Fifteen months after taking control of Minnesota’s Legislature, Republicans have put a gay marriage ban on this November’s ballot, moved to expand gun rights and cast dozens of votes to cut state spending. But there’s one issue where they failed to get traction: watering down the strength of organized labor with a right-to-work law.
The problem isn’t so much opposition from Democrats. And it isn’t a lack of enthusiasm for the idea, which many conservatives consider essential for creating a business-friendly economic climate. The problem lies with Republicans who fear triggering a huge rebellion among opposition labor unions and sending a surge of sympathetic voters to the polls in November to vote Democratic.
In Minnesota and elsewhere across the Midwest, the question of what to do about the right-to-work issue is pitting Republican against Republican, straining relationships among longtime allies and weighing cherished ideals against political tactics.
Read more at Official Wire. By Patrick Condon, AP.
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Piling too much on your plate at once is mistake. I’ll let the minnesotans use their own judgment on this.
One should use facts in determining legislation. Facts that show beyond a doubt that labor unions improperly governed cause more damage than good, such as loss of jobs and business failures.
In right-to-work states, labor unions are not outlawed, but they are governed, and this should be stressed that everyone has a RIGHT to work without having to belong to a union.
Unions need to give up the idea that they are the government. They have a valid place, but the validity evaporates when it becomes mandatory to join a union in order to work.
I,m sick of all this. Where push comes to shove it’s time we start truly shoving back by starting with the gops who don’t care about We The People or our Country and are to wimpy to stand for us. Like Ma Cain, or Grams, or Brown act….. and ignoring everything the left saids and does just and say yea ok right move on. I don’t even consider myself a rep. it’s to embarrassing i’m a full red blooded grassroots conservative American.