Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Here's more on the deal that postponed Oregon becoming a Right to Work state!!

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Public employee unions and anti-union petitioners agreed Monday to a cease-fire on competing ballot measures, avoiding an expensive and bruising showdown between unions and business interests. The decision is a coup for Gov. John Kitzhaber, who has worked for more than a year to get business and labor interests to move past their acrimonious 2010 fight over two measures that raised taxes on corporations and the wealthy. He hopes to eventually broker a compromise that would have both sides support a wide-ranging tax-reform effort designed to reduce Oregon's heavy reliance on personal income taxes to fund schools and state government, but the ballot measures threatened to poison the waters. Our Oregon, a liberal group backed primarily by public-employee unions, has agreed to withdraw 10 proposed measures that would increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy. The group had said it would decide later which of the 10 to move forward with.
www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/03/union_b....html

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