Public sector unions are still threatening businesses in Wisconsin.
Radio talk show host Jay Weber posted a letter that is being circulated to Wisconsin businesses that have not put up a sign publicly supporting the unions.
The message: Obey us or else!
The lengthy letter states, in part:
It is unfortunate that you have chosen ‘not’ to support public workers rights in Wisconsin. In recent past weeks you have been offered a sign by a public employee who works in one of the state facilities in the Union Grove area. These signs simply said, ‘This Business Supports Workers Rights,’ a simple, subtle and we feel non-controversial statement gives the facts at this time.”
Apparently, the letter - which is somewhat reminiscent of a protection racket - implies that the business supports Governor Walker if they don't comply with the union's demands.
Who is acting like a dictator now?
the letter also says:
"State employees fully expect to take some lumps financially in these tough economic times, we have offered and we will. But don't take away rights to what has kept workplace peace for half a century and has worked well."
Workplace peace? Is the union now threatening violence in the workplace? Violence has been a part of the Wisconsin Insurrection from the beginning, and has resulted in death threats against Republican lawmakers, their families and staff members.
Business who do not cave in to the demands of the unions will face a boycott:
“Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means 'no' to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members."
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Jim Parrett, a field representative of Council 24 for Southeast Wisconsin, confirmed the contents of the letter, which carries his signature.
Parrett said he has received threatening phone calls since the letters went out. Apparently, he can't understand that business owners do not like being threatened by union thugs.
The Sentinel also reported:
Terri Gray, executive director of the Union Grove Chamber of Commerce, said she had received many calls from member businesses about the union-led effort. She said most of the calls came from businessmen and women who preferred to remain neutral in the dispute between Gov. Scott Walker and organized labor.
"They don't want to pick a side," she said. "I told them, 'I believe you can choose to not choose.'"
But the unions have made it clear there is no such thing as neutrality and they will do anything to get their way.
Wisconsin is in the middle of a contentious campaign to decide who will sit on the Supreme Court in that state. The campaign pits Republican David Prosser against union-backed JoAnne Kloppenburg. The unions have pulled out all the stops to defeat Prosser, even going so far as to engage in a multi-million dollar smear campaign.
If Prosser loses, the unions will basically own the Supreme Court and there will be nothing to stop their campaign of terror against Wisconsin businesses and voters.
An article at the National Review Online sums up the situation well:
The question to be answered in Wisconsin is: Who works for whom? Do the public employees work for the citizens, or are the citizens mere cattle to be disposed of at the pleasure of the bureaucrats and their union bosses? Every arrow in the quiver — court cases, judicial elections, recall, lawsuits, lies, libels, and brute thuggery — will be thrown at this case, along with lots of money derived from the union dues that state and local governments helpfully deduct from their employees’ paychecks on the unions’ behalf. Wisconsin may seem an unlikely battleground, but a line must be drawn, and this is the place to draw it.
If Kloppenburg wins, Wisconsin will become a full-fleged thugocracy run by the public sector unions, and union bosses like Jim Parrett will be free to engage in whatever extortion or threats they feel is warranted.
It is time for voters in Wisconsin to stand up and tell the union thugs "no more."
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