MADISON, Wis. — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is hoping to pull his campaign off the mat by taking on unions — a familiar foe for the Wisconsin governor — in a sweeping plan to upend pillars of organized labor nationwide.
Walker's plan calls for eliminating unions for employees of the federal government, making all workplaces right-to-work unless individual states vote otherwise, and scrapping the federal agency that oversees unfair labor practices.
Union leaders are livid. Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union that represents 150,000 federal workers, said Walker is "declaring a war on middle class workers."
But in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Walker said no one should be surprised.
"I think people would be shocked if the governor who took on big government special interests wouldn't do it at the federal level," Walker said by telephone as he waited to board a plane to Las Vegas where he was to spell out his "Power to the People" proposal in a speech late Monday afternoon.
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4 comments:
Unions had their time and it has come and gone! How many people from Dresser or Crown Cork and Seal were placed in other union jobs after those plants closed here due to union demands? I am willing to bet less than 1%, all those dues to help guarantee you employment in a union shop and what did they get...a pat on the back and good luck finding a job!
Public sector Unions are killing the tax paying citizen.
unions suck big time!!
I say GO FOR IT
Makes sense
Maybe then we can get rid of the dead weight
All other private sectors have cut back
why shouldn't they
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