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Kenneth Block
stated on March 2, 2014 a TV interview

Under a bill before the legislature, "you’d have to go to court to fire an employee."

By John Hill • March 10, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on January 6, 2014 an interview

"Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce."

By Dave Umhoefer • January 13, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on November 19, 2013 a book

Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were "beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle." When the car was "extricated" from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.

By James B. Nelson • December 23, 2013

Ken Cuccinelli
stated on June 21, 2013 a radio interview.

Says Terry McAuliffe "opposes" Virginia’s right-to-work law.

By Nancy Madsen, Warren Fiske • July 3, 2013

Melvin Sickler
stated on March 14, 2013 a U.S. Senate hearing

Says Oregon’s high minimum wage is the reason why "by 2011, Oregon's restaurants employed an average of only 13.8 workers, or 2.6 fewer employees than they did before the state's minimum wage began rising above the federal level in 1997."

By Christian Gaston • April 13, 2013

SEIU
stated on March 5, 2013 a lawsuit

"There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients."

By Michael McKinney • March 17, 2013

Chain email
stated on April 26, 2012 an email

The salaries of Wisconsin’s best-educated public school teachers were "slashed" by Gov. Scott Walker through a recent administrative rule change.

By Dave Umhoefer • May 13, 2012

Kathleen Falk
stated on April 17, 2012 a newspaper interview

Wisconsin women "are paid 81 cents to the dollar of a man doing the same job."

May 2, 2012

Scott Walker
stated on March 19, 2012 a television interview

"We gave every public employee in the state the freedom to choose whether or not they want to be in a union."

By James B. Nelson • April 9, 2012

AFSCME
stated on April 3, 2012 a web site posting

Says gubernatorial recall candidate Tom Barrett supported passage of Gov. Scott Walker’s bill stripping collective bargaining of state employees.

By James B. Nelson • April 6, 2012

Stephen Laffey
stated on March 2, 2012 a radio interview

Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law

By Edward Fitzpatrick • March 11, 2012

Thomas Sgouros Jr.
stated on December 30, 2011 an appearance on Rhode Island PBS's "A Lively Experiment"

"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 10, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 a video ad

Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.

By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa

In New York City, "an entry level janitor gets paid twice as much as an entry level teacher."

By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011

Maurice Thompson
stated on November 10, 2011 a news conference

Says unemployment in Ohio "is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and it’s always been that way."

By Aaron Marshall • November 21, 2011

Kathleen Connell
stated on October 26, 2011 a hearing

"Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’

By Lynn Arditi • November 13, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate

Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2011

Facebook posts
stated on October 10, 2011 postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites

Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.

By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2011

Dennis Richardson
stated on June 30, 2011 a press briefing

Says Oregon state employees received a "catch-up" pay raise in 1981 -- just two years after they agreed not to take a raise in exchange for a retirement benefit.

By Janie Har • September 2, 2011

Stephen Lisauskas
stated on July 19, 2011 a public meeting

Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.

By Lynn Arditi • August 18, 2011

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