[tomkat]

             

I'll take Schadenfreude for $1,000, Alex !

[tiki]

Just out of curiosity, how much do union dues run?

[sickoflibs]

Hero Walker is a rare Republican who instead of talking he wins.
He gets results.

The typical GOP DC hero just talks and talks “I am against...bla-bla-bla’ as each passes to Os desk.

[Mr. K]

So Wisconsin voters were being asked to bend over and kiss the ass of unions for the benefit of a total of 40,000 workers?

(now less than 25,000 hee hee hee)

[llevrok]

it doesn’t mean their politics have changed, only their non paying of dues, I’m thinking.

[RobinOfKingston]

For union “leaders” it is not just a Right to Work state, it has become a “Right to Worry” State.

[moovova]

I’m just curious as to how many of these ex-union members were part of the frothing-mouth, spittle-spraying, sign-toting, building-trashing crowd that marched on the capital when Walker was trying to turn that state around?

Was there any acknowledgement between the unionists as they sidled into the payroll office to “discontinue” their (now voluntary) union dues payment from their paychecks?

I can see it now. Union member enters the payroll office...

“Hello darling (to the payroll clerk). I need to make a few changes to my withholdings. Let’s add in an exemption... wife’s having another rugrat, you know. Also, been meaning to set up that Christmas account. I want to do that “Plant A Tree” one dollar donation thingee, too. Gotta save the planet, hee hee. That should do it. Oh, wait a minute, let’s goaheadandstopthoseunionduespayments. I’ll just mail them in myself. Uh... don’t tell the fellows about that Christmas account or anything, OK? We love ya darling. Keep up the good work. “

[skinkinthegrass]

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[AppyPappy]

Pretty soon, they’ll have 9 year-olds working in the textile mills for 60 hours a week at 10 cents an hour. It’s coming. #democrat

[spodefly]

... it didn't matter if, say, a city hall clerk or a public school teacher wanted to support a union or not. They had to pay if they wanted to keep their jobs. The money was taken directly out of their paychecks just as if it were a tax.

The most unbelievable part of this whole mess is that quote. How in the hell could anyone think that is fair, appropriate, deserved? How did it ever come to that in the first place? I understand full well why the unions wanted to keep the government-enforced extortion racket they had set up, but who in the hell that could call themselves American could ever support such a thing?

[ez]

Let’s see how elections change in WI now that the unions have less money to throw at them.