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12/11/12, "UNION THUG Who Sucker Punched Steven Crowder ID’ed – He’s a Grand Rapids IBEW Member …Update: Second Goon Identified," Gateway Pundit
Grand Rapids IBEW Union official Tony Camargo seen punching Steven Crowder’s face–...[Ed. note: Camargo's name was on his jacket.]
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12/11/12, "
Arrest This Man: Obama's Union Goons Assault Steven Crowder," Breitbart, Joel A. Pollak
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12/11/12, "
Most chilling Michigan video — “There are people under there, oh my God”" Legal Insurrection, William A. Jacobson
12/11/12, "
Wanted P(r)o(te)ster," Legal Insurrection, William A. Jacobson
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The person in this video, whose (mug) shot is below, is seen on the now-famous video throwing punches at Steven Crowder."...
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12/11/12,
"Obama's Big Michigan Right-To-Work Lie: Lower Wages," IBD editorial
"The president says right-to-work laws mean "the right to work for
less money." So how does he explain the fact that incomes are up in RTW
states while forced unionism is a proven job killer?
Campaigning Monday in Michigan as it stood poised to become the
nation's 24th right-to-work state, President Obama spoke the exact
opposite of the truth to union workers at a Daimler Detroit Diesel plant
in the birthplace of organized labor.
"What we shouldn't be doing," he told the small crowd, "is trying to
take away your rights to bargain for better wages. We don't want a race
to the bottom. We want a race to the top."
Yet looking at the hard numbers,
becoming a right-to-work state is a direct line to the top.
According to Michigan's Mackinac Center, using data taken from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics,
private-sector, inflation-adjusted employee compensation in
right-to-work states increased by 12% between 2001 and 2011 compared
with just 3% over the same period in forced-unionization states.
These good wages came from good jobs. Employment in right-to-work
states expanded 2.4% over the same stretch vs. a 3.4% decline in
non-right-to-work states.
Ironically, Obama is taking credit for jobs
created in RTW states.
According to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research,
right-to-work states (excluding Indiana, which passed a RTW law in early
2012) "were
responsible for 72% of all net household job growth across
the U.S. from June 2009 through September 2012."
This is why people vote with their feet and move to these states.
RTW
states experienced large population gains of 15.3% from 2000 to 2010,
compared to 5.9% in non-RTW states.
Obama did get one thing right, though, when he said the bills that
passed both houses of the Michigan legislature "don't have to do with
economics. They have everything to do with politics."
The president who fought Boeing's expansion in RTW South Carolina
knows it's all about his keeping union dues flowing into Democratic
coffers and maintaining the plush lifestyles of the union leaders who
support him.
Michigan law will now bar requiring workers to pay money to a third
party, namely unions, as a condition of employment. This has given rise
to
the big lie that workers who refuse to join a union and pay dues will
get a "free ride" enjoying the benefits of union representation without
contributing to that representation.
"No one is forced to join a union," said House Democratic Caucus
Leader Tim Greimel, although workers in Michigan were forced to if they
wanted a job at a union shop. "They're asked to pay their fair share of the collective bargaining
process. (RTW) gives them the chance to freeload and free-ride."
Yet in its most recent federal filings, the Michigan Education
Association said
"representational activities" (money spent on
bargaining contracts for members) made up only 11% of total spending for
the union.
Most of the rest went under the category "general overhead," which included union
administration and, of course, the union political activities that
include lobbying for more government spending.
It's the unions that are
getting a "free ride."
If unions satisfied workers, one would expect their membership to at
least remain constant. But between 2000 and 2010, union membership
declined by 9.5% in non-RTW states and 9.2% in RTW states.
The only
growth was in government unions.
Michigan's right-to-work law is a positive blow for worker freedom
and economic growth and an example, as in Wisconsin and Indiana, of how
conservatives can win and are winning in states led by GOP governors." via Free Republic. top photo via Breitbart
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