GOP’s Walker proposes vast union restrictions

Until unions are eliminated at the federal level, earmark the amount of federal worker union dues used for political activity and withhold that money.

“I think it is, in a way, Walker playing his greatest hit, especially after a summer in which he’s had difficulty finding a theme and sticking to that theme”, said Charles Franklin of Marquette University, who’s watched Walker closely. As Heritage Foundation labor economist James Sherk explained for National Review, “Walker proposes cracking down on the use of “union time” – that is, allowing federal employees to work for their unions at taxpayer expense”. Walker’s plan would change that to protect workers from threats, violence and extortion from unions.

Las Vegas is home to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire and long-time Republican donor who has spent tens of millions dollars to weaken unions.

Walker will unveil the plan in full during a town hall in Las Vegas Monday afternoon.

Sampson, the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English’s Outstanding First Year Teacher in 2010, lost her job because of expensive health care plans demanded by unions that put the squeeze on the number of teaching positions available, Walker claimed in his remarks.

Walker, who has spent about five days a month campaigning in Iowa, will ramp those appearances up towards an “aggressive” goal, aides said. It was a shrewd way to remind voters of the one thing they might have heard about Walker – his spectacularly combative tenure as governor – while differentiating him from a field that, pre-Trumpmania, was populated by fighters with little to show for it (Ted Cruz) and winners who weren’t much known for fighting (Jeb Bush). “He attacks workers”.

Curtailing the power of unions has always been an issue of importance to Walker.

The GOP 2016 candidate has seen his poll numbers collapse since the beginning of the year when a fiery speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit vaulted him into frontrunner status. “This is desperate action on the part of a very desperate candidate”.

Such right to work laws are a favorite cause of big business, the radical right and their political puppets. Bernie Sanders, said Walker’s plan would only make rich people and corporations even wealthier.

While Walker could enact some of the proposals via presidential executive order, the most far-reaching ones would require an act of Congress, a major barrier by any measure. States that want to take this freedom away from their workers would have to affirmatively vote to opt out of right-to-work status. According to Breitbart, he made a subtle jab at Donald Trump by saying the country did not need another “novice” in the White House.

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