Walker’s Budget Repair Includes Weakening Unions (Wis Gov. Seeks to End Collective Bargaining)

Wisconsin Reporter ^ | Kevin Lee

[Mikey_1962]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has introduced a budget repair proposal that would strip away nearly all collective bargaining rights for most of the state's public employee unions.

Under the proposal, unions would only be allowed to collectively bargain over wage increases, which would be capped at the rate of inflation unless voters decided otherwise.

Public employee union members would not have to pay union dues and employers would be barred from collecting dues, which could affect membership going forward.

“For those who might ask, ‘Why not bargain for this?’ Again, we’re not negotiating over a budget. If you’re going to negotiate, you’re going to do it in good faith, you have to have something to offer. The state’s broke, local governments (are) broke. They don’t have anything to offer,” he said.

[Mikey_1962]

Nice trend here.

[gorush]

I will sure give him credit if he gets his way. It is getting real hot in Madistan right now. I predict violence.

[twister881]

Public employee unions at all levels of government should again be banned and made illegal. Govt. bureaucrats suckling at the taxpayers’ teat must not have the right of private sector employees to organize, bargain collectively, or strike.

[pacpam]

What a visionary.

[reformedliberal]

As usual, the first foray involved getting high school students to walk out of classes in protest.

Scott is playing hardball: he has put the National Guard on alert in case of violence. Lefties all over the state are *outraged* at “what is being *done to* the poor state workers.” Ask these same supporters if they like their property tax hikes and if they have the same retirement and health benefits as those state workers and they slink away, glaring.

Defunding NPR will help the propaganda war.