Jack Welch and Card Check

The insanity of minimum wage laws

Mises.org story here

Thugs: Why union attempts need to have secret ballot elections

Buying union votes with tax money

You wanted change, you got it!

GM plan really a UAW bailout

Congressman Charlie Wilson against secret ballot elections

The deceptively titled: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009

List of co-sponsors for this bill, and yes, that's our Congressman Charlie Wilson at the bottom of the list.

What this bill does is allows unions and forces employers to recognize unions if the unions can get 50% +1 of the work force to sign cards. Rather than having a secret ballot election after the cards are signed. So, there will be coerced signatures on these cards and no secret ballot election.

If you've not noticed yet, unions are all for elections, if it favors them. See post here about unions insisting on secret ballot elections when the issue is union decertification.

"Citing the U.S. Supreme Court, the AFL-CIO argues "that a representation election 'is a solemn…occasion, conducted under safeguards to voluntary choice.'" Moreover, the "representation election system provides the surest means of avoiding decisions which are 'the result of group pressures and not individual decision.'" "

So, by deductive reasoning, Congressman Charlie Wilson thinks it's OK to make "decisions which are 'the result of group pressures and not individual decision" when it comes to the certification vote.

So much for being a "conservative democrat". He is not representing the conservative 6th district. He's representing the union donations to his campaign....$137,700 for the 2008 election.

Previous post here

Stricklands education plan

"In the midst of fiscal crisis, Ohio governor unveils transformation of education"

Since there are sparse details about this plan, one just has to ask questions:

If we are not going to have a standardized high-school graduation test to allow students to graduate, and we are going to require all to take the ACT, will there be a score requirement to graduate?

Just taking the test means nothing.

Here's a previous post on testing.

One more thought on this. If the OEA loves this proposal, the tax payer should be very wary.

No matter how much money we throw at education (with no corresponding improvements), it will never be enough for the teacher's unions. Of course, as mentioned before, as long as the unions give campaign contributions to democrats...democrats are more than happy to take your money and give it to the unions.

Obama forget's UAW supporters

While paying off ACCORN.

Hey UAW members, you supported this guy! Now he makes it harder and more expensive for the auto makers to sell their product. Can you imagine 50 different standards for a manufacturer to meet?

The UAW's website says "Obama plans ambitious pro-worker agenda" is this the agenda you expected?

The UAW has just now realized that Obama is not for American workers. He's for an extremist (so called) environmentalist agenda. If that hurts the auto makers, too bad.

Mr. Strickland, where's your plan?

How long do we have to wait for Governor Strickland to present his "plan" he talked about when he was running for Governor?

“U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, A Democratic Candidate For Governor, Says His Turnaround Ohio Plan Will Rescue The State's Economy.” The Columbus Dispatch, 2/25/06

We are bleeding population to other states due to Ohio having no jobs....which is due to high corporate income tax rates (ranked 48th in 2006).

Having high personal income taxes also shoves people out of Ohio. (ranked 45th)

Here is a story from the Wall Street Journal comparing Ohio and Texas.

The cause of Ohio's woes are obvious:

• High corporate income tax rates.
• High personal income tax rates.
• High death taxes.
• Unions sucking the last drop of green from the auto companies, (and the OEA sucking the green out of the taxpayers, for that matter).
• High worker's compensation costs.
• Recently increased minimum wage....which costs jobs.

So, does Governor Strickland have a plan to correct any of these problems? He claimed to, where is it when we need it? Is the plan to gamble our way out of trouble?

It's time to lead, Governor, not beg the feds for a handout.

What's really hurting the auto industry

The UAW union!!!!

This is the Ford / UAW contract!

The GOP members in the US Senate, our Sen Voinovich excluded of course, tried to force changes in the labor contracts. This would have made the 3 auto companies more competitive. The bill failed because the dems want to continue to receive their campaign checks from the UAW. If the union members had to take a pay cut, there would be less money going into the UAW's coffers and less money being funnelled to the dems. They really don't care a hoot about the "workers", THEY JUST WANT THEIR MONEY TO HELP THEM STAY IN OFFICE.

How flexible can a company be with a contract like this? This sounds like something the federal government would come up with.


"In the event the Plant Engineering Department decides it is unable to perform the work in question, the local union will be so advised and if the Union so requests, a meeting will be arranged by the Plant Industrial Relations Manager for the purpose of having advance discussion with the union as to the reasons why plant forces cannot perform the work. 3. In the event such advance discussion with the union results in the Company deciding it cannot perform any of the work or only part and the union concurs in this result, a memorandum concerning the results of the meeting will be prepared by the Company and a copy provided to the union. In addition to the written information outlined above, if part of the project is to be performed by Ford forces, that portion should be so identified in the memorandum. It was also agreed that the parties would urge the adoption of the above procedure in all locations where a mutually acceptable outside contracting clearance procedure does not now exist. In addition, it was agreed that in those locations...."

Charlie Wilson does not understand economics

Too many comments on this one.

First he votes to raise the minimum wage. If he'd do a little reading, he'd understand this puts people out of work. If employers have to decide if it's more cost effective to buy a machine since they can't afford to hire workers, how does this help those this "raise" is supposed to help? Also, if stores raise their prices because the labor price goes up, who pays? Those that the bill was supposed to have helped. And on top of paying higher prices, now they are out of work.

Which brings me to the next point:

Now he votes to extend unemployment "benefits" (redistribution of wealth). He also voted to do this in May. So how does paying people not to work help our unemployment situation? We should be encouraging folks to work, not paying them not to.

Another dumb idea: Bailout the auto industry. We should let them make the decisions they have to to stay in business. Everyone knows they need to get rid of the greedy union thugs sucking them dry and making our automobiles less competitive than Honda, Nissan, Toyota, etc, who, by the way, do just fine building cars in the US. The only difference is, they are non-union. Giving Detroit taxpayer money would reward bad management and just prolong the inevitable. If they had to fix their business now, they might have a chance. Of course the union backed dems want to continue to receive their campaign contributions from the unions, hence their support of this bailout.

Lastly, Wilson's support of the deceptively labelled "Employee Free Choice Act". See previous post here.

Our Representative knows nothing about economics.................or he does know about economics and doesn't care, just wanting to receive union campaign checks. Either way, he needs to go.

The deceptively titled "Employee Free Choice Act "

Now it's payback time! Labor unions ask political backing for organizing law.

The bottom line is, get rid of secret ballots for organizing a union. How un-American is that? The unions must think they can coerce folks into signing cards in public, much more so than convincing folks to vote their way in a secret ballot election.

I expect Mr. ACORN uh, excuse me Mr. Obama to support it....as he said he would.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081109/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_labor_1

E-mails get leader of state office suspended

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/08/copy/JFS_trouble.ART_ART_11-08-08_A1_JFBR1J0.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

• Using a government computer and e-mail to fund raise for Obama
• Using a government computer to look up dirt on "Joe the Plumber"

If this happened under a Republican administration, the media would be asking "what did the Governor know and when did he know it?"

With a dem Governor, the media silence is deafening.