Jarasans Blog

Absolutely right, disolve and replace and then America will prosper...!

Right on!

While I agree with what you say, we must be careful. The media is trying to make this look like a union issue in another effort to divide and conquer. The unions are the last political force we have in America. That is why the PTB is trying to break them. If you want real change in this country don't take sides against the unions, public or private. The people have very few options left to express their outrage. These middle class union workers are outraged at the same govt corruption that middle class non-union folks are.

"The fight in Wisconsin is over Governor Walker's 144-page Budget Repair Bill. The parts everyone is focusing on have to do with the right to collectively bargain being stripped from public sector unions (except for the unions that supported Walker running for Governor). Focusing on this misses a large part of what the bill would do.

Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/11/02/878775/how-walkers-wisconsin-plan-allows-for-the-selling-of-energy-assets-with-no-bids#ixzz1Et25GZBb

You are right Rick G, strange that I agree with your point.I can't believe some of you people would tried to take away the Union. It would be very stupid for the common person still working to want to break the Unions whether you have them or not has something to do with the way you are treated on your jobs.The 40hrs work wk. ,wages increase , sick days ,holiday pay, health care,child labor law,maternity leave,bereavement leave,family leave act and etc.So if you are retired and think you have nothing to lose so be it.

The last political force we have left in the US, is the voter, not the unions. The executive branch in DC is being run by a union puppet whose strings are held by the likes of Dick Trumka, if that doesn't bother us we are in trouble. According to Andrea Mitchell GANGSTAPUPPETTOTUSPOS hasn't spoken to 6 of his cabinet members in 2 years yet Trumka is in daily communication with the white house. The unions, taxes, and govt. over regulation are sucking the last breaths of life this great nation has left. Competition, not demands of workers and taxes energizes an economy.

The man responsible for instituting the 40-hour-work-week is Massachusetts native of New York George F. Johnson, who announced that no American should have to work more than 40 hours per week. This announcement took effect as a rule on November 1, 1916 in the Endicott-Johnson factories.[4] Johnson had a philosophy to divide all his profits evenly between capital, owners, and workers. 40 hours, to him, represented the even division of a workers' time during the 5 days he gives his time for the production of good.

The industrial revolution made it possible for a larger segment of the population to work year-round, since this labor was not tied to the season and artificial lighting made it possible to work longer each day. Peasants and farm laborers moved from rural areas to the factories, and working time during a year has been significantly higher since then.[5] Before collective bargaining and worker protection laws, there was a financial incentive for a company to maximize the return on expensive machinery by having long hours. Records indicate that work schedules as arduous as twelve to sixteen hours per day, six to seven days per week were practiced in some industrial sites.

The automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, was an ardent proponent of shorter work hours, which he introduced unilaterally in his own factories. Ford stated that he pursued this policy for business rather than humanitarian reasons. He believed that workers (who were also the main consumers of products) needed adequate leisure time to consume products and thus perceive a need to purchase them. Over the long term, consumer markets needed to be grown. This view of the economy has become the predominant one since then.

Recent studies[6][7] supporting a four-day week have shown that reduced work hours not only increase consumption and invigorate the economy, but also improve worker's level of education (due to having extra time to take classes and courses) and worker's health (less work-related stress and extra time for exercise). Reduced hours also save money on daycare costs and transportation, which in turn helps the environment with less carbon-related emissions. The aggregate of all these extra benefits actually increases worker productivity on a per-hour basis.

Over the 20th century, work hours declined by almost half, mostly because of rising wages brought about by a renewed economic growth, with a supporting role from trade unions and collective bargaining, and progressive legislation. The workweek, in most of the industrialized world, dropped steadily, to about forty hours after World War II. The decline has continued at a faster pace in Europe: for example, France adopted a 35-hour workweek in 2000, but North America has not. In 1995, China adopted a 40-hour week, eliminating half-day work on Saturdays. Working hours in industrializing economies like South Korea, though still much higher than the leading industrial countries, are also declining steadily.

Technology has also continued to improve worker productivity, permitting standards of living to rise as hours declined.[8] However, in the absence of declining work hours in goods-producing industries, there has been a shift in the nature of output in national economies. Economic growth in monetary terms tends to be concentrated in health care, education, government, criminal justice, corrections, and other activities that are regarded as necessary for society rather than those that contribute directly to the production of material goods.[citation needed]

When I said "the last political force in this country", I meant "the last organized group to have political clout". Voters don't have clout or we wouldn't be in this mess.

Voters, I believe have lots' o clout, just look at the last election. The cowardly dems in Wisconsin Ohio and Indiana are heading for the hills...............why do you think?????????? They are no longer the majority neither are the unions and that is why they are going to go down hard, they can't accept the reality of losing and getting with the program, thanks to the voters, remember as our great leader stated "ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES".