Walker plans to call the NLRB a “one-sided proxy for the big union bosses – often at the expense of taxpayers and workers”, according to excerpts of a Monday afternoon speech at a Las Vegas town hall.
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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. “Individuals should not have to pay union bosses for the right to earn a living”.
Crowds outside of the Wisconsin Statehouse, March 12, 2011, protested Gov. Walker’s bills limiting collective bargaining rights.
Labor law experts say such an effort would effectively eliminate unions in America or substantially reduce their power.
The fight against Wisconsin unions thrust Walker into the national spotlight and helped him build a national network of donors that was helpful when he chose to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
“If there is a common mistake being made in Iowa this cycle, it’s that a number of campaigns have been too cautious in their Iowa strategies”, Robinson found. Walker is an enemy of the American worker and corporate puppet.
In an op-ed written for a popular conservative blog – HotAir.com – Walker promised to take his union fighting credentials to Washington, and ban federal workers from joining unions.
Wisconsin governor and 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker believes President Obama bears responsibility for the recent rise of attacks against police officers.
Scott Walker, the thrice-elected goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their Midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, is going down like a big old ‘ho in the latest round of polls.
States would be allowed to pass a law to overrule the national “Right to Work” presumption under Walker’s plan. States would have the ability to override that policy. The federal statute requires government contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage. He would also require periodic union re-certification votes and federal law would be amended to prevent unions from retaliating against whistleblowers. Many road projects are funded jointly by the state and federal government.
Nationally, Walker’s plan calls for the elimination of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with protecting workers’ rights to organize and be treated fairly in the workplace.
“The NLRB is broken beyond fix and should be eliminated”, Walker said.
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. If Walker wanted to pull back on those union rights, it would therefore need to be through an act of Congress and his pen. “The official line was that Walker wanted to get his state’s budget hammered out before launching his candidacy, but there was also the straw poll, an early organizational contest that Walker’s campaign clearly didn’t want any part of”.
Walker, 47, says he intends to be more aggressive in this week’s second GOP debate, while insisting he isn’t concerned about his standing in the race.
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Eliminate federal unions: On Walker’s first day in office, the federal government would stop withholding union dues from employee paychecks, forcing unions to gather their funding independently. He’ll also talk about accountability for government employees, now protected from firing under federal labor rules, who have engaged in improper behavior.
