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Unions Starting to Sink?

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    FBN’s Stuart Varney says there is a pushback coming against labor unions.

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-- It is my opinion that state worker unions how to acquire far too much power -- from California to New York states are in dire straits because of the pension benefits and -- -- that municipal unions pushed through.

We -- now seeing the beginnings -- a serious push back.

His my take on Wisconsin union power and union dues the Wall Street Journal reports today that since the state stopped collecting dues -- them.

Membership in the second largest union dropped from 62000 -- 28000.

So given a choice more than half the members -- union decided not to contribute to that union.

That's spells -- It was -- -- thought woke -- who now faces a recall vote next week who pushed through the mantra that may -- unions collect their own -- This could be the start of something big.

Less money and few -- means less clout in elections and less power over pay.

Benefits and contract rules and that means states could re -- control of their budgets and that means more money could be made available for services who knows.

You might get some degree of tax reform at the state level.

I realize I -- building out from the experience of a single union in a single state bought next Tuesday.

The people of Wisconsin will decide if they want to go -- witness union experiment and experiment it needs and has the experience.

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