Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Cincinnati stunner: "right-to-work" fascism rejected!

As the Tea Party tries to ram through a union-busting "right-to-work" law in Ohio, you're not gonna believe what just happened!

Cincinnati City Council just unanimously approved a measure opposing right-to-scab laws. Even City Council's only remaining Republican voted against right-to-scab laws!

"Right-to-work" is now dead in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, of all places! America's onetime hub of belligerent union-busting has now unanimously rejected the biggest union-busting promenade in modern times. How you like that, Tea Party?

Yes, I know, you're saying the cities can't trump state laws. Like hell they can't. As far as I'm concerned, the cities can do any damn thing they want, as long as it protects the right of people to freely bargain in the workplace. In my day, the oldsters had a saying: "It's not the '80s in this house!" Well, Cincinnati has a saying too: "It's not a 'right-to-work' state in this city!"

Hell, if lawmakers in each state cared about public opinion, right-to-scab laws would be utterly scotched in all 50 states and D.C. too. Nobody today wants to be subjected to this horseshit, and I'm not afraid to die for the cause of the American worker.

(Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/04/24/city-council-votes-on-right-to-work-law.html)

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