Wisconsin Labor Union Battle

Wow big goings on in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) will bust up the teachers' and related workers' union. The teachers are not pleased. The protests are huge.

Everybody knows that the GOP hates unions. Notice that the governor is not picking on the police and firemen unions.

Hmm.

This is an easy choice, we need to stand behind these teachers and support them in any way that we can. Sign the petitions, talk it up. This governor sounds like the typical authoritarian we have come to know and pretty much sneer at.

If its GOP, its authoritarian.

CS Monitor: Union battle echoes beyond Wisconsin: 'We’re fighting for our very existence'

The bill would force workers in non-law-enforcement unions to pay more for their pension and health benefits, remove their collective-bargaining power on anything but wages, force members to vote every 12 months to certify their union’s existence, and bar them from deducting union dues from state paychecks.


“There is no question that the big business elites in this country and the political right wing together see the recession in general and state and local fiscal crises in particular as an opportunity to advance their agenda..."


The 33-member state Senate needs 20 members present for the passage of a fiscal bill, making the chamber’s 19 Republicans not enough for a vote.


He adds that making police, fire, and state trooper unions exempt from the bill reflects the governor’s political agenda. “He’s afraid of those people,” he says.