{"id":8307,"date":"2011-03-17T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:29:49","slug":"police-and-fire-unions-threaten-to-boycott-businesses-that-support-wisconsin-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/police-and-fire-unions-threaten-to-boycott-businesses-that-support-wisconsin-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and fire unions threaten to “boycott” businesses that support Wisconsin governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got a nice office here, guv. Shame if anything were to happen<\/em><\/a> to it, y’know?<\/p>\n

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Here is another reason public unions should not be allowed to collectively bargain with politicians running a local or state government. Union leadership — including those from law enforcement and firefighters — have sent letters out to local businesses demanding they publicly oppose the efforts of Wisconsin\u2019s legislature and governor or face the consequences.<\/p>\n

Not only are they suggesting they publicly oppose the fiscal-sanity measures in Wisconsin, they are flat out telling them they will publicly boycott businesses who do not proactively<\/strong> do so. From James Taranto\u2019s opinion piece<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> yesterday.<\/p>\n

In the letter to Wisconsin businessmen, however, we see why so-called collective bargaining is particularly corrupting to the police. Although the letter explicitly threatens only an economic boycott, when it is written on behalf of the police — of those on whom all citizens depend to protect their safety — it invariably raises the prospect of another kind of boycott. Can a businessman who declines this heavy-handed \u201crequest\u201d be confident that the police will do their job if he is the victim of a crime — particularly if the crime itself is in retaliation for his refusal to support \u201cthe dedicated public employees who serve our communities\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

LauraW<\/a> clarifies the message here:<\/p>\n

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We’re the Police and Firefighters Unions.<\/p>\n

If you don’t accede to our demand, we’ll put you on The Naughty List. And, um….boycott you. That’s our threat. We’ll boycott you. That’s all.<\/p>\n

Right.<\/p>\n

…did we forget to mention that we are cops and firefighters<\/strong>?
\nJust checking. Making sure you caught that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Jon for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got a nice office here, guv. Shame if anything were to happen to it, y’know? Here is another reason public unions should not be allowed to collectively bargain with politicians running a local or state government. Union leadership — including those from law enforcement and firefighters — have sent letters out to local businesses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,53,13],"tags":[695,98,392,684],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-extortion","tag-police","tag-unions","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-29Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}