DeSantis Likes to Call His War on Workers War on Wokeness/For These Same Workers, Hospitals Have Become the New Steel Mills — Minus the Strong Unions

Yes, but you are flagrantly retarded.
Sure, Q-NUT.
The only retards are DuhSantis and his even, dumber cult.

December 28 2922
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top safety official helped write language that helped a former legal client secure a state contract to oversee a controversial program to fly migrants from the southern border to Martha’s Vineyard.

In the process, the official, Larry Keefe, used a non-public email address that made it appear that emails were coming from “Clarice Starling,” the main character from “The Silence of the Lambs” novel.

The newly released records show that Keefe, who served as a U.S. Attorney in the Trump administration, used encrypted messaging apps and a private email address from “Clarice Starling” when communicating with James Montgomerie, CEO of Vertol Systems, a Destin, Fla.-based company the administration paid at least $1.5 million to coordinate the migrant flights. They also show Keefe helping Vertol, who he represented when in private legal practice, draft invoice language the company used when submitting its proposal to the Florida Department of Transportation.
Along with being sued over public records requests, the administration still has not released the Vertol contract or specifically how the $1.5 million was spent.

Legislative leaders have vaguely said they support DeSantis’ focus on immigration when asked about the money for the flights, which amounts to about $50,000 per migrant.

FOR a ONE WAY flight, per person?

BRILLIANT............DUMBASS.
 
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Sure, Q-NUT.
The only retards are DuhSantis and his even, dumber cult.

December 28 2922
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top safety official helped write language that helped a former legal client secure a state contract to oversee a controversial program to fly migrants from the southern border to Martha’s Vineyard.

In the process, the official, Larry Keefe, used a non-public email address that made it appear that emails were coming from “Clarice Starling,” the main character from “The Silence of the Lambs” novel.

The newly released records show that Keefe, who served as a U.S. Attorney in the Trump administration, used encrypted messaging apps and a private email address from “Clarice Starling” when communicating with James Montgomerie, CEO of Vertol Systems, a Destin, Fla.-based company the administration paid at least $1.5 million to coordinate the migrant flights. They also show Keefe helping Vertol, who he represented when in private legal practice, draft invoice language the company used when submitting its proposal to the Florida Department of Transportation.
Along with being sued over public records requests, the administration still has not released the Vertol contract or specifically how the $1.5 million was spent.

Legislative leaders have vaguely said they support DeSantis’ focus on immigration when asked about the money for the flights, which amounts to about $50,000 per migrant.

FOR a ONE WAY flight, per person?

BRILLIANT............DUMBASS.

Boring.
Anything Interesting?
 
Boring.
Anything Interesting?
Along with being sued over public records requests, the administration still has not released the Vertol contract or specifically how the $1.5 million was spent.

Legislative leaders have vaguely said they support DeSantis’ focus on immigration when asked about the money for the flights, which amounts to about $50,000 per migrant.

FOR a ONE WAY flight, per person?

As boring as your dear leader, spending $151 million of taxpayer $$$, on his golf matches.
 
What is the difference, between DuhSantis and a union thug?
A union thug went through apprenticeship, to learn a trade.
DuhSantis just got elected with NO experience at governing, yet people hired the wannabe Trumpster, retard.
You're going to be so unhappy when DeSantis mops the deck with whatever loser you idiots prop up for 2024. Start stockings up on tissues and butthurt cream now.
 
Along with being sued over public records requests, the administration still has not released the Vertol contract or specifically how the $1.5 million was spent.

Legislative leaders have vaguely said they support DeSantis’ focus on immigration when asked about the money for the flights, which amounts to about $50,000 per migrant.

FOR a ONE WAY flight, per person?

As boring as your dear leader, spending $151 million of taxpayer $$$, on his golf matches.

$50,000 a piece is peanuts compared to caring for these iinvaders for the next 50 years.
Again, anything interesting ?
 
Actually Florida is a great representation of the US.

It is also a great example of how the country would really vote if it wasn't for Democrat thievery of elections in the Democrat controlled big city shitholes.

