The latest out of Wisconsin is that the two big public employee unions say they’re willing to accept the givebacks contained in Gov. Walker’s budget. Apparently all of them. But they refuse to budge on their collective bargaining rights. They say this has been their position all along. Read More
Gov. Walker is on TV now discussing the situation in the state and everything he’s talking about is givebacks from the state’s public sector unions. But what he doesn’t seem to be saying anything about is ending collective bargaining rights. Which is what the fight is actually about. He won’t be candid about the entire battle is about. Just not honest.
Back a couple months ago, Gov. Walker (R-WI) said he was considering decertifying the state’s unions entirely, apparently before he discovered the governor didn’t have the power to do that.
Social Security Administration notifies employees that Republican spending cuts could well lead to furloughs.
Bahrain Teachers Union joins protests, calls for national protest day on Sunday.
A very good run-down of how Wisconsin’s Gov. Walker (R) created the budget crisis which he now claims makes it necessary to end collective bargaining.
With the battle going on in Wisconsin, we wanted to ask: How many states have collective bargaining with public employees’ unions? How many forbid it? Check out our map. It’s pretty revealing. Map after the jump. Read More
Sherrod Brown tells TPM he supports unions/Dems in Wisconsin and says Ohio unions should play hardball too.
Quality snark from TPM Reader MR …
I can’t help but think that the language used by Fox News would be slightly different if the govenor of Wisconsin was a Democratic, and the missing senators were Republicans.
Something more along the line of :
Democratic governor deploys state security services round up opposition politicians.