DU a poll: Right to Work?

[Omaha Steve]

Should Wisconsin become a "right to work" state?

Please vote no.

http://www.wpr.org/cardin/

So far: Yes (1636 Responses) 32%

No (3461 Responses) 68%

Total: 5097 respondents

[FreakinDJ]

1. Voted NO - K&R

[lonestarnot]

2. There was no hell no answer and no of course not!

:evilgrin:

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Done!

:hi:

[BlueJazz]

4. Right to take a 2X4 rammed up your ass, is more like it.

Florida is a "Right to Work" state and the workers have Zero rights..None..zilch...000000

[Taverner]

5. What exactly is "Right to work?"

I assume it has nothing to do with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[Brickbat]

8. It means that belonging to a union cannot be a requirement for working for Company X.

If Company X has a bargained contract with Union Y, you do not have to be a dues-paying member of Union Y to work at Company X.

It's known as the Right to Scab provision at my house.

[Taverner]

10. Aha - what a perversion of a previous socialist issue

This was a big issue with the turn of the century social theorists, being that 'right to work' meant there should be jobs for all who want to work. Living wage jobs.

Sucks when the corporatists snag a perfectly beneficial term's name.

[Brickbat]

12. Exactly -- like No Child Left Behind, and so on. The continued twisting of words

to mean exactly the opposite.

It's another way to weaken unions -- if you can get the bennies without belonging or paying into a union, why pay into a union, right?

[Taverner]

13. I think the problem is that there aren't enough 'closed shops' as they call them

Now that's a name that should be changed!

How about 'protected shop' or 'covered shop'?

[Brickbat]

14. So very true.

A little bit of militant unionism would cheer my heart nowadays...

[Taverner]

15. I've been reading a lot about the 'Wobblies' and there's some heartening stuff there!

Unemployed People's Councils that prevented foreclosures, strikes where the government tried to kill the strikers, and them winning anyway...

[Brickbat]

16. Ha, I read my Wobbly books when I need cheering up, too!

I'm writing a novel that takes place in the mid-teens and am doing a lot of research. Living near the Iron Range reminds me of the power people can wield, too.

[Brickbat]

6. I never do these online polls.

But I did this one.

[Bluzmann57]

7. Right to work all right

Right to work for less. I voted no.

[saged52]

9. voted NO!

absodamnedlutely NO!

[Motown_Johnny]

11. .

Upon Omaha Steve's urging

I, Motown Johnny

have voted on what Wisconsin should do






It's a small world after all