It’s been my personal experience that small unions are better focused than large ones, but the laws to ‘help’ unions don’t help them.

For example, with arbitration, the company can break the contract, and the employees have to comply with the broken rule, until it’s resolved in arbitration. Clear up until the day the arbitration is done, the employer can go ‘oops’ and fix the practice, no harm, no foul. Meanwhile the small union is out legal fees, time, etc.

Between things like that and the AFL/CIO’s ‘non-compete’ clause, I lost respect for the ‘big unions’ long before the SEIU became (in)famous.

Probally because he is strongly pro union.

You mean hes Mafia???

You folks don’t like that.

No. No we DON’T like criminals or corruption. Thats why we get rid of it while you promote it.

Of course if you change your stance on such issues, you might get some votes!

Yes, that enormous 12% of Americans who still are in unions.

Actually, a great many union workers DO vote Republican. Its just the corrupt/criminal leadership that is devoutly Democrat.

This is the second time in a few days you have made what seems to be a very dishonest charge. I say dishonest because (and please correct me if I am wrong here) as the owner of this site, you surely have access to the logs – it wouldn’t take you more than 5 seconds to check IP addresses to not only see that gillie and I are not the same person, but you could probably figure out where we live as well.

So whats up with this? Are you purposely misleading your readers so as to get in a few shots, given that you have no answer to the specific issues we raise? Don’t your readers deserve better of you?

Another that has suffered the wrath of the nasgul is Nicole Parra, another. she got kicked out of her office for not voting with the party line on the 2008 budget.

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, widely known as a nice person, flexed some muscle Monday: She punished the sole Assembly Democrat who refused to vote Sunday evening for a state spending plan drafted by fellow Democrats.

Bass (D-Los Angeles) ordered Assemblywoman Nicole Parra of Hanford out of her fifth-floor Capitol office and into an office building across the street where legislative staffers work.

“They wanted us to have everything packed up by 4 p.m.,” said Parra’s chief of staff, Derek Chernow, as he ripped packing tape to seal a box of office supplies.

Parra, who is in her last few months in the Assembly, said she didn’t vote for the budget because it was not paired with a water bond to pay for dams to ease water supply troubles in her agricultural district. She said she warned Assembly leaders weeks ago that she wouldn’t vote for a budget unless it also improved water delivery.

“I knew I would be punished,” she said in the hallway outside the Assembly chamber. “I don’t regret it. I would do it again. I’m still hopeful that we can get a vote on a water bond and therefore we can get a budget resolved. But it was a drill yesterday. We didn’t even have the votes.”

Note why she didn’t vote for the budget…. WATER. She wanted to improve California’s water infrastructure. And this was last year. I wonder if the West Side drought as seen on Hannity yesterday would be happening if she would have made progress.

So, you ask, if water wasn’t important to the legislature, just what was?

In other Assembly business Monday, two measures to restrict the use of chemicals in food containers and wrapping, among the most heavily lobbied of the year and previously passed by the Senate, were defeated. …

Also on Monday, the Senate passed measures that would:

* Allow Riverside County to build and operate four carpool lanes as toll lanes on Interstate 15. The measure, AB 1954 by Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries (R-Lake Elsinore), goes back to the Assembly for final approval.

* Make it easier for farm workers to unionize with a two-part ballot they can fill out privately. AB 2386 by Assembly Speaker Emeritus Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles) passed on a 23-15 vote and goes back to the Assembly for final action.

Ah yes, our state government at work. And you wonder why California is SOOOOO ef’d up!

PS. And, in case anyone missed it, the legislature seems perfectly happy to consider waiving environmental laws when it sees fit:

Facing stiff resistance from environmentalists, state Senate leaders today sidelined plans to grease the skids for construction of a professional football stadium in the city of Industry that was being fast-tracked through the Legislature.

A day after the measure, ABX3 81, passed the Assembly, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said he wants to try, in the coming weeks, to mediate an agreement that addresses the environmental impact of the 75,000-seat stadium proposed by billionaire Ed Roski.

The legislation would have exempted the stadium project from environmental laws that are the basis of a pending lawsuit by the city of Walnut.

“Because I see the obvious merit in the proposed stadium development in the city of Industry — the creation of up to 18,000 jobs, the economic development for the area, and the tax revenue for the local and state governments — I am willing to use the full force of my office to commence negotiations in an attempt to settle the litigation in this matter,” Steinberg wrote.

In the meantime, some cities here in the Valley that rely on farming are experiencing unemployment rates of over 40% and the farming industry, a revenue generator many magnitudes greater than a stadium even with an NFL team, will suffer even further when the water behind Friant Dam is forced to be released due to environmental lawsuits, leaving even less water available for the region.

Join the Fun!

You folks don’t like that.
Of course if you change your stance on such issues, you might get some votes!

And maybe some kickbacks?

Except in the Fox poll you linked to in the previous post. Dems back at 42%, where they were in Feb. Republicans down to 31%, from 35 in early Aug.

[Um, Tano, do you know how to read polls, that's how Fox weighted the the sample, not the determination it made of the relative strength of the parties. --Dan]

You folks don’t like that.
Of course if you change your stance on such issues, you might get some votes!