Posted on 02/22/2011 12:27:41 AM PST by HMS Surprise
At the very least, unions shouldn’t be allowed to run a “closed shop” for public employees. No one should be forced to join a union. State/city governments should not be responsible for collecting union dues either.
Civil serpents should not be able to bargain labor agreements with the state. They should be free to join and support employee associations which lobby the government, as any other citizen can, but not bargain contracts.
We also need state laws along the lines of the federal Hatch Act, enacted in the late 30’s in response to exactly the same abuses at the federal level that are commonplace in state and local government today: civil serpents engaging in partisan political activity while on the government payroll. Citizens have a constitutional right to engage in partisan political activity. They do not, however, have a constitutional right to a government job.
I was teaching a class years ago for a group of about 40 state civil serpents. A union goon came into the room just before lunch and announced to the group that department heads had authorized anyone who wanted to attend a Mondale rally that afternoon to do so. I only had about three people for the afternoon session, and I imagine many other non-essential (i.e., most of them) government employees in the city were at the rally, being paid by the taxpayer while cheering on their leftist democrat hero. I’d be willing to bet that the same thing occurred in Obama’s election campaign: if you had the ability to identify the participants in the rallies, you would very likely find a large percentage were government employees, most being paid by the taxpayer while cheering Odumbo on. This is simply completely intolerable.
Uhm, NO!
No 70% 211
Yes 29% 90
total votes: 301
Come on we can do better than this .. only 301 votes???
No 70% 248
Yes 29% 105
total votes: 353
The problem with public sector unions is that they use their vast pot of dues to make lavish campaign contributions to the very politicians who give them what they want ...in essence bribery or at the very lest a conflict of interest. Let them have their unions and collective bargaining, but make it illegal for any public sector union to make political contributions of any kind monetary or non monetary.
BUMP!
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