Posted on 06/04/2012 5:34:22 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer
But the biggest drop has been in the Wisconsin chapter of AFSCME, the powerful union that represents state, county, and municipal workers. In the past year, more than 30,000 members have deserted the collective.
According to the Journal, when Walker first proposed his fiscal reforms in early 2011, AFSCME’s Wisconsin membership stood at a healthy 62,818. By February 2012, the labor behemoth had shrunk to 28,745. “It’s a profound shift,” says George Lightbourn, the president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and the state’s former secretary of administration. “It’s similar to what Indiana experienced after Governor Mitch Daniels changed the collective-bargaining laws. If these numbers are borne out, it will significantly change the whole nature of Wisconsin’s state workforce and the relationship between management and employees.”
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Don’t be surprised if more of the union membership votes for Walker than the Dems expect.
I’m not up to speed on the 4 GOP senators up for recall, does anybody have any opinion on that? (we need all 4 to retain control of the WI senate)
Looks like Walker picked up about 30,000 votes.
Pray for America
Yes it is. That’s why I posted it.
That’s a shame.
I’ve been on both sides. Definitely prefer non-union employment. The union I worked for decades ago used to deliberately slow down work to maximize overtime. The factory was eventually moved to Mexico. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. /s
Not that I doubt you, but could you point me to where the 300,000 number comes from? Thanks.
“I was tempted to tell her that her job wouldn’t have been possible without Gov. Walker reining in the teacher’s union. So much dead-weight retired last year that now young teachers can find jobs in the school system.”
Yep, I’m one of those younger teachers too. Glad to hear Gov. Walker getting everything together!
Put a fork in it the unions are dead and Walker wins. 30,000 union members have left. Are you going to tell me that 30,000 people are now going to vote against Walker so the unions can take dues out again? Fat chance. They either stay home and do not vote for the democrats or they make sure and vote and 30,000 vote against the unions. Either way the unions are screwed. The recall is dead.
Walker wins. Period end of sentence.
Wisconsin employment numbers for govt employees went down just through attrition. Probably helped that the unions couldn’t dictate how large the staffs (classrooms) were.
Whether they "like" to pay or not, they generally pay 2 hours pay per month, a little over 1%. Not really "oppressive", the repressive part is that they "have" to pay or should say "had".
Well, my last post was inaccurate. I was basing that on a 40 hour week and teachers don’t work a 40 hour week, not even close.
In government, there is no interested adversary to the union. The government has the ability to simply demand more revenue and thus has no incentive to quell union demands. Additionally, there are few government employees whose safety is imperiled working for government, so a safe workplace is not a concern.
Don’t know what state it was but I have read of union dues for public school k-12 teachers was north of $1000/year. That is a lot of money!
I’ve been out of town for the past few days and heard the news on radio only about Walker’s win in Wisconsin but didn’t catch the margin of victory. Do you know the numbers?
Walker won with 53 percent of the vote while Barrett received 46 percent, a slightly larger margin than when the two ran against one another in
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