How Unions Demonize Opponents
Posted on July 1, 2008 at 11:10 am by WTH
There is an interesting little report about a city Supervisor in Amherst, New York and how the city employee unions have demonized him since being elected as a reformer 2 years ago. It is an object lesson in how unions will demonize instead of work with anyone.
When Mohan took office 2 years ago as a reformer, he clearly specified that he wanted union contracts — a huge financial burden for most municipalities — retooled to pare back rich pay packages and fringe benefits.
“Someone has to speak for the people,” he said at last week’s Town Board meeting, where he opposed a police union contract that ultimately passed with only Mohan voting “no.”
Sounds like a fine public official to me! And one thing is sure, the unions sure aren’t speaking for the taxpayers in ANY city in ANY state of the Union. All they want is to rip off the taxpayers as much as possible.
Naturally, Supervisor Mohan’s success at opposing union thugs and paring back thei ill-gotten gains has made him a target of unions.
But the town’s union leaders describe Mohan’s comments as outrageous, offensive and, in some cases, “outright lies.”
In any case, we here at the blog wish Supervisor a long, long, union agitating career.
