Union leaders say they’re braced for ‘war’ on public employees

[Omaha Steve]

Source: LV Review Journal

By LAURA MYERS

The head of the Nevada AFL-CIO proclaimed Tuesday that “working families are under attack” by Republican lawmakers who want to weaken collective bargaining laws and pensions now that they control the Legislature.

Danny Thompson, executive-secretary treasurer of the organization, told supporters at the Teamsters Local 14 union hall that the designated GOP Assembly speaker, John Hambrick, R-Las Vegas, had sent a letter to local governments soliciting ideas for changes in public employee collective bargaining — the workers’ right to negotiate pay and benefits.

Thompson, a former assemblyman, said he’s been watching the Legislature for some 35 years and he had never seen such an offer, which he characterized as an open declaration that unions and their families would be under assault.

“It’s as if they declared war on working families,” Thompson said, speaking to more than 50 workers and union leaders. “The attack on collective bargaining is evidently coming.”

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Read more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/union-leaders-say-they-re-braced-war-public-employees

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ALEC is in on this nationwide.

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Wisconsin was their test bed for this...

now they're going to take it national.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. The fascists know that Unions provide one of the last, few checks on their massive power grab.

http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

[dwilso40641]

3. This B.S.

comes from a group that sets their own wages.
That should change. They are attacking the people who pay their salaries and furnish them benefits.
A do nothing congress person who makes $174,000 a year is a little ridiculous.

[Buenaventura]

4. It ain't just public employees ...

Wisconsin is now proving that it's a war on all employees. Right to Work legislation is likely to be introduced this year, proving that it's not public employee unions but all unions. It's time for workers to fight back - not just at the ballot box.