Click on bannerWisconsin governor Scott Walker, in an exclusive interview with the Heritage Foundation, called union collective bargaining a “vicious cycle,… one I think people have realized we can’t afford anymore.” [Note: In this interview with the Heritage Foundation, Governor Walker quotes former President Reagan with regards to actions and remarks during his dealings with the air traffic controllers. Governor Walker claims to have Reagan as a "political role model."]
Ronald Reagan, Labor Day Speech at Liberty State Park, 1980
Collective Bargaining has brought much to the workers of the world, in fact, it is described by the U N Commission on Human Rights, a basic "Human Right". Collective Bargaining leading to a worker-employer contracts involves more than just wages, working conditions, health and safety, but all manner of relationships between the two parties. Time and time again the Democratic party has reaffirmed support for Unions and their collective bargaining rights. Food Stamps and working conditions at Walmart in this article are not about collective bargaining, but the reality of many work places today.
Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich last year called the Democrats as "the party of food stamps". Republican leaders in the House of Representatives propose changing the program so control of benefits and operations would be through a "block grant" to the states. Fifty plus different food stamp programs across the country. A number of states and the District of Columbia had 20 percent of their population on food stamps this past May. This same May 2011, Alabama had one-third, 33%, of their people on food stamps.
Food stamps have become a low wage support program. In past years unemployed food stamp recipients were the highest percentage of beneficiaries. In 2009 that changed to a higher number receiving benefits who were employed, working low wage or part time jobs. Based on income, minimum wage single parents are almost always eligible for food stamps. (Welfare Moms)
Walmart the nation's largest employer and a non-union shop with poverty wages can talk about the company's customers increasingly being shoppers on some government assistance for food. Well, Walmart you don't have to look out your doors to find people on a government program to buy food. If there is any justification for wage conditions at jobs like those at Walmart we can blame the financial crisis and deep recession in the United States.
Even going a step further, giving credit to these low wage employers, to many workers it is the employment of last resort or for many a starting point of employment. Not everyone will graduate from high school and be prepared as a skilled worker and certainly many of these low wage, no benefit, no health insurance jobs come with training and an adjustment to working responsibilities.
Hopefully options other than joining the military for education and training will always be available. Some day perhaps our citizens will get the message of the Republican attacks on education are harming not only our national security but chasing jobs overseas where more countries are increasing educational opportunities for their people. Almost no one can ignore the advances Brazil, India and China have made with the expansion of their enhancements in free public education. Education is just another place where the wrong and misguided policies advanced by the Republicans are destroying jobs in this country.
Republicans don't have to come out and say they want to balance the budget on the backs of the young, the poor and the elderly, but certainly those are the results that we are seeing! That is what Democrats have been fighting as the GOP corporate masters have been pouring unlimited political funds into fighting any kind of shared tax sacrifice or adjustments to increase revenues collected for the federal government.
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Collective Bargaining has brought much to the workers of the world, in fact, it is described by the U N Commission on Human Rights, a basic "Human Right". Collective Bargaining leading to a worker-employer contracts involves more than just wages, working conditions, health and safety, but all manner of relationships between the two parties. Time and time again the Democratic party has reaffirmed support for Unions and their collective bargaining rights. Food Stamps and working conditions at Walmart in this article are not about collective bargaining, but the reality of many work places today.
Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich last year called the Democrats as "the party of food stamps". Republican leaders in the House of Representatives propose changing the program so control of benefits and operations would be through a "block grant" to the states. Fifty plus different food stamp programs across the country. A number of states and the District of Columbia had 20 percent of their population on food stamps this past May. This same May 2011, Alabama had one-third, 33%, of their people on food stamps.
Food stamps have become a low wage support program. In past years unemployed food stamp recipients were the highest percentage of beneficiaries. In 2009 that changed to a higher number receiving benefits who were employed, working low wage or part time jobs. Based on income, minimum wage single parents are almost always eligible for food stamps. (Welfare Moms)
Walmart the nation's largest employer and a non-union shop with poverty wages can talk about the company's customers increasingly being shoppers on some government assistance for food. Well, Walmart you don't have to look out your doors to find people on a government program to buy food. If there is any justification for wage conditions at jobs like those at Walmart we can blame the financial crisis and deep recession in the United States.
Even going a step further, giving credit to these low wage employers, to many workers it is the employment of last resort or for many a starting point of employment. Not everyone will graduate from high school and be prepared as a skilled worker and certainly many of these low wage, no benefit, no health insurance jobs come with training and an adjustment to working responsibilities.
Hopefully options other than joining the military for education and training will always be available. Some day perhaps our citizens will get the message of the Republican attacks on education are harming not only our national security but chasing jobs overseas where more countries are increasing educational opportunities for their people. Almost no one can ignore the advances Brazil, India and China have made with the expansion of their enhancements in free public education. Education is just another place where the wrong and misguided policies advanced by the Republicans are destroying jobs in this country.
Republicans don't have to come out and say they want to balance the budget on the backs of the young, the poor and the elderly, but certainly those are the results that we are seeing! That is what Democrats have been fighting as the GOP corporate masters have been pouring unlimited political funds into fighting any kind of shared tax sacrifice or adjustments to increase revenues collected for the federal government.
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