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AlterNet reports:
Illinois governor Bruce Rauner watched his anti-union bill called, "Right-To-Work", die a swift, cruel death in the House [May 14]. [...] The the tally [PDF] was 0 yes votes, 72 no votes, and 37 voting present.
Fun with math: The Illinois House has 118 members.
A handful of Republicans went for a walk during the vote, not publicly falling on one side or another.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
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Illinois Governor Gets Zero Votes On His "Right To Work" Bill
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @02:40AM
How is an American company supposed to survive
It worked quite well for 5 decades.
...then the working class was convinced through the Right-Wing media (it's NEVER been Left-Wing) to accept the swill called Reaganomics.
Had every union member (and all of his family, friends, and neighbors) told every politician that trade deals like CAFTA, NAFTA, and SHAFTA are not acceptable, we'd still have tariffs and a vibrant manufacturing sector and lots of good-paying jobs.
The Fascists [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com] were very effective at manipulating Joe Average to vote against himself.
Everybody is winning except the unionized folks
You, for example, are still spouting the 0.01 percent's bullshit.
The wealth of non-elites is slipping away and the farther you are away from the gentry, the faster it is evaporating.
We haven't seen the bottom yet (and the govt's numbers are fraudulent).
the unionized folks [are] losing because they didn't deserve what they had in the first place
Working class people who hate the working class are mentally defective.
Thinking that dragging people down to your level is noble and right--rather looking for a way that everyone can get the kind of union wage that folks had for decades is just pathetic.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @02:47AM
Unionization only "worked" in America because it was the only major industrial power left after WWII that hadn't suffered near-total destruction of all of its infrastructure.
As we all know, this union house of cards came crashing down the moment Japan had recovered enough to offer some economic competition. It was collapsing in the 1970s, 15 to 20 years before NAFTA and other trade agreements came into effect.
Unions caused their own downfall, and the downfall of American industry, thanks to their greed and unwillingness to face the realities of economics.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @03:20AM
You should find a group of union electricians or plumbers and tell them your opinion.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @09:17PM
How do you explain how effective unions are in Germany, and how successful Germany's industry is?
This is meant both as a rhetorical argument and a legitimate question. How come unions are so good in Germany (and effectively in Japan as well, as I understand it) but don't have the same successes in the US?