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EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To Strip... - 3/29/2011 8:59:44 PM   
Brain


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Status: offline 		Does anybody know if this guy can be recalled like some other Republicans in Wisconsin? On the other hand it is helpful to know Republican strategy I suppose.



EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To Strip All Federal Employees Of Collective Bargaining Rights

The defining political story three months into 2011 is the spread of anti-union legislation in the states. Now, a leading senator on the right wants to eliminate collective bargaining rights at a federal level.

Currently, most federal public employees – with the exception of the postal service and some others – are only permitted to collectively bargain to improve their working conditions (their pay and benefits are set by Congress). However, DeMint is apparently seeking to take away even the meager rights that federal employees currently have.

The South Carolina Republican’s push to strip public employees’ unions of all their collective bargaining rights is part of a larger battle by the GOP against labor unions. Currently, the right is targeting labor unions in states across the country, from Maine to Missouri and elsewhere, with nearly-identical legislation crafted by the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Earlier this month, Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) even admitted to Fox News on air that the goal is to defund labor unions and hurt President Obama’s reelection chances.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/28/demint-federal-workers-bargaining/

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RE: EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To S... - 3/29/2011 10:05:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Coudn't happen to a nicer bunch of the most qualified adept and able on the planet eh ? Tenure and seniority are fake "experience", and fake "ability". Not one of them can stand in the market alone, as I HAVE ALL MY LIFE.

I have no use for this shit. I do not bargain collectively, that's for those who need it.

Whaddya think of that ?

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RE: EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To S... - 3/30/2011 4:03:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ya know, the reason public pay looks so good nowadays is that private industry's pay is so much crappier nowadays.

I used to subscribe to Business Week, and during the Clinton administration they were in a lather because real wages had increased for the first time in over a decade.  Another thing I've noticed is that worker productivity's been on a long climb since, shit, back in the '80s, but it doesn't seem to benefit the workers.

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