Making Michigan's governor kinda mad.
Labor unions crossed Michigan Governor Rick Snyder this year, and now he seems intent on making them pay. Snyder had said he was against a ban on union shops known as a "Right to Work" law -- or as unions describe it, "Right to Work for Less." Playing peacemaker, he also opposed the unions trying to pass a referendum enshrining collective bargaining rights in the state constitution. The unions went ahead, the referendum lost, and now Snyder says the unions have to pay.
The Detroit Free Press headline on this reads: "Gov. Rick Snyder now says right-to-work is 'on the agenda.' " A few paragraphs in, we learn that Snyder is willing to make a deal:
He did say that there is a view that unions must put something on the table if right-to-work is not to proceed, after having gone ahead with a collective bargaining ballot proposal against his urging in last month's election.
With clear Republican majorities in the state House and Senate, Snyder could conceivably get a union-stripping bill sent to his desk and signed quite quickly. It's not clear what unions would have to give up in order to ransom their collective bargaining rights. Now that Snyder has changed his mind, the fight in Michigan seems to be totally on.
After the jump, a couple charts on the effects of Right to Work.
Supporters of Right to Work, like American for Prosperity, argue that it frees workers from having to be in unions and businesses from having to deal with unions. On the ground, that tends to result in lower pay. A report from the Economic Policy Institute last year found that wages are 3.2 percent lower in states with Right to Work laws.
As Indiana Republicans worked to pass a Right to Work law last year, they argued that strong union rights were costing the state jobs. Economist Gordon Lafer made these graphs showing that there's no such connection.
Above: Indiana added more jobs than Midwestern states that ban union shops. Below: States that ban unions lost manufacturing jobs after NAFTA; so did ones with strong union rights.
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With your fancy-shmancy charts and numbers at what have you! Feh, I say! My gut tells me that what I want to be true (although against my own interests!) is true irrespective of your reality-based so-called "facts"!
This country of OURS Is really , Truly going to HELL with these goofy gop/tp that are in control , Someone , please help America before they send it/us all into oblivion ! This is just plain madness !
Greedy GOTP "ka-nits, I fart in your general direction. Leave or I will taunt you again."
What with this and the proposed radical changes to the education system in Michigan, we are reeling here. And the tax exemption for fetuses? Trying to push all this stuff through the lame duck session is egregious. I can only hope that all this crazy extremism will wake people up when they have the choice to get rid of these idiots in 2 years time.
The tax credit for a fetus is the one that is blowing my mind and causing, not anxiety but maybe angst. How many babies are going to be born who can't be cared for out of the "joys" of some piddling tax credit? I feel these are opening salvos and the Good Lord only knows what BS they are going to try to thrust upon us next.
While I feel for you, again I have to question exactly who is voting and what are they "looking at" because it certainly isn't policy?! All around this nation GOTP legislatures are restricting the rights & infringing on those "freedoms" that the GOTP claim they want - and the silence of the electorate is deafening! Wisconsinites voted Walker back in even after they tried to recall him? See it's actions or non-actions by you people in these states that make me believe that you're getting what you deserve! How devastated, demoralized and disenfranchised must your states become before the lemmings wake up and realize that they've been bamboozled? SMH!
What's going to happen if a woman, G-d forbid, miscarries? Are they going to set a particular gestation stage to qualify? What idiots.
To Joan, no, she'll qualify for survivor's benefits for the rest of her life as long as she can prove it wasn't aborted (and the medical term for miscarriage is 'spontaneous abortion', so good luck with that...)
Aren't all you "disappointed Democrats" who didn't show up to vote in 2010 proud of yourselves? You did so much to move the progressive cause forward. Not.
Right, because all the Democrats who didn't vote in 2010 are reading Steve Benen articles about union-busting in Michigan. Dude, if you're going to preach to the choir, at least stop spitting flecks of foam all over us.
Let's hope Democrats across the country learned their lesson from 2010. They need to be very involved in 2014, when many of these same people can be voted out.
It will probably take about a decade to undo much of the damage done by their lack of involvement two years ago. Not all, but at least most of it.
It's especially important that Dems have majorities in place in 2020 when reapportionment happens again at the state and federal levels. We can't allow this to continue for another decade. That requires a lot of grass roots work starting NOW.
mpguy, only 8 more years and we'll possibly maybe but probably not win anything in 2020. Republicans are no doubt already prepared and FOX already has focus groups working it out.
