Re: [Mpls] Now the Governor has the strike he wanted

[WizardMarks]

Bill Cullen wrote:

Be careful here.  Remember this board predicting Minnesota would look like a
shoot out at OK Corral when the relaxed conceal carry passed?  Well, I
haven't seen it yet.  (Don't bring up the recent spat of gang shootings --
those are not licensed conceal carry folk).
The traffic appears ok this morning....

WM: But it isn't OK. My health aide cannot come to work without the bus. 
Hundreds of people are without help today because aides almost all use 
mass transit to get to work. Hospital workers do too, so I'll bet 
there's a real shortage of folks. City Hall secretaries and the 
secretaries of hundreds of offices both downtown and at the U.

Businesses go through cycles.  Just because one was paid
well, doesn't mean the curve should continue.
WM: I beg to differ strongly. It is in all our interests to have the 
first rung into the middle class wide and strong. Fairly paid blue and 
pink collared workers are how to create and maintain a middle class. In 
a democracy that flow of people away from poverty is what keeps things 
moving. The losses which throw people into poverty are chock full of 
bitterness.

I will admit to being a dunce about labor negotiations.  Can you elaborate
(please) on the arbitration process?  Is it binding?
WM: There are both kinds. Bell is unwilling to go to arbitration because 
arbitrators often give back some of what the union wants. Whether it 
were binding or not, the public would still know, from the arbitrator, 
that the state's position was unsupportable.

I don't see much benefit to break a union and would be surprised if this was
a goal. 

WM: That the state is short-sighted is not a new phenomenon. But there 
is an accomodation to be made here. And both sides would most probably 
have to concede something(s). Bell's position is that he concedes 
nothing and the union concedes all--and no chance of arbitration. Bell's 
position, to concede nothing to labor, is arrogant beyond hope. Any city 
runs on labor--the cogs, the wheels, the cams, the motors, the cleaning 
and bed-making and paper pushing. Who are Bell and Pawlenty to thumb 
their noses at laborers?

WizardMarks, Central
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