On WSAU-AM Central Wisconsin Morning News, Right to Work President Mark Mix explains why ending union monopoly bargaining privileges is so important as Wisconsin faces widespread, union-instigated protests. Click here to listen or use the embedded player below:
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Unions and Collective Bargaining Must be Abolished
It's great to hear forced collective bargaining with a forced monopoly called precisely what it is. Hopefully Republican politicians will start calling this legally fabricated wealth redistribution disaster what it is.
Unions and collective bargaining are legal fabrications for purposes of wealth redistribution like so many other disastrous creations of the far-left, e.g., affirmative action (standardless) lending and affirmative action health insurance. As such they can be modified or, better still, eliminated the same way they were fabricated.
Forced collective bargaining with labor unions forces taxpayers to pay for an uncompetitive monopoly of services in the case of state employee unions that have 80%, 90% or even 100% market share of one or more sectors such as teaching.
Unions have tremendously unfair advantages over other collective service provider entities such as corporations and partnerships. These unfair advantages include what should be declared unconstitutional laws forcing businesses and governments into collective bargaining with uncompetitive monopolies. Other collective service provider entities such as corporations and partnerships do not have these advantages. No business or government is forced by state or federal law to negotiate with a corporation or partnership.
Many decades of the unfair advantages and outright collusion of Democrats in government and Democrats in unions during "negotiations" with Democrats' sacred political fundraising cash cow have already resulted in bankruptcies of some of America's largest companies (followed by taxpayer bailouts of tens of billions by Democrats aided by naive Republicans). Legally fabricated monopolies for labor unions and interference by their fellow Democrats in government effectively forced GM and Chrysler to hand over a massive share of company ownership on top of everything else, which is always the ultimate goal of unions. After increasing taxes to breaking points, government employee salaries and benefits are pushing governments to bankruptcies after decades of paying far too much for sub par to incompetent services that are nearly impossible to eliminate thanks to forced collective bargaining.
More than 22 million municipal, county, state and federal employees, many with much higher salaries and benefits than private employment and many with sub par competence and work ethic, have broken America's backbone, i.e., taxpayers.
Democrats attacked Microsoft as a monopoly with far less market share in a sector than a teachers union, but yet they praise the monopolies they fabricated by legislation creating and forcing recognition of unions and forcing collective bargaining with otherwise specially privileged unions.
People who collectively want to deliver a service should be limited to standard business entities such as corporations and partnerships, many of which are already service only (e.g. law firms). Unions should not be recognized or given special treatment over other collective service/labor business entities because, by design, it only retards competition, protects and overpays low quality and forcibly redistributes wealth to Democrats.
Competition must be forcibly reintroduced with laws requiring governments to diversify who they do business with and forcing governments to only do business by competitive bidding. Groups of competent, hardworking and honest teachers who respect taxpayers can form corporations and partnerships to compete against unions and shine light on how much taxpayers are being forced to overpay by being forced to deal only with a monopoly labor union through forced collective bargaining.
To act as if this has no
To act as if this has no meaning is wron on your part. Big business or in the case of Wis. the government holds all the cards. If they do not have the money they can say we will pay this amount and if you do not like it then you do not have to work. They can say that at any point and yet have the money and just not want to pay anymore. The worker has no choice. However with a union as in the past they can strike. But to take away any talks as this governor is trying to do means they do not think very much of their workers. While I know Unions have lost alot of clout over the years because they have become top heavy like big business but they will make a come back because of this. While I never joined a Union in the past I will now. :)
It!s The Children
While collected bargining has gone off the charts,the children`s grades has decreased beyone belief .You cannot fire teachers who fail to educate their students,nor reward good teachers ,(union rules).Charter and other private schools ,many with much larger classroom size,really educate their student`s.They make due with much less money ,and at a much higher level than failed public school`s. Where does all that money go that the public schools enjoy from state ,local, and federal taxes? To the union bosses perhaps ? It sure doesn`t go to educate the students!
Administrators CAN fire
Administrators CAN fire teachers who are inept; this is included in the collective bargaining contracts. (Unions do not want incompitent teachers or incompetent administrators to ruin children's lives either). But the rights of all teachers must be protected. the problem school administrations face is that their incompetent ADMINISTRATORS dont follow the proceedures in place to remove bad teachers, because they are too busy trying to push their liberal propaganda on the children and trying to fire the teachers who want to teach reading, math and scientific method instead of global warming and other left wing propaganda. This is why grades are suffering.
Membership in a union should be voluntary, and not a condition of employment.
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ThatÂs not just logic. ThatÂs rlelay sensible.
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Right on. Hope every voter in america finally gets this. Obama and Biden released the big ugly union rats into the open, now the voters are going to finally kill the fat rats if we can keep this momentum gained thru the 2010 election and continuing on in 2012.
I see a light thru the tunnel. By the way, the only reason Obama is pushing big rail so hard is because these projects will all be over $25 million and he signed an executive order requiring every federal construction project be constructed by union contractors, thus descriminating against non-union contractors.
Executive Order for Union Contract Companies Only..
It seems we are delighted to see Country's like Egypy and Libya depose their 'Dictators and Tyrants' while at the same time here back in the 'USA' we are watching the creation of the Obama administration creat an Elite group of Federal employees protected and fed by Unions. They appear to be invoking special protections and privledges not permitted to other citizens. The poor and single operators, the small business's.
This all reminds me of the 'Collective Borg'...You will be assimiluated....not to mention a phrase I am familiar with; "and that no one may buy or sell except one who has been granted permission by E.O. of the Mubarak or Qudaffi and now Obama.
As others gain their freedoms and we rejoice with them..we seem to have ours taken away by some who seem not to be much different than the Opressors recently deposed..no wonder " we " have been reluctant to support their freedom's. Perhaps they have reasons to be ? You Think ?
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Good to see a tlenat at work. I canÂt match that.