Reply #37: Don't get too complacent

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On looking around a bit, I get the feeling they hate you for your freedoms. (And damn, were they behind Arizona's SB 1070 too? That's scary.)

http://clc.workerscenter.org/ecodevo.html

Resolution passed unanimously by the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO’s 47th Annual Convention on September 6th, 2003 . . .

WHEREAS, anti-labor, “think tanks” like the American Legislative Exchange Council, which receives $ millions from big business to promotes anti-working family legislation, are active in the Vermont legislature;

WHEREAS, the corporate agenda seeks to undermine workmen’s compensation, promote “right-to-work” for less laws, expand deregulation, outlaw living wage ordinances and project labor agreements, privatize public sector employment, move our jobs to “union free environments” (to the South and third world countries), increase corporate welfare, and continue to shift the tax burden from corporations and the wealthy onto working families as part of a broad anti-labor strategy . . .

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO charge our President to establish a Standing Committee to collaborate with our affiliates and sympathetic policy experts to craft/advocate pro-working family, pro-union economic development and tax policies.


http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=7509294

December 17, 2007

Which state has the worst economic rating in the country? According to the American Legislative Exchange Council-- Vermont does. A new report puts the Green Mountain State dead last in a ranking of all 50 states.

According to the report, it's because Vermont has some of the highest taxes in the country-- personal income, business, estate and property taxes. In addition, the ALEC cites a high minimum wage and rising workers comp costs. The study looked at 16 variables that impact the migration of people and investment capital. Just last week, more than 130 learned that they'd be losing their jobs when Qimonda announced it was moving its Williston operations to North Carolina.


http://vermont-elections.org/2009-2010BioBook/s-rutl.htm

Vermont General Assembly Members, 2009

KEVIN J. MULLIN of Rutland Town, Rutland County, Republican . . . Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce Legislative Issues Committee, former chair . . . Vermont Public Sector Chair, American Legislative Exchange Council, Asst. Senate Minority Leader 2005-present.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130891396

October 29, 2010

Each of these state legislators sat on ALEC's Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which drafted language of a bill that became Arizona's SB 1070. . . .

Sen. Margaret "Peg" Flory, Vermont

Was present at the ALEC task force meeting when model bill was drafted. Sen. Flory does not expect a similar law in her state.