Wisconsin's Walker promises to fight federal unions
Source: AP
EUREKA, Ill. (AP) Scott Walker promises to tackle union power at the federal level just like he did as governor in Wisconsin. He says in a presidential campaign speech that he wants to "wreak havoc" on Washington.
Walker effectively ended collective bargaining for most state workers. The governor spoke Thursday at Eureka College in Illinois, the alma mater of President Ronald Reagan.
Walker says that starting his first day as president, he would prohibit the federal government from automatically deducting union dues from workers' paychecks.
Workers can already voluntarily choose not to have the money taken out, but Walker wants to do away with the automatic deductions altogether.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bd14bc6a03154f89a1800eb3d965f2f4/wisconsins-walker-promises-fight-federal-unions
Since every single R running for POTUS hates union, shouldn't most Dem's love unions?
Roy Rolling
(6,953 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)His campaign is abysmal. If he loses Iowa he's finished.
randys1
(16,286 posts)And you would not believe how many will.
His job is to destroy all power any working person has anywhere on the planet, starting here but understand the Koch Bros are working on destroying all unions everywhere, destroying and eliminating all benefits provided, etc.
ISIS are Girl Scouts compared to these guys.
Sorry for implying Girl Scouts are somehow less tough than Boy Scouts, but you know, it is a saying.
Wait
ISIS are Boy Scouts compared to these guys.
I am not exaggerating, does anyone reading this NOT believe they are in GREATER danger from Koch than ISIS?
Anyone?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Don't call us, we'll call you.
But don't hold your breath waiting for the call. Taking bribes from Dave and Charlie Koch does not help your cause.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)lark
(23,237 posts)I vow to do everything in my power to make sure that smug ignorant Koch sucker never becomes president.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and people like me can and will kick your ignorant ass .
wolfie001
(2,335 posts)Everything he says is predictable and stale. Good to see him crash and burn.
riversedge
(70,589 posts)Scott Walker's latest attack on unions is straight out of Alec's playbook http://trib.al/NklzOVQ
Scott Walker's latest attack on unions is straight out of Alec's playbook
The latest policy announcement from the Republican candidates faltering campaign has been pushed by the corporate lobbyists since at least 1998
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker speaks to reporters in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall in the Ronald Reagan Peace Garden at Eureka College, Illinois, on Thursday. Photograph: Seth Perlman/AP
Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Thursday 10 September 2015 17.13 EDT
Six weeks ago, the Guardian asked whether Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, could become the first Alec president of the United States a reference to the controversial corporate lobbying network with which he has close ties.
Scott Walker, first Alec president? Long ties to controversial lobby raise concern
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Six weeks is a long time in politics particularly with Donald Trump on the scene. Walkers presidential star, which was ascendant in July, is now barely flickering. In the latest tracking polls he came in a miserable seventh place, with 5% of probable Republican voters support to Trumps 30%.
In an attempt to kickstart his flagging campaign, Walker, who made his name nationally by taking on Wisconsins public sector unions, has come up with a new union-bashing ruse. In a speech on Thursday at the alma mater of his hero Ronald Reagan, Eureka College in Illinois, he pledged to destroy the political activities of federal employee unions by blocking their political funding.
Vowing to wreak havoc on Washington his new campaign mantra Walker said that on his first day in the White House he would force the unions to disclose how much of their dues they were spending on political activities.
He would also put an end to the federal government practice of holding back a portion of union dues from workers paychecks for that purpose.
An interesting though largely overlooked feature of Walkers bid for survival is that it is not new at all. In fact, the idea of hitting public unions by cutting off their political funding has been promoted by none other than the American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, since at least 1998.
In that year, Alec released the Paycheck Protection Act as a model bill that it began disseminating among Republican-controlled state legislatures. ........................
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)so I hear everyday here in Wisconsin. That is how reactionary the voices of a growing minority of citizens are becoming.
Yep.
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