Wisconsin

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Wrong again,

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, get some glasses.

Gee whizz.....its on the header when you open up 'the Truth'.

Mind if I use yours?

 

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The real numbers

 

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The real facts:

 

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The real numbers

BLS.....aren't they the ones that come out on a Friday saying the Unemp's went down then a week later it is always worse than what they reported?

 

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If the numbers don't agree with your politics,

they must be wrong.

 

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If the numbers don't agree with your politics,

they must be wrong.

Yeah, that's how they do it on the left side DW. Thanks for bringing that up.

 

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Yeah, that's how they do it on the left side DW. Thanks for bringing that up.

Anyone who argues the employment numbers were better during the Bush Jr. years is destined to be a birther.

 

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NYT: Public Sector Unions Defending Workers Accused of Abuse and Sexual Assault

Abused and Used - At State-Run Homes, Abuse and Impunity

The Times reviewed 399 disciplinary cases involving 233 state workers who were accused of one of seven serious offenses, including physical abuse and neglect, since 2008. In each of the cases examined, the agency had substantiated the charges, and the worker had been previously disciplined at least once.

In 25 percent of the cases involving physical, sexual or psychological abuse, the state employees were transferred to other homes.

The state initiated termination proceedings in 129 of the cases reviewed but succeeded in just 30 of them, in large part because the workers’ union, the Civil Service Employees Association, aggressively resisted firings in almost every case. A few employees resigned, even though the state sought only suspensions.

However, it's the specific examples in the story that are truly horrifying:

At a home upstate in Hudson Falls, two days before Christmas in 2006, an employee discovered her supervisor, Ricky W. Sousie, in the bedroom of a severely disabled, 54-year-old woman. Mr. Sousie, a stocky man with wispy hair, was standing between the woman’s legs. His pants were around his ankles, his hand was on her knee and her diaper was pulled down.

The police were called, and semen was found on the victim. But the state did not seek to discipline Mr. Sousie. Instead, it transferred him to work at another home.

Roger Macomber, an employee at a group home in western New York, grabbed a woman in his care, threw her against a fence, and then flung her into a wall, according to a 2007 disciplinary report. He was then assigned to work at another group home.

Mr. Macomber, in fact, was transferred to different homes four times in the past decade for disciplinary reasons. It was not until last year, after he left a person unattended while he went into a store, that he was put on employment probation and eventually dismissed.

Over the past year, the state agency overseeing the homes, the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, has repeatedly declined to make its top officials available for interviews. A spokesman, Herm Hill, said that the vast majority of the agency’s employees were conscientious, and that its hands were often tied because of the disciplinary and arbitration rules involving the workers’ union. Mr. Hill emphasized that the agency takes allegations of abuse “very seriously.

 

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Anyone who argues the employment numbers were better during the Bush Jr. years is destined to be a birther.

Interesting point, can you show me where I claimed that?

 

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Why?

AFL-CIO's Liz Shuler on Labor Education ""We Need to Get Into the Elementary Schools."

Democratic Socialists of America connected AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Liz Shuler was quoted in today's edition of Communist Party USA news site Peoples World, in reference to labor union "education" in public schools;
By contrast, Shuler notes "Wisconsin years ago passed" a mandate for labor education within its schools. "That's why the students came with their teachers," she said about the ongoing protests in Madison against right wing GOP Gov. Scott Walker's moves to strip 200,000 state and local workers of collective bargaining rights.

"High school is too late" to educate students about unions and workers, says Shuler, the daughter of union parents in Oregon who joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as an activist and organizer after college. "We need to get into the elementary schools."

You'd better believe it. These people are coming for your children.

 

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There is no socialism and the decline of US was Bush II, Six Million Jobs lost under his policies.

Comrade,

 

[Kev3188]

You'd better believe it. These people are coming for your children.

That's a bit dramatic.

That said, I don't think labor relations needs to neccessarily be a stand alone class, but would like to see it as a component of a business law/employment law combo at maybe the freshman or sophmore level. The employment law piece is especially relevant, as that's when many kids get their first jobs.

I'd also like to see civics make a comeback, but that's a topic for another day...

 

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PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS