Iowan law enforcement vote Republican, only to be outraged when they learn Republicans want...

[DonViejo]

Iowan law enforcement vote Republican, only to be outraged when they learn Republicans want to bust unions

Public law enforcement in Iowa face serious rollbacks on collective bargaining rights

CHARLIE MAY

Firefighters and police officers in Iowa voted largely for Republicans, only to learn the hard way that the party is generally anti-union.

In an effort to continue dismantling the rights of public workers, Iowa Republicans have attempted to “pit unions against each other” by proposing a bill that would split public workers into two separate groups. One group includes “public safety workers” and the other group includes everybody else. Iowan law enforcement officials expressed displeasure by showing up in large numbers at the Statehouse to speak out against the bill.

Iowa Starting Line reported:

Hundreds of helmeted firefighters have flooded the Statehouse in the last week and police officers and sheriffs have lined up at committee hearings to speak against it. They don’t trust that this carve-out for their jobs will last long, nor do many of them feel it’s appropriate to deny the bargaining rights they have to fellow workers who have also had them for over 40 years.

Under the proposed bill, certain sheriff’s deputies wouldn’t be classified as “public safety” workers, because there are more jailers and clerks in those units. The bill requires that the majority of workers in a bargaining unit must be either police or firefighters.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/02/14/iowan-law-enforcement-vote-republican-only-to-be-outraged-when-they-learn-republicans-want-to-bust-unions/

[RKP5637]

1. Slow learners! WTF did they expect! n/t

[gopiscrap]

2. Fucking ignorant pigs

I have no sympathy for them or any other ignorant fuck who voted for trump and then finds himself screwed over by that orange shit gibbon

[tazkcmo]

3. Someone needs to tell these idiots

That water is wet.

[JudyM]

4. Regardless of their "law and order" rethug vote, it's good to see masses of people having their

eyes opened, finally. This is the year of awakening consciousness.

[mercuryblues]

5. There was one way to prevent

all of this. That was to vote Democratic. IMO, they shouldn't be police detectives. They were too stupid to see the evidence right in front of their faces.

It has been painfully obvious for decades that republicans are ant-union and will stop at nothing to bust them up. Hell they openly run on being anti-union and these people thought that somehow they wouldn't do that once they had enough power to? Fucking idiots. I bet they aren't laughing at librulz any more.

[Nay]

6. They just now learned the pubs want to bust unions?? How dim are they? Oh, wait

a minit, they thought that THEIR union would be OK, but all those lazy peoples' unions would get busted, and that was all right with the cops.

Honestly, what does it take to wise people up? It seems like only ugly personal experience wakes any of these fuckers up, and by then, it's too late for everybody.