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Rightwing nutjobs looking to kill public employee union bargaining rights in…Massachusetts?

And by “rightwing nutjobs”, I clearly mean ”a blue state with a blue House, blue Senate, and blue governor”…aka Taxachusetts!  Details:

The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broadly eliminate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states. But unlike those efforts, the push in Massachusetts was led by Democrats who have traditionally stood with labor to oppose any reduction in workers’ rights.Unions fought hard to stop the bill, launching a radio ad that assailed the plan and warning legislators that if they voted for the measure, they could lose their union backing in the next election. After the vote, labor leaders accused House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and other Democrats of turning their backs on public employees.

“It’s pretty stunning,’’ said Robert J. Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “These are the same Democrats that all these labor unions elected. The same Democrats who we contributed to in their campaigns. The same Democrats who tell us over and over again that they’re with us, that they believe in collective bargaining, that they believe in unions. . . . It’s a done deal for our relationship with the people inside that chamber.’’

Huh.  It’s as if the taxpayers don’t want to be sodomized by government employee unions or something!

April 27, 2011 Posted by crushliberalism | Massachusetts, unions | 5 Comments