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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I'm not so sure about this. When you have the GOP strongarming and ramming this through the process, there isn't much time to go courting a media that may or may not be willing to give a platform of debate or protest. The process itself came undone, and so leaving the state became a last-ditch effort to create a stall to what they viewed as an undemocratic process.
Is this really the case? Is there evidence of this or a precedent?
Would you say unions have become more gluttonous or less gluttonous than corporate management? Public management?
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Unlike the federal Congress where the minority party can filibuster or use other rules to require super-majorities for passage of legislation, most state legislatures provide little in the way of rights for the minority party.
And, Lincoln, when he was a state senator, reportedly was one of the first to use the tactic the Democrats used in Wisconsin to prevent the legislature from voting on a particular bill.
In Wisconsin, a state judge has issued a temporary hold on the legislation that effectively busts the public sector unions, alleging that the Republicans may have acted illegally in passing the law by violating the state open meeting law.
The recent trend by Republican governors and legislators to bust the public sector unions wont carry over to the private sector. Federal law protects the rights of workers in private companies to unionize.
As to unions being PACs for the Democrats, perhaps that is because the Democrats are generally more representative of the rights of the working class.
And, still corporate PACs outspend union PACs by about 3:1.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
There is a new GOP sponsored House Bill that says (in part) that if an able-bodied worker goes on strike, that worker's family members (spouse, kids, dependents) would be ineligible for food stamps.
Why do working class people vote for a party that openly hates them?
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Since the Republicans in Congress cant directly bust private sector unions, they found another cheap tactic.
It wont see the light of day, but it still says alot about their priorities.