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GOP’s Scott Walker to visit Las Vegas, unveil plan to fight unions
Las Vegas Sun ^ | September 11, 2015

Posted on 09/11/2015 12:47:42 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

The Wisconsin governor who's known for taking on unions in his home state is holding the event Monday afternoon at XTreme Manufacturing.

He said he'll discuss his plan to transfer power from union bosses to taxpayers. He said the strategy includes preventing the government from deducting union dues from federal employees' paychecks.

Las Vegas is home to powerful labor groups, including the Culinary Union that represents some 55,000 casino workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; economy; election2016; lasvegas; nevada; nlrb; publicunion; scottwalker; walker; wisconsin
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To: conservativejoy

I did not prove a single point of yours....you prove my point, time and time again, that you are a Marxist on unions.

WTF point of yours are you under the delusion that I proved?


121 posted on 09/12/2015 7:36:52 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: conservativejoy

Actually, exposing liberals is exhilarating - not exhausting at all. When those libs dip below the 75 IQ level, as most of them do - it does get frustrating though.

You’re like a pigeon playing chess...clueless to the rules, strutting around knocking pieces on the floor and crapping the board.


122 posted on 09/12/2015 7:38:39 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You would benefit greatly by being forced to do the jobs of the people you scorn, but without any representation or protection from abuse. You haven’t walked a mile in their shoes and I doubt you would last a day in a job that actually required labor. Yes indeed, a change in perspective and some good, hard manual labor would do wonders for someone like you.


123 posted on 09/12/2015 7:57:46 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: conservativejoy
but if for example, the auto workers union makes the cost of their product more than the market can bear to pay because of exorbitant benefits and wages, they will eventually be bankrupt and fail

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Wouldn't that cause the company to fail, rather than the union?

124 posted on 09/12/2015 8:04:08 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: conservativejoy

Look you little government dweeb, I built a blue collar company from ground floor to over 100 employees.....and in the early years, I did more manual labor in a week than you’ve ever done in your pampered government life combined.

Once again, your ignorance leads you into embarrassing defeat.


125 posted on 09/12/2015 8:06:35 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Congratulations! Now go look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are. I’m not impressed.


126 posted on 09/12/2015 8:18:30 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Iscool

I referred to “last one hired, first one fired” unions pull when budgets are cut as a result of poor negotiations — or in the case of Wisconsin, when the public union bosses/rep/negotiator/whatever you think is the PC equivalent refuses to negotiate.

Age has nothing to do with that.


127 posted on 09/12/2015 10:31:15 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: conservativejoy
I just don’t see how this solves any of the country’s problems.

Let's assume the article is correct and Walker is going to talk about unions in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brush up on your geography.

Nevada's Republican controlled legislature and Republican governor implemented a $1.1 billion tax structure to fund education. This same tax measure failed when put to a ballot measure to the Nevada voters.

You're sure you have no idea why a state's rights governor like Walker would talk about public unions in Nevada -- a state that ranks 49th in education?

128 posted on 09/12/2015 11:05:33 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: C. Edmund Wright; Iscool; conservativejoy

And that’s sad. Unions in private industry always have to work with a failsafe against excessive folly. The business yields too much and goes under, and the unions get starved away. There is no Other People’s Money keeping the racket going. (Short of bail outs which are another question.)

Governments can blithely and recklessly promise the moon. They too could fail away in principle but that is much harder to happen, and hurts everybody not just a particular business.

Iscool, this is not cool. There is no conservatism or joy in this, conservativejoy.


129 posted on 09/12/2015 12:28:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Read Write Repeat

I’m all for right to work laws, but I also know that the Wisconsin legislature took the initiative to pass that law in Wisconsin, not Walker. Walker had said repeatedly that he was pushing for a Right to Work law, but the legislature did it anyway, the 25th state to do so.

For all of that, Walker needs to go back home and work on the jobs he promised to create. Now well into his second term, he is still over 100,000 short of the 250,000 he promised in his first term.


130 posted on 09/12/2015 2:14:45 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And that’s sad. Unions in private industry always have to work with a failsafe against excessive folly.

That's true...Private union negotiations are based on history, and anticipated future sales and profits...

The gov't doesn't sell anything so there is nothing to bargain with...They have to or should stay in league with the private sector...

But it was a failure on the gov't part for not putting a lock on the pension funds as they were collected and another failure when they didn't negotiate into the contracts that the yearly deduction for the pension funds was contingent upon the tax base and overall health of the economy...

131 posted on 09/12/2015 4:24:34 PM PDT by Iscool (HOA member...(heaven is a gated community))
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To: conservativejoy

A Republican legislature doing something for it’s taxpayers?!

Don’t tell the DC cartel!!


132 posted on 09/13/2015 3:09:43 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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