If you want to be a dictator go to Libya, go to Egypt, but get your ass out of Indiana...

[tabatha]

INDIANAPOLIS – Fort Wayne union member Jeremy Penrod, 21, gave up a paycheck Thursday to protest what he calls an anti-union movement alongside thousands of other Hoosier workers who came to the Indiana Statehouse.

“This is more important than a day of work,” he said. “This is our future.”

Penrod has been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 305 in Fort Wayne for three years.

He and about 1,000 workers from Fort Wayne made the trip on 20 buses Thursday to fight against bills being pushed in the Republican-controlled legislature.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110311/NEWS07/303119954?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[snappyturtle]

1. I wish IN got more national news coverage. The crap that is going

on here has been for a number of years. Here is a case in point:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/06/15/ind_school_district_outsourcing_custodian_jobs/

INDIANA SCHOOL DISTRICT OUTSOURCING CUSTODIAL JOBS (June 2010)



FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Indiana's second-largest school district is cutting the jobs of more than 200 custodians by hiring a private company.


The Fort Wayne Community Schools expects to save about $4.4 million a year as it responds to state funding cuts that previously led it to issue layoff notices to 311 teachers.

The School Board voted 6-1 Monday to approve a three-year contract with Sodexo, a French-based company with operations across the country, that will cost about $7.2 million a year. Much of the savings will come from having 24 fewer custodial positions and reducing pay by as much as $6 an hour.

The 31,000-student district has also closed one of its six high schools as it lost $9 million in state funding under cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels because of tax revenue shortfalls.

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This is after Daniels proposed and won the 75 year lease of the IN toll road to a Spanish company and Australian (bank,as I remember,) in 2006. He didn't propose this because the toll road was in the red but quite the contrary. IN got 3.85 billion for the lease.
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THere's more....these cited are only two. Daniels is destroying jobs. He got rid of collective bargaining for the most part in 2005 on his first day in office....with the stroke of a pen.