DeSantis is the best Governor in the US and Florida is doing very well with him as a leader.
No proof of Democrat election thievery? :laughing0301:
 
Why do you think that union bosses and union work rules are a good fit for the Government School System?

If Vito or Rocco seizes control of the PTA, how is this going to benefit the children?

It's quite disingenuous of you to pretend that all labor unions are led by the mob. That's just cheap, pathetic, capitalist rhetoric against the working class. Are you a capitalist or just one of its many brainwashed working-class drones? Ironically, you're probably a working-class person, and yet somehow capitalists have convinced you to vote politically in favor of policies that undermine your own interests as an employee (i.e. exploitee).

Are you suggesting that only wealthy capitalists, the American ruling class, can successfully organize their own unions, in the form of chambers of commerce, industry-specific organizations, and guilds, super PACs, lobbying groups, think tanks, and NGOs, but not the working class? Really? The teacher's union can be by law led only by teachers. Unions can and should be run democratically and a considerable number of them do just that.

For you to pretend that all or even most labor unions are corrupted and led by Vito and Rocco is just a pathetic attempt to invalidate any effort that workers make in defending their rights through an organization of their making. Supposedly the working class doesn't even exist for many right-wing capitalists and their cronies in government. They want people to negotiate with their powerful, wealthy employers alone, individually, one on one, without the leverage that a union of laborers provides. How convenient, huh? There is strength in numbers, everyone knows that, including the capitalists, and that's why they organize their own equivalent of unions. They know the value and importance of unionizing as a socioeconomic class to defend their common interests. The working class should do the same.
 
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It's quite disingenuous of you to pretend that all labor unions are led by the mob. That's just cheap, pathetic, capitalist rhetoric against the working class. Are you a capitalist or just one of its many brainwashed working-class drones? Ironically, you're probably a working-class person, and yet somehow capitalists have convinced you to vote politically in favor of policies that undermine your own interests as an employee (i.e. exploitee).

Are you suggesting that only wealthy capitalists, the American ruling class, can successfully organize their own unions, in the form of chambers of commerce, industry-specific organizations, and guilds, super PACs, lobbying groups, think tanks, and NGOs, but not the working class? Really? The teacher's union can be by law led only by teachers. Unions can and should be run democratically and a considerable number of them do just that.

For you to pretend that all or even most labor unions are corrupted and led by Vito and Rocco is just a pathetic attempt to invalidate any effort that workers make in defending their rights through an organization of their making. Supposedly the working class doesn't even exist for many right-wing capitalists and their cronies in government. They want people to negotiate with their powerful, wealthy employers alone, individually, one on one, without the leverage that a union of laborers provides. How convenient, huh? There is strength in numbers, everyone knows that, including the capitalists, and that's why they organize their own equivalent of unions. They know the value and importance of unionizing as a socioeconomic class to defend their common interests. The working class should do the same.


Actually, I have less of a problem with a union led by the La Cosa Nostra than one started by the Communist Party.

The Mafia, for all of its bad points, at least isn't involved in a program of World Conquest. They just use the many they might scam to pay for mistresses, drugs and high living, not to rule over every living soul.

BTW, you are right, there are Marxist unions as well as traditional capitalist shakedown artists. And they are even more dangerous to the public.
 
Ron DeSantis’s crusade against “woke ideology” was always a thinly disguised assault on the rights of Florida teachers and their unions. His recent “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” only makes it explicit.

say you’re a politician angling for the White House while trying to pursue what would be a deeply unpopular campaign against teachers and unions. How do you do it without losing the ability to posture as pro-worker? Or without alienating the disaffected independents and even liberal-leaning voters who you’ll eventually want to peel off?

DeSantis’s “anti-woke” legislation has often ended up not so much curtailing wokeness (which even his office can’t seem to define), as much as it has undermined the basic workplace and constitutional rights of teachers — say, by denying their most basic right of self-expression under threat of firing, or muzzling their teaching, which one Florida judge already flatly ruled violated the First Amendment.

