Well, to be accurate, Walker’s bill does remove all negotiation except for salary from State Workers. The thing that really has the union bummed, though, is that the State won’t collect the union dues anymore and pass them along to the unions. The unions will have to collect their dues directly from their members. Also, the unions must be recertified by the membership on a yearly basis.
The reason that Walker wants to remove all negotiations from the unions is that the average to settle a contract in WI is 15 months. This simply won’t do with the budget crisis at hand.
What more does a state worker need to be worried about other than their salary?
They aren’t private citizens. They serve and make their money on the taxpayers of their states. I’m “extreme” enough that I would propose to disallow any state worker from having the right to vote on any state tax proposal. I also wonder why the state should have any role in collecting union dues and giving them to the unions. That’s a direct conflict of interest, isn’t it?