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Republican GOP
Senate Leader Endorses National Union-Busting Law
Republicans across
the country have pushed a variety of anti-union laws in the last two years,
with the most heinous coming in the form of so-called “right-to-work” laws that
effectively bust unions and their ability to collectively bargain for wages and
benefits. Both Michigan and Indiana, traditional union states, passed such laws
last year, and now, the push is moving to the federal level. -More
Scott Walker Admits
Union-Busting Provision ‘Doesn’t Save Any’ Money For The State Of Wisconsin
Today, the House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform called Govs. Scott Walker (R-WI)
and Peter Shumlin (D-VT) to testify in a hearing titled “State and Municipal
Debt: Tough Choices Ahead.” Much of the hearing was spent probing Wisconsin’s
spate of anti-union restrictions it recently passed.
At one point, Rep.
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) confronted Walker about his crackdown on public employee
unions. The congressman referenced a provision Walker signed into law that
would require union members to vote every year to continue their membership.
Kucinich asked the governor how much money the state would save from the
provision. Walker repeatedly dodged the question and eventually admitted that
it actually wouldn’t save anything at all. -More
TEA PARTY FAVORITE
REPUBLICAN MICHELLE BACHMANN SAYS
ABOLISHING THE MINIMUM WAGE WOULD CREATE JOBS
While testifying in
front of the Minnesota Senate in 2005, Bachmann said, “Literally, if we took
away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially
virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer
jobs at whatever level.” This isn’t remotely true. Even simply reducing the
minimum wage would, as Paul Krugman noted, “at best do nothing for employment;
more likely it would actually be contractionary.” -More
