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Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Governor John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by a sixty-one to thirty-nine margin in a statewide referendum, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker jetted to Arizona to launch the next front in the national campaign to attack union rights.
After meeting with former Vice President Dan Quayle, Walker was whisked over to the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, where he briefed a thousand Arizona conservatives on how they could attack “the big-government union bosses.”
Interesting, but troubling that Walker never campaigned on busting unions, but now has become the go to guy for this. How contrived and how transparent his intentions are. There is only one reason that this guy is on this mission and that is to attempt to get rid of the Democrat campaign donors. The GOP wants their corporate money all the while scheming and plotting to bust the unions...and it is not about jobs!
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Right-to-work law did not help Oklahoma’s labor market
As it shows, both Oklahoma and surrounding states have seen unemployment rates rise by almost the exact same amount in the years since 2001. Claims that right-to-work would create jobs and improve Oklahoma’s employment situation turned out to be false.
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The rate has little to do with comparing surrounding states. Each state has its own issues which will cause it to go in its own direction. OK is largely rural petrol and farm based. Food and oil is doing well atm thus OK did well. (er less bad?)
That being said, unionization, is one factor of MANY MANY and certainly not the only issue to do with business. Witness deep blue union NY and Mass having lower than average unemployment. In the past 10 years in the *private* sector you tend to get the union you deserve. Relatively few new unionizations outside of the usual suspects in Autos etc. Joe Schmoe with a 30 person factory in nowheresville, NY is unlikely to be newly unionized unless he starts doing Captain Bligh imitations.
Note I said unlikely not impossible.
Remember for many in the GOP, killing unions is a crusade.
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