For the Sake of Science

Wisconsin boycott

13 Responses

1. 

   Nate, on March 9, 2011 at 10:01 pm said:

   It doesn’t go out the window. That’s why many on the right would like to see merit pay instead of universally high wages and rules that make it all but impossible to fire teachers.
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   Nate, on March 9, 2011 at 10:02 pm said:

   And ridiculously high CEO salaries are paid by the company, not the tax payer. (at least most of the time, I was against the bailouts)
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   NewEnglandBob, on March 9, 2011 at 10:28 pm said:

   universally high wages = teachers? No, I don’t think so. Fire and police get paid more, not including the tons of hours of overtime.

   There are small town police officers who make >$200K due to overtime. For standing on the side of the road, doing nothing while a crew digs.
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   Nate, on March 9, 2011 at 11:29 pm said:

   That’s a really big problem. In some states they require police to be present at any road work site, I can only assume it was a union backed thing, because there is no real reason for it.

   Not that unions are bad, but some of them have been too effective in lobbying. I know that was the case when Mass. made it a requirement to have police at the work sites.
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   thetimchannel, on March 10, 2011 at 3:34 am said:

   Has Westboro Baptist Church successfully shut down PZ Myers? WTF? The site has been down for DAYS. If I were him, I’d go blogspot or wordpress in a heartbeat. Highest trafficked science blog on the internet and it’s obviously being hosted by a bunch of know-nothings!! Sorry, had to rant.

   Unions rule. Basic human right IMHO.

   Enjoy.
6. 

   Nate, on March 10, 2011 at 3:41 am said:

   Sure unionizing is a right, you can create whatever organization you wish to.

   Forcing your organization on others, not a right so much.
7. 

   Michael Hawkins, on March 10, 2011 at 4:56 am said:

   Tim,

   He’s still up. He has this post:

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   If you need to contact him, his email is pzmyers@gmail.com.
8. 

   NewEnglandBob, on March 10, 2011 at 7:30 am said:

   On another facet of what the Republicans are doing wrong:

   A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Wednesday found 51 percent of Americans want to see defense spending cut, with much weaker support for cutting government retirement and health programs. Only 45 percent thought the Republican proposals to deeply cut domestic, non-defense programs were “essential” to balancing the budget.
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   Copyleft, on March 10, 2011 at 8:30 am said:

   But as the Republicans in Wisconsin just demonstrated, it was never really about the budget anyway. The version of the bill they passed was simply for the sake of union-busting, with no budget effect whatsoever.
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    Nate, on March 10, 2011 at 5:16 pm said:

    That’s not much of an opinion question bob, you could cut the entire military budget and you still wouldn’t have a balanced budget.

    Copyleft, they didn’t bust any unions. They probably could have. The only thing that has been done is to restrict what they can negotiate over and prohibit them from forcing persons to pay dues or join. If that counts as union busting…
11. 

    Don, on March 20, 2011 at 12:49 pm said:

    The only power I have is how I spend my money. I will avoid anything from Wisconsin, whether it be cheese, milk, or my tourist dollars. At least I can do that much. Companies can donate to whomever they wish and I can boycot and I WILL.
12. 

    Nate, on March 20, 2011 at 2:00 pm said:

    How symbolic of you. More cheese for me.

    But if you were to actually have an effective boycott, and lead to decreased corporate profits and more corporate layoffs does it occur to you that that would mean decreased state revenues and more state layoffs? Way to support those employees.

    Surely it would be better to buy more Wisconsin products, increase profits which would increase tax revenue and give a stronger case for restoring the privilege of collective bargaining and contribution free pensions?

    That’s all just crazy reasonable talk I know.
13. 

    Michael Hawkins, on March 21, 2011 at 9:20 pm said:

    The budget issues were covered in the concessions the unions were more than ready to give. Money has absolutely nothing to do with it for Walker and Koch.