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Schwarzenegger Versus Union Brotherhood - Round One

By Denise Best | Related entries in Elections, In The News

Looks like Schwarzenegger had his ballot proposals … TERMINATED.

Yeah, I know, *groan,* I just couldn’t resist!

In a sharp repudiation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Californians rejected all four of his ballot proposals Tuesday in an election that shattered his image as an agent of the popular will.

Voters turned down his plans to curb state spending, redraw California’s political map, restrain union politics and lengthen the time it takes teachers to get tenure.

Quite an ambitious agenda and the union brotherhood certainly mobilized effectively to turn out the vote against these proposed reforms.

At labor’s election night party in Sacramento, union leaders were not in a forgiving mood, vowing revenge against the governor next year when he seeks reelection. They were particularly incensed that he had not given union members their due for what they believed to be a clean sweep of his agenda.

Hell hath no fury like a union membership feeling scorned.

What will it take for the union mentality to evolve into policies and direction that will support the realities of the marketplace?

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2 Responses to “Schwarzenegger Versus Union Brotherhood - Round One”

Donklephant » Blog Archive » Election Results Tonight Says:
November 9th, 2005 at 9:53 am
[...] Schwarzeneggre Versus Union Brotherhood - Round One [...]
sleipner Says:
November 9th, 2005 at 11:49 am
The realities of the marketplace is that many corporations are making nice profits, screwing their employees, and giving much of that money to shareholders and executives.

Of course there are some companies that are legitimately in trouble. Just as there are also companies that are deliberately using bankruptcy as a means of railroading their employees into taking huge pay cuts.

If only there were a truly independent means of looking at the problem to separate out the truly needed wage and benefits reforms from the money-grabbing hypocrites trying to get a bigger slice of the pie at the expense of their employees…

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