope.
We can only hope.
We can only hope.
When it happens across the North East I’ll believe it.
I do hope it will
Probably the best article I have read about public employee unions and the Wisconsin recall.
I have always felt that when a public union organizes they are organizing against the taxpayer, and IMO since they are making a labor contract in which the taxpayer has no say, it must be contrary to the Constitution. Where am I going wrong?
You might like this one, about public sector unions, from Feb 2011.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/end_public_sector_unionsperiod.html
Government Employees are the largest Lobby Group in the USA.
We need to bring this Special Interest to its knees.
Currently, our elected officials are scared to death to take on the Government Employee Special Interest.
We need to attact the Government Employee Lobby Group at all levels.
At the local level vote in rules to prohibit union employees in your city, school, and county government.
Do not rely upon someone else to do it for you. You need to start at the local level and then work up.
LOL. You’re my kind of cynic.
I'd support a small fee for employees to have an organization to represent them on grievances and to protect employee rights granted by law but limit it and get the organization representing them out of the political scene.
I think a contract between government and union is not the same as a contract between GM and the UAW, for example. As I understand it, a government contract is an act of the legislature and can be rescinded at any time.
Great article. Thanks.
This might be something to hit Obama over the head with in November.
Well, the Constitution has nothing to say on the subject one way or another. Not all bad ideas are unconstitutional.
In particular, the Constitution does not and should not prohibit a state from doing something stupid.
And, of course, the taxpayers DO have a say on the subject, whenever they choose to exercise it. Which they finally did last week.
The whole public employee union issue is sort of the ultimate example of "regulatory capture," where an entity set up to control something is instead taken over by it.
As an example, consider barber licensure. The boards have public meetings, but nobody from the general public ever shows up. Why should they? Nobody cares enough to take time out of their lives.
But of course the decisions of the board are critical to barbers. So the only pressure or input the board ever gets is from barbers and their organizations. Over time, the board operates more and more in the interests of barbers and less and less in the interests of the consumer, whom it was originally set up to protect.
In the case of public employee unions, the regulatory capture was of state and local governments, which they operated in their own interests rather than in that of the citizens. Until the citizens begin to pay attention and swat them down.
Caught that, did ya! :o)
I wonder how long until the teachers and others refusing to pay dues are browbeaten and harassed into doing so again.
You just know this will happen as the unions turn inward now to police their ranks.
Nothing like threats of physical violence to de-escalate the tone of public discourse. There is probably an old law on the books in Michigan that covers threats to the legislature.
What really brought the danger of public unions home to me was when Jenny Granholm started importing prison inmates from other states so union guards wouldn’t get laid off.
Not grievances, it turns into a legal hassle. I think that the teachers could form professional organizations and get benefits like the NRA has.
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