Comments on: Culver’s latest executive order

By: Promote Fairness Through E-Verify, Not Union Pandering « VoteMattSchultz

Promote Fairness Through E-Verify, Not Union Pandering « VoteMattSchultz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:00:59 +0000

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By: Pat O'Regan

Pat O'Regan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:33:06 +0000

Unions aren’t the problem. Pandering to Unions and using executive priveledges to reward political contributions is the problem. People work for whom they work for a variety of reasons. Forcing someone to adapt to a one sided set of political ideals (unionization) is wrong. Preventing a company from competing is wrong. Why cant any company that competes be put on the same labor and wage scale? It’s a simple clause in a contract that is specific to the job. Culver has just put the noose around his own neck! It proves the character of the individual. Whatever happened to the investigatiion regards the Voting Funds scandal from his days as Lietenant Governor? As soon as that story surface, he made the “deeply thought out” decision to cut the budget across the board. That really helped Iowa families didn’t it? Culver was elected Governor, not King. He needs to be investigated!

By: John J Merrick

John J Merrick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:42:19 +0000

As usual the republicians and the ABC are fighting a order that is fair for workers. What they don’t tell you is the TRUTH about non union contractors, That is they (the non union contractors) KNOW what a union contractor’s labor cost are and then underbid by just enough to get a job, The difference is the union contractor pays a fair and living wage usually with benifits. The non union contractor pays about half as much in wages with little or NO BENIFITS. He then keeps the BIG PROFITS all to his self.
So look at this way, with a PLA a hundred families make a good living. Without a PLA only ONE family makes a good living. I have seen this first hand as I was foolish enough to work non union once in my life.
John J Merrick IBEW LU 347