Labor laughs at Foley’s ‘Wisconsin moment’ explanation

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4 responses to “Labor laughs at Foley’s ‘Wisconsin moment’ explanation”

1. lilly deacon

   June 17, 2014

   I don’t think “laughter” is the right word, a snicker is what I heard from people that were there.
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   Nice Liberal spin, though – too bad it’s a typical lie.

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2. John Hamlin

   June 17, 2014

   If that’s what he meant, too bad. The rights of non-public workers to organize and collectively bargain should not be altered — it’s an American tradition. But the rights of public employees to bargain against the taxpayers (that’s all of us), and for public employee unions to make contributions to political candidates and parties — all of that needs to be reformed. Connecticut needs to put an end to the corrupt relationship between public employees and politicians who determine their compensation. End “contribute to my campaign and support me and I will make sure your compensation and pension benefit exceeds the market and what the average taxpayer earns.” It’s almost a criminal enterprise and it needs to stop. But Foley just said he wouldn’t touch it. Too bad. The fact is that Connecticut needs a Wisconsin era, not just a moment!! But Connecticut voters won’t stand a chance if Foley runs against Malloy. Let’s hope the Republicans nominate someone else.

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3. LWitherspoon

   June 17, 2014

   @John Hamilin
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   “Connecticut needs to put an end to the corrupt relationship between public employees and politicians who determine their compensation.”
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   Right on!
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   Here in Norwalk we have the perfect example of the aforementioned corrupt relationship in Common Councilman David Watts. Mr. Watts displayed his support for municipal employee unions by donning a Local 2405 T-shirt to a formal Council meeting where outsourcing garbage collection was on the agenda. Local 2405 is the Union that represented the City employees who were handling garbage collection at the time, and staunchly opposed outsourcing purely out of self-interest.

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4. One and Done.

   June 17, 2014

   It is amazing that public labor unions continue to have the wool pulled over everyone’s eyes.
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   In the private sector, if you and a bunch of co-workers pooled some money together and paid off your boss to give you a raise not in the best interest of the shareholders….people could go to jail for that.
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   Recall Malloy’s hand picked provost of the CSU system who we were paying 300,000 a year working from his home in Indiana. He was giving out 50,000 raises without board approval. Only that he got caught he had to resign. How many other deals like this are going on in our state right now? I hope Foley or whoever puts Malloy to task for this. People should have gone to prison but instead they get to keep their jobs and guaranteed pensions for life.
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   One and Done.

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