We are too busy getting enslaved to the corporate plutocracy to get active in 2020 and honestly, after 2010, I will NEVER put hope in the left again. I also will never watch MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, the Young Jurks, or Current TV.
If I want truth without spin or over-the-top intentional attacks on Democrats just so the uber left can appear to be smarter than everyone else while they let Republicans win and redraw the districts to protect their majority for ten years, I'll find it on my own thank you very much. Hell I'd rather watch FOX than to sit there and listen to the extreme left wing attacks on Dems just because the left is too smart to realize what is going on and too edumicated to have time to have a little faith in our representatives... because you know, the left is far too advanced to realize that anything Obama or Dems say OUT LOUD will trigger a well coordinated massively funded reaction by the right. The left is so not ready for reality, which is why I still refer to myself as independent or an Obamacrat. I don't want to be confused for being one of the "smart" liberals who let Republicans walk right in and takeover our government in 2010 without much more than a grumpy complaint about how Obama was a "wall street puppet", thank you very much Arianna Huffington and FDL.
Maybe after liberals have been enslaved for a few hundred years, they'll lose the "smarts" and gain a little wisdom.
Bye, Bye.
Someones been drinking Rushaid.
mpguy, what the Democratic Party could do, and should do, is treat midterms just as much a big deal as they do presidential years. It's absolutely true that Democratic and lefty voters generally need to be as motivated when there isn't a presidential election on as when there is, but it's also true that the Democratic Party has no big GOTV effort in midterm elections.
The excuse for Right-to-Work is that it preserves jobs. The reason for it is to weaken the unions.
I am ambivalent about this. On the one hand, as a salaried person who has worked at union and non-union shops, I can say that I very much prefer non-union. Union shops are have a larger percentage of worthless non-workers, who make life miserable for not only management, but also their fellow workers who have to pick up their slack.
On the other hand, historically unions were necessary to get basic living wages and decent working conditions established.
RTW means workers don't have to pay union dues. And union dues generally go to democratic candidates, whom the rank and file do not necessarily agree with.
I guess if Michigan becomes a RTW state, then the unions will only be funded when the workers feel it is of value.
"Union shops are have a larger percentage of worthless non-workers, who make life miserable for not only management, but also their fellow workers who have to pick up their slack." Do you anything other than anecdotal evidence to support this? Reason I ask is that this is (usually) an presumptive speculation on the part of the person making this assertion. I can also (with anecdotal evidence) point to equally as much sloppiness, laziness, and lack of customer service in private sector/non-union shops. I would be interested in seeing some stats.
"On the other hand, historically unions were necessary to get basic living wages and decent working conditions established." This is the argument of course that unions are now not needed because of Federal agencies and laws. I would really disagree with this, as being a chapter president all the OSHA and BOLI laws in the world don't help if the employee is bullied into silence. Also Federal Agencies can be de-funded, and laws repealed offering no guarantee of their future existence on behalf of the laborer. Also, to extend the argument, we have police, private security, and National Guard, should we still have a 2nd Amendment?
"RTW means workers don't have to pay union dues. And union dues generally go to democratic candidates, whom the rank and file do not necessarily agree with." This is very broad and differs from organization to organization. I can tell you that the organization I belong generally supports pro-labor candidates this also does include some Republicans. If the issue is politics, and you want to seek to strip a labor organization of specific support for candidates (outside of personal donations) then strip it for all entities and level the playing field.
"I guess if Michigan becomes a RTW state, then the unions will only be funded when the workers feel..."
Realize that their shrinking pay-checks aren't going nearly as far as they used to. On the other hand everyone needs to understand that UNIONS are responsible for:
Labor laws
Child labor laws
Fair pay and the minimum wage
Weekends, holidays, over-time, vacation days
40 hour work weeks
a rising Middle Class
safety in the work place.
And whether you belong to one or not - YOU HAVE BENEFITED! So thank a UNION member instead of trashing them.
Zora, I did more than thank them, I VOTED for PROPOSAL 2. It failed.
I was not trashing Union members in general. I have worked in both sorts of shops, and I was giving my personal perspective. I think that SOME union members take advantage of their protections to abuse both the employer and their fellow employees. One guy we couldn't fire until he was caught stinking drunk (0.15 BAL) at work, for example.
@Mike12,
As I told Zora, I did vote FOR PROPOSAL 2. It's failure (followed by this attempt to pass RTW in Michigan) is what I feel ambivalent about.
My "evidence" is only anecdotal. But I have heard from many productive union members who complain about the lazy ones, and wish they could be fired. And for SURE in the conservative area of Michigan where I work, the NRA is more popular than the UAW.
