The following what a “move to weaken ... labor unions” (sarc) looks like, what Governor Walker’s Budget Repair Bill actually seeks to achieve:
- Ask government workers to pay half the cost of their pensions - still less than private employees pay for their pensions
- Ask government workers to pay 12% of their own health insurance premiums - the national average for the private sector is over 20%
- End collective bargaining for government unions for pensions and benefits. Allow bargaining only for raises that are less than inflation.
- End forced union dues, collected by the state. Union dues would become voluntary.
- Union members get to vote yearly on whether to keep their union.
The information I got was that they were being asked to contribute 5% to their pensions.