Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012
Haley, Republicans Target Unions
By GINA SMITH, The State
I wrote this as a response to a post on the paper’s web site:
I'm from a blue collar family too. We were from Chicago so everyone was unionized - except for blacks and female office workers of course. The system worked fine for all those who were satisfied with that anti-merit system but workers within that system could never rise above it; union big shots did, they lived just like the corporate guys.
My own working life involved many union jobs - I hated them all. My wife of 50 years has never "worked" but with her support, we eventually rose above blue collar jobs and wages.
I think Governor Haley is dead wrong to say that there is no place for unions here. I think she and Wisconsin's Governor Walker are engaging in unnecessary and divisive class warrior language, just as the President sometimes does, for the basest of political pandering.
What is critical, both here and nationally, is to ensure right to work laws and to be certain there are no loop holes. There cannot be anything more unAmerican or unConstitutional than making unions and union dues a condition of employment for anyone.
I hope someday somebody will challenge the Constitutionality of these aspects of FDR's 1935 National Labor Relations Act. In the mean time, we should do everything we can to support individual liberty in our own state. Follow Indiana’s lead.
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