Arizona Next on the List of States Curbing CB of Unions

[sanrene]

Originally Posted by GradyBaaBaa

I like my union. 18% pay raise successfully negotiated last year.
Just more haves vs have-nots to me.

Paid for by the taxpayers who are struggling to make ends meet in the private sector.

[Dutchman01]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

I'm just not that threatened by government workers earning enough money to raise a family too. Not sure why you have to be in the private sector to earn a living. Police, fireman, teachers, street cleaners and parks workers serve all of us. I'm pretty sure I earn more than just about every cop, teacher and fireman in Arizona. The union protects their quality of life. Good for them.

California should be a wakup call for ya' then.


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Steven Malanga
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’

The video has become a sensation among California taxpayer groups for its vivid depiction of the audacious power that public-sector unions wield in their state. The unions’ political triumphs have molded a California in which government workers thrive at the expense of a struggling private sector. The state’s public school teachers are the highest-paid in the nation. Its prison guards can easily earn six-figure salaries. State workers routinely retire at 55 with pensions higher than their base pay for most of their working life. Meanwhile, what was once the most prosperous state now suffers from an unemployment rate far steeper than the nation’s and a flood of firms and jobs escaping high taxes and stifling regulations. This toxic combination—high public-sector employee costs and sagging economic fortunes—has produced recurring budget crises in Sacramento and in virtually every municipality in the state..........

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Arizona next to tackle PEU reform? « Hot Air



All great ideas, except including police and firefighters.

More CHOICE for workers.

Public employees should NEVER be allowed to unionize. Ever.

Surely police and firefighters aren't included, because their union members are big contributors to Republicans.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

america wants to get rid of unions, but they wana exclude cops and firemen.
why?
fear?

Once again, this can surely be only explained, because police and firemen give big to Republican candidates. Can anyone disprove that?

[sanrene]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

Once again, this can surely be only explained, because police and firemen give big to Republican candidates. Can anyone disprove that?

You're making the claim...you prove it.