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Obama, the collective bargainer

hypocritexposer

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If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself — I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America.
 

Tam

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Big talk on Obama's part but how would it look if he walked with the State Public Employees to retain the right to collective bargain when Federal Employees do not have the right. :? Obama's federal employees have not had the right to collective bargain since DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT CARTER signed the law forbidding it. That's why Obama was able to freeze Federal Employee wages without negotiating a new deal with any Unions. And you can bet if he had had to negotiate with Trumpka he would have crumbled like a house of cards as there is no way he would stand up to the people that bought him his election.

He would look like a bit of a Hypocrite if he walked with the Unions against a Republican Governor when it was his party that took Collective bargaining away from Federal Employees. :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

3.The scope of mandatory collective bargaining for federal employees is limited to personnel employment practices only. Basic working conditions such as wages, hours of work, and employee benefits are instead subject to statutory provisions.

http://www.opm.gov/biographyofanideal/PU_CSreform.htm
 

Red Barn Angus

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Now that looks like something the states could adopt and be done with it. That way everybody is treated the same. Kansas is getting a lot of flack from the unions and all they have done is passed a bill in the house that eliminates payroll deduction of payments to the unions and unions cannot support and finance political races. You'd think something awful had happened from all the radio ads and noise from the unions. A bunch of the demonstrators even got kicked out of the House chambers because they couldn't keep quiet. Real impressive bunch of whiners.
 
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