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Karl's avatar
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I wish Mr O'Brien well. Perhaps the current administration will get around to caring about the working class, someday. His first hint of trouble may have been Don's inaugural, when the billionaire tech bro's received the prime seating...one doesn't need to wonder why:). We've since had the BBB, the signature economic policy achievement of the "new" right. But ouch, it was a massive transfer of wealth from workin stiffs to the plutocrats... We have Don pocketing billions in crypto corruption while deregulating the industry and dropping charges against its criminals. And of course we have the unending culture war diversions that are Don's specialty. So much whining and grievance, so little time. It's so much easier to prattle on about a troubled trans kid in Oakland who got 3rd place in the local track meet, or the brown guy workin third trick at the meat packing plant, than it is to do the hard work of addressing the real challenges working people face. Maybe Mr O'Brien needs to play Don's pay to play game-if he can afford to pony up a 747 or a golf course in Vietnam? Don will never change, his entire life is a grift. Remember his tax returns? The ones where he paid no taxes for years while claiming dubious breaks? He's a classic flimflam man.

Mr O'Brien would do well to heed the advice of Maya Angelou-"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time".

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Steve Shannon's avatar

If Hawley and Booker agree on something its gotta be bipartisan. Sounds good to me too.

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Richard's avatar

OK if it is for private sector unions only. It would be a disaster if applied to public sector unions. Just channeling FDR here.

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Kurt's avatar

The bill does only apply to private sector, but there is no reason employers in the public sector should be allowed to refuse to bargain with a certified labor union.

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Richard's avatar

FDR thought otherwise

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Kurt's avatar

FDR is infallible?

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Richard's avatar

No but time has proved him right about that. The teacher unions especially are stinking up the whole labor movement.

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Kurt's avatar

There is no reason for a public employer to refuse to negotiate in good faith with a certified labor organization.

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