64% say government workers should not be represented by a union

This is great news for Governor Walker of Wisconsin who believes that State employees should have to contribute to their healthcare and pensions instead of getting a free ride. Obama, the DNC, and other Democrats have overstepped on their favoring SEIU and other public service unions. Voters are tired of their threats to strike. When you work for the Government, no one should be allowed to strike at any level. We favor the President Reagan option -- union workers strike the Federal Government and are fired which is what happened to the arrogant Air Traffic Controller Union.

Union thugs and their tactics have fallen out of favor with the American people. Obama and the Dems want to go back to the old days where the unions used the threat of a strike to get their way with employers. People understand who undermined the American car manufacturers to get all their benefits and outrageous salaries -- UAW.

Too many of our States now have Right to Work and union members have started opting out of their union dues going for campaigns except for the loyal Democrats who also make sure the 'rent a thugs' for union demonstrations are out in full force even when they don't live in the state where they are protesting.

The reason for the unions at the beginning was sound to make sure safety was followed for workers and everyone had fair pay but those days are long gone. Unions like SEIU have turned into thugs who want everything for nothing on the backs of taxpayers.

February 19, 2011
64% say government workers should not be represented by a unionRick Moran
I was shocked when I saw this number. The gravy train is really over for public employee unions. Citizens are sick to death of their strikes, threats of strikes, whining, caterwauling, and incompetence.

It wouldn't be this bad probably, if government, at any level, worked. But Americans look at the cluster fark that government has become and wonder why we are paying these bozos so much?

Politico:

A new poll from the Washington-based Clarus Group asked:

Do you think government employees should be represented by labor unions that bargain for higher pay, benefits and pensions ... or do you think government employees should not be represented by labor unions?

A full 64% of the respondents said "no."

That includes 42% of Democrats, and an overwhelming majority of Republicans. Only 49% of Democrats think public workers should be in unions at all.

That's on the fundamental right to organize, before you get to wages and benefits. And that puts Scott Walker in a pretty good political place.

The poll was conducted using 1001 registered voters.

A huge backlash against what's happening in Wisconsin is building. It's Obamacare all over again only this time, it's even worse. Obama has publicly sided with the bad guys and Democrats are being seen as the party standing in the way of getting our fiscal house in order at the federal and state level.

Let's hope Democrats continue to have a death wish on this issue.

Source: AmericanThinker.com

You could take from my comments that I am anti-union and you would be correct. My Dad was President of a local union when I was growing up. He went to the State Convention and demanded in a speech that no union dues be used for political purposes. My Dad had an 8th grade education due to the fact he went to work to support his Mom and family after his Dad died from Mustard Gas he received in WWI when Dad was only five. My Dad was one of the smartest men I have ever known. He was 5'8" and was threatened at the Convention and after, but he didn't back down. He knew it was not right to take workers hard earned dollars and use them for political campaigns.

That was in the late 50's/early 60's so he was way ahead of his time. Can still remember some of the phone calls he got at home and what he told them. The local withheld the percentage of money for union dues that went to political campaigns. He got threatened but he never backed down.

When I got my driver's license, would drive him to work to use the car and then go pick him up during school vacations -- many times his fellow workers would stop by the car and tell me how much they admired my Dad for standing up for them. Dad didn't believe in strikes and his local union always was the first to come to terms with their company management when the state union President was calling for a strike. Several times he negotiated for more benefits than the state union was asking.

The one time they struck nationwide, he went to the State Meeting and gave them the simple reason it was idiotic because it was over wages not safety and they would never recoup the wages after it was settled. Whatever he said, Ohio was the first state to settle with all the foundries in the state within a few days of the meeting.  From that day forward, he never was hassled by the State Union thugs again and the stated lifted the sanctions against the local.
He will always be my hero for many reasons but his standing up taught me a valuable lesson if you believe in something, stand up for that belief.