Posted on 02/14/2011 9:58:30 AM PST by Thunder90
UW Workers in Peril Alert:
On February 11th Governor Scott Walker proposed his Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Repair Bill. In response, United Council representing 140,000 students on 20 campuses across the UW System, stresses the importance of protecting our students.
“Students are innovators. They create the business and industry of the future. We want those students here, in Wisconsin. We want their work to generate more jobs in Wisconsin, rather than at other universities in other states. We are the future, Governor Walker. Students make Wisconsin great, and students are Wisconsin’s only hope,” commented United Council President Kirk Cychosz, a UW–Stevens Point student.
Click here to read United Council's Statement on the Budget Repair Bill
Take Action: Rally at the Capitol! Join United Council in solidarity with students, professors, staff and workers from around the state in contacting legislators, signing petitions, and writing letters to your local newspaper editors in response to this Budget DESPAIR Bill.
Where: WI State Capitol, Madison
When: Tuesday February 15th and Wednesday February 16th
What: Hands Off Our Teachers Rally and Lobby Day.
For more information on this day of action, click here
Contact Your Legislators!
Take Action by telling your legislators to balance the budget without taking away workers' rights, and VOTE NO on Walker's shocking plan.
STEP ONE: We need to call legislators from all around the state. It is critical that you call that hometown legislator's office.
Find out who your legislators are by clicking here
For example, if originally you are from Neenah, WI but go to school at UW-Madison, you would look up the legislators from Neenah and call them.
STEP TWO: We need you to ask and encourage the legislator to oppose the bill. Also, they will ask you for your hometown address -- be prepared to answer with that.
Last but not least: it's vital that you speak in your voice, but here are some helpful ideas to consider in language that works Call Script: As a student and as a constituent, I want to ask Representative/Senator ______ to oppose the unprecedented bill that attacks public service workers and their unions.
This bill hurts all members of the UW community and harms the quality of education for Wisconsin families.
This bill is an insult to higher education workers at our Universities -- these people will leave our Universities and hurt the competitiveness of higher education in Wisconsin.
This bill is way too extreme and will not solve Wisconsin's fiscal problems. STEP THREE: Click here to report your call.
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What are those moonbats in Wisconsin upset about. For crying out loud they won the Super Bowl!! Stop your whining.
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My daughter said last night, that all these people calling for “Egyptian style protests” aka violence, are the same people who’ve been lobbying for more gun control. IOW, Seems a bit hypocritical. Besides which, if no one is allowed to own or carry weapons, just what are they going to do?
Notice how they use the same arguements - brainwashing arguements you hear on ALL of Obama TV.
1. It is an insult.
2. Too extreme
3. Will hurt the “quality” of education. They only care about tenure and indoctrination. They are like Willie Sutton - Why do you work at a university? Because I can goof off and that is where the money is.
My son is a student at UW Madison and he tells me the University is going nuts. Professors are cancelling classes for tomorrow so the students can help them demonstrate. We might see the biggest rally since Vietnam, all to protect the elites in the Ivory Tower that is UW Madison.
Fire them all. Do it now.
The ivory tower elites are the "New Establishment". How dare Governor Walker inconvenience them?
Given the flak Walker is taking he must be right over the target.
Also, they’re the same ones accusing the right of using “violent rhetoric”.
Who is John Galt click here.
Run Sarah Run!
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Unions may have had a place in the working world at one time, but having dealt with the politics I have come to the conclusion that they suck and their agenda is not that of the membership.
Same here at UW-Milwaukee. Busses and vanpools are being organized to bring students from UW-M to Madison for the protests tomorrow and Wednesday.
Oh, No! They might hit us with sticks...but that would be VIOLENT and that will not stand! Until we hit back and they sue us for ‘being mean’ and all that! *SMIRK*
Nice to see ONE island of sanity (YOUR FAMILY) in all of this!
I am sick to DEATH of the LibTards that I work with whining and complaining. I’d like to fire them all. And I will if given half the chance...
“I’m sorry. You’re too much of a Pig At The Trough, which is what YOU have accused ME of being while I (a Private Sector Employee) have supported YOU all of these past years through my tax dollars. I simply can’t AFFORD to keep you on any longer while keeping my business afloat. Buh-Bye!”
In. My. Dreams. :)
BUMP!
Sounds like at least some in Wisconsin have some whine to go with their cheese.
“Given the flak Walker is taking he must be right over the target.”
He is, Senator. He IS! And God Bless Him! :)
The People of Wisconsin have spoken. The isolated ‘People’s Republik of Madistan’ WILL fall!
It isn’t isolated.
Here, 97 miles West, the *alternatives* and other progressives are foaming at the mouth at the *outrageous treatment* of state workers by Governor Walker.
My husband ran into a couple of them yesterday. No longer one to politely suffer fools, like a good Norwegian Lutheran, he pointed out that the whiners were paying outrageous property taxes to support the state workers, the health and retirement plans of those workers was far better than anything available to any of us and that they did NOT “make less than the private sector.” With their NPR talking points angrily refuted, they were last seen slinking away, looking over their shoulders furtively and muttering to each other.
At the slightest excuse, fire their @sses. Then hire conservatives. Our local greenhouse, BTW, only seems to hire conservatives for the busy Spring and holiday seasons. I don’t even know if they ever advertise. They have an impressively experienced, part-time labor pool that is nearly the same, year after year.
It just takes some planning. ;~)
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