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delete_bush

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13. Your condescending attitude aside,
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 12:28 PM
Sep 2014

why not deal with what I posted, i.e. that I find it troubling that a city council can focus on the wage structure of a single industry. If they want to raise the minimum wage for everyone that's different - go for it.

And if you're of the opinion that representative democracy is always the be all end all, you'll just love the city council of Fort Wayne, Indiana...

May 28, 2014

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The Fort Wayne City Council has voted to bring an end to collective bargaining with all city employees except police officers and firefighters.

Council members voted 6-3 along party lines Tuesday night to approve the Republican-sponsored proposal, giving them enough votes to override a promised veto from Democratic Mayor Tom Henry, The Journal Gazette and The News-Sentinel reported.

The measure approved by council members would end contract negotiations with six other unions representing workers in Indiana's second-largest city, which has nearly 260,000 residents.


https://news.vice.com/article/americas-union-busting-conservatives-are-going-local

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