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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Tue Feb 17, 2009 at 12:04:40 PM MST
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| Look, I get it. I understand that some people really, really hate labor unions and would like to see them outlawed. They'd rather the communist countries never had to face Solidarity, that American workers had no weekends, and that children still engaged in back-breaking labor. Well, they probably don't rather that, but they may be willing to accept it if only we could get rid of the terrible unions that...
OK, I don't get it. I don't really get what people hate about unions existing.
That being said, people do hate them. They hate them enough to characterize the Employee Free Choice Act as getting rid of secret ballots for workers when it does no such thing (it simply makes their use a decision of workers rather than management).
And they hate them enough to attempt to prohibit them from engaging in political debates over ballot initiatives. Rep. Scott Mendenhall is carrying a bill, the major impact of which would be to keep organizations like MEA-MFT and MPEA from going to bat for the interests of their members in ballot initiative fights (strangely, there is no similar prohibition on corporate expenditures to ballot initiatives).
Of course, Rep. Mendenhall can't just come out and call it the "Silencing Organized Labor Act of 2009." No, it's the "Montana Clean Government Act" and it appears primarily aimed at no-bid contracts. It just defines no-bid contracts as including collective bargaining agreements. It has to specifically do that because no one in their right mind thinks of CBAs when someone says no-bid contracts. It's like if the bill to abolish the death penalty defined the death penalty as any penalties imposed by the justice system. It's absurd. It's bait and switch. |
| Matt Singer :: Why Can't Scott Mendenhall Be Upfront About His Hatred of Unions? |
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