Wisconsin Bill to Strip Collective Bargaining for Public Employees Part of a Pattern

[Joanne98]

Since Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced that he would not only seek legislation this week to end collective bargaining for most public employees without hearings or debate, but also send in the National Guard to either quell unrest or fill in during a walkout, the labor movement has organized. This is a pretty good rundown of events. There are rallies and lobby days and a host of other actions scheduled over the course of the week. The Wisconsin AFL-CIO is running the above ad in heavy rotation across the state for the next several days.

The press has begun to take notice. Walker’s action was slammed in the Capital Times of Madison, which quoted even some state Republicans who testified to the radical nature of the scheme:

The governor’s budget repair bill, which includes a plan to gut collective bargaining protections for state employees, does not seek to get the state’s fiscal house in order.

Rather, it is seeks a political goal: destroying public employee unions, which demand fair treatment of workers and hold governors of both parties to account when they seek to undermine public services and public education <...>

http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/02/14/wisconsin-bill-to-strip-collective-bargaining-for-public-employees-part-of-a-pattern/

[liberal N proud]

1. Wisconsin and Ohio Governors in lockstep

Last week there was an article about that same crap here in Ohio.