The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is setting the record straight and exposing the falsehoods behind the extremist rhetoric about public employees from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his ilk.
Earlier today we reported that Republican Wisconsin state Assembly members pulled an unexpected trick play and quick-snapped a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) bill to eliminate the right of public employees to bargain for middle-class jobs. After the middle-of-the-night vote, the Republican legislators lit out of the chamber faster than a burglar with a German Shepherd on his tail.
Companies that do not allow union elections violate human rights, said Bob King, president of the UAW, which is talking with some foreign auto companies that have plants in the United States about a set of principles aimed at ensuring fair elections. Such principles are necessary, King said, because National Labor Relations Board procedures are outdated and allow companies to intimidate workers and spread misinformation. Transplant companies are foreign-owned companies that have plants in the United States.
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