Post Tagged with: "unions"

• Wisconsin Voters Rally Behind Labor in Off-Year Election

  By Noah Kaplan, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections April 6, 2011 3:54 pm no comments

  Just weeks after Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through his plan to cut off the collective bargaining rights of state employees, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to elect a replacement for Governor Walker as the Milwaukee County Executive and a state Supreme Court Justice.  Both races showed a [...]

   

• Republicans Use Newfound Power to Limit Right to Vote

  By Noah Kaplan, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Race and Immigration, Voting and Elections March 7, 2011 11:00 am no comments

  As usual when right-wing politicians want to block a strongly Democratic voting bloc from exercising their right to vote, Republicans in New Hampshire and elsewhere are trotting out the tired excuse of preventing fraud to support new bills that will curtail the ability of students, African-Americans, and other core Democratic groups from voting.

   

• Budgets Don't Have To Be Balanced On The Backs Of Workers

  By Noah Kaplan, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Original Content February 20, 2011 12:47 pm 3 comments

  What started in Wisconsin is spreading to the rest of the country. Governors, especially Republican governors, are using state budget deficits to present state employees with a Hobson’s choice: diminish the bargaining power of unions of state employees or allow the state government to be insolvent. Solving deficits from the expenditure side puts the sacrifice on the backs of the poor and middle class. Raising taxes accomplishes the same goal without the same consequences.