Real Change, by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R, GA): on Jobs
Arnold Schwarzenegger:
CA Governor just presides over lifetime union bureaucracies
Unions are so powerful in California that even popular governors do not effectively control the state government. The real power lies in the unions, which have invested more and more in politics as their popularity among workers has declined.
They have replaced worker representation at the local level with political power in state capitals.Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the most charismatic California governor since Ronald Reagan, does not run California government.
He presides over lifetime bureaucracies defined and dominated by unions and interest groups. When the former movie star staked his political capital on passing a series of initiatives to tame
California's public employee unions, he lost and they won. In Sacramento, the head of the prison guards' union is more powerful than the governor.
Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p. 33
Dec 18, 2007
Newt Gingrich:
Unions want to take away right to secret-ballot elections
As unions cannot win many secret-ballot elections to organize workers, they have come up with a new solution. It's not to make the union more desirable. It's simply to take away the American worker's right to have a secret-ballot election.
This would repeal reforms to protect workers from intimidation and extortion that go back to 1935. It's not an idle left-wing fantasy: it actually passed the House of Representatives in early 2007 with almost no public notice. Under the
Orwellian name of the "Freedom of Choice Act," this legislation is backed by President Obama, who has vowed to sign the measure if passed by Congress, where it enjoys wide Democratic support. This the Democratic Congress and president are fighting to
eliminate a fundamental American right just to make it easier for their union allies to acquire more members, more dues, and more power. And yet 89 percent of the American people don't want workers to lose their secret-ballot rights.
Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p. 35
Dec 18, 2007
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