Tapsearch Com EditorPublic workers next in line to be busted
February 23rd 2011 21:01
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Union busting and the middle class. Public workers next in line to get busted.
By Ray Tapajna at Tapsearch Com Super Links
Public Workers under seige - next in line to get busted
It was just a matter of time for Public Workers Unions to feel the effects of free trade. They were protected for a long time but now the tide is turning against them too.
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Connie Schultz, a top columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the wife of Senator Sherrod Brown writes about the latest confrontation between Public Workers Unions and the newly elected conservative governors who won office on the fiscal responsibility issue. Connie Schults mixes her family background with Private Sector Workers with government workers and act as if they are all in the same boat. They are not.
There are distinctions that need to be defined. The AFL-CIO has noted in link above virtually do not have any Private Sector production workers left as members. Only 15 percent of the AFL-CIO union members are from the production workers class. It may be even lower, since some sub-unions have left the AFL-CIO based on this issue. 50 percent of union membership in the AFL-CIO are now government workers and teachers. About 30 percent are retail workers who seemingly are ignored in their efforts for a better living. They are trying get out of the minimun wage rut. Due to free trade this group is growing larger and larger with the production jobs fading away.
I frequently pass my a big box store that has the union retail workers members picketing in front of the store for recognition and better wages. The government workers are now picketing infront of state capital offices in protests against any cuts. The cuts will come one way or another. The tax base is drying up with so many other workers losing their jobs or drifting into the new working poor class. The government workers have attracted many supporters but I wonder how many ever joined the retail workers when they picket just for another two or three dollars an hour at most.
With the Private Sector Production Workers unions being virtually gone, they have too many of their own problems to relate to the government workers being under seige. It has been many years since the non- government workers lost their middle class wages.
Now, it is the government workers who are next in line to suffer the same fate. If they affectively challenge the pay cuts and win their case, it will mean many others will lose their jobs. It is a game of elimination due to free trade knocking out a decent tax base.
Coming from the factory floors and later being part of union negotiations from an management position, I have mixed feelings about it all. The Public Sector Workers never should have had their own unions because their employers are the people and not corporations. However, we live in critical times when all must do everything they can to stop the purge of the middle class. The Public Workers represent the last line of resistance to this attack. When and if they go down, all of society will go down to a lower level too.
And workers will not stay static in this environment and the U.S. may have radical protests on the way. Senator Sherrod Brown know this but I wonder if his wife Connie Shultz does.
Search under Connie Shultz unionists for her story.
Public Workers under seige - next in line to get busted
It was just a matter of time for Public Workers Unions to feel the effects of free trade. They were protected for a long time but now the tide is turning against them too.
Tapsearch about Unions - Private Sector production workers unions ...
( Public Sector Government Workers taking over unions ) - What percentage of the AFL-CIO are government workers....
tapsearch.com/unions/ LINK
Big Government Free Traders and Big Money Free Traders marry. Workers not invited to the party
Connie Schultz, a top columnist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the wife of Senator Sherrod Brown writes about the latest confrontation between Public Workers Unions and the newly elected conservative governors who won office on the fiscal responsibility issue. Connie Schults mixes her family background with Private Sector Workers with government workers and act as if they are all in the same boat. They are not.
There are distinctions that need to be defined. The AFL-CIO has noted in link above virtually do not have any Private Sector production workers left as members. Only 15 percent of the AFL-CIO union members are from the production workers class. It may be even lower, since some sub-unions have left the AFL-CIO based on this issue. 50 percent of union membership in the AFL-CIO are now government workers and teachers. About 30 percent are retail workers who seemingly are ignored in their efforts for a better living. They are trying get out of the minimun wage rut. Due to free trade this group is growing larger and larger with the production jobs fading away.
I frequently pass my a big box store that has the union retail workers members picketing in front of the store for recognition and better wages. The government workers are now picketing infront of state capital offices in protests against any cuts. The cuts will come one way or another. The tax base is drying up with so many other workers losing their jobs or drifting into the new working poor class. The government workers have attracted many supporters but I wonder how many ever joined the retail workers when they picket just for another two or three dollars an hour at most.
With the Private Sector Production Workers unions being virtually gone, they have too many of their own problems to relate to the government workers being under seige. It has been many years since the non- government workers lost their middle class wages.
Now, it is the government workers who are next in line to suffer the same fate. If they affectively challenge the pay cuts and win their case, it will mean many others will lose their jobs. It is a game of elimination due to free trade knocking out a decent tax base.
Coming from the factory floors and later being part of union negotiations from an management position, I have mixed feelings about it all. The Public Sector Workers never should have had their own unions because their employers are the people and not corporations. However, we live in critical times when all must do everything they can to stop the purge of the middle class. The Public Workers represent the last line of resistance to this attack. When and if they go down, all of society will go down to a lower level too.
And workers will not stay static in this environment and the U.S. may have radical protests on the way. Senator Sherrod Brown know this but I wonder if his wife Connie Shultz does.
Search under Connie Shultz unionists for her story.
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