INDIANAPOLIS–State Rep. Gail Riecken (D-Evansville) has been named to House committees for the 2013 and 2014 sessions of the Indiana General Assembly.
STATE REP. GAIL RIECKEN (D-Evansville), 77th District, is the Assistant Democratic Floor Leader. In addition, she will be the ranking Democrat on the Family, Children & Human Affairs Committee. Riecken also was appointed to the Financial Institutions and the Local Government committees as well as the Statutory Committee on Ethics.
Gail—Appointed to Statutory Committee on Ethics? I hope a little ethics rubs off on her. Gail needs to recognize going on strike to Illinois is not the right thing to do.
When did G’dub die and make you The Decider?
Taken down by Editor because of personal remark.
Taken down by Editor because of personal remark.
Congrats to Mr. Riecken for your well deserved appointments.
Are you saying there are Democrats who deserve to be trashed???
Fact–not opinion–Gail went on strike to Illinois and did not do her job that she was elected to do. Not trash–a fact!
Rieken’s job is to represent her constituents. Much of her constituency is working class. The political action that she and fellow state reps took was an action in support of working class people and to protect working class rights.
She was elected to represent her constituents in the the Indiana House of Representatives. They do not meet in Illinois. She ducked and ran to the border instead of standing tall on the front line in Indy. She made the same mistake two years in a row.
Her oath was to the constitution not just the union class.
Well, let’s let a year or so go by, and then y’all report back and give us specific, pocketbook examples of how the Republican’s new “right-to-work” legislation has helped Evansville’s economy and Riecken’s constituency.
As you know RTW (right-to-work) does not prohibit unionization of a work place. It does prohibit the requirement of a hourly worker to pay union dues if the worker does not want to. If the union leadership cannot convince their own fellow workers they making a good investment by paying union dues in supporting the union leadership then maybe the union leadership is not doing a good job representing them or a union is not needed at this work location.
The facts show that RTW states are a big attraction to companies to locate in a RTW state. If after they locate here and if they do not treat their employees fairly then organize them. Get the job first then decide.
All this being said, one cannot ignore the fact that Gail did not show up to work at her job site and do the best she could to represent her district.
As I suggested, Charlie, how about you check back in here about a year or so and let us know all the good jobs that right-to-work brought to Evansville. Okay? Or, if you got examples now, give’m up.
Facts are that Ms. Rieken was part of the deomcratic party exodus to Illinois in 2011 and hid out 2012.
Congratulations Gail. I know you will do well with these duties.
I have mixed feelings about right to work legislation. While I generally abhor the detrimental economic effects that widespread collective bargaining has had on our nation in the modern era and the oppressive weight it has placed on our ability to compete in the global marketplace, if you have a libertarian respect for contracts, you should respect any made between a business owner and any entity of which his employees are part.
If the business owner agrees to the constrictive terms in a contract, such as those that might require him to hire only unionized labor, he should live up to those terms or be found in breach. The State should not get involved except to uphold said contracts. However, when the duration of the contract has expired, the business owner should have the right to hire whomever he chooses without fear of violence or reprisal brought upon himself, his family, his business, or his new employees by thugs operating under a guise of organized labor justification. Often it is the case that even State Law in some States of this Union protect a union’s claimed “right” to violence, which is absolutely absurd.
Furthermore, I find it reprehensible that State House leaders, even our own Fail Reekin’ would flee the State seeking a loophole in the law, rather than exercising the intestinal fortitude to go on the record with their minority position. All of that maneuvering smacked of an “I’m taking my ball and going home if I can’t win” attitude more at home on the elementary school playground than the State House of Indiana.
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