National Guard May Deploy as Socialists, Unions Wreak Havoc in Wisconsin

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

I respect their right to protest

Same here.

but I wonder how the 20% unemployed feel as those with jobs "unite" and demand more pay. You gotta wonder how long it will before some/many of those people will be told to take a hike - and in will come the 20% unemployed - hungry for jobs and more than happy to take what these people are getting.

Heh, yea, that would be an interesting interview to ask people struggling to make ends meet how they feel about the douchebags demanding more money from the public at gunpoint.

 

[MikeStanart]

When I think of these protestors I just think of....

 

[reardenstone]

It means instead of negotiating the terms of employment, wages, and other matters on a one-by-one basis between employee and employer, the employees join together and negotiate as one with the employer.

In a FREE society, employees are allowed to join a union and demand to negotiate as a union. This is a natural, universal right of freedom of association, which we as liberty lovers are supposed to cherish.

Also in a FREE society, an employer has the right to refuse to negotiate with a union. The employer can fire them all. The employer can say either come negotiate on your own or take a hike.

That's why a free society is fair. The employees can stay true to the union, and the employer loses all of its employees, even the ones it doesn't want to lose, or the employee can decide the union isn't for them.

The protesters in WI are CORRECT and I support them, though few people here are willing to do so because they hate unions too much (I hate them also).

The reason they are correct is because the bill is not allowing them to negotiate as a union any longer. They have a right to do so. And the government has a right to fire them, if they so choose.

But the government wants to make it so that the employees can still be MEMBERS of the union, and yet not USE that union to negotiate. The government wants it both ways.

Rights are being violated in the cheese state - mark my words.

THANKS! +100 save for me. It's the vague idea I had in mind, but I never saw clearly defined. Most reporting takes the real meaning intent for granted, or just doesn't care to review terminology.

 

[Matt Collins]

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