Former Minnesota Attorney General and runner-up in the last gubernatorial race, Mike Hatch, in a statement released to Eric Black at MinnPost.com had this comment about union organizing in the AG’s office:
”With 3,000 cases pending at any time, the state cannot have a jamboree of chickadees chirping different legal policy from every branch of government,” Hatch said in his statement.
AFSCME Minnesota Council 5Executive Director Eliot Seide took offence to that comment as reported by Doug Grow at MinnPost.com.
Seide says all union members should be outraged at being referred to as “chirping chickadees.”
He noted that people in all sorts of professional backgrounds are in unions in state government, including assistant district attorneys in counties throughout the state, even the biggest, Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
“Are these people just chirping chickadees?” he asked.
Well, maybe they are. Scientists have discovered that the chickadee has a distinct call when threatened by predators and have been know to mob together to fend of the predator. They also have an uncanny memory. They can gather and store food in thousands of places and come back much later and find all of their hidden secrets food.
Maybe if people did a little more bird watching and a little less power grabbing we wouldn’t have this mess.
Read my previous posts on the troubles in the AG office here, here, and here. Then watch the video.
Peace & solidarity,
CHC
Chickadee-dee-dee! Everyone should do more birding.
Chirp Chirp