Posted on 06/14/2011 7:42:08 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Expect more protests. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned a previous judge’s ruling on the recently passed anti-collective bargaining bill, signed into law by Republican governor, Scott Walker.
This means that thousands of public employees across the state will lose their right to collective bargaining. The law hits Wisconsin teachers the hardest.
None of this comes as a surprise. After the election victory of David Prosser earlier this year to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the ruling was all but certain.
Whatever your opinion of the teachers unions may be, the act of denying thousands of public employees their right to collective bargaining is most certainly an overreach by Wisconsin Republicans.
No doubt this will add fuel to the recall efforts underway in Wisconsin. It will also help fuel coming protests to the state budget which cuts millions in state aid to public education and diverts resources to choice programs including dubious online for-profit schools.
If there was any reason to believe that Scott Walker actually cared about making public education better, perhaps this development would not bode so ill for public schools in Wisconsin.
If Scott Walker actually cared about public education he would have worked with the unions to make important reforms. Instead he has adopted the top-down style of so many Tea Party governors across the country, refusing to compromise or work toward some form of buy-in.
For all sides involved, this is a mistake. There are better ways to balance budgets and work toward reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
Next WI Republicans need to recruit more Democrat recall primary challenges to bog that union recall effort down.
No it isn't. Public employees should be forbidden by law from unionizing. And any public employee who strikes over it in any way, shape, or form should be fired on the spot.
Bout time those freeloaders took their hands off of my wallet.
Their "right" to collective bargaining?
Confused leftists finding new "rights" again?
Smiling ping :)
Will the squishy, liguini-spined, cowardly elected Republicans defend the Wisconsin Constitution and rule of law? If they do, you'd knock me over with a feather.
‘organized labor’ = collusion
Tell that to the Democrat controlled state legislature in MA.
It will make the recall that much harder,if Wisconsin Republicans can show they can make headway against the Dem establishment then people who would identify with the Dems are likely to decrease.
People back the Dems because they can hold on to power through dirty tricks and intimidation then they will garner support if not they will steadily shrink overtime.
Not to mention WI didn’t deny it. They just limited it.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I am surprised that this article came out of Forbes Magazine.
I was pulling against Wisconsin with passion (as a TCU fan) in the Rose Bowl back in January. Now, I'm 100% on the side of the genuine patriots in the Badger State!
>>Whatever your opinion of the teachers unions may be, the act of denying thousands of public employees their right to collective bargaining is most certainly an overreach by Wisconsin Republicans.<<
“Right?” Where is said Right instantiated into the U.S. Constitution? Where is said Right” even instantiated into the Wisconsin State Constitution?
I always love the opening ploy by leftists: “anything and everything we want is a ‘right.’”
It is about time legal scholars made it crystal clear what a “Right” is for the rest of the American public.
How, exactly? They're just the same now in WI as they are in many - if not most - other states.
There were some who thought the Democrats and commies would win this one but they couldn't. The next step up the chain would most likely have been to the Supreme Court ~ and unlike that deal in Arizona, ALL the Justices would have wanted to get in on this right away since the Democrat actions looked an awful like a coup by an armed mob backed by some rogue judges.
That is what brought down the Ancien Regime in France in 1780 and the 1790s ~ a mob with rogue judges (many self appointed).
There is no “right” to collective bargaining. It is not mentioned in the Constitution.
Even in some of those “forced union” states, the public employees do not have statewide collective bargaining rights. Wisconsin is now just with the majority of states - it is absurd for the writer of this article to act as though this is something radical or unheard of.
Teachers have college degrees and are very capable of negotiating their own contracts, just as many of us non-union workers do. Instead of a union voice speaking for them, they can now speak for themselves.
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