Majority of Americans Including Liberals Support Right to Work Laws

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collective bargaining, National Right to Work

Barack Obama and Joe Biden spent Labor Day delivering fiery pro-union/economist justice speeches but as usual, both are out of touch with the rest of America.

According to last week’s Gallup polls, most Americans, 71 percent of Americans would vote for right to work laws.

Watchdog.org By Rob Nikolewski

When asked if they would vote for right-to-work laws, 71 percent of Americans in the national survey said they would. That number included 65 percent of Democrats.

What’s more, the national figure is 9 percent higher than in 1957, when the U.S. economy was riding a post-war wave that saw union participation at record numbers:

 

The Gallup survey came out last Thursday and showed a political divide when it came to opinions about labor unions, with 77 percent of Democrats approving and 57 percent of Republicans disapproving…

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When Gallup asked if people see the union becoming stronger in the future than they are today, 21% said stronger, 25% said the same and 49% said that unions in the future would become weaker.

 

 

In addition, fifty-five percent of people are familiar with right to work laws, down eleven percent from one year ago.

Even scarier is that forty-five percent is unfamiliar with right to work laws, a thirteen percent increase from a year ago. H/t Fox News.

Not good at all. We must do better but in the meantime…

 

 

but bend over first, all the way for maximum effect.

 

LINKS:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/joe-biden-pushes-union-strength-detroit-labor-day-speech-n193351
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/01/obama-laborfest-milwaukee-minimum-wage/14924777/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/03/gallup-poll-shows-support-for-right-to-work-laws-even-from-democrats/?intcmp=latestnews
http://watchdog.org/168372/right-to-work-poll/
http://www.gallup.com/poll/12751/labor-unions.aspx

LAUSD Eliminates Teachers’ Rubber Rooms

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collective bargaining, Education, L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD), rubber rooms, teacher misconduct

 

As reported by the L. A. Weekly, beginning May 27, 2014 teachers under investigation for misconduct by the L.A. Unified School District will no longer be placed in rubber rooms. Instead, teachers will remain home during school hours under house arrest.

…The district has, for years, kept hundreds of teachers at a time away from contact with students. Many have no idea what they’re being investigated for – it could be anything from showing up to work drunk to gently pinching a child on the elbow. Many (though not all) of these teachers claimed they were innocent, even as the district moved to fire them – a lengthy, expensive process unless the teacher agrees to leave.…

Horse fodder. For the record, placing teachers under house arrest is nothing new for the school district. This is about doing away with the rubber rooms permanently.

According to L.A. School Report website:

…‘We’ve done this a number of times with some teachers over the years, and it has worked,’ the district’s chief counsel, David Holmquist, said in an interview. ‘We felt like the effort had not caused any problems so it was a good time to expand to all teachers on administrative leave.’

The policy change was done administratively and did not require school board approval. …

Alex Caputo-Pearl, the incoming president of the teachers union, UTLA, called the change ‘positive in that it will ameliorate some of the horrible conditions that educators face in the actual ‘teacher jail’ rooms.’

‘However,’ he said, ‘we need LAUSD to move aggressively to restore stability to students and due process to educators by allowing the vast majority of educators currently housed, who are no danger to their students, to return to their schools….’

This has nothing to do with bringing stability to students and everything to do with the union and bureaucrats giving teachers cover and skirting accountability.

 

 

LINK:

http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/05/22/rip-rubber-rooms-in-los-angeles

http://laschoolreport.com/in-new-lausd-policy-teachers-jails/

 

Swiss voters reject referendum proposal for $25 per hour minimum wage

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collective bargaining, Minimum wage, Switzerland

 

Of the 55% of Swiss who voted in today’s elections, 76.3% rejected a referendum proposal as proposed by trade unions for a $25 per hour national minimum wage.

Swiss Info.ch

… The country’s biggest trade union umbrella group had pushed the initiative to a vote, arguing a nationwide limit would entitle everyone to a ‘decent rate of pay’. In the grander scheme of things, they said the change would help reduce poverty and fight wage dumping, where firms bring in workers from abroad but pay them less….

