they have done it in 10 states already with home, healthcare workers and child care workers. wife would that be add van advantageous? well, every million new members is a billion dollars in dues for the shadow bosses the bosses running the government employee unions. see, they bask raid as helping workers and workers rights. but the fact is that they re out big bosses, thugs. you talk about this a lot in your book talking about how they have lined their pockets, they have fattened their wallets, the bosses, while conditions for workers haven t necessarily changed or improved. they are truly the 1%. they gave lots of money to occupy wall street. these government unions. but it is amazing the salaries they make. a secretary treasure of one of the unions makes 847,000. in a year and a half as after
federal law. and president reagan fired them all. we cannot compare labor management relations in the private sector with government. government has to provide without interruption, the protective services which are government s reason for being. so it is notprising public unions ally with democrats as the providence rhode island fire union president paul dowdy. the republican party believes in a smaller government. as a government worker, i don t necessarily agree with that. by the 2008 election, a former community organizer with long ties to one of the largest government employee unions of all. working with seiu. was setting the stage for an epiem battle of these organizations and their clout. a financial crisis would catapult their man to the white house. but it would also bring those
extraordinary critical role in this country, especially since the war, as manufacturing is left, they ve moved down to 7%, now 7% of americans are in private sector unions. public sector unions even lower than 7%. what is it now? 5 and change. by the way, is bad news for our economy. it s bad news for the middle class. private sector unions dwindle and the public sector unions grow, they become the tail wagging the dog. you re so right. the to your question from before, if you make outrageous demands in the private sector, you put the company out of business. you make outrageous demands in the public sector and then the taxpayers have to shell out more. you re funding the people making doots he sigses. it s a cycle. what s basically happened is that the government employee unions have become the piggybank of the democratic party. you take away that funding, the
which legislation to support and when to bend the demands of the unions and contract negotiations. the shadow boxes are there to tap politicians on the back when they support the interests of government employee unions and they re there there to tear them down if they go against those interests. very interesting. welcome to the show. thanks so much. thrilled to be here. the book is doing well. doing great. it s barns and nobles, it s ahead of. the book that barnicle reads 24/7. shades of grey . exactly. you know people are getting bored when that happens. seriously. ask the question, but this is touching a nerve? yeah. it is. i mean a reason walker got re-elected in sort of, you know, the most pro union states in america. and increasingly popular apparently in wisconsin.
have to pay so the waivers cover 88 percent by yown unions. that caused the cost of obama care to go up. but that was not the real issue. they just wanted more. and remember en government employee unions buy their politicians, they want to make sure they stay bought and dictate everything they get. government employee unions are the greatest scam perpetrated on the american people. gretchen: in what way? it is a scam money goes from the politician back to the union back to the politicians . no one is representing the taxpayer. the taxpayer should be out in the street asking the politicians who is the shadow bosses? american peoplor government union heads. gretchen: you talk about