And frankly, although I think it is wrong to force someone (as a condition of employment) to support a candidate they don't want to support. If it is wrong for the coal company owner in Ohio to do that, why is it OK for the UAW to do it?
(For myself, I don't hunt and I don't own a gun. I would prefer we had much stricter gun laws. I believe that the 2nd Amendment is somewhat superfluous at this time.)
MikeinMichigan-
Your argument about political affiliation and unions is specious. Union dues don't go to political campaign spending. Contributions to union PAC's are voluntary, so if someone is Republican and their union thinks that putting people in office who want to destroy unions is wrong so they give to Democrats, that Republican member simply can abstain from donating to the union PAC. No one is forced to give to anyone beyond union dues, which are considered payment for agent services.
If Michiganders want to see how it is working in a RTW state, come on down to Florida and try to make a living. There are no retirements, not much vacation time, lots of turnover, very poor healthcare plans bla bla bla unless you have old school city, state government jobs and even then that ain't saying much. In other words Michiganders, go work at Wally World and see if you can handle it week to week.
The argument about not being able to fire a union worker is a favored right wing talking point. Just as in a nonunion job, if you plan on firing someone, it better be for cause and it better be documented. Do unions sometimes get unworthy people their job back? Yes, but that in no manner should label them as giving a free pass to ALL unworthy workers.
Neither the union companies or the nonunion company, want to be sued for a wrongful discharge so they document all infractions and all steps taken to remedy them. There are lots of problems with both the union and the employer, but documentation to get rid of bad employees is mandatory in both cases.
People should have a choice to be in a Union or Not, prohibiting Unions to exist is wrong:
Right to Work States will produce:
Lower Wages: Average worker in RTW states makes about $5,333/year less than those in free bargaining states.
Fewer Health Benefits: 21% more people lack heath insurance in RTW compared to free bargaining states.
Higher Poverty rate: RTW states have a poverty rate of 12.5% compared to 10.2% in free bargaining states.
Workplace fatalities: The rate of workplace deaths is 51% higher in RTW states where unions can't speak up on behalf of workers.
Source www.upworthy.com
RTW does not prohibit unions from existing. It prohibits unions from collecting union dues through payroll.
The effect will be the same, but slower. Unions will lose membership, dues will go up, causing more members to quit, until the union can't afford to do anything much.
That's just a failure in simple economics by the union. Increases prices while demand is going down only serves to further decrease demand.
If the employees feel they are getting back in return what they pay in to the union, they will pay their dues voluntarily, garnishing their wages for the union dues is immoral on the part of the union.
Right to Work is an excuse to drive wages lower in a race to the bottom. The dirty little secret about it is that wages will never be lower than they are in places like China and India, so all that RTW does is allow one state to poach companies from other states. It's a zero-sum game in their book, so I guess MI is trying to take back jobs that were poached by southern states in the past. Who wins in that case? Not the workers, who either end up losing their jobs when the company moves, or ends up having to sell their home to move to where the company transferred to. It's not the state, which often has to give sweetheart tax and infrastructure deals to lure the company in addition to the RTW provisions. The only winner is the company, which gets cheap labor, little or no tax burden, and maybe infrastructure improvements that are paid for by the taxpayers. RTW is a cancer that helps drive everyone in this country down.
Michigan built an economy that led that nation for decades on the backs of its union workers. Brilliant move there, Snyder. If you keep working at it, Michigan can be right up there with Alabama and Mississippi pretty soon.
About time the unions got pricked. How about they start by stripping the public sector money grubbing, power sucking unions. They had a good place in history, but are now all about protecting the idiots.
And you're about voting them into office - so I guess that Unions are the better end of that stick!
Lemming!
If you don't like working in a union shop then show some conviction and QUIT and get a job in a non-union workplace. The is no law that says you can't quit and move on to something different. No one is forcing you to work there.
Pasco I thought you said you were a teacher? If that's the case then wouldn't you belong to a union? I recognize that not all teachers do- it's about 47% who do- so maybe you don't. But if you do wouldn't this be a bad thing? Or do you not like participating in your own union? If it's the latter, why?
pascow , U R A Freak , You work for a union and yet you hate unions , [IF your story is factual] ? Yep , I have worked with freaks just like U , why don't u go find a job elsewhere ! Oh , That's rite , U want the benefits of a union and also u want to piss and moan about unions ? yep , U R A Freak , typical gop/tp hypocrite , go ahead , continue your whining and your positive access to unionization , nothing will ever make your kind satisfied , you and your kind are all just too goofy ! Crazy , just , plain , Crazy ! Once , again , { IF Your STORY Is True and Factual } !! Nutcase !