Sure, this often bigoted agenda isn’t particularly popular either. But it’s not quite as politically toxic as picking a fight with a group of workers who polling shows most Americans like and believe deserve better pay, including in Florida.

Now DeSantis is taking this campaign to the next level, more explicitly targeting teachers’ unions with his misleadingly named Teacher’s Bill of Rights, in what DeSantis’s office paints as legislation to “protect teachers from overreaching school unions,” and what Fox News frames as an assault on “union bosses” — a favorite term for corporate “populists” who want to weaken worker power without looking like obvious hypocrites.

DeSantis has put forward a slate of measures under the rubric of “paycheck protection” that are meant to make life much harder for unions in the already anti-union state: mandated reminders that teachers don’t have to join a union and how much it costs if they do, no handing out union literature at work, and no automatic deduction of union dues from paychecks, to name a few. That last one is particularly menacing in a state where, as of 2018, unions get officially disqualified from collective bargaining if less than 50 percent of their members don’t pay dues.

DeSantis would also bump up the requirement for unions to represent at least 50 percent of eligible employees to 60 percent, a provision that seems clearly motivated by the fact that the United Teachers of Dade — whose former president was his recent opponent’s running mate — has a 50.7 percent representation rate. More menacingly, the outline also proposes annual audits for unions, and allows state investigations into them over not just allegations of fraud, but the much broader and more easily politically massaged causes of “waste and abuse.”

This is why corporate-funded politicians like DeSantis have an ideological commitment to weakening unions, given the fact that their financiers view unions as one of the chief threats to their power and wealth. But there are also practical, political reasons that DeSantis himself specifically sees these attacks on teachers’ unions as a priority.

With Florida’s Democrats in a shambles, its teachers’ unions are one of the only remaining institutions that can mount a political challenge to someone like DeSantis, and in a state that has successfully cut the legs out from under workers’ ability to unionize no less. As the right-wing Manhattan Institute has griped, “despite the fact that Florida’s teachers’ unions operate at a comparative disadvantage” to those in some liberal states, “they appear to more than overcome the dual headwinds of on-cycle elections and a more conservative-friendly electorate,” with union-backed candidates hitting at least a 60 percent win-rate in all but one election before 2022. In fact, unions’ ability to win school board elections may well have motivated the provisions in DeSantis’s “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” shortening school board term limits by four years.

DeSantis is clearly a canny politician, but there’s no guarantee his latest salvo against teachers and their unions will work at a time when both unions and teachers are enjoying historic favorability. Wherever the chips fall, no one should talk about DeSantis’s efforts in the state as if they’re part of some war against wokeness. This is an anti-worker crusade, pure and simple.

Teachers unions are evil......but what does the war on wok have to do with them, unless the unions back those initives..like CRT, transgenderism.....so if they do back those, the people that say it's not being taught in schools are again full of crap.
 
Teachers seem to be a force for evil these days. How many teacher grooming vids do you need to see?
Yes. Let’s emphasize the few bad apples as representative of the whole and demonize the very people we most need. No wonder Florida has 5300 teacher vacancies, leading the nation in the number of vacancies.
 
Yes. Let’s emphasize the few bad apples as representative of the whole and demonize the very people we most need. No wonder Florida has 5300 teacher vacancies, leading the nation in the number of vacancies.
Time to just dumb them down like DeSantis wants to do.
 
Actually, I have less of a problem with a union led by the La Cosa Nostra than one started by the Communist Party.

The Mafia, for all of its bad points, at least isn't involved in a program of World Conquest. They just use the many they might scam to pay for mistresses, drugs and high living, not to rule over every living soul.

BTW, you are right, there are Marxist unions as well as traditional capitalist shakedown artists. And they are even more dangerous to the public.
Believe whatever nonsense toots your horn, but the reality is that workers must have the legal protected right to unionize.
 
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Ron DeSantis’s crusade against “woke ideology” was always a thinly disguised assault on the rights of Florida teachers and their unions. His recent “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” only makes it explicit.

say you’re a politician angling for the White House while trying to pursue what would be a deeply unpopular campaign against teachers and unions. How do you do it without losing the ability to posture as pro-worker? Or without alienating the disaffected independents and even liberal-leaning voters who you’ll eventually want to peel off?

