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Dmitri Iglitzin and Carson Glickman-Flora, Truthout: 'Its not like we didnt see it coming. At the very start of this year, January 2, The New York Times warned us of the coming battle with a front-page story, 'Public Workers Facing Outrage in Budget Crisis.' The Economist, in its January 8 issue, gave us, 'The battle ahead: confronting the public-sector unions.' And the January Time Magazine, 'Public Employees Become Public Enemy No. 1.' So, nobody should have been surprised when public employees became enemy No. 1 in Wisconsin, whose governor and Republican-dominated Legislature are pressing a bill that would eviscerate most of the unions representing that state's employees.'

http://www.truth-out.org/kill-public-employee-unions-erase-middle-class68639



Unionize Everybody!

Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice: 'Unions fought for and won fundamental rights that we all now take for granted - things ranging from child labor and minimum wage laws to lunch breaks and the 40 hour week. And as union wages increased, so did non-union wages, since union contracts raised the wage floor in our free market for labor. As long as union jobs offered better pay and benefits, they would attract better workers, which worked out well for unionized businesses. In order to compete to hire qualified workers, non-union businesses had to match union wages and benefits. Some of us paid union dues, but all of us reaped the benefits those dues bought. The union effect balances the profit-wage equation. Take it away, and the equation tips back toward the radical social inequity of the 19th century and the period right before the Great Depression. And this is what is happening. As the wage floor increased, the need for individuals to join unions decreased.'

http://www.truth-out.org/unionize-everybody68657

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The future of the middle class
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/642.html



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