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Unions threaten Business

actually, you'll note, it's: "if you don't side with the demonions" (do they each really need their own name at this point?), then we'll get you. no neutrals allowed in this fight.

good point. I missed the 'if you're not publicly with us, you're against us' part.
 
Where does the money come from to pay public employees? To close the hole in the budget, they must either raise taxes, or lower wages and bennies for public employees. Those are really the only options, aside from paying people off.

The teachers union had offered to take a cut in wages but that was never the primary objective of the republicans, nothing would satisfy them unless they could remove the collective bargaining rights of the unions, their are other ways to bring the budget under control, how about if the insurance companies contracted to supply health benefits take a reduction in premiums? Maybe once the supporters of the Governor feel a financial bite from the boycott they will exert a little pressure on Gov Walker to enter into honest negotiations instead of strong arm tactics
 
The boycott will fail. They almost always do. Then we'll see vandalism to businesses and business vehicles and then the homes of individuals and then we will see attacks on people by the union thugs. That's all they can do.

I wonder what would happen today if I put a sign on my business in Madison, People's Republic of, that said simply, "I support Governor Walker."
 
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Ok, where in the US code, or the Constitution, does it say that collective bargaining is a right? As always, thanks in advance.

first amendment, freedom of association, that combined with the fact that courts have long upheld the right of people to enter into a contract, as I have pointed out.
 
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Take a look at these extortionist thugs

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The Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party and the calls for tea boycotts and the resolutions of the first North Carolina Provincial Congress, 51 women, led by Penelope Barker, met on October 25, 1774, and signed a statement of protest vowing to give up tea and boycott other British products "until such time that all acts which tend to enslave our Native country shall be repealed."
 
Then please tell me how you are not supporting a double standard.

Exactly how am I supporting a double standard? What boycotts did I endorse or support, that would make not supporting this one a double standard. Link to my post where I supprted another boycott.
 
Exactly how am I supporting a double standard? What boycotts did I endorse or support, that would make not supporting this one a double standard. Link to my post where I supprted another boycott.

So you disagree with church boycotts than and think they are extortion?
 
So you disagree with church boycotts than and think they are extortion?

I would not use the word extortion for ANY boycott... it's a mischaracterization. And yes, I disagree with the church botcotts mentioned earlier in this thread. You know, the ones you ASSumed I was ok with and then called me a Christian hater???
 
I would not use the word extortion for ANY boycott... it's a mischaracterization. And yes, I disagree with the church botcotts mentioned earlier in this thread. You know, the ones you ASSumed I was ok with and then called me a Christian hater???

Ahh, I misunderstood, my bad.
 
The only thing I see wrong with this approach is that it did not start soon enough, I will definitely support any and all boycotts that target the supporters of those who try to take away the collective bargaining rights of any public or private worker. You should never wake up a sleeping giant. Gov Walker had an opportunity to negotiate a cost saving agreement with the teacher's union and he was not going to satisfied until he took away their right to have representation, we all have a right to assemble and work for the common good

Every one should have had to sacrifice a little to help during these hard economic times, that includes the insurance companies that supply the benefits for these workers


The sleeping giant at work here was woken last November, and is now going to put an end to all the govt waste and fraud that he can. This is only one example. There will be more.
 
Where does the money come from to pay public employees? To close the hole in the budget, they must either raise taxes, or lower wages and bennies for public employees. Those are really the only options, aside from paying people off.

But, of course, compensation is not the issue identified in the letter. Jim Palmer of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association is asking for support for their right to collectively bargain. You keep wandering off into things unrelated to the fundamental principle that employees should be able to collectively bargain freely with their employers.
 
The sleeping giant at work here was woken last November, and is now going to put an end to all the govt waste and fraud that he can. This is only one example. There will be more.

Here is the record on waste every republican president has increased the nation debt since 1973 while every democratic president had decreased the debt. Government waste and fraud you need to do a little research the proof is in the pudding not in your making statements that have no facts " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms"
 
That is what a boycott is

The threat of a loss of business unless said company makes certain policy decisions. It is the consumer deciding not to purchase the goods and services of said company

If the companies can handle that they should get out of the kitchen

which is why we need to get rid of public sector unions because unlike private companies , we taxpayers cannot boycott the government
 
Here is the record on waste every republican president has increased the nation debt since 1973 while every democratic president had decreased the debt. Government waste and fraud you need to do a little research the proof is in the pudding not in your making statements that have no facts " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms"

psychobabble-how is FDR and Obama figure into your nonsense and what was congress doing?
 
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Post #93. Yay!!!!!!!! Consensus!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't be bragging about that:mrgreen: its not an accurate statement you both cheered
 
which is why we need to get rid of public sector unions because unlike private companies , we taxpayers cannot boycott the government

How does boycotting the government deal with public sector unions?
 
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