Workers may have to sacrifice more in Gov. Rick Snyder's push to 'reinvent Michigan' - WTF?

[Bozita]

http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/04/workers_may_have_to_sacrifice.html

Workers may have to sacrifice more in Gov. Rick Snyder's push to 'reinvent Michigan'
Published: Sunday, April 03, 2011, 7:00 AM
By Rick Haglund


Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill cutting the number of weeks laid-off workers are eligible to receive unemployment checks from 26 weeks to 20 weeks — the shortest benefit period in the country.

A conservative friend of mine, commenting on a front-page New York Times story about the measure I posted on my Facebook news feed, suggested we go further and end employer financing of the unemployment insurance system.

His solution? Since employees are the ones who receive jobless benefits, make them finance the system through payroll deductions.

Employee contributions to support the state’s unemployment insurance system would cost Michigan workers as much as $900 a year each under the current structure.

Initially, this idea struck me as too far removed from mainstream thought of how economic safety nets should work to ever be considered by policymakers.

But maybe it’s not so unimaginable.

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[MichiganVote]

1. Recall.

[Demeter]

5. Second That

[Faygo Kid]

2. This clown ran as a moderate, and he's bought and paid for like Walker and Scott.

He's bound and determined to squeeze the poor and seniors for the benefit of that top 1/10th of 1 percent.

[shraby]

3. Having the employers contribute, gives them incentive to keep

workers on the payroll. I believe the fewer the layoffs, the less the percentage they have to contribute to the fund.

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. Government exists

really and truly to oversee corporations and prevent them from turning the working population into slaves. What we are not reminding the Snyder's of the country and their corporate masters of is, the part the worker plays in the success of the corporation. Sometimes I really think ALL working people should be in ONE union. We are either workers or owners. There is no middle ground.
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[Bozita]

7. I think this toon fits nicely in this thread ...

[MichiganVote]

8. Got that right. Corruption at its finest.

[roxiejules]

9. So painfully obvious why GOP wants Frances Perkins history eliminated

If Perkins were alive today, heads would roll.

Frances Perkins is most famous today for her role as primary architect of Social Security. But in 1933 and 1934, the program she championed most fiercely was unemployment insurance.


CALL your elected officials and voice your concern! The attacks on the poor, the hungry, the children, the workers NEED TO STOP!

"I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen." - Frances Perkins

[Bozita]

10. "I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen."

- Frances Perkins


I wanted anybody clicking on the OP to see that.