I will bet any money if the average worker in private industry was making more than the average worker in government, Walker would have lost.
It is no more complicated than that.
In actual reality the government workers make 30% more than their counterparts in private sector for equivalent work. That is simply unfair, unsustainable and unwise.
WI union membership (public) is plunging because the workers are keeping the money the union would have wasted.
The beast is starving.
I have seen posts that as much as 50% are no longer participating in auto deduct.