12.05.2005

Well Said:

From an interview with new AFT President Andy Gussert:
One of our top issues is to try and change the way people talk about public employees here in Wisconsin. A lot of people talk about having morality in government. When you say we’re going to make government run more like business, you’re actually saying we’re going to take the morality out, we’re going to take any factors of what’s right or wrong out, and make it about profit and nothing else. ...

Also:

One of the things I said on the convention floor is every union should have a one-page sheet that they give to a new person coming in, 28-year-old, that says this is what you would have been in this position 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and what you’re getting paid now.

So that when someone’s coming in, they don’t just think they’re just simply entitled to it, and they understand in a very selfish way that the labor movement has been working for them for the past decade or two, and they have a better position because of it.

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