Philadelphia: The Next BIG TARGET For The RIGHT-WING ASSAULT On Public Employees And Unions

[Segami]

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“ When I saw jobs moving off-shore, banks lowering interest rates
on personal accounts and governments passing more charges onto
taxpayers I knew this was coming. ”...Charlene Scott



Scott said she had seen this onslaught coming ten years ago.



Less than 36 hours after that weekend protest, the Philadelphia Daily News revealed that a union-busting campaign is headed to Pennsylvania, the state with the nation’s fourth largest number of card-carrying union members.


The planned campaign to attack collective bargaining rights of public sector workers in the Keystone State comes from an organization funded by the conservative Koch Brothers, who’ve poured hundreds of millions into building the tea party movement. Pennsylvania makes an attractive target because its voters just last November put Republicans in charge of both the Governor's Mansion and the two houses of the state Legislature.


The man tapped to head the PA campaign, former Republican state legislator Sam Rohrer, is quoted in that Daily News article stating his belief that public sector employees do not have the “right” to collective bargaining or to strike. The billionaire Koch Brothers, Charles and David, provided campaign contributions last year to then Republican gubernatorial candidates Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, both of whom won election.


A number of other states, like Indiana and Ohio, with Republican governors and legislatures, are already pursuing efforts to eliminate collective bargaining by public employee unions. A recent Gallup Poll found that 61 percent of those surveyed nationwide oppose the elimination of public worker bargaining rights, however those polled who identify themselves as Republicans favored such elimination by 54 percent.


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http://www.truthout.org/content/philadelphia-next-big-target-right-wing-assault-public-employees-and-unions

[PA Democrat]

1. The only reason that the union busting campaign hasn't started yet

here in PA is that our governor has been too busy turning the state's public lands, water and air over to his masters in the natural gas drilling industry.

Corbett is no less a despicable corporate whore than Walker.