Calling President Barack Obama’s re-election a victory for “working
class people,” energized unions are ramping up nationwide campaigns in
an effort to win greater support for the president’s heavily pro-union
political agenda over the next four years.
And that means business owners will have to put strikes, sitdowns and other union tactics on their list of worries along with higher taxes.
Unions found that many Obama proposals were looked on positively in exit polls from Tuesday’s election. They were especially emboldened by a successful $75 million-effort that defeated Proposition 32 on Tuesday's California ballot.
That measure would have starved unions of the tens of millions of dollars in mandatory dues they use to finance campaigns and political organizing. Across the country, government workers have been facing political pressure to roll back pension and retiree health care benefits that in many cases are much more generous than those received by their private-sector counterparts and are straining state and municipal budgets.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a right-to-work law in February banning unions from collecting mandatory fees for representation, and labor suffered a defeat in Wisconsin earlier this year when Republican Gov. Scott Walker defeated a recall challenge following his push to limit collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
Demographic shifts that were key factors in Obama's win have long been on display in California and were critical in the outcome across the state ballot Tuesday, Jim Brulte, a former Republican leader in the California state Senate, told the Associated Press.
And that means business owners will have to put strikes, sitdowns and other union tactics on their list of worries along with higher taxes.
Unions found that many Obama proposals were looked on positively in exit polls from Tuesday’s election. They were especially emboldened by a successful $75 million-effort that defeated Proposition 32 on Tuesday's California ballot.
That measure would have starved unions of the tens of millions of dollars in mandatory dues they use to finance campaigns and political organizing. Across the country, government workers have been facing political pressure to roll back pension and retiree health care benefits that in many cases are much more generous than those received by their private-sector counterparts and are straining state and municipal budgets.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a right-to-work law in February banning unions from collecting mandatory fees for representation, and labor suffered a defeat in Wisconsin earlier this year when Republican Gov. Scott Walker defeated a recall challenge following his push to limit collective bargaining rights for most public workers.
Demographic shifts that were key factors in Obama's win have long been on display in California and were critical in the outcome across the state ballot Tuesday, Jim Brulte, a former Republican leader in the California state Senate, told the Associated Press.
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