DeSantis’s “anti-woke” legislation has often ended up not so much curtailing wokeness (which even his office can’t seem to define), as much as it has undermined the basic workplace and constitutional rights of teachers — say, by denying their most basic right of self-expression under threat of firing, or muzzling their teaching, which one Florida judge already flatly ruled violated the First Amendment.

Sure, this often bigoted agenda isn’t particularly popular either. But it’s not quite as politically toxic as picking a fight with a group of workers who polling shows most Americans like and believe deserve better pay, including in Florida.

Now DeSantis is taking this campaign to the next level, more explicitly targeting teachers’ unions with his misleadingly named Teacher’s Bill of Rights, in what DeSantis’s office paints as legislation to “protect teachers from overreaching school unions,” and what Fox News frames as an assault on “union bosses” — a favorite term for corporate “populists” who want to weaken worker power without looking like obvious hypocrites.

DeSantis has put forward a slate of measures under the rubric of “paycheck protection” that are meant to make life much harder for unions in the already anti-union state: mandated reminders that teachers don’t have to join a union and how much it costs if they do, no handing out union literature at work, and no automatic deduction of union dues from paychecks, to name a few. That last one is particularly menacing in a state where, as of 2018, unions get officially disqualified from collective bargaining if less than 50 percent of their members don’t pay dues.

DeSantis would also bump up the requirement for unions to represent at least 50 percent of eligible employees to 60 percent, a provision that seems clearly motivated by the fact that the United Teachers of Dade — whose former president was his recent opponent’s running mate — has a 50.7 percent representation rate. More menacingly, the outline also proposes annual audits for unions, and allows state investigations into them over not just allegations of fraud, but the much broader and more easily politically massaged causes of “waste and abuse.”

This is why corporate-funded politicians like DeSantis have an ideological commitment to weakening unions, given the fact that their financiers view unions as one of the chief threats to their power and wealth. But there are also practical, political reasons that DeSantis himself specifically sees these attacks on teachers’ unions as a priority.

With Florida’s Democrats in a shambles, its teachers’ unions are one of the only remaining institutions that can mount a political challenge to someone like DeSantis, and in a state that has successfully cut the legs out from under workers’ ability to unionize no less. As the right-wing Manhattan Institute has griped, “despite the fact that Florida’s teachers’ unions operate at a comparative disadvantage” to those in some liberal states, “they appear to more than overcome the dual headwinds of on-cycle elections and a more conservative-friendly electorate,” with union-backed candidates hitting at least a 60 percent win-rate in all but one election before 2022. In fact, unions’ ability to win school board elections may well have motivated the provisions in DeSantis’s “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” shortening school board term limits by four years.

DeSantis is clearly a canny politician, but there’s no guarantee his latest salvo against teachers and their unions will work at a time when both unions and teachers are enjoying historic favorability. Wherever the chips fall, no one should talk about DeSantis’s efforts in the state as if they’re part of some war against wokeness. This is an anti-worker crusade, pure and simple.

DeSantis wants to cripple teacher unions so he can bully them into bowing to his deranged anti woke bullshit as he keeps them under his thumb with threats & intimidation to bow down to his extreme right wing ideas.

The guy is a fucking bully & a power hungry lowlife. And we have Trump to thank for that asshole.
 
Believe whatever nonsense toots your horn, but the reality is that workers must have the legal protected right to unionize.


No problem, workers have a right to organize to pony up and give tribute to union bosses whether they are communists or mafioso.

There, we don't have a disagreement.

But if a worker DOESN'T want to fork over part of their income and take orders from a labor goon, that's their prerogative as well.
 
Hospitals - steel mills? Unions in Florida? More socialists nonsense.
Pretending medical staff./workers shouldn't unionize because they're not a factory is capitalist claptrap. All workers should unite and form organizations that protect their common interests. If you're unable or unwilling to recognize that, who cares? You're not winning, people with your ideas are becoming irrelevant by the day.
 

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