For those of you who don't know (which is probably most of you) "Si se puede" is the motto of the United Farm Workers from way back when. Obama may or may not have been thinking of this when he used it in his presidential campaign, but it was translated as such. (The motto, for those of you international who may by now have forgotten or never knew, is "Yes, we can!" and can also be translated as "Si, podemos." And Now You Know.)
All right. Maybe this will be the last link roundup for a little while. Walker seems to be continuing in his vein of pustule-ridden festering two-dollar whorebaggery, so ... yeah.
Here begins my attempt to be neutral and calm. This is the way it is. As always, go ahead and reblog. Carrying the Banner Part 1
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DW and Part 2
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DWOverall*
A Gallup Poll shows considerable support for preserving collective bargaining/union bargaining rights.
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Fox News has reversed the results of the Gallup poll.
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MSNBC offers a puzzle breakdown for those of us who are getting dizzy following all the play.
Ohio*
AJC and
UPI report that the Ohio anti-collective bargaining bill has been modified to allow dealing for wages, but it still prohibits strikes for public employees and bargaining for non-wage conditions such as benefits, sick time, or vacation. This bill is supported by Ohio Gov. John Kasich but not written by him. State Senator Shannon Jones sponsored the bill, and Ohio only requires a simple majority to be able to vote.
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Here is an official statement dated yesterday from State Sen Grendell regarding the bill.
* The bill in question is called Senate Bill 5, although a quick throttling of Google gives me nothing other than news articles.
Indiana*
The State Column reported yesterday that Mitch Daniels slammed Democrats for being irresponsible and holding hostage the democratic process, in roughly that language.
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IndyStar dot com reports that the deadline to pass bills has been moved to next Friday as of a little after 10 am today. Democrats have released a list of 11 bills they want altered or removed.
* Indiana's Senate Bill, for your searching, to limit teacher collective bargaining to wages and wage related benefits only is Senate Bill 575.
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The South Bend Tribune has another article on the subject, but I still can't find a list of the 11 bills.
Florida* I'm not catching any headlines as to Florida Gov. Rick Scott changing position or making any new official statement on the subject of union-busting and collective bargaining bills
today. New Jersey*
Bloomberg Business reports that Christie is holding homeowner tax credits until he gets "state unions and their legislative allies" to give up some benefits. This is from yesterday; two days ago I rounded up some summaries of Christie's budget proposals and discussions here:
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DW* Tangential, the
LA Times reports that a rift between the Governor of Connecticut and Gov. Christie of New Jersey is widening over the union issue.
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A New Jersey paper describes NJ Democrats considering fleeing the state as well. The columnist considers Christie's budget speech from Tuesday to be full of mixed messages both from him and the surrounding State Senators
Tennessee*
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports on a union rally in Tennessee. Towards the middle of the article it describes more of the political processes going on. Some discussions of the Health Care Bill that passed nationally, recently, also feature.
Vermont*
This Progressive Party bulletin was the most recent thing I could find on the bill banning teacher strikes. It does have a sort of bullet-point timeline towards the end.
Idaho*
This article from someplace called All Headline News describes a President's Day teachers rally and refers to State Senate Bills 1108, 1110 and 1113. The article is dated Feb 22, 2011. Gov. Otter advocates this bill as offering incentivizing bonuses? Unions seem to claim it will eliminate teachers' collective bargaining rights and replace them with computers. Looking this up now.
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Here is a statement from the Governor on the subject.
* Bill status and text for
Senate Bill 1110 and
Senate Bill 1113. Here is also the text of
State Senate Bill 1108, which was passed in 2009.
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The Spokesman Review says that State Senate Bill 1113 has been pulled. This is dated yesterday.
Iowa*
Washington Independent reports that Iowa has a bill in committee that makes numerous changes to collective bargaining rules. If this link goes dead I have copied the article text detailing several of these changes.
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Local TV also reports.
Kansas*
Nebraska TV reports that the Kansas House approved the bill prohibiting unions from using member money to provide political funds and donations. It now goes to Senate.
* No other word on collective bargaining rights in Kansas
Nevada* Again,
this is the text of the bill that supposedly would eliminate mandatory collective bargaining for government employees. Protesters in that state agree.
* However, the
Las Vegas Sun indicates that Gov. Sandoval won't lay down a hard line, the metaphor they use, on the subject of collective bargaining. The article specifically compares to Gov. Walker. The article
also states that
Americans for Prosperity is pushing the collective bargaining changes in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
Nothing new on Rhode Island, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, or Utah... I think that's it. As always, drop me links if something else turns up. I'll probably check this over again before I leave work.
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