Nine out of ten workers in Switzerland earn more than what was proposed in the now rejected referendum.

… The Swiss Business Federation, economiesuisse, described the rejection of the initiative as a clear signal that the electorate wouldn’t tolerate government intervention in a free market economy.
Its president, Heinz Karrer, said: ‘In recent weeks we were able to show that the initiative hurts low-paid workers in particular….’

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If the referendum had passed the $25 per hour minimum wage would have been highest in the world.

 

Video source: France 24 International News

LINK:
http://www.france24.com/en/20140518-switzerland-vote-rejects-minimum-wage-proposal/
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Swiss_say_no_to_world_s_highest_minimum_wage.html?rss=true&cid=38543758
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-18/swiss-reject-world-s-highest-minimum-wage-srf-projection-shows

COMMON CORE: New York State Update thru 4/7/2014

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collective bargaining, Common Core, Data mining, intimidaton, New York State, new-york-city, opting out, parental choice, retaliation, Teachers union, UFT

Before addressing the past week’s news events here in New York City, regarding Common Core testing and our public schools, since many parents are opting their children out of the Common Core tests to the disdain of big government and corporatists, note that the website United Opt Out was destroyed by hackers a few days ago. Screenshot below.

 

 

 

United Opt Out is in the process or rebuilding its site but their Facebook page remains up and running, OPT OUT OF THE STATE TEST: The National Movement. Opt out forms are available at Truth in American Education.

MOVING ON…

In spite of efforts by bureaucrats to squash the massive tide of parents opting their children out of this year’s Common Core testing and sending the police to the door of parents who do[i] across the United States, parents across America are holding the line and opting their children out in overwhelming numbers.

 

As reported by the NYDN, at least 70% of students in three Brooklyn schools opted out of last week’s exams.

…In Brooklyn, three schools — PS 446 in Brownsville, Academy of Arts & Letters in Fort Greene, and the Brooklyn New School in Carroll Gardens — each had more than 70% of students opt out of the tests, according to the advocacy group NYCpublic.

In Manhattan, nearly 50% of students opted out at Hamilton Heights Elementary School and 75% didn’t take the tests at the Institute for Collaborative Education, said Jane Hirschmann of Time Out From Testing….

 

Continue Reading – COMMON CORE:  New York State Update thru 4/7/2014

Workers at Tennessee Volkswagen plant reject UAW 712 to 626

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collective bargaining, Labor unions, NLRB, Tennessee, UAW, United Auto Workers, Volkwagen

Fox News

Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation in a devastating defeat for the United Auto Workers union’s effort to make inroads in the South. The 712-626 vote released late Friday was surprising for many labor experts and union supporters who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga factory to make sales pitches…….

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Volkswagen Group of America – Press Release (excerpt)

Chattanooga, Tenn. (February 14, 2014) – Volkswagen Chattanooga employees have voted in a secret ballot election against United Auto Workers (UAW) representation. Participation in the election was 89 percent. 53 percent of the eligible employees who voted decided against the UAW as their bargaining representative in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) between February 12 – 14.

‘On behalf of Volkswagen Group of America, I want to thank all of our Chattanooga production and maintenance employees for their participation in this week’s vote. They have spoken, and Volkswagen will respect the decision of the majority,’ said Frank Fischer, CEO and Chairman of Volkswagen Chattanooga. ‘The election results remain to be certified by the NLRB,” Fischer, said…

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Sour grapes and the pot calling the kettle black, UAW blames outside intervention.

‘…We commend Volkswagen for its commitment to global human rights, to worker rights and trying to provide an atmosphere of freedom to make a decision,’ said UAW Region 8 Director Gary Casteel, who directs the union’s Southern organizing. ‘Unfortunately, politically motivated third parties threatened the economic future of this facility and the opportunity for workers to create a successful operating model that that would grow jobs in Tennessee….’

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LINKS:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/15/workers-at-tennessee-volkswagen-factory-reject-united-auto-workers-union/
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/15/vw-chattanooga-workers-reject-uaw-union/
http://media.vw.com/release/686/