It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: BMG on December 09, 2011, 10:16:05 AM
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http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/08/taking-the-unions-to-court-in-arizona/ (http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/08/taking-the-unions-to-court-in-arizona/)
In September, Goldwater Institute investigative reporter Mark Flatten released an investigative report showing that Phoenix and other Arizona cities spend millions of dollars every year to pay employees to perform union work on city time. It’s called “release time.” The Goldwater Institute is taking on the city’s contract with the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (PLEA). By executing this deal with PLEA, the members of the Phoenix City Council have violated the Arizona Constitution and their duty of loyalty to the taxpayers.
The contract provides an estimated $900,000 in annual release time for police union work, including lobbying. Six officers are released from city work on a full-time basis (each receiving 160 hours of overtime at 1.5x their regular salary). PLEA also uses 35 representatives. These representatives are not given a set amount of release time. Instead, they are authorized to use an unspecified amount of release time to accompany fellow officers to grievance meetings, use of force hearings, etc.
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Public sector unions are so corrupt and so embedded in the system, routing them will be a major undertaking with high political risk everywhere it's tried. Walker's case in Wisconsin is a best-case scenario. Kasich's in Ohio is so far a worst case scenario.
Trying to prevent them from using taxpayer dollars for union activities is of course the right thing to do. But there is a fundamental conflict of interest between public sector unions, taxpayers, and politicians that needs to be addressed. It is morally reprehensible and ethically indefensible to have a union promising to elect Democrats, who then rape the taxpayer on behalf of the unions. The taxpayer ends up being forced to fund the activities of two behemoth organizations that do not hold the taxpayer's best interests to be worthy of consideration.
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The moment unions were allowed to enter government buildings the end result was written in stone...time to reverse course and kick them the hell out.
But I doubt it will happen in my lifetime...not peacefully anyway!
And as far as Walker goes, they're still trying to get him removed. The Left are like evil cockraoches, they never go away, they keep coming back, and they trash everything they touch...
::outrage::