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Disappeared. >> but our manufacturing out put is up. >> bill: but were making it overseas so the people in wisconsin and michigan cant have those jobs. unless they want to move down to guatemala. >> they get new jobs, that comes back for new jobs, for new jobs to be created. >> bill: somewhat. >> in the recession it has been a job creating machine. >> bill: they were in the public service and tech sector, manufacturing is shot. you can make a good claim union labor killed manufacturing in the u....

>> it would have been easier. thats not the point. collective bargaining is good for if government. i was able toeduce the cost in philadelphia and harrisburg by changing unemployment benefits and getting harrisburg for the first time to pay into their health care plan. i was able to do that through the collective bargaining process. republicans are acting as if collective bargaining means you can never make changes for the better, never save money or change work rules. thats not true. what gove...

Right to negotiate over time, work rules, things like that? >> there are work rules that are very expensive to our cities and schools. and in this fiscal crisis we cannot continue to allow the cities and schools to have no authority over what they ask their employees to do. >> so thats the fight. we know where it stands. over work rules, overtime. other issues of collective bargaining. the republicans will not allow the unions to continue to have those rights to collectively bargain. the democra...

Protesting outside the statehouse. now the vote goes to the full indiana house but will there be enough support? the sponsor, a republican representative, joins me now. sir, this is probably the strongest anti-union piece of legislation in the country at the moment. under it there have been no bargaining with state unions for wages, benefits, or for any kind of work rules. you virtually eradicate unions from the public worker sector. >>guest: you are getting the bills confused. you seem to be ta...

Is that correct that one issue separating your two sides, the reason this is going on, you want to get rid of the unions right to negotiate over time, work rules, things like that? >> there are work rules that are very expensive to our cities and schools. and in this fiscal crisis we cannot continue to allow the cities and schools to have no authority over what they ask their employees to do. >> so thatsing the fight. we know where it stands. over work rules over time. other issues of collective...

>> chris: you say this is not about the unions. this is about balancing the budget but the opposition says this is about union busting. so lets take a look at what is in your plan. because beyond making public workers pay more for benefits. it would allow unions to negotiate only over wages, not benefits or work rules. state would no longer collect union dues and unions would have to win an election every year to keep representing workers. isnt that union busting? >> no, absolutely not. our beli...

About the unions, this is about balancing the budget. but, your opposition says this is about union busting and lets look at what is in your plan. because, beyond making public workers pay more for benefits heres what your plan would do. it would allow unions to negotiate only over wages, not benefits, or work rules, and the state would no longer collect union dues and unions would have to win an election every year, to keep representing workers. isnt that union busting? >> no. absolutely not. o...

But desperate times call for desperate measures. >> we got a news report late this afternoon which is friday on the east coast, that if the governor will go along with keeping the employees recognized, still organize the state, negotiate work rules and other issues that the union will concede on these pension and health care issues. what do you think of that proposal? >> well, i think thats a good olive branch and i hope the governor is listening. the reason we took off is because the governor a...

Like a desperate time. but desperate times call for desperate measures. >> well, let me ask you about a thing. we got a news report late this afternoon, which is friday on the east coast that theres an idea out there proposed by the head of the public employees union that if the governor will go along with keeping the employee unions recognized, still organized, the state still able to negotiate work rules and other issues that the union will concede on these pension and health care issues. what...

Protection. were the strongest in the country. we need the flexibility. unfortunately over the course of the past 20 years they have shown until we got to this point they have never been willing to have any meaningful compromise to help with work rules and our expanded costs. the time is now. 19 states already do not allow public employees to bargain yet they still have vacations, they have pensions, they have good health care. theres no doubt about it. we can do that here. we dont need the unio...