Labor Unions buy Strickland

And, in the "Mankind dies without Oxygen" type of headline, the Dayton Daily News posted a Sept. 4 story reporting that Labor Unions have thus far unanimously endorsed Ted Strickland. They have particulary supported him with their money, giving him nearly $700,000 in contributions, which equals about 8-9% of his total 8.5 million collected. The paper errs, saying that TS collected only $6.2 million.

The paper tries to criticize JKB by noting that he has not garnered any union endorsements while Taft did in 2002, but a different article notes that union membership roles are declining. This means JKB supports employment that increases jobs and wages, i.e., WalMart etc..., while TS supports business practices that go the way of the railroads, i.e, very few working at a very high pay-scale.

Interestingly Ohio has tried to enact right-to-work laws that don't demand union membership as a condition to employment. The unions hope this law departs to the political equivalent of hell. Yet the Supreme Court allows for conscientious objectors: employees who still pay union contributions, but do not partake of contract negotiations, yet they can't be fired for doing something different than the union. Another version of conscentious objectors allows both sides to decide to contribute the dues to an agreed-upon non-profit group.

IN the end, JKB has not followed the way of tax-increasing Taft & Strickland, but his own way to keep taxes low.

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