Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (Full Version)

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Brain -> Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/6/2011 4:22:35 PM)

I think in today’s Republican party Reagan wouldn’t be acceptable because he would be perceived as a moderate.
 
Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining?
 
Walker believes that his efforts to end public employee's right to collective bargaining are akin to Reagan's August 1981 firing of thousands of air traffic controllers who illegally decided to strike. And while it's true that Reagan came down hard on the air traffic controllers, that doesn't mean he believed in completely stripping away worker's rights.
After his election, and less than month after firing the air-traffic controllers, Reagan didn't back down from his support of organized labor. In a speech at a trade union gathering in Chicago in September 1981, he said,

Reagan also promised that despite tough economic times, he would "not fight inflation by attacking the sacred right of American workers to negotiate their wages. We propose to control government, not people."
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eihwaz -> RE: Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/6/2011 9:39:29 PM)

In 1968, then California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, establishing collective bargaining for California's municipal and county employees.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick



Fellow -> RE: Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/6/2011 10:17:55 PM)

 Richard Nixon was the last liberal president.  Who will be next and when?



MrRodgers -> RE: Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/6/2011 10:52:57 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Fellow

Richard Nixon was the last liberal president.  Who will be next and when?

There won't be one. They will all be...neocons...just like W and Obama.

If one cares to notice, all Obama has done different is being a more radical Keynesian and passing ObamaCare which isn't a large shifting of profits and may result in even more with more subscribers and the usual ripoffs. So if anything it will be slowly marginalized while most everything else is basically a continuation of the same Bush policies.

Iraq has served its very profit purpose for 8 years. Afghanistan, we have tripled in force and now and after all of these years...we are the insurgents. We are throwing $billions at a defacto border war on top of the still perpetual, very profitable drug war.

The rest is merely partisan banter or outright bullshit from the talking heads.



Moonhead -> RE: Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/7/2011 4:49:23 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Fellow

 Richard Nixon was the last liberal president.  Who will be next and when?


Not Carter? If you're having Nixon as a liberal, I'd have thought he qualifies as well.



willbeurdaddy -> RE: Does Scott Walker Know That Ronald Reagan Supported Unions and Collective Bargaining? (3/7/2011 12:17:11 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Brain

that doesn't mean he believed in completely stripping away worker's rights.



Neither does Walker. [/thread]



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