The big reason Democrats lost that no one is talking about

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The big reason Democrats lost that no one is talking about

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, government workers were specifically excluded from the legislation’s protections.

“All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt wrote.
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However, for the average taxpayer, when a Democratic Party-controlled government commands state and local governments, and when those governments fail to deliver basic services, there is recourse other than through the ballot box. No recourse, that is, other than to leave the state entirely, which millions of Californian families have chosen to do.

Until the stranglehold public sector unions have on California and other states run by Democrats is broken, the party of the Left will fail to deliver good services at reasonable prices, cities will continue to lose population, and Democrats will lose elections.

As a result, politicians are beholden and hostage to powerful government unions.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

The big reason Democrats lost that no one is talking about - Washington Examiner

As long as public sector union collective bargaining is allowed, the Democratic Party will continue to fail at governing.
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No one is talking about it because no one talks about it. I'd be shocked if anyone outside of deep MAGA based their vote in any way on this.

Inflation, woke, media backlash. Stick w/ those.
 
BartenderElite said:
No one is talking about it because no one talks about it. I'd be shocked if anyone outside of deep MAGA based their vote in any way on this.

Inflation, woke, media backlash. Stick w/ those.
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Come on, he’s reaching, having to cite the Examiner just shows he’s just copying and pasting bullshit for the other MAGA, let him fly, they’ll be on here soon agreeing with him
 
archives said:
Come on, he’s reaching, having to cite the Examiner just shows he’s just copying and pasting bullshit for the other MAGA, let him fly, they’ll be on here soon agreeing with him
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Yes the playground of the weak minded is to mock the source. If you could prove the source wrong that would make you at least look wiser but as it is you're a buffoon.
 
Yakuda said:
Yes the playground of the weak minded is to mock the source. If you could prove the source wrong that would make you at least look wiser but as it is you're a buffoon.
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Like Fox or InfoWars, opps, forgot InfoWars ain’t no more
 

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Why Government Unions—Unlike Trade Unions—Corrupt Democracy​



American government has a fatal flaw hiding in plain sight.

Public employee unions in most states have a stranglehold on public operations.

Voters elect governors and mayors who have been disempowered from fixing lousy schools, firing rogue cops, or eliminating notorious inefficiencies.

Until the 1960s, public employees were organized like lawyers, doctors and other voluntary professional associations. They had no legal right to compel government to enter into contracts.

Many already enjoyed civil service protections, and government work was generally sleepy, not ruthless.

But public employees had become a huge voting bloc, and leaders of public employee associations wanted power.

Until then, the idea of public employees bargaining against government was inconceivable.

  • FDR, a strong supporter of trade unions, firmly rejected government bargaining: “The process of collective bargaining…cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

  • Early labor leader Samuel Gompers refused to let police join the industrial union because, having sworn to serve the public, police would have a conflict of interest.

  • As late as the 1950s, union leader George Meany stated unequivocally that it is “impossible to bargain collectively with the Government.”

time.com

Why Government Unions—Unlike Trade Unions—Corrupt Democracy

No wonder democracy is working so badly. Elected leaders come and go, but public unions just say no.
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The Trouble with Public Sector Unions​



Since the middle of the 20th century, organized labor in America has undergone two transformations with major implications for the nation's politics. The first is the dramatic decline in overall union membership.

In 1955, organized labor represented one-third of the non-agricultural workforce; today, it represents just 12.3%.

The second transformation, however, is even more significant: the change in the composition of the unionized workforce.

As private-sector unions have withered, public-sector unions have grown dramatically.

Today, unionized workers are more likely to be teachers than they are to be auto workers or coal miners.

Democrats began to mobilize this new constituency in the late 1950s.

In 1958, New York City mayor Robert Wagner, Jr., issued Executive Order 49, known as "the little Wagner Act." It gave city employees bargaining rights, and provided their unions with exclusive representation (meaning that the unions alone were legally authorized to speak for city workers, regardless of whether those workers belonged to the unions or supported them).

In 1962, President John Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, reaffirming the right of federal workers to organize and codifying their right to bargain collectively.

From the mid-1960s through the early '70s, blue states and cities followed with a plethora of laws providing public-employee unions with collective-bargaining rights.

In many cases, the consequences were almost immediate. In New York state, one year after the passage of the so-called Taylor Law in 1967, 360,000 state- and local-government employees became unionized.

By 1972, nearly half of the states had public-employee collective-bargaining laws in place at either the state or local level.

Government-workers' unions help elect the very politicians who will act as "management" in their contract negotiations — in effect handpicking those who will sit across the bargaining table from them, in a way that workers in a private corporation cannot.

Such power led Victor Gotbaum, the leader of District Council 37 of the AFSCME in New York City, to brag in 1975: "We have the ability, in a sense, to elect our own boss."

Most economists agree that public-sector unions' political power leads to more government spending.


www.nationalaffairs.com

The Trouble with Public Sector Unions

Across the country, state and local governments are being crushed by huge deficits and debts, often caused by the disproportionately generous salaries, benefits, and pensions pledged to unionized public workers. How did so many of America's public em...
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BartenderElite said:
No one is talking about it because no one talks about it. I'd be shocked if anyone outside of deep MAGA based their vote in any way on this.

Inflation, woke, media backlash. Stick w/ those.
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You should actually read and comprehend the article before you bloviate with your predictable stupidity and ignorance.
 
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