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David Dennison

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  1. 4 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    If you've got a good product, it will sell itself. No need to force participation.

    Maybe this decision gets public unions to actually work for their members instead of being a fundraising arm of the Democrat party.

    That's almost as likely as c-suite executives actually working for labor instead of being a fundraising arm of the Republican Party.

    So you see, we're in a bit of a pickle.

  2. 6 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Are you really simple enough to believe that the people sitting at the bargaining table actually make the decisions?  That the elected officials are completely hands-off in the process?  That the political appointees, whose very jobs are dependent upon the re-election of their boss, are not doing what they can to insure his/her re-election?

    Do you also believe in unicorns?

    Are you really simple enough to believe that the politicians and appointees could not be taken out of the collective bargaining equation if need be? There are any number of ways for the government to collectively bargain with employees without including elected officials. 

  3. 3 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    Who directly report to those who do and can often be either terminated, have their career growth shunted or be warehoused if they don't acquiesce.  This isn't a hard concept  and there are lots of other arguments against this ruling, why go for the bad one?

    I don't necessarily oppose the ruling.

    I'm opposed to the idea that public sector unions shouldn't be allowed to collectively bargain with management.

  4. 3 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

    Bullshit.  Collective bargaining only works as an adversarial system.  Collective bargaining with public sector unions is the absolute definition of the fox guarding the henhouse.  It should be 100% illegal for public entities to enter into CBAs.

    Public employees are adversaries of the federal government when it comes to the employee/employer relationship.

    So, we'll just disagree on that.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Public sector collective bargaining, no.  I do not understand why it is legal.  It is a union representing government workers who negotiate with the very politicians they bought.  The taxpayer gets fucked.  And there is no market check like there is with private sector unions.  We did not even have public sector unions until 1959.  And they have been a disaster to the financial health of state and local governments.

    Here is what FDR said about them:

    Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.”

    FDR was wrong. 

    Collective bargaining should exist wherever there are employees in every industry. Full stop.

  6. 3 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

    This kind of says more about you, and the Democrat party in general than it does her.  I would call wanting to abolish ICE a fairly radical proposition.

    Calling for the elimination of a hastily planned and redundant law enforcement agency that was established out of fear in 2003 is hardly radical.

  7. 30 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    that's a lot of olds. They have to be scared shitless by the handfull of black folks standing there laughing at them. 

    Wait til the W&L students start heckling them. 

  8. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/394348-poll-low-support-for-trump-re-election-in-key-swing-states

    Insert algorithm

    [Fake polls] because [Donald J. Trump] is doing [bigly] support in America and will win bigly in November [2020] with [100% electoral college victory]

    35% say Trump deserves re-election in Arizona (underwater by 6 points in approval)

    37% say Trump deserves re-election in Florida (underwater by 1 point in approval)

    34% say Trump deserves re-election in Ohio (underwater by 14 points in approval)

     

    Ouch.

  9. 4 minutes ago, Bill Clinton said:

    The Laws

    At issue are four sections of the law: the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) regulations and Section 1924 of Title 18 of the U.S. Crimes and Criminal Procedure Code.

    In short:

    The Federal Records Act requires agencies hold onto official communications, including all work-related emails, and government employees cannot destroy or remove relevant records.

    FOIA is designed to "improve public access to agency records and information."

    The NARA regulations dictate how records should be created and maintained. They stress that materials must be maintained "by the agency," that they should be "readily found" and that the records must "make possible a proper scrutiny by the Congress."

    Section 1924 of Title 18 has to do with deletion and retention of classified documents. "Knowingly" removing or housing classified information at an "unauthorized location" is subject to a fine or a year in prison.

    Donald Trump has been breaking the law.

    Shocking.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Well you have been fucking torpedoed by BO and the Dems during the last administration.  The “eat the rich” narrative is crap.  They put the cost right in your lap.  

    Yeah, I bet a guy pulling down $100k did really shitty during the Obama years. I bet it was a struggle.

    Do you hear yourself?

  11. 3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    You are the same rotting flesh as the rest of us.  This moment isn’t special.  America will be here tomorrow and the next day.  You aren’t special.  There are a myriad of opportunities in this country waiting to be taken.  Wake up and do your fucking job.  

    Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

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