Friday, April 15, 2011

Today's Teamster News 04.15.11

Walker's Political Theater, Brought to You By the Koch Brothers  Huffington Post   ...We've all heard Walker's fantasies before. They're an attempt to disguise the ugly reality that he's doing the bidding of the billionaires and CEOs who fund his political ambitions...
Scott Walker says stripping collective bargaining rights doesn't save any money  Daily Kos   ...Additionally, under questioning from Representative Gerry Connolly, Walker admitted that he did not explicitly campaign on stripping collective bargaining rights...
Wenzel Poll: Majority Favors Repeal of Senate Bill 5  Wenzel Strategies   ...If the repeal of Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 were on the ballot today, the repeal would be successful by a double-digit margin...
Businesses sign up to show solidarity with public workers  Athens Messenger   ...Fourteen local businesses have signed a pledge and are displaying the “Proud Ohio Worker” program sticker at their businesses in support of public employees...
Another poll trashes Rick Scott  Orlando Sentinel   ..."it’s taken Gov. Scott less than 100 days to begin a free fall in popularity and to generate negative perceptions about job performance and damaging the state he was elected to lead...”
Florida GOP employs new tactics to push antiunion bill  St. Petersburg Times   ...The goal is to put into law a bill that would ban public employee unions from collecting dues through payroll deductions and require unions to obtain permission from members each year to use their dues for political activity...
'Truth and facts don't matter' in GOP-run states (opinion)  Kennebec Journal   ...distant corporate interests have scripted, funded and staffed long-range plans to rule our statehouses...
A bitter labor law campaign comes to New Hampshire (opinion)  Keene Sentinel   ...Business support of the most visible initiative — a so-called “right-to-work” bill that would prevent unions from charging non-union workers for the costs of collective bargaining — has been nil...
Corbett numbers down in the dumps  Public Policy Polling   ...To the list of states already regretting their new Republican Governor you can add Pennsylvania: Tom Corbett has only a 34% approval rating to 44% of voters disapproving of him...