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Wisconsin governor to end ALL collective bargaining rights for state workers.

The Merchant in Madison, WI confirms that on Friday night, Patrick Sweeney (one of the owners) politely asked Scott Walker to leave the establishment when other customers began boo-ing him. A bartender at The Merchant said that, "his presence was causing a disturbance to the other customers and management asked him to leave."
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Excellent.
 
i realise 'tilt' was never going to please fans of his more accessible work with the walker brothers, but booing is a little harsh. no wonder he never plays live. :(
 
See also ohio and elsewhere - the Indiana governor was forced to take back the same plans. It's about more than WI. Brilliant.

(The rebirth of public sector unions and what that may mean for the wider workers is worth a thread of its own)
 
In the debate over whether Wisconsin state workers should have the right to collectively bargain for better benefits, there is at least one group that sides with Gov. Scott Walker — people wealthy enough that they probably don’t need collective bargaining rights themselves.

That finding comes from a Pew poll released this week showing more Americans siding with the unions over Gov. Walker in the budget showdown that has deadlocked the Wisconsin legislature and sent thousands of protesters streaming into the state capitol. And strikingly, while Americans overall took the unions’ side in the poll, the highest income demographic was the only one in which more people said they stood with Walker over the unions.

Overall, 42% of respondents said they side more with the unions, while 31% took Walker’s position. Among those with annual household incomes under $30,000, that split was considerably larger, with 46% supporting the unions, and only 20% supporting Walker. People earning $30,000 to $74,999 per year [which I suspect is the salary range for most public employees] also backed the unions, 49% to 31%.

Yet among those earning over $75,000 per year, 36% said they backed the unions, while slightly more, 40%, said they stood behind Walker.

Last week, a Gallup poll found the same result, with all income groups except the top bracket opposing the idea of collective bargaining rights.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...ides-with-gov-walker-over-unions.php?ref=fpb#
 
Here's an interesting clip from Fox News. It appears that they spliced in footage from somewhere else to make it look like the protests in Wisconsin were violent. Last time I checked there were no palm trees in Wisconsin:

 
Non, je ne regrette rien....

Wisconsin Dems throw their weight behind drive to recall GOP Senators
By Greg Sargent
The Wisconsin Democratic Party has decided to throw its weight behind a nascent grassroots drive to recall a number of GOP state senators, a move that will considerably increase the pressure on them to break with Governor Scott Walker, the Dem party chair confirms to me.

"The proposals and the policies that Republicans are pushing right now are not what they campaigned on, and they're extreme," the party chair, Mike Tate, said in an interview. "Something needs to be done about it now. We're happy to stand with citizens who are filling papers to recall these senators."....
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/breaking_wisconsin_dems_throw.html
 
From the Walker's budget, it appears that he's trying to dismantle public education entirely. He made huge cuts to public education, but raised funding for private schools. Private schools in Wisconsin arn't even required to hire teachers with a degree in any subject or a teaching certificate.

In addition, he's proposing a lid on local governments raising local taxes to make up the difference. I thought Republicans were for more local control, not less.
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
Here's an interesting clip from Fox News. It appears that they spliced in footage from somewhere else to make it look like the protests in Wisconsin were violent. Last time I checked there were no palm trees in Wisconsin:

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That was picked up on the guardian comments
 
During union dispute, the profits are as rare as rocking horse shit. During union disputes nobody ever made a profit.

These tea party clowns are reaping the rewards of political illiteracy. They'd be funny if they were not gaining ground.
 
'Just 400 obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubarak's, have more cash, stock and property than 155 million Americans combined. That's half of all Americans. A financial coup d'état by the money elite.

 
Bill passed without any Democrats present.

The Republicans took out the financial plans out of the bills, which meant that the need for 20 representatives to be present no longer applied. And showed that the bill was ideological, and not fiscal, in nature.

Scum.
 
wow...this sucks obviously, but maybe is just what we needed to wake us up. Been reading some comments on Yahoo, which normally just attracts Teabag loonies, and more than 1/2 the comments seem very sane and very angry about this.
 
audiotech said:
'Just 400 obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubarak's, have more cash, stock and property than 155 million Americans combined. That's half of all Americans. A financial coup d'état by the money elite.
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Whatever you think of Michael Moore, that's a fucking great speech
 
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