Posted on 02/25/2011 9:41:27 AM PST by Gopher Broke
Workers are Under Attack: Stand with Educators Fighting for Their Rights!
Wisconsin Governor Walker continues to push his anti-worker agenda as he refuses to negotiate. Educators in Wisconsin have repeatedly stated that this fight is not about pay and benefits – it is about the right to be heard.
This week, Governor Walker showed his true colors – an ideological agenda to silence workers. In a taped conversation with someone posing as his supporter, billionaire David Koch, the Governor bragged about using layoff threats to bully and intimidate working families into submission.
While the nation seems to have its eyes and ears on Wisconsin, attacks are happening all across the country. Teachers, school support staff, nurses, firefighters, and middle class workers and families are under relentless attack in state after state by an unprecedented, well-funded, and coordinated national campaign. But, as the fight continues, workers and their supporters are standing up and demanding to be heard. Rallies with unprecedented turnout have been held in states across the nation. Read about rallies around the nation.
The labor movement in this country has been responsible for safety standards, the minimum wage, fair employment practices, and more. For educators, our collective bargaining rights allow us to raise concerns about class size, school safety, and other important teaching and learning conditions. To express your support for workers’ rights across the country, please sign our national petition and follow the latest news about the attacks on our rights.
Tell the Senate to Stand Strong against House-Passed Education Cuts
The House of Representatives has passed a “continuing resolution” (CR) for the rest of the current fiscal year (FY 2011). The draconian education cuts contained in the House CR would dash the dreams of countless American students, put additional strain on state budgets already cut to the bone, and stall the engine that drives our economy. Thousands of students would lose Title I services and Head Start slots; local tax burdens would increase as education costs are shifted to state and local levels; millions of students would lose Pell Grant assistance; and thousands of education jobs would be lost. See how much your state would lose. See how your representative voted.
But, the fight is not over! Congress returns on February 28 with a looming deadline, as the current CR is set to expire on March 4. The House will have to negotiate with the Senate and the President in order to craft a CR that can be enacted into law. Your voice is critical as negotiations continue – particularly to tell the Senate to stand firm against the cuts.
Take Action TODAY: Tell the Senate to reject the House-passed education funding cuts and to invest in education for our nation’s future.
Cheers and Jeers
Cheers to:
The American public, who, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll strongly oppose laws to take away collective bargaining and silence workers’ voices and rights.
Jeers to:
The 235 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted against the interests of children, educators, and our nation when they passed the full-year continuing resolution (CR) for the rest of this fiscal year. The CR contains draconian cuts to programs like Title I, IDEA, Pell Grants, and Head Start that will crush the dreams of millions of students and take our nation backward.
Really? Is someone shooting at them? That’s what is happening in Tripoli. Perhaps the NEA is confused?
This is ground zero for the fight of their lives!...You can tell it is so because the union members are screaming the loudest!
What do government employees have to do with workers? Is the term “government worker” an oxymoron?
They do not understand they are part of the king’s court and not related to us peasantry classes...
Union membership in the United States is something like 11 percent of all workers. So who are these “workers” who are getting screwed? The real “worker” is actually getting screwed by the unions, especially the public unions, because he has to pay their exorbitant wages and inflated benefits that have no bearing on reality.
They apparently also don’t understand that taxpayers’ wallets are also under attack, and that they are the attackers.
They know that if they lose this one,
unions are toast.
Unless forced by the government or other intimidation,
private sector employees do not choose unionization.
Government unions are all they have, essentially, and if they are exposed and their “leverage” of electing their bosses is taken away,
there will essentially be no unions.
Now, this would be an actual VICTORY if the goals of the initial union organizers were still in vogue,
because they would have achieved their own obsolescence.
Workers ARE under attack. The Unions are attacking them.
I guess that because I am not in a union, I am not a worker despite the fact that I have a job.
More disgusting leftists who feel entitled to leech off of children and their parents while failing miserably as teachers.
The American taxpayer is under attack.
Our patriots in the military are under attack.
Our economy is under attack.
Our national security is under attack.
Pray for our country to survive this American hating president and his administration.
Public employees should quit being puppets of the union thugs, and join the rest of us in stopping the destruction of America.
All I keep thinking about is Robin Hood.
The sheriff of Nottingham collecting taxes for his royal courtiers.
Now suddenly Robin Hood is holding court and those evil tax collectors are upset?
They have become that which they claim to despise and yet they can’t see it?
Unions = The New Tax Collectors
“The labor movement in this country has been responsible for safety standards, the minimum wage, fair employment practices, and more. “
And i applaud you. But you’ve taken it as far as it will go. There are no more benefits we can afford to pay you. In fact your current benefits are beyond our means. Don’t take this as a personal affront but rather take it as we don’t trust the politicians to not go right back to spoiling you like little children in return for your good behavior.
Someone should go look at the wording of the USA Today poll that indicates a majority of people support unions.
I think the results are based on flawed questions.
I have yet to read a balanced report of anything on USA TODAY (we used to call it McPaper for a reason).
I like the USA Today crossword. That’s all. :)
The union should not throw the term “workers” around so freely. Those other “workers” (non-union) out here are under assault by the unions that want to keep all their perks at the expense of tax payers. If it’s really about being heard, why should they have any more right to be heard than the rest of us who can only write our reps or vote? This is about keeping their perks. Union scum! Remember Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers? Fire them all. Replace them with teachers who put education before their benefits.
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