Walker proposes abolishing federal employee unions

Governor Scott Walker will try to set himself apart from the other presidential candidates today by proposing vast national restrictions on labor unions.

-Make it illegal for federal workers to form unions. It is an issue he understands well, so a debate on that will be firm ground for the governor, said a campaign source who requested anonymity. Their opponents tried to recall Walker from office, but he survived the effort, becoming the first governor in American history to win a recall election. Membership has declined in state legislatures, both Democratic and Republican, have been limiting its powers.

In his policy proposal, Walker pointed to the use of “official time” as evidence of the wastefulness of federal unions. He then won re-election in 2014. Under Walker’s leadership, Wisconsin became a right-to-work state. There are a couple of factors to consider here.

The proposal, if enacted, would represent the most radical change to federal labor law in nearly a century, making Walker’s labor reforms in his home state seem modest by comparison. At the federal level, Walker said he would take aggressive action.

Lee Adler, a labor law expert at Cornell University, said Walker’s plans would make it more hard for working class people to join the middle class. “Mr. Walker could only be making these types of proposals to satisfy his most backward-looking, wealthy contributors”, he added. Early in the race, he was the frontrunner in Iowa.

Just 3 percent of respondents to the latest poll said they would support him.

Walker might very well fade; if he does, he’ll still be governor of a living dichotomy of a state, one that hasn’t voted Republican in a presidential election since 1984, but one, also, that has warmed to the GOP narrative of economic freedom and public financial discipline through the throttling of union influence.

Our plan gets rid of the NLRB – and reassigns the few necessary responsibilities to more fair and balanced areas of the government.

Prevailing wage laws establish minimum wages for workers when they build highways, schools, or other publicly funded projects.

Further, he explains that political donations from federal unions overwhelmingly go to leftist candidates and causes, and that’s been true “for decades”.

Or how about the Department of Veterans Affairs?

While the IRS was busy harassing conservative organisations they also had more than 200 federal employees whose only work was for the big government union bosses.

So what exactly does Walker intend to do to fight against federal labor unions if he is elected president? “Unfortunately, numerous nation’s federal labor laws and regulations have stood as a roadblock to fairness and opportunity, and instead have created rigid, top-down workplaces that don’t really work for Americans”, Walker said, according to the Washington Examiner.

“Large corporations saw that more money could be made by moving their factories and businesses overseas where labor laws are either quite lax, or at times, non-existent”, he stated.

Walker’s plan also calls for prohibiting the automatic withdrawal of union dues to be used for political purposes and forbidding union organizers from accessing employees’ personal information, such as their phone numbers.

■ Establishing protections for union whistleblowers to protect them from retaliation.

On Monday, Walker tweeted out a link to his bigger plan, calling it, “My Plan To Give Power To The People, Not The Union Bosses”. We will see on Wednesday how much attention Walker devotes to the issue during the debate. It’s what made his mark.