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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:10 AM Original message |
Why do Governments get to set the rules for Unions? |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'd like to hear the answer to that question too. k&r |
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scutfargus (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. There are more people involved here than just unions. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Joe Klein doesn't mention the FACT that Walker invented this deficit even while funneling money to |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
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Morning Dew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Go on now, Grover Dill is holding down some little kid for you to beat on. |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. The Koch brothers must be scraping the bottom of the barrel |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. "It would have been much smarter for them..." |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. 'I'm getting screwed!! Why aren't THEY getting screwed too???" |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
24. lol |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Apparently you don't know much about Unions or just what is... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. Unions need a legal framework to function in |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. I guess in a practical sense even two people can band together to create a "union". |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. Not for public sector unions. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
8. Replace "union" with "corporation" and you might see the problem. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Is there no way to have a legal framework without colluding with the Government? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:36 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. WIthout the framework of laws enforced by the government there would be no unions |
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Liberal Veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Or corporations. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. They would exist but under a different guise. The unions not so much |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. That's correct. Government monopolizes the business of making legal frameworks. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. Because governments in capitalist societies work on behalf |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
13. The Stronger the Union the more powerful and therefore it is |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
15. Govt. is chosen to represent We the People by majority vote. That vote allows govt. to grant or take |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. In this instance, the Contracts are with the Government. The schoos |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. OK but govt makes laws using authority granted by voters. A minority v. majority dispute may lead to |
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