“The unions quickly conceded the first of these two points—at least rhetorically. Union leaders and their allies in the state legislature claimed that public employees would gladly contribute more to their pensions and health care premiums—the 5.8 percent of their salaries on the former and 12.6 percent of the premiums on the latter requested by the governor—if they were allowed to keep all of their collective bargaining rights.”
This whole event of 14 democrats leaving WI was a stall tactic to allow local unions to extend or renegoiate contracts before the bill went into effect. So the union PR effort of accepting the 5.8 and 12.6 was false when their actions indicated otherwise.
We should learn not to trust the liars like the Democrats who do not negotiate in good faith or their union bosses who fund them.
Wow...I am shocked that anyone might believe that DIM’LIBs are telling the truth about anything. That i9s “breaking news” worthy.