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Friday, October 21, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm declares war on the unions

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm declares war on the unions:

Rahm declares war on the unions


Move over Gov. Walker, Chris Christie and Rick Perry. A new king of the union busters has emerged in Chicago, of all places. He's a big-city mayor, not a T-Party governor and his plan starts with tax breaks for the corporations and bigtax increases on the poor followed up by a legal rip-off of public employee pensions. His only barrier is the unions and Mayor Rahm has already declared war on them, starting with the teachers union.

But even autocrats run into resistance once in a while (Isn't that so, Bloomberg