Indiana picks a bad time to go to war against unions

>>> this is lucas oil stadium in indianapolis . holds up to 70,000 people for big events and a month from today, the biggest event, the super bowl will be played there. if my secret boyfriend, aaron hernandez, scores a touchdown, beer on me, everybody. i'm getting ahead of myself with the patriots but the stars of super bowl sunday will be union members. every pro football player is a member of the association, a union that collectively bargains for better working conditions. it's also a bit of bad timing for them since indiana state government is controlled by republicans right now. here's why that's a problem. last year wisconsin 's fight over republican stripping union rights in that state erupted right after the super bowl . which happened to be won by wisconsin 's own green bay packers . guess who the heroes of that super bowl supported in that big fight. the nfl players association will always support efforts protecting a workers right to join a union and collectively bargain. today the nflpa stands organized with labor brothers and sisters in wisconsin . had to be embarrassing for wisconsin republicans , right? two of whom were later fired by the people of their home districts. thanks to recall elections. governor scott walker is facing the same possibility this year. with much less of the national fanfare, democrats did exactly the last thing as wisconsin legislatures did. indiana democrats up and left the state for weeks to block the republican-held legislature from moving ahead with their union -stripping plans. they forced the union stripping thing through any way but in indiana , the democrats who fled the state, they won. now it's starting up all over again in indiana . item one on the agenda of republican governor mitch daniels and that same union right stripping that democrats stopped them from getting at last year. republicans argued that if they institute a so-called right to work law in indiana , that will attract business to indiana , particularly business that will bring manufacturing jobs. if only indiana had a right to work law, if only indiana had a right to work law, then they could create jobs. on growth and manufacturing jobs between 2009 and 2011 for indiana , which hasn't had these right to work laws and for the midwestern states that do. indiana 's the one other there on the right that is tall is good in this case. net job losses by year. the darker ones are states without right to work laws. states that preserve union rights. it's hard to argue looking at this. that right to work laws are magic against ensuring against job flight. what you can see from the data is that one thing right to work states have is bad pay, low wages, lower wages and right to work states are on average 3.2% lower than in the states that don't have right to work laws. so that's what republicans want for indiana . not holding on to jobs. not gaining jobs. if you have a job, let's shrinky dink your paychecks. and, again, at least so far it's without much national fanfare. democrats refuse to appear on the house floor yesterday or today denying the republicans the 67-member quorum they need to get going on this plan to kill union rights and to shrinky dink paychecks. already protests have been walked back. they have capped the number of people that they would allow at the capitol. they banned cameras and recording devices and planned all of these restrictions to keep people from protesting the union stripping law like last time. governor mcdaniels caved and withdrew those new rule. indiana understands what killing union rights would do to their state. republicans want to fast track it. they want it to go as fast as possible, please, in the hope that the matter can be settled really soon, like maybe before february 5th soon. the indianapolis colts have the worst record in football. people who usually hate them rooted for them out of a feeling for mercy. that is a bad way to get national attention. indianapolis is hosting the super bowl a month from today is weird enough given the colts' bad session this year. if the indianapolis super bowl is a massive in the streets union rights protest this year, then mercy for indiana republicans . america's most celebrated union members and a whole lot of national media are coming to town. what do you have to say for yourself? this fight is just beginning again niindiana. we'll keep you posted, especially if it involves aaron hernandez.