[Cincinatus' Wife]

"More than half of the public employees in 13 states are union members, and government union membership rates exceed 25 percent in 27 states.

Labor unions work against employers — local, state and federal taxpayers, in the case of public employees. While slamming labor reforms as “anti-worker,” America’s four largest unions enrich themselves and their members at taxpayer expense.

The National Education Association, Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have a combined total of more than 7.5 million members.

Over 3.3 million unionized public employees work in California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, five of the states where government union membership rates exceed 50 percent.....................How powerful are public employee unions in your state? Feb 26, 2015

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Washington Post, Feb 22, 2015: Walker’s anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin

"KING, Wis. — At the old union hall here on a recent afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18 empty chairs. A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour earlier, but the small house, with its cracked walls and loose roof shingles, was lonely and desolate.

“There used to be a lot more people coming,” said Magnant, a 51-year-old nursing assistant, sighing.

The anti-union law passed here four years ago, which made Gov. Scott Walker a national Republican star and a possible presidential candidate, has turned out to be even more transformative than many had predicted...........

The state branch of the National Education Association, once 100,000 strong, has seen its membership drop by a third. The American Federation of Teachers, which organized in the college system, saw a 50 percent decline. The 70,000-person membership in the state employees union has fallen by 70 percent.

The decline is politically significant in Wisconsin, a presidential battleground where the unions have played a central role in Democrats’ get-out-the-vote drives.

John Ahlquist, a University of Wisconsin political scientist who specializes in labor movements, said Walker had “effectively dismantled the financial and organizing structure of unions in Wisconsin.”.....................

[Crazieman]

Dana Milbank can perform a physical impossibility.

[Paulie]

You have to admit, anyone who fearlessly takes on the public unions has a lot of guts.

Anyone who takes on the public sector unions and wins is a champion.

[BigEdLB]

Scott Walker DANGEROUS to the Public Employee Unions? Just the man to vote for.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Background of Scott Walker vs. public sector unions.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[Pollster1]

My work experience is quite the opposite: First off,the unions took me on, and they won. They won - against a 5’3” hundred pound kid!

Two union goons cornered me when I was young enough to need school permission to hold a job. I was legally entitled to hold that job without joining the union - for thirty days. After my union-free window expired, I quit rather than join a union that would take a huge chunk of my summer earnings, and moved to another job in which I would also be required to join the union but not for another thirty days. On my way home from my first day on that new job (nowhere near fully grown teenage boy, riding a bicycle, faced by two goons in a pickup truck), the union thugs cornered me and threatened to break my arms if I didn’t join or quit.

The thugs won - obviously. I have hated unions ever since then with the passion that they so richly deserve. I never again took a job in a union shop, and my votes throughout my entire life have been shaped by that encounter with evil and by later observations of unions that are still just as thuggish.

[Sybeck1]

I still don’t trust him after his Brad Daysping hire. GOPE Hatchet man of there ever was one

[samtheman]

Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy, but his technique is similar

And Dana Mibank isn't Joseph Goebels, but his technique is similar.

[Caipirabob]

We have 4 really decent candidates which is light years beyond what we've seen since Reagan left office.

I'll take a moment to thank God for that much.

[Jim Noble]

He is not as outrageous as Donald Trump and Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)

But I still kinda like him - maybe as Secretary of Labor.

[trebb]

Between Walker, Cruz, and Trump, the Left is getting wedgie rash. Fun to watch them squirm and flail about in the hopes of hitting a target.

[Reaper19]

Some conservatives don’t trust Walker or see him as a RINO and others think he’s a great conservative. Regardless of what you think about him, the reason he’s so dangerous is because he’s a winner. He took on the unions in their birthplace and won. He won elections and recalls while retaining control of the legislature in a blue leaning state. He is winning on guns and abortion.

The man is a winner, and I would love to see nothing more than to see him win against the Dems on a national stage.

[Montana_Sam]

F.D.R. Warned Us About Public Sector Unions

The author of the article also notes: "...[C]ollective bargaining in government is now widespread. As a result unions can now insist on laws that serve their interests – at the expense of the common good."

Yeah - danged straight! Public sector unions in the USofA are anathema to liberty, and were recognized by one-and-all as such until JFK signed such into law.

Scott Walker is on the right side of history on this issue.

[Rockitz]

“There is no other situation that I can think of where workers are allowed to vote for and donate to their bosses who decide their raises and employment status. Public sector unions are inherently a gross conflict of interest and should be abolished.”

Rockitz

[Lurker]

“The state branch of the National Education Association, once 100,000 strong, has seen its membership drop by a third. The American Federation of Teachers, which organized in the college system, saw a 50 percent decline. The 70,000-person membership in the state employees union has fallen by 70 percent.”

For this reason alone Walker is a viable option.

L

[redpoll]

>>>Sixty-five years ago, another man from Wisconsin made himself a national reputation by frightening the country about the menace of communists, though the actual danger they represented was negligible.<<<<

Only 100 million killed. The definition of negligible.