[quote=ucodegen]Not supported by facts at hand. If guards @ prisons in California can exceed $100k/yr with full benifits, GM Union Autoworkers can almost do the same, San Diego Port Authority fork lift operators get nearly $140k/yr.. seems to contradict the statement.
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Not sure how this contradicts anything. Democrats have been replacing union dollars with corporate money for a long time – hence in a battle for power – capital has been eroding union power(which also comes through money), for decades. This will continue.
I really hope unions get slaughtered in the next couple years including police pensions. This would be very helpful.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/03/unions-businesses-vie-to-fill.html Even as many Democrats have stood in solidarity with workers whose collective bargaining rights have come under fire in Wisconsin and elsewhere across the country, at the federal level, Democratic candidates and groups have increasingly relied on the business community for support.
A decade ago, during the 2000 election cycle, labor unions accounted for about 40 percent of all money Democrats collected from political action committees, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.
