Senate Passes End To Collective Bargaining For Public Employes; Walker, Senators' Recalls Assured
Without Democrats present Wednesday night, and without meeting the 24-hour public notice rule, the 19 Republican members of the Senate stripped out from the budget-repair bill the controversial language virtually ending public employees' collective bargaining rights, created a separate bill with those provisions to restrict public employee unions and deny them the right to bargain on anything but wage increases up to a predetermined cost-of-living measure - - and passed it as a separate, stand-alone bill, 18-1.
The full repair bill had already passed the Assembly.
The Senate can vote on non-spending matters without a quorum of 20 members being present, though how removing collective bargaining rights from public employees can be said to have no fiscal impact is beyond me.
This is a power-play of unprecedented nature. I think Walker and Republican senators who slipped this bill through without notice or debate can and should be recalled.
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Somebody thinks they can hold on and obstruct after the next election.
Finally! Thank you Walker. Let's hope the democrats now stay in IL so we can tackle the budget, voter id and conceal carry with out any more of their circus antics.
The only recalls should be by the constituents of the 12 democrats who abandoned their people.
There was once a famous quote...
"Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." - Obama
...and now when it happens to the other side they cry and run away.
Murphy is probably right--Walker is not after re-election. He is after the White House. He can do all the damage he intends in his term, and I doubt he will lose a recall if he does not move on--god forbid.
Who is going to replace him, Tom Barrett? Barrett is trying to knock unions down in Milwaukee now too because he can do basic math. Neither he nor any Democratic governor will ever reinstate collective bargaining without a major, major payback. it's such a great bargaining chip, I can't imagine what the price would be. Dangling it for forever and a day would be a wise move.
Apart from mathematical realities, you might also benefit from walking a mile in the moccasins of private sector families living west of Milwaukee's coastal string of pearls and trying to makes sense of
public education that gets worse and more expensive each year, with the board ignoring huge outcries against raising the levy and the union pursuing viagra coverage, throwing young teachers under the bus rather than paying into healthcare, etc etc. Where was Doyle on rail, public boarding schools, and any kind of progressive reform?
The chickens come home to root.
Anonymous- The person that will blow away Scott Walker in the recall election this time next year is Russ Feingold. End of story.
And Walker may be thinking D.C., but he'll settle for the 6-figure gig spouting BS on Fox News. Just like Palin.
To Reagan's Disciple:
Reagan was a member of a union who raised taxes and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants. He also spoke about the importance of the right to collectively bargain. Look it up.
And Walker did not campaign on this or any of the ridiculous stuff he has proposed in his budget. Elections have consequences, and the 14 Senate Democrats won their elections too. Recalls have consequences too.
Walker waited 3 weeks for those fleebagers to come back. It's about time they moved forward. It's looks like the Wis GOP tooka step out of nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reed's book. Reconciliation anyone? You should switch on MSNBC for the crying about stripping away 50 yars of civil rights in 18 minutes.
Reagan was the leader of the screen actors guild, hardly a public employee union. He then realized the error of his ways and changed parties to become a Republican.
When Reagan spoke of the right to collectively bargain I believe he was speaking of the workers in Poland vs. private business, not the people vs. the taxpayers in WI.
Obama also campaigned that everyone was going to have to make sacrifices. He didn't say everyone will need to make sacrifices except public employees.
@Jake - wasn't that Feingold guy the one who just lost to some no name business guy from the Fox Valley? Good luck with that.
Cut cost bust unions and try to balance budgets
And at the same time give pay increases to you staff - is this More Reagonomic’s smoke and mirrors failures
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