I pay a little under 4% more this year for my healthcare through my employer. No pension! These union members can do what my family has had tO do. Cut back somewhere else. Downgrade cable, reduce trips to coffee shop, restaurants. Totally doable! Especially when you consider that a dual teacher income household in WI is considered rich in this country by the folks who keep pushing for higher taxes for the Wealthiest Americans.
Vast majority of teachers also contribute a few hundred/month or more for their health care.
Wife also can't imagine those teachers would call in sick to go to a protest; most teachers would never do such a thing.
NEA has killed the golden goose and big time cuts are in line. Those cuts will go full circle and before it's over with; every American will face the same cuts; unionized or not. The only way out of the mess we are in as a country.