[Vision2020] Another anti-labor bill

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Thu Mar 10 17:24:12 PST 2011


Oh, yes.

Now I remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hY5p7yYGt8

Although it has only been just over three weeks ago, it seems like forever.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

On Thu, March 10, 2011 5:07 pm, Sue Hovey wrote:
> In her report before State Affairs she said she had no intention of
> carrying it forward this year....”just testing the waters, so to
> speak.”  We’ll see.
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> Sue H
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> From: Art Deco
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:38 AM
> To: Vision 2020
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Another anti-labor bill
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> Where are the other unions in the state?  Don't they know they are next?
>
> w.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ron Force
>   To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>   Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:25 PM
>   Subject: [Vision2020] Another anti-labor bill
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>   From the NEA:
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>   Thursday, February 17, 2011
>   Yet another hit on public employees
>   Friday, February 18, 2011
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>   A bill will be introduced Friday in the Senate State Affairs Committee
> that would “prohibit public sector collective bargaining, to provide
> for public employee rights, and to prohibit public employee strikes.”
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>   With the bill’s introduction, Idaho teachers are no longer the only
> scapegoats in our Statehouse. If such legislation passes, firefighters,
> police officers, and educators will all lose the ability to negotiate
> for fair treatment. Less than a decade after 9/11, you have to wonder:
> Whatever happened to honoring our heroes?
>
>   Idaho is riding – and in some ways leading – a national wave of
> legislation targeting people who serve the public. Similar bills against
> public employees have been introduced in New Jersey, Ohio, and
> Wisconsin, where an estimated 25,000 people surrounded the state Capitol
> in Madison to protest today.
>
>   Idaho’s latest anti-public employee legislation, now identified as
> RS20248, will be carried by Sen. Shirley McKague (R-Meridian).
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