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There should be a bill introduced to protect those who are forced to join a Union and who do not receive fair representation.

 

Public unions have been more than willing to work with localities to reduce cost in hard economic times.

 Yeah, right............MEA, FSME in Detroit.  Give us a break!  They are a joke as we speak.

 They are fighting the Emergency Manager all the way instead of taking on the problem...........legacy costs!  The EM is just a "buffer" so in the end it will be a Federal Judge and it will be 100 times worse than it would be if they don't correct the deficiencies NOW.  Pensioneers will take the biggest hit in the end and then who are the MEA and FSME going to blame..........George Bush like their hero Obama?  Typical !

The emergency manager is an affront against democracy. You would think the teabagger's would be incensed with the theft of liberty involved in an appointed bureaucrat taking the power from elected officials.

 gypsy.........you have just exposed yourself to hypocrisy yet again!  Why?  I'm sure that you support your Missiah's Czar's that have been appointed, on the taxpayers dime and with your support?  right? Sad !  You can cut someone but when it is turned on you, you don't have an answer!  Typical liberal whimp!

Poor Mr. tater, so enamored of media hype. "Czar" is a nickname used by the media to describe various executive branch officials appointed to oversee certain policies. They do not, as opposed to Snyder's financial managers, have the authority to remove elected officials. Your lesson for the day.

  Behonest.  What would the fair representation entail? (just inquisitive)

gypsy:

The emergency manager is an affront against democracy. You would think the teabagger's would be incensed with the theft of liberty involved in an appointed bureaucrat taking the power from elected officials.

 

 EFM was created by Democrat Governor Jim Blanchard in 1990. Granholm used an EFM in Benton Harbor, Flint, Pontiac, and 3 other cities while she was Governor. The only reason we are hearing so much about it now is because it's Detroit. I'm in my early 40's and I can't ever remember Detroit being in good shape. But it has gotten so bad that Detroit is now a national joke! Radical changes have to be made because whatever it is they're doing now clearly isn't working, and hasn't been for years.

Detroit - im old enough to remember it being as i would describe the land of mfg pride.however mfg costs rose there as well when the labor rates in goverment are too much the very same wiill come to them. an EFM just somebody mull over the job nobody wants to do Rick Wagoner should of had 14 of those probably still have his job and hummer and Saturn, and no dirty money. They still need to get tough at gm to survive. Want i want to hear in the news is they are paying down the debt and forcing the competition to invest money to compete, with them. they may have sold the most cars however what was their real profit margin ? anybody guess?

Freerider... you either intentional distort facts, or are poorly informed. I'll be generous, and assume the latter. The emergency manager law was amended under Snyder to allow appointed officials to break union contracts and dissolve elected bodies. As I said, I'm surprised the teabaggers aren't up in arms about appointed government officials firing elected representatives of the people. Maybe they are only against the heavy hand of government when it's a Democratic hand.

This is what is wrong with public Unions, retiring at 40 on the taxpayers dime. This gives new meaning to the term, "legacy costs"! You draw your own conclusions on this one. Where does it end? http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16789