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Smart people learned to quit doing that a long time ago. I've always known that Republicans aren't conservative. Don't know when the rest of the nation will get that news.
I never got how worker's rights could ever be considered "Big Government." Sure, maybe the unions can be excessively big and resort to less than ethical tactics, but they wouldn't even exist if the workers were satisfied.
In 1959 discrimination was out of control, the thought of a black or women Pres would have been considered a joke. Polio was not totally controlled and people were truely old at 65. Most companies forced workers to retire at 65. Did that make these things right? Few families had 2 cars, no one knew the word computer or cell phone, in fact no one could even imagine someone walking around with a portable phone. Shall we go back to those days, is that what you are saying. 50 years, a new century, and we are living today, not the the 1900s.
Nita
In those days, it only took one person to support a family so it couldn't have been too bad.
"The demonizing of government at all levels that has become such a reflexive impulse for conservatives in the early 21st century would have mystified most elected officials in Wisconsin just a few decades ago.
When Gov. Gaylord A. Nelson, a Democrat, sought to extend collective bargaining rights to municipal workers in 1959, he did so in partnership with a Legislature in which one house was controlled by the Republicans."
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honestly..this pro-union crap is just getting old. enough already.
Oddly enough it's the same age as the anti-union crap, enough already
And for those diehards who insist it's unions that cause all the problems I'll challenge you once again.
Produce a copy of a union contract signed by only one party, until you do the " it's all the unions' fault " argument is just so much meaningless BS.
When unions have the power and desire to shut down a company that doesn't sign the contract it's not exactly a fair situation. When a union says "sign this contract or we will picket and call for a boycott of your company" do you think that's fair?
Although I have to say that I am against ANY union - public or private.
Unions are leeches on society and it is so great to see taxpayers starting to realize this and abolish them and their 'rights.'
The left is fighting hard for unions because it is a huge contributor to their campaigns. Hypocrisy at its finest.
No, the real "leeches" are the owners of wealth who live off the labor of the vast majority of people.
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