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Donald Trump
stated on February 17, 2024 a rally

“The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 23, 2024

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on January 17, 2018 a tweet

"When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn’t need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere."

By Eric Litke • March 7, 2018

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 6, 2016 a rally in Tampa

"That's legal: If you find out about somebody else's salary even if you're doing exactly the same job, you can be retaliated against, including being fired, in most places."

By Lauren Carroll • September 9, 2016

Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview

Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.

October 2, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 a campaign proposal

Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."

September 17, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech

Thanks to the Act 10 collective bargaining law that took effect four years ago, ACT scores in Wisconsin "are now second-best in the country for states where more than half the kids take the exam."

June 12, 2015

George Nee
stated on February 5, 2015 testimony before R.I. House Labor Committee

Rhode Island "is one of the worst states" for income equality.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2015

Angel Taveras
stated on May 12, 2014 a fundraising letter

I turned "a $110 million deficit into a $1.6 million surplus for our city."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 25, 2014

Rush Limbaugh
stated on October 30, 2013 comments on his radio show

"If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change."

By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013

Jennifer Parrish
stated on September 5, 2013 a newspaper commentary

"Six years after unionization, 20,000 fewer children in Illinois were being served by the Child Care and Development Fund program."

By Gregory Smith • October 13, 2013

Marco Rubio
stated on July 31, 2013 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity

"Even the employees’ union for the IRS -- the very people in charge of enforcing this law -- are begging to be let out from under this law."

By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2013

Portland Association of Teachers
stated on April 25, 2013 a newsletter

Says "Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect."

By Janie Har • May 11, 2013

Brian Patrick Kennedy
stated on February 6, 2013 a news release

Employers and schools have no right to conduct "surveillance of a dorm room or a worker’s cubicle."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 17, 2013

Marty Beil
stated on July 19, 2012 an interview

Says Gov. Scott Walker "raises the pay of inmates, but we don't raise the pay of staff in our correctional institutions."

August 19, 2012

Ron Johnson
stated on June 6, 2012 a radio interview

"Before Act 10, the total cost of public sector employees’ employment was 29 percent higher than that in the private sector. After the act, it’s still 22 percent higher."

By James B. Nelson • July 2, 2012

Amanda Fritz
stated on April 12, 2012 a questionnaire

Says "my advocacy questioning contracting out in Parks … delayed and altered the renewal of the Brooks contract, and reduced the number of contracted employees in Parks from over 100 to fewer than 40."

By Janie Har • April 26, 2012

Nicholas Kettle
stated on January 27, 2012 a radio talk show

"If you look at states that are right to work, they constantly do not have budget deficits and they have very good business climates."

By Alex Kuffner • February 19, 2012

Paul Valletta
stated on October 27, 2011 testimony at a General Assembly pension hearing

Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo "raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87" and "used a 1994 annuity chart" to create the pension crisis.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 6, 2011

Building a Better Ohio
stated on October 14, 2011 a campaign commercial

"Government employees make 43 percent more in wages and benefits" than private-sector workers.

By Tom Feran • November 4, 2011

We Are Ohio
stated on September 27, 2011 a television commercial

"Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need."

By Joe Guillen • October 10, 2011

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