Turnabout: Union honors some House Republicans

[Kablooie]

Source: Politico

The party, thrown by a coalition of 15 labor groups at the Capitol Hill Club, was held just as the Wisconsin Senate was teeing up an anti-labor bill and against the broader backdrop of GOP governors across the nation working to strip unions of benefits and bargaining rights.

The AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Department organized the “thank you” reception to give a pat on the back to Republicans who backed labor’s position on a pair of amendments to the seven-month continuing appropriations bill the House passed last month.

The reception’s 7:30 p.m. closing time was just minutes before the Wisconsin Senate approved Gov. Scott Walker’s legislation curtailing collective bargaining rights and hiking the costs of benefits for public employees. That bill was set to pass the Wisconsin House as early as Thursday morning.

Co-hosts of the reception included the Teamsters, painters, boilermakers, electrical workers, sheet metal workers, bricklayers, iron workers and plumbers.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51030.html

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Well, there ya go.
Sounds like the Republicans have a lot of fingers in a lot of pots and have serious plans to quash any serious rebellion against them.


... again.

[libmom74]

1. I wonder if they

will hold a recepeption to thank them when the repukes dissolve their unions completely, which is what will happen if they keep voting against their own interests.

[Citizen Worker]

2. This is what happens when there are two branches of the same party.