"mr. walker's proposal contemplates significant changes to most public sector unions, limiting collective bargaining to matters of wages only and limiting raises to the consumer price list unless the public approves higher raises in a referendum. he would require most unions to hold votes annually to determine whether or not most workers wish to be mebers. and he would end the state's collection of union dues from paychecks."
n y times 3-5-2011
unless there's been a radical change in federal labor law collective bargaining is still applicable to both terms and conditions of work...the terms are not seperable and things like safety issues and where the vending machines and break rooms are located and wat times they can be used are still legal items of negotiation...of course the federal government is in a bad odor at the moment and the goebbels effect has seriously deformed the public's view of working people who were once "the backbone of the nation"...but that is all subject to change as the crypto-fascists who think they have control of the nations purse strings may soon find out as the bottom falls out of the economy again because of energy and food costs ( and 192,000 jobs isn't shit in the cosmic scheme of things...wall street is delusional as usual and the media as a leisure service of wealth is misleading everyone...if oil prices stay at current levels until the end of the month the dow won't hold 10,000 much less move to 14,000) the slimy little rat-bag governor of wisconsin does have a plan to shift the onus of convincing membership of the benefits of union membership to the unions...a decertification election every year will force them to run the style of campaign devloped by the members of the u s house of representatives bulked up on steroids...that could distract them form the more existential issue of ending dues checkoff, which also neatly burdens unions with the administrative costs...you have to admire hamiltonian scum when they're on the ball...of course if the economy disimproves on their watch (double plus ungood) the new brooms of wisconsin and the social darwinist right-wing tea-party nazis may find themselves burdened with the need to explain to a roused and vindictive electorate just who's bright idea all these referendums were and why the long-suffering taxpayers who elected these bozos to clean house should have to pay for them...politics is built on the quicksand of public opinion in this decrepit empire...what sells today is in the dumpster tomorrow...the seasoned pols know this and that's why they all sound alike in their efforts not to be pinned down to a position...these people have taken sides and that is awfully risky...especially when it becomes glaringly apparent that the side they picked is just another version of the same old ponzi scheme that is the second republic.
perhaps i gave the hamiltonian scum too much credit...
2:28 p m 3-5-2011
i've been thinking this over a bit ( one of the hazards of sitting down at the keyboard in the first flush of indignation at a whore being a whore is that reflection takes a hike...not that i am recanting anything i have said about slimeball politicians or small-time ideolouges...they are still fools who merit the lake of fire or a palin presidency...but somethings could be said better and others just get lost in the polemic) ending dues check-off may indeed harm public sector unions that haven't been in the union business very long and have always relied on that system to collect their dues...on the other hand, i am represented by a craft union, and while they get my dues through dues check-off the craft side of the local is mostly journeymen who don't work full time for one specific employer...so dues check-off for them isn't possible...they pay their dues "at the window"..by going to the hall and paying there or by simply mailing a check ( who knows if the local is technologically advanced enough to get funds transfers on line...there website looks like the work of sixth graders...or, even worse, something i could do) so there is a long history of administering dues payments and processing the per capita tax and dealing with the health and welfare fund ( i told you these people run the union like a business...they can administer money...it's advocacy that might cause them to spend some of the said moeny that frightens them)...the loss of dues check-off wouldn't tax the union's administrative abillities more than it would dump the onus of keeping my dues current on me and the other members...which in the end might cause some stumbles but would hardly merit the label of exisitential crisis i tagged it with originally...the political whores and hacks with their crypto-fascist allies and the miserbale class warriors at the wall street journal may find unions more resilliant than their cold litle hearts desire
No comments:
Post a Comment