Here we go again - those ALEC assholes trying to fuck up another County.

This time they're trying to fuck with my previous County of residence.

http://nwlaborpress.org/2015/04/clark-county-residents-blast-proposed-right-work-resolution/

Let's face it - 'right-to-work'=ALEC idiocy. While on those subjects, let's hear from the 'multimillionaire business owner serving in his first term' - you know - the person who supposedly drafted this legislation.

Ah, let's not. I don't need to give ALEC more space.

What I will give is more space to the residents and union members who spoke out -

“These resolutions are of no value to this community. They serve no purpose other than to be destructive to a current workforce that works very hard and has been very successful,” said Vancouver resident Mike Richards,  executive secretary of Office and Professional Employees Local 11. Local 11 represents some Clark County employees.

Union Carpenter Ron Robbins of Camas said right-to-work isn’t about rights and it isn’t about work.
“Right-to-work, let’s not kid ourselves about it—lowers wages. There’s not a state in this union where that experiment’s been tried that it hasn’t. So it’s complete B.S. to say that isn’t what it is. It’s about lowering the wages  of the working man,” he said.

Robbins pointed to Idaho, a right-to-work state since the mid-’80s. “They have the lowest personal income of any state in the union. They passed up Mississippi last year … congratulations.” Idaho’s number one export, he said, “is their young people. They have to get out of there, or they can’t survive.”

Beatrice Jenkins, a 20-year member of Operating Engineers Local 701 who lives in Woodland, said “people who think we don’t need unions any more are wrong.”

She told councilors how difficult it is for women working in the construction industry, especially nonunion. You can’t speak out if a job is unsafe, for fear of being fired, she said. And pay isn’t always equal. “If you take away the union, you take away the voice that women have out there,” she said.

IBEW Local 48 member Kevin Lux of Vancouver told councilors that he is from a conservative Republican family—all of whom are or were union members. Lux then read pro-union quotes from Presidents Eisenhower and Lincoln. “So, if  you can’t believe us as Democrats or labor people, look to those Republicans from the past—the stances they took, and the elections they won.”

Retired Laborers Union official Dave Letinich of Vancouver reminded councilors that union members make up a large portion of the “citizens “of Clark County. He said he was offended by a councilor’s remark at a previous meeting complaining that they (councilors) hadn’t heard much from regular citizens.

“You look at the hundreds of us here that are opposed to these resolutions—we are the citizens. Just because we’re in the union …”

Vancouver resident Sid Clark, a member of Teamsters Local 117, said councilors opened a pandora’s box.”The people of Clark County, we’re Republicans, we’re Democrats, and we’re independents, but when we come together for a common cause … we’re going to stand up,” he said."

Thank you folks for doing so.