Want Collective Bargaining Reform in Nebraska? It is up to YOU

Post author:Stubborn_Facts
Post published:March 8, 2011
Post category:Action / Nebraska / Network Archives / Oklahoma / R3publicans

If you believe collective bargaining reform in Nebraska is important, it’s important to understand that it’s going to be up to the people within the state to keep up the pressure on all of the elected officials. This is particularly true if you recognize how collective bargaining is negatively impacting spending and influencing the outcome of policy on ongoing basis.

Based on all the evidence currently available, we are skeptical about the outcome of collective bargaining reform. In addition to the very unusual number of bills introduced, the two measures that stand to truly impact the issue in a way that would remove barriers to capping spending have received very little support from any elected officials.

Events in Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states have provided an opportunity to educate the people of Nebraska on the subject, but it’s been very quiet.

Unfortunately, our Nebraska Legislature, which is super-majority Republican, is waiting…waiting…waiting to see what Business and Labor Committee Chair Steve Lathrop is going to do about collective bargaining and the CIR. Reportedly, this is out of respect for the Committee process.

It seems to me that respect should be given in a measure which is directly proportional to that which is due. With all due respect to our legislators, how much respect is due the Chair of the Business and Labor Committee? I don’t make these statements lightly. Please see THIS ARTICLE for additional information, if needed.

Although our Senators seem prepared to wait…and wait…apparently, as my grandparents used to say, “until the cows come home” (or perhaps more eloquently, for Godot), we should not. The flyer embedded and linked to below is an updated and slightly improved version of the one we handed out on Saturday, February 26.

In addition to making contacts of your own, can you think of at least 5 people to with whom you can share a flyer? You can email them a link using the email icon below or perhaps even hand them a printed version.

GiN Collective Bargaining Reform Flyer

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts

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