Yes, I am a member of a public union, and yes, I am a freak because I belong to it. Cartoon, I have a BS in Education as well as an MPH. Public sector unions have gotten out of control.they go to bat for complete incompetent idiots, simply because they are union members. I went from the private sector to serve-at-the-pleasure to the union sector, and treated my job as if I were still in the private sector. After my probationary period ended the union called me in, sat me down and told me that I had to stop producing so much, because if I did, the bosses might say that if I could produce so much, why can't the rest of them produce te same amount.
The union president was in my office. her desk was right near mine. I hear SO many silly excuses to file grievances. Some of them were utterly ridiculous, but the union still filed them. She held the same position as me, but she did about 80% union business, and 20% the job she was hired for.
A fellow worker of mine was caught filing paperwork (many times) saying that they worked days when they were actually followed to their beach house. The union defended them, the person got demoted, then got a stress-disability pension because the fact that everyone knew what they di caused them immense stress.
Unions have some good places, but when they become as out of control as the public sector unions have become, they need to be knocked down.
But the most important place I served was for my country. Imagine if somehow the unions started sticking their noses in the miltary. It would be a disaster.
How can anyone not understand that the entire Republican agenda, from Capitol Hill to the red states of this great nation, is based almost solely on protecting their own radical fringe and billionaires at the expense of working people and ordinary Americans? We are witnessing union busting on a grand scale, as well as the ridiculous antics of House Republicans prepared to send the nation off the fiscal cliff just to save trillion dollar tax cuts for the top 0.001 percent of the country. This is a political party disconnected from reality and totally unaware that their agenda was repudiated before the voters just one month ago. - progressive
BUST THEM
OK, would also like your health care, vacation and sick leave, pay increases, holidays, holiday pay, performance evaluations, and fair and progressive discipline busted as well?
Mikel 12, To add Weekend's, child Labor Laws, UI, Min. Wage, Wrongful Termination Laws, VETS, Sexual, Harrassment Laws, Military Leave, Privacy Laws, Whistleblower Laws, Pensions, Employer Health Care Ins., Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, OT, 40hr week, Soc. Sec, FMLA, ADA, Workplace Safety Standards and Regulation's. So to all Conservatives, Are you willing to give up all of these Right's that where Fought for?? Will you stand by the Rhetoric that Union's are thug's and refuse to take benefit's from these thug's or will they hypocritically carry on the diatribe that unions are ruining this Country while enjoying the weekend or Paid Vacation??? OR maybe just Admit that while not perfect, like anything else, unions have done great thing's for Working people that they use and Benefit from everyday of their lives? Or Admit the Fact that they have improved your life in more way's than one? I took this from the Daily Kos awhile ago, If you don't like some of the Right's mentioned in above Post then give up your Right's and quit bitchin or consider yourself lucky to have these right's. What CEO'S walked into the Board room and said Hey, Let's give All of these Right's to WORKERS?????
pascoguy probably works for Walmart and knows no better.
We have to stop referring to these kind of laws as "Right to Work".
They should be referred to as "Anti-Union" laws at the very least. No matter what the venue we need to stop using phrases that are right wing propaganda. That means all the talk shows. That means drawing the line and not crossing it.
I don't think the general public understands that these laws are anti-union and every time we use this phrase it spreads mis-information.
I'm glad someone bothered to make that point. It's more important than people realize.
The right relies heavily on rhetoric, and bothers much less with solid arguments. In the case of naming the two groups as though one might be "against the right to work", it's politically harmful to unions to be interpreted that way. It's much the same as "pro-choice" and "pro-life". Those who support abortion are not, by de facto, anti-life while many pro-lifers support the death penalty.
Before unions, the "right" to work had few other rights included. Other people have already noted the historical changes that unions brought about. Through organization, workers were able to make positive changes in the workplace and make "work" have a different meaning altogether. It became safer, less taxing on the individual, had better compensation, and workers could make complaints to the boss. Unions provided "rights to work better" - and people died earning those rights.
In a few short months with all the wars on: collective bargaining, unions, public education, free and democratic running of local democracies, women's rights when anyone crosses the border into Michigan they will now see: Welcome to Michigan: The Great Lakes Fascist State. OR...Welcome to Michigan: "We're Mississippi with Snow!".
Unions are the "War on Taxpayers"
What the hell doe tax payer have to do with unions. Get real.
