UNIONS UNDER ASSAULT - US Congress & States

[Panich52]

UNIONS UNDER ASSAULT

Senate GOP plans offensive against NLRB. The Hill:
“The new Republican majority in the Senate [plans] a series of hearings and legislative attacks against policies that make it easier for workers to unionize. The hearings will put a spotlight on an agency increasingly held in disdain by Republicans, while also offering a platform for the GOP to cozy up to the business groups that have assailed the labor board as blatantly pro-union.”

http://thehill.com/regulation/finance/232403-gop-lawmakers-putting-the-screws-to-labor-board


Governors in both parties target public sector unions for cuts. Politico:
“The most aggressive moves are coming from Illinois’ newly inaugurated Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner … But some Democrats have lately put public-employee unions in the hot seat too … Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has spoken of removing ‘ineffective teachers’ and expanding charter schools …”

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/public-employee-unions-states-115090.html?hp=l1_3


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“Rauner is a hybrid of the worst traits of Mitt Romney and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker”
warns HuffPost’s Robert Creamer.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6652068



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[marym625]

1. I can't believe Rauner won

He's going to kill the State. Unions will be gone, right to work state will begin.

He's a pos.

[annabanana]

2. Also under attack from Supreme Court!

see here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026213950