Comments on: Told ya — Mayor Vetoes Labor Ordinance http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/ a critical take on Louisville news Tue, 22 May 2012 20:01:47 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jim http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45284 Jim Wed, 20 May 2009 08:03:42 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45284 Ha. This is a race to the bottom when we have 15,000 people in Louisville that are homeless. Plus another 15,000 that are on a waiting list for Section 8. Some free market economy here in the Peoples Republic. Its a corporate controlled type of economy here with the low wage structure one would find in Louisiana. We live in a state that includes the 48th ranked income state, bottom 5 in health, bottom 5 in schools, bottom 5 in various socioeconomic factors. But to listen to the people in Louisville is that things are going great here. Perhaps for the business community and their lackeys but not for the working poor, minimum wage earners, and the average person of which Louisville consists. So much for real job growth by this mayor. So much for anything outside of being hired for a temp job by the vast majority of these local slimeball firms. So you want to tell me about opportunity. Spend some time at the blog and you can learn something. More coming soon and those of you out there fighting for social justice, keep up the fight. Ha. This is a race to the bottom when we have 15,000 people in Louisville that are homeless. Plus another 15,000 that are on a waiting list for Section 8. Some free market economy here in the Peoples Republic. Its a corporate controlled type of economy here with the low wage structure one would find in Louisiana. We live in a state that includes the 48th ranked income state, bottom 5 in health, bottom 5 in schools, bottom 5 in various socioeconomic factors. But to listen to the people in Louisville is that things are going great here. Perhaps for the business community and their lackeys but not for the working poor, minimum wage earners, and the average person of which Louisville consists. So much for real job growth by this mayor. So much for anything outside of being hired for a temp job by the vast majority of these local slimeball firms. So you want to tell me about opportunity. Spend some time at the blog and you can learn something. More coming soon and those of you out there fighting for social justice, keep up the fight.

]]> By: Sirico http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45272 Sirico Wed, 20 May 2009 05:54:37 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45272 Ha! Sounds like the Mayor is taking a page right out of George W. Bush's playbook. We are living in a recession/depression. We should be helping poor and middle class families, not hindering them. ....talk about a race to the bottom! Ha! Sounds like the Mayor is taking a page right out of George W. Bush’s playbook. We are living in a recession/depression. We should be helping poor and middle class families, not hindering them.

….talk about a race to the bottom!

]]> By: Mark H http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45261 Mark H Wed, 20 May 2009 02:50:20 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45261 Nothing like the good ole "man at the top" class warfare angle. It always distills down to the union argument that it is union wages and benefits or poverty. I guess everyone (myself included) who is not in a union, must live below the poverty line. Oh, and that poverty is always the result of the man at the "top" screwing over the "hard working" man at the bottom. Give it a rest. Do you really believe that, or is it just the standard spin that is always played? Now for the reality check folks. It's about competition.....period. Governments compete for outside development and investment, contractors compete for contracts, and workers compete for jobs. Tony P is absolutely correct in that anything that makes the city less competitive in attracting development and investment will negate the potential for the rest to compete. Nothing like the good ole “man at the top” class warfare angle. It always distills down to the union argument that it is union wages and benefits or poverty. I guess everyone (myself included) who is not in a union, must live below the poverty line.

Oh, and that poverty is always the result of the man at the “top” screwing over the “hard working” man at the bottom. Give it a rest.

Do you really believe that, or is it just the standard spin that is always played? Now for the reality check folks. It’s about competition…..period. Governments compete for outside development and investment, contractors compete for contracts, and workers compete for jobs.

Tony P is absolutely correct in that anything that makes the city less competitive in attracting development and investment will negate the potential for the rest to compete.

]]> By: Tony P http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45256 Tony P Wed, 20 May 2009 02:23:48 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45256 Thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you to the Republicans who also tried to stop this. This would be very bad for this community. I think the most telling in that the Dems on the Council still voted it through even though you know the Mayor was trying to stop it. They gave him the big F-U! Look you can pass a law saying workers must be paid a high union wage but if no one wants to come to Louisville to build anything because they don't want to pay that high union wage than workers get zero $$$ in the end. Brilliant Thank you Mr. Mayor and thank you to the Republicans who also tried to stop this. This would be very bad for this community.

I think the most telling in that the Dems on the Council still voted it through even though you know the Mayor was trying to stop it. They gave him the big F-U!

Look you can pass a law saying workers must be paid a high union wage but if no one wants to come to Louisville to build anything because they don’t want to pay that high union wage than workers get zero $$$ in the end. Brilliant

]]> By: chris http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45233 chris Tue, 19 May 2009 22:11:54 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45233 Jerri Don't forget your top three reasons for vetoing the labor ordinance: #3 You didn't want to actually look like you care for the local working families of the community while hangin around all your elitist buds #2 Labor would actually be making more money than the kickbacks you get from your fav developers. #1 It would cost your Baltimore Butt Buddies so much more money that they might never build another bowling alley in Louisville again. Jerri
Don’t forget your top three reasons for vetoing the labor ordinance:
#3 You didn’t want to actually look like you care for the local working families of the community while hangin around all your elitist buds
#2 Labor would actually be making more money than the kickbacks you get from your fav developers.
#1 It would cost your Baltimore Butt Buddies so much more money that they might never build another bowling alley in Louisville again.

]]> By: DB http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45232 DB Tue, 19 May 2009 22:11:41 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45232 Unions and Jer are both unfunny jokes. Unions and Jer are both unfunny jokes.

]]> By: Dino http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45227 Dino Tue, 19 May 2009 21:48:54 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45227 Guess King's attempt at paying the unions back for supporting his daughter failed. Guess King’s attempt at paying the unions back for supporting his daughter failed.

]]> By: Earl http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45218 Earl Tue, 19 May 2009 20:48:27 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45218 He lost an unfair labor practice complaint to the FOP today too. Remember the car flap? He lost an unfair labor practice complaint to the FOP today too. Remember the car flap?

]]> By: Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45215 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) Tue, 19 May 2009 20:03:52 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45215 Mayor Jer now has a lot of new enemies... in the Democratic Party. Mayor Jer now has a lot of new enemies… in the Democratic Party.

]]> By: Rod http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/comment-page-1/#comment-45214 Rod Tue, 19 May 2009 19:53:57 +0000 http://thevillevoice.com/2009/05/19/told-ya-mayor-vetoes-labor-ordinance/#comment-45214 What a shame that the Mayor has chosen to slap the hard workers of Louisville right in the face. This is not going to change the cost of a single project it will only change the distribution of funds with more going to the top. No longer "Possibility City" the Mayor now favors "Poverty City". What a shame that the Mayor has chosen to slap the hard workers of Louisville right in the face. This is not going to change the cost of a single project it will only change the distribution of funds with more going to the top. No longer “Possibility City” the Mayor now favors “Poverty City”.

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