Posted on 05/19/2012 6:12:37 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Wisconsin's recall election is on, pitting Gov. Scott Walker against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. If Mr. Walker is voted out of office on June 5, what other politician will be willing to step forward to address America's entitlement challenges?
Mr. Walker's record is well known: He limited collective bargaining for government labor unions and trimmed health-insurance and pension benefits, bringing them more in line with private business. Organized labor thinks Mr. Walker's reforms should be the end of his career.
They argue, first, that public workers just wanted to "have a voice" in their employment. But public-school teachers are more than welcome to participate in school-board meetings or sit down with principals to discuss how to achieve better results. What unions really want is legal standing to sue employers and prevent any changes—in wages, hours or other conditions of employment—unwanted by their members. Their call to continue combative litigation hardly promotes the kind of statewide unity that they, and Mr. Barrett, have called for.
Public employers deal with thousands of grievances that result in discussion, negotiation, mediation and arbitration. In 2010, the last full year before the reforms, the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission issued 129 decisions in cases that went to a full hearing. That is a lot of litigation.
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Wisconsin: Explanation of the recall
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Wisconsin: Explanation of the recall
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Sign me up on your ping list please, they are covering on MSNBC right now and squirming. I have to say, it is such a delight to watch! I am going out to find how to give to Walker right now! I will sing and dance in my living room on 6/5 when Walker wins...
What are they saying on MSNBC?
Do they admit Walker has a solid lead?
The public employee unions are a huge money laundering scheme to get taxpayer money into the campaign coffers of Democrats, with a significant part of it being used to maintain opulent lifestyles for the union bosses.
The most damaging provision (to the unions and their Democratic Party beneficiaries) of the reform law was the one that prohibits the withholding of union dues from government employee paychecks. Instead the union members have to write checks for their dues, just like members of Rotary, Kiwanis and Masonic lodges. That had to really hurt the unions’ cash flow, and restrict the campaign contributions to the Dems. Now, if only we could get taxes to be collected in the same way.
Already did; got a nice thank you email followed by a postcard
Whole subject was they are in real trouble, Walker lead confirmed now in several polls. DNC not doing their part, being outspent, Koch brothers...Karl Rove. They said there is a petition out gathering lot of signatures to demand more money/support from DNC. They want Zero to get up there and make this a “fair” fight... Something like that, they are VERY worried.
Bringing Bammer in will make it a bigger circus and bigger fail. I could almost wish they would.
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