The Politics of Jamie Sanderson
In yet another paper-wasting and Internet junk mail press release, GOPher Chair Tom Swatzel makes support for the Employee Free Choice Act a bad thing - even seeing where 73 percent of adults favor the legislation.
"(State Rep. Vida) Miller voted against a state House Resolution that expressed lawmakers' opposition to a proposed change in federal law that would eliminate the right of workers to have a secret ballot. The resolution opposing so-called "card check" legislation- under which a worker's vote on whether to unionize a workplace would be made public- passed the House Thursday 72 to 33, with only Democrats including Miller refusing to go on record opposing the union-backed scheme."
So, standing up for workers in this state against a GOPher's attack to try and thwart a bill at the federal level before it's even been voted on is a bad thing. It's bad enough to have state GOPhers cut tax upon tax to the point we have a massive deficit and look to the U.S. Congress to help out because of their mistakes.
I applaud Vida and all her Democratic state legislators who support the EFCA and voted against the resolution - with slanted stats - proposed in the state house.
The Center for American Progress says unions are good for the economy:
"Unions paved the way to the middle class for millions of American workers and pioneered benefits such as paid health care and pensions along the way. Even today, union workers earn significantly more on average than their non-union counterparts, and union employers are more likely to provide benefits. And non-union workers—particularly in highly unionized industries—receive financial benefits from employers who increase wages to match what unions would win in order to avoid unionization. Unfortunately, declining unionization rates mean that workers are less likely to receive good wages and be rewarded for their increases in productivity. The Employee Free Choice Act, which is likely to be one of the most important issues debated by the 111th Congress, holds the promise of boosting unionization rates and improving millions of Americans’ economic standing and workplace conditions."
But GOPhers do not get it, especially in this state. That is a shameful fact in which I am embarrassed over.
They also don't get the facts that overwhelmingly prove the critics wrong.
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