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An Attack on the Existence of Labor Unions

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reidr2/19/2011 12:04:54 pm PST

re: #199 Cineaste

Here’s another example from the last year where Union leaders will willing to see several hundred city worker laid off rather than put it to a member vote:

[Link: www.scpr.org…]

I think most everyone admits there are problems with unions. This heavy-handed, ideologically-driven attempt to squash them is what’s pissed everyone off. If Walker had just negotiated lower benefits, none of this would have happened, I bet. Wingnuts tend to overestimate their popular support; combined with their fundamental sureness that they’re right, they overstep their bounds. Fortunately.