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Why I Am Against Public Sector Unions

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It’s simple. You should not be able to strong arm your neighbors to pay you more and give you benefits the rest of the taxpayers will never get. Let me explain.

If you work for a private company, big or small, who do you negotiate with for your pay and benefits? The boss, the guy who runs the company. If it’s a small company, that might be just one person and he’s pays your salary. In a large corporation there is probably a committee of people appointed by the President/CEO to negotiate with employees. What happens in the public sector is completely different..

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Tweets for March 7th

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Gov. Scott Walker to President Obama

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“I think we’re focused on balancing our budget. It would be wise for the President and others in Washington to focus on balancing their budget, which they are a long ways from doing.” ~Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

Obama is sending union thugs to Wisconsin to try to intimidate the Governor and Republican lawmakers. It won’t work. The era of big unions is over. No state employee should have the right to unionize. They work for the taxpayers.
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Shut ‘Em Down

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I’m not a fan of unions by any means. (The United Steel Workers union cost my dad his job at Bethlehem Steel.) But in this case, they may have a point.

A group that wants to change unionize Wal-Mart is trying to discourage Americans from shopping there during the critical holiday season. The group’s latest tactic is to convince Wal-Mart customers that the store may be cheating them at the cash register.

Originally from CNS Headlines on November 22, 2005, 11:23am

WakeUpWalMart.com has investigated Wal-Mart’s sloppy shelf-tag pricing and prices at the register. I work for a competitor of Wal-Mart and I know that if we had as many shelf tags wrong as Wal-Mart apparently does, they’d shut us down. Fines can be as much as $1,000 / day / item. Maybe Wal-Mart can afford to pay fines like that, but other grocery store chains can’t. The margins are too small.

Purposely or even inadverdently misleading customers about prices is just a bad business practice. Can’t figure out why Wal-Mart’s screwing up they way they are unless it’s just plain incompetence on the part of their workers. (In which case the workers don’t deserve to get paid more.)

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