National Right To Work Petition - Rand Paul Stopping Big Unions!

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  1. HB Surfer

    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    http://righttoworkcommittee.org/rprtwa_petition.aspx

    The petition is simple and the goals are clear. This is not convoluted Liberal / Democratic Party bull crap. It's 1 page, not 30,000 pages.

    Here is the content.

    I signed it, will you?

    Unions had a good impact up until the 1980's. Then they started going far over board. It is time for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction.
     
  2. gamewell45

    gamewell45 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nope. I won't sign it.

    I don't think the federal government ought to be dicatating to individual states whether or not they should be right-to-work (right-to-work-for-less). I doubt many conservatives and libertarians in here would support it either since they'd most likely consider it a violation of states rights.

    Let the states decide individually whether or not they should be right-to-work-for-less.
     
  3. HB Surfer

    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I would agree if the system had not already been corrupted and the unions were not already national receiving over $8,000,000,000 of American Workers' wages each year.
     
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    i'd sign anything to break up the crummie unions, they are from the past. no longer useful or necessary. they just extort people now.
     
  5. Serfin' USA

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    I'll sign it under one condition.

    Add a provision that says all workers have a right to collectively bargain.

    If you want a true free market, employers should be able to fire and hire as they want, while employees should be able to strike when they want.

    That's true freedom.
     
  6. Mad Conservative

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    Yes. I'm signing and will put it on my blog, too.

    Did you see the story of the family FORCED to become members of SEIU? They actually take union dues from the children's government checks and the parents have NO SAY in this.
     
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  8. Bluesguy

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    Just did.............
     
  9. Bluesguy

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    Then we shouldn't have a department of labor making federal employment rules and telling companies they cannot move from a union state to a right to work state.
     
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    Mandated Union membership is one of the biggest usurptions of our Constitution on the books. It is not a states rights issue. It is an individual liberty issue.
     
  11. Bluesguy

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    All private sector workers do, why didn't you say that you merely want all government workers to have collective bargaining even though FDR, Meany and LaQuardia all were against it for obvious reasons.
     
  12. Serfin' USA

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    If a company has a policy that bans union participation, that effectively removes their right to collectively bargain.

    By the same token, there should be laws against unions bullying employees into joining them.
     
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    Reeks of Big Gubmit, next you'll want a petition to take my guns. Facist *********s!
     
  14. HB Surfer

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    ^^^ Quoted for truth!!!! QTF!!!

    Nice post Bluesguy.

    They left would have it left alone, yet want to impose a Federal command in favor of unions on businesses.
     
  15. Mad Conservative

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    Absolutely! Forcing me into a union due only to the state they live in, is a violation of my civil rights.

    As it is, I have no say in the amount the government takes from my check. Why should a union, that I don't want to belong to, take money from me, too?
     
  16. Mad Conservative

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    Which union/commie/socialist here wants to defend this story:


    (THE BLAZE) -- Robert and Patricia Haynes take care of their two children, who at the ages of 30 and 34 are more like children in adult bodies. That’s because they both have cerebral palsy, and rely on their parents to feed and change them — and likely will for the rest of their lives.

    The Haynes family receives monthly checks from the state of Michigan through Medicaid, allowing the parents to care for their son and daughter themselves instead of institutionalizing them. But because a Michigan law classifies Robert and Patricia as “home health care workers,” they are considered public workers and therefore automatic union members — meaning the SEIU gets a $30 cut of the family’s Medicaid subsidy as union dues.

    “We’re not home health care providers — we’re parents taking care of our children,” Melissa Haynes told Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK-TV:

    Read more: http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/...tml?feed=104707&article=9409812#ixzz1e5UPuP7J
     
  17. Bluesguy

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    There are no company policies that can "ban" union participation in the private sector.

    Fail
     
  18. Serfin' USA

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    Fail yourself. Walmart is the best example of this.
     
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    Walmart closes its stores if the workers vote to unionize.

    That's how pathologically ********** they are.
     
  20. Bluesguy

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    Wal-Mart has no policy to "ban" union membership, they can't under the law have such a policy. They may have a policy to oppose union membership but they can't "ban" it.
     
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    Oh, by all means, let's play semantics.
     
  22. Bluesguy

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    No let's play reality. You can't "ban" unions in this country. OTOH a company doesn't have to wave a white flag either, they can legally oppose unions.
     
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    Excellent petition and I signed it.

    I'm beginning to like Rand a bit better than his father.

    Besides giving Americans the right to free choice in the workplace, it is also beneficial to the economy as a whole.

    The fact that almost all of the new car manufacturers, Boeing in S.C. and other manufacturing is now in or has moved to right to work states is no coincidence.

    Those states still clinging to archaic rules that subjugate workers will continue to lose until they enter the 21st century.
     
  24. HB Surfer

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    Rand Paul has shown himself to be a leader unlike most of those occupying seats in Washington D.C.
     
  25. Mad Conservative

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    This is what I like about Rand Paul:
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psADVKIDEY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psADVKIDEY[/ame]
     

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