Below, Sly asked listeners to call their lawmakers and ask
them why collective bargaining wasn't even on their legislative agendas.
The main reason; Scott Walker would veto it. And that's all it took for Sly to rightfully go off the deep end.
Never taking a few marketing tips from the Republican masters
of spin, Democratic lawmakers have ignored every opportunity to push their own
agenda, even if it means getting vetoed for years on end.
Democratic voters have to direct their energy for change at
their own elected lawmakers, those weak kneed losers who don’t seem to have a
clue about how to lead a movement.
In Sly’s own words (audio below):
Last week, we learned that not a single Democratic State Senator had put the restoration of collective bargaining in the upcoming legislative session's agenda. The Fabulous 14 are no more.
Keep calling labor traitors. For those who say I won't call out my side of the aisle when things go wrong, this should be proof of the contrary. Jon Erpenbach is a labor traitor whom was used by Tom Barrett as a shield, the most prominent Democratic that fled to Illinois. Now, Erpenbach's office staff is being genuinely untruthful, aggressively fending off those of you who called him along with Mark Miller and Fred Risser.
This is a national problem too, having seen the same lack of effort directed at the Affordable Care Act.
It is disappointing to hear some make this all about collective bargaining -- that's how we got here in the first place!
ReplyDeleteIt is a lie that, in today's economy, the rest of us benefit from the wages/bennies of union workers. No one has done more than me to get Walker out (though we have probably all helped in different ways).
Union membership in WI and across america is almost insignificant -- the traditional union movement is not capable of fighting today's economic terrorism. Worse -- since we are organized by trade and public/private -- we have divided ourselves for kock/alec interests to come in and conquer.
Sly is a radio guy that needs to flame this audience for ratings during the most competitive time-slot on radio -- I will accept, but not agree, with his rants.
But I don't know why you want to promote the lie that one of the top-5 priorities should be collective bargaining.
Many public servants would just go back and vote repug -- the did NOTHING when workers in the private sector lost pensions, insurance, jobs -- no one in the private sector feels entitled to their job for 30+ years cuz they know it aint gonna happen.
Please rethink your position here and the fact that dividing ourselves along union lines that cannot successfully organize the vast majority of workers is now a DEAD END.
We need a new model and new labor movement -- this will never happen if public servant are taken care of and the rest of us are left out in the cold.
Maybe you don't realize it -- but that is what would happening and this is why there is not actually majority support for collective bargaining for public servants.
I am on your side -- but let's not go back to the inequities that got us here in the first place!
~~peace
I appreciate your point of view, though I do disagree.
ReplyDeleteThe point is not making it all about collective bargaining, but to include it as one of the top five reasons. It has little to do with union power, and more to do with workers having some control over their environment and quality of service. Think about it, this benefits the employer, employees and most important, the public as a consumer. Abuse at work, basically a return to slave labor, doesn't equate to serving the public.
This is an insulting and absurd attack on the Senate Democrats. No other elected officials today have done as much as they have to defend and advance collective bargaining rights. These Senators deserve much better treatment than to be smeared and insulted as "labor traitors."
ReplyDeleteAt the very least you should pick up the phone and call one of these offices to hear their side.
Shame on you, Democurmedgon! Have you even looked at the questions they were answering? You don't even provide a link to Senator Miller's response.
No-one has retreated from collective bargaining.
And, Demo, we all know about the benefits of collective bargaining. No one you are attacking so baselessly is debating that.
I'm real friendly to criticizing Dems when warranted. 92 days until a very big election day and we have this division and infighting. This is ridiculous.
I linked to the survey answers listed by Sly.
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