Statements about Labor
The Central Falls fire department is "one of the lowest, if not the lowest, paid fire departments in the state and entire region."
Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.
Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.
"The average 401(k) in America of a person who's 60 years old is under $100,000."
Says many public-employee unions falsely told their Wisconsin members his budget-repair bill sought 12 percent to 13 percent of their incomes for health insurance premiums.
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.
"Protesters caused $7.5 million in damage to the Wisconsin State House"
"Two thirds of the people in Wisconsin strongly disagree with this idea of permanently taking away people’s rights to collective bargaining."
Protesters "attacked" the group’s headquarters with "graffiti on the sidewalk" and "stenciled images … smeared on the building and statue."
"Abraham Lincoln (once) jumped out of a window in the Illinois Legislature in order to deny a quorum."
The Providence teacher contract "is one of the longest in the country."
"The Ohio Democratic Party has raised $1.1 million since the November election. A very small percentage of that has come from organized labor."
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "literally invented a $3.6 billion deficit."
"Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees."
Says he has exposed plans by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to push legislation that would allow the state to declare financial martial law and take over municipal governments.
Republicans offered Wisconsin bar patrons "free shots (of alcohol) to sign recall petitions against" Democrats.
"In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. … You’re also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents."
Says protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car.
"Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall."
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