living was back in 1958. republicans wanted to outlaw union shops with a constitutional amendment that they put before the state s voters. they were just going to roll back union rights. guess what happened. ohio voters not only rejected the republicans big union-busting idea, they rejected it by a 2-1 margin. they overwhelmingly opposed the republican-led efforts to strip union rights. they also replaced the republican governor with a democratic one. and in that same election they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and every statewide office outside of the courts and every single statewide office except for the secretary of state. good job, republicans. not only did your union-busting referendum get absolutely trounced, you got trounced, too. you got voted out of power for having tried it. the anti-union measure that ohio republicans wanted back then is not exactly the same thing as what s being proposed now, but it is roughly the same size,
republicans wanted to outlaw union shops with a constitutional amendment that they put before the state s voters. they were just going to roll back union rights. guess what happened. ohio voters not only rejected the republicans big union-busting idea, they rejected it by a 2-1 margin. they overwhelmingly opposed the republican-led efforts to strip union rights. they also replaced the republican governor with a democratic one. and in that same election they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and every statewide office outside of the courts and every single statewide office except for the secretary of state. good job, republicans. not only did your union-busting referendum get absolutely trounced, you got trounced, too. you got voted out of power for having tried it. the anti-union measure that ohio republicans wanted back then is not exactly the same thing as what s being proposed now, but it is roughly the same size, same shaped punch aimed directly at the middle cla
not what is good. unions love it too. why? because it creates dependence on the unions. i think power to the peep. give people the same opportunities they had in everything else they buy and you want to know something, car prices and other high union shops, those products should come down in tries because it s going to be alleviated. megyn: it sounds all well and good. let s say i no longer now i have to pay taxes on it so i say all right forget this i don t want the cadillac plan that fox gives me i want to go out and shop on my own. i can t go across state lines, there are only limited plans to choose from. maybe it doesn t work out so well. we can t do this plan until we have more openings. you have to have an alternative in place. right now we don t have it. hopefully through the new insurance exchanges we will. the other thing i would say, megyn is honestly a lot of this discussion and debate is mute, i don t think he lacking in ideas to reduce the deficit. what we are lacking
unions have granted concessions to management allowing them more flexibility and reassigning workers to different tasks to fit market trends, even if those taxes don t fit the limited specific job description officially listed. also the unions have granted pay concessions, especially when it comes to new hires. listen to this. the fact is that union and non-union pay rates now and benefits for that matter tend to be almost identical. reporter: so we are seeing union shops adopting business models similar to their non-union counter parts in the south megyn: a man tells a big fib in order to have sex with a woman. now he s being sent to prison for 18 months for rape. our panel weighs in on that one. three california city council
on them. and unfortunately, what they are now acknowledging is because they can t win in the democratic process, nancy pelosi won t even bring card check to a vote in the u.s. congress, yet they want to force these unions on us. cut out small businesses and give the federal contracts to all union shops and if you re in a right to work state like virginia like i am, they want to cut our employees out because they won t get under the union bosses. i want to give you the last word. thanks. i m not even sure what barbara is talking about. nobody is trying to force a union on anybody. what people are trying to do is make sure that workers who want a union have the right to form a union and that they re not going to be fired by their boss illegally, that they re not going to be prevented from forming a union. so this is simply about giving workers the choice and letting them have the voice at the workplace and this is precisely what our economy needs right now. the economy is weak becaus