Conservative Political and Social Issues
Posted by LaborUnionReport They could have been contenders. Unfortunately, though, the union representing the nearly 300 New Jersey Turnpike toll collectors took an opportunity for preferential hiring on the state’s plans to privatize collections and tried to interfere with the process. Now, the Garden State has shown them the exit (so to speak).With the advent of automated systems like EZ Pass that give motorists the ability to breeze through toll booths and be billed monthly, unionized toll collectors and their often surly, threatening and abusive demeanors [Hey! It's Joisey!] are going the way of the milkman.As a result of NJ Governor Chris Christie’s efforts to trim the New Jersey budget, plans have been made to outsource toll collections on the New Jersey Turnpike and Parkway. This has caused quite a battle in the Garden State, as the union representing the NJ Turnpike toll collectors has tried to convince the state not to open up to private bids.According to Tollroads News, as the state went out to bid, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 194 sent out a “confidential” letter to its members instructing them to essentially interfere with the bidding process. In so doing, the State added an addendum to the Request for Proposal (RFP) that eliminated the union members’ “first right of refusal” to jobs with any new employer.In the February 8th letter to her members, union president Franceline Ehret instructs her members to “fill out resumes and apply for jobs with ALL of the companies” bidding.She goes on to state:This is CRITICAL. Many of these companies WILL NOT want to come here when they see all the UNION MEMBERS who want these jobs. Many of these companies won’t want to have to deal with a UNION SHOP or fight over UNIONIZING the workers.Twenty-four (24) companies came to tour our facilities on Monday February 7th. When they saw our picket line, once company wouldn’t cross and said they weren’t bidding. It shows we can succeed in backing them off. [Emphasis in original.]Unfortunately for the union members, by paying a union that chose to fight using methods to make it and its members appear belligerent and foolish, the union has likely cost them the chance of getting jobs with whatever company becomes the new toll collector.Though it’s not likely to happen, perhaps a dues refund is in order?
Posted by Moe Lane Based on their latest email blast, the Tennessee Democratic Party seems to have a problem understanding what “fascism” is, not to mention “terrorism.” Apparently, Tennessee Democratic chair Chip Forrester and House Democratic chair Mike Turner seem to think that these terms are appropriate for describing several reform bills currently being considered by the Tennessee legislature. Presumably they mean HB 2012 and HB 0130; the first is a tenure reform bill that introduces merit into the tenure process and the second is a collective bargaining reform bill that removes the Tennessee Education Association’s privileged status as the only permissible agent for bargaining with school boards.Or perhaps Forrester and Turner don’t mean those bills, given that neither actually does anything like set up a system for mass murder of inconvenient minorities, create a totalitarian state that controls every aspect of life, and/or start aggressive wars of conquest. It’s a bit of a puzzler - unless you assume that this is just a cynical ploy to get money, which is a notion that Jim Geraghty is cynically suggesting and I am just as cynically endorsing.And since cynicism is ruling the day… what’s really at issue, of course, is the “fascism” on display in this chart showing the results of the last state elections:Assembly Previous Current GOP 51 64 DEM 48 34 IND 1 Senate Previous Current GOP 19 20 DEM 14 13 So, remember: winning elections by large margins, and then governing in a manner consistent with winning elections by large margins, is now apparently “fascism” and “terrorism.” Clearly Chip Forrester and Mike Turner are the products of a public school education…
Great video Chris. Keep it up.
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ReplyDeleteThey could have been contenders. Unfortunately, though, the union representing the nearly 300 New Jersey Turnpike toll collectors took an opportunity for preferential hiring on the state’s plans to privatize collections and tried to interfere with the process. Now, the Garden State has shown them the exit (so to speak).
With the advent of automated systems like EZ Pass that give motorists the ability to breeze through toll booths and be billed monthly, unionized toll collectors and their often surly, threatening and abusive demeanors [Hey! It's Joisey!] are going the way of the milkman.
As a result of NJ Governor Chris Christie’s efforts to trim the New Jersey budget, plans have been made to outsource toll collections on the New Jersey Turnpike and Parkway. This has caused quite a battle in the Garden State, as the union representing the NJ Turnpike toll collectors has tried to convince the state not to open up to private bids.
According to Tollroads News, as the state went out to bid, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 194 sent out a “confidential” letter to its members instructing them to essentially interfere with the bidding process. In so doing, the State added an addendum to the Request for Proposal (RFP) that eliminated the union members’ “first right of refusal” to jobs with any new employer.
In the February 8th letter to her members, union president Franceline Ehret instructs her members to “fill out resumes and apply for jobs with ALL of the companies” bidding.
She goes on to state:
This is CRITICAL. Many of these companies WILL NOT want to come here when they see all the UNION MEMBERS who want these jobs. Many of these companies won’t want to have to deal with a UNION SHOP or fight over UNIONIZING the workers.
Twenty-four (24) companies came to tour our facilities on Monday February 7th. When they saw our picket line, once company wouldn’t cross and said they weren’t bidding. It shows we can succeed in backing them off. [Emphasis in original.]
Unfortunately for the union members, by paying a union that chose to fight using methods to make it and its members appear belligerent and foolish, the union has likely cost them the chance of getting jobs with whatever company becomes the new toll collector.
Though it’s not likely to happen, perhaps a dues refund is in order?
Posted by Moe Lane
ReplyDeleteBased on their latest email blast, the Tennessee Democratic Party seems to have a problem understanding what “fascism” is, not to mention “terrorism.” Apparently, Tennessee Democratic chair Chip Forrester and House Democratic chair Mike Turner seem to think that these terms are appropriate for describing several reform bills currently being considered by the Tennessee legislature. Presumably they mean HB 2012 and HB 0130; the first is a tenure reform bill that introduces merit into the tenure process and the second is a collective bargaining reform bill that removes the Tennessee Education Association’s privileged status as the only permissible agent for bargaining with school boards.
Or perhaps Forrester and Turner don’t mean those bills, given that neither actually does anything like set up a system for mass murder of inconvenient minorities, create a totalitarian state that controls every aspect of life, and/or start aggressive wars of conquest. It’s a bit of a puzzler - unless you assume that this is just a cynical ploy to get money, which is a notion that Jim Geraghty is cynically suggesting and I am just as cynically endorsing.
And since cynicism is ruling the day… what’s really at issue, of course, is the “fascism” on display in this chart showing the results of the last state elections:
Assembly Previous Current
GOP 51 64
DEM 48 34
IND 1
Senate Previous Current
GOP 19 20
DEM 14 13
So, remember: winning elections by large margins, and then governing in a manner consistent with winning elections by large margins, is now apparently “fascism” and “terrorism.” Clearly Chip Forrester and Mike Turner are the products of a public school education…
Great video Chris. Keep it up.
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