Pascoguy, In a Conversation awhile ago, Didn't you mention that you belonged to a Union??
Yes, a public, bloodsucking, moneygrubbing union that I am forced by statute to pay dues to so they can donate them to the Democrats. Person in my office got caught saying he worked on days he went to his beach house. He was followed, the union went to bat for him, he got demoted to another office, retired on disability stress leave because people know that this occurred, it caused him mental stress.....
Then, Pasco, quit your job and move to a RTW state. Then you can have the joys of lower wages, no pension, and substandard health insurance like the rest of us who live in Red states.
And if you work for a company, they probably donated company funds to a repub candidate, whether you wanted it to or not. Should they have any more right to do so than a union? Or maybe they do, because the Supreme Court says that corporations are people too, but I guess unions are not? What you are really saying, when you get down to it, is that corporations, which overwhelmingly support repubs, have the right to be immersed in politics, while unions, which are made up of real workers and support dems, don't have that same right. Why not even the playing field? Because repubs have seen over and over again that they can't win with a level field, hence their numerous schemes to suppress democratic voters. I'm willing to say that unions can't give to dem causes...as long as corporations can't give to repub causes. Willing to agree to that? I doubt it.
Then, Pasco, quit your job and move to a RTW state.
Spoken like a true liberal. Let us not address the proble that unions cause, let's just move!
Your tax dollars at work:
http://www.wpri.com/dpp/target_12/pensions_probe/questionable-pension-to-be-reexamined
And absolutel Uff, public unions exist with taxpayer dollars.
And corporate donations exist with consumer and employee dollars. As for your response to moving to a RTW state---the old saw we always hear from the right is that if you don't like something, move, whether it is your job or your government. Maybe now you begin to see how ridiculous that statement is. Then again, considering the idiots pushing for their states to secede because they don't like their black president...maybe not.
Pasco...Your "money grubbing union" by law, cannot use your union dues to fund political parties, or political actions (support of ballot proposals, etc). Your "bloodsucking union" has afforded you a decent job, humane working hours, decent health benefits and protection against unfair labor practices. I am not a blind, card carrying unionist. I am a member of my union and understand that they (at times) must protect all their members rights to due process in management/labor disputes. I doubt your "urban myth" tale of your co worker. It is YOUR RIGHT to search for a non union job (there are many in MI). I am just wondering why you don't? Perhaps it is for the reasons I have mentioned.
Oh yes, and I am a public union employee, like those who protect your house from fire, collect your trash, educate your children, come to your aid in times of crime, provide you water and sewer service all without your thanks and, in most cases, your disdain.
This would be nothing but leverage for Rich CEO's, Management to dictate to workers without them having a legal recourse to protest wages, poor working conditions, promotions and benefits. It would be a drastic step in the wrong direction against the working middle class. There wouldn't be any benefit for workers to protest and it would hold them hostage to the discretionary political policies of their respective owners of the companies. A backward action by the Governor to abet the Rich.
As a former union negotiator and as a veteran small business owner, I always keep a couple of things about unions in mind: 1) unions are ALWAYS the result of bad management ~ ALWAYS ~ and 2) no one has ever been forced to join a union.
But, if the union is negotiating with management, everyone may be required to pay union dues which in turn pay for the research, negotiations, proposals, writing and enforcement of the contract. Meaning that you are not required to join the union ...but you must contribute the expense of the negotiations.
"Right to Work" just means the right to benefit from union gains without a contribution ... in other words "getting something for free."
I would support the "Right to Work" if there were companion legislation that says..."only union members get to enjoy union gains." ~ Think about it for a second. Think of what non-union members would lose.
I agree with most of your post.
It is true that no one is forced to join a union, in the sense that no one is forced to take the good-paying job they are offered.
Any monies collected by any union to support political activity are completely voluntary on the part of union members. Nor is anyone ever forced to join a union. What is required is that the non-union employee pay an amount equivalent to what a union member pays in dues, because union dues only cover those activities directly related to the conditions and benefits of employment. Those conditions and benefits apply to all employees covered by the contract, union members or not.
Why shouldn't a non-union member, who receives the same benefits as a union member, also help pay for the costs of getting those benefits?
RTW is nothing but a Republican attempt to break unions because unions don't often support Republican policies.
Mike in Michigan, EXACTLY!
that high-paying job with the benefits would be a low paying job without benefits except... UNIONS!
if you add union dues to your take-home pay from the low-wage job you're still not going to equal the overall benefits of the union job. that's what makes it smart to take the union job if offered. you speak as if it's coercion to join the union but it's really just incentive.
i've worked with many union and non-union shops from the management side and found, with only ONE notable exception, that the union jobs were better built by more competent workers.
"I would support the "Right to Work" if there were companion legislation that says..."only union members get to enjoy union gains." ~ Think about it for a second. Think of what non-union members would lose."
West Gates, What if the company started to give bonus's and higher wages to the non-union employees. Then how many less union people would you have?
Strike!
It says here that the average wage goes down 3.2% in a Right-to-Work state. But what about the %% of your wages you save by not having to pay union dues?? I know people paying 5% of their paycheck in dues. They would effectively get a raise if they were in an open shop.
Sure, they might see an immediate increase in their paycheck if the numbers you quote are correct. However, they would lose far more in coming years, as their non-union wages begin to stagnate or even drop, and benefits either are reduced or eliminated. Your car weighs less as you burn gas, which may help your gas mileage, but you eventually run out of gas and coast to a stop.
UFFDAGUY, Hey one other item to mention, How easy it is to CUT a Wage for a Worker that is Not under a Contract, Employer can hand out a notice in advance Stating that unilaterally across the Board all Wages will be Cut, That simple, Also. Don't forget about PREVAILING WAGE
It is the Unions that have brought justice to the work force! If it were not for the unions hourly people would have it worse also. Yes! You might see some people that slack off and leave some work to the others, but my god you see that in hourly workers too! Bad excuse! Corporations hate the Unions because they cannot be cruel to the workers and get away with it! The Corporations want the power to work you to death for pennies and hour. Wake up people and see the light before it is too late!
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In the 1970s, Lee Iacocco became a "superstar" and rose the profile of the CEO and with it CEO compensation. During the same time period we've seen the demise of unions from 40% of all jobs to 12% today and with it, a decline in how much the average a worker can save (from 11% in the mid 70's to 0% in 2005 - thereby indicating many had gone underwater and had to rely on credit cards to pay for gas, utilities, food, etc.). And all the while, wages continue to remain stagnant (and in many jobs they decreased), benefits continually eroded, retirement funds lost in the market crash, and the end of the middle class. But go ahead and blame the worker as you would blame the victim of rape.
Another bit of history long forgotten by Republicans, is that in 1979 with bankruptcy pending, CEO Lee Iacocco looking for a loan to bail out Chrysler went to Congress of which Democrats held a majority of both houses. Although he didn't succeed getting a loan, what he did get was the government guaranteed the loans.
So.... I belong to a union. I pay my union dues to the union for the product they provide, Protection and bargaining for my salary, benefits and working conditions. My union dues are NO LONGER MY MONEY!!! That money now belongs to the union, which like any company donates to the candidates that support it's interests.
Well now if all you do is pay the dues then you are to blame for that. I know of no union that does not encourage members to participate in meetings and voting on stewards. As to the campaign contributions again they encourage members to vote on that.
I am not a fan of unions using dues to contribute to political parties but given the very clear anti-union message of the republican party these days I reckon this is war!
Can someone say "Hostess'???
President Obama wants no "Checks and Balances" and wants the ability to raise the debt ceiling without Congress Approval??
LMAO
Is he back to smoking pot like he did when he was younger?
You mean the proposal by Mitch McConnell that would give the president the ability to approve a raise of the debt ceiling but would still give Congress the power to reject said raise making it not unilateral or proposed by Obama. But who needs facts, not you! LOL
What? Unions have to put something on the table? No they don't they aren't governing....and against his urging??? So citizens have to check with the governor to excerise their rights? Snyder is gone to far, he is becoming a dictator.
I'm curious to hear how you leftists feel about the companies that get put out of buisness by Unions and there quest for more, more, more?
Im not talking about Hostess. I completely agree that high level corporate incompetance killed the Twinkie. I'm talking way smaller scale. Like what happened to an Aluminum plant here in the 90's. Everybody wanted to work there. They were the highest paid workers in the region, by double. But they decided the world was not enough and they wanted more. They went on strike. The company came out in full transparency and disclosure with finacials that proved they would no longer be profitable if they met the demands. So they locked out the workers and closed up shop killing thousands of jobs.
Which also makes me think, why on earth would i want to keep working hard trying to make a decent life for myself and my family if the radical left goverment just wants to take the extra i made and give to the career welfare family down the street that gets to stay home all day and be lazy.
Because the lazy black welfare family down the street is at most getting a wondrous $4 per meal from the government....yeah lap of luxury