Posted on 12/19/2013 5:01:04 PM PST by george76
Numbers of public sector unions in Wisconsin collapsed in the wake of an historic vote that ended on Thursday. The unions are acutely feeling the impact of Act 10, Governor Scott Walker’s controversy-generating collective bargaining reforms of 2011. The reforms require public sector unions to hold annual recertification votes. In order to be certified as unions by the state, the labor groups must get the approval of over 50% of their members.
For several weeks now the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission has been holding an open and ongoing vote for over 400 unions, mostly made up of public school teachers and support staff. The result of each union’s election was made public late Thursday afternoon. What emerged was not a pretty picture for the state’s public sector labor movement.
According to a preliminary count, a total of over 5,500 union members have walked away from a labor union in this round of recertification elections.
In Milwaukee, home of the state’s largest and most powerful education union, an entire unit of substitute teachers failed to recertify. It’s a harsh blow for labor in the heart of a city known for its long, colorful and at times controversial association with American labor movements.
The vote in Milwaukee wasn’t even close. Of the 320 members of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association’s substitute teacher unit, only 128 voted to recertify as a union.
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In Dane County, the bastion of anti-Walker sentiment and home to the state’s capital city, two AFSCME-affiliated units servicing food service, maintenance and transportation employees failed to recertify.
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I Agree!
Had to laugh when I heard this on the radio coming home from work tonight. Good work, Gov. Walker! Well done!
Or 5. Your call
But since the total membership was 320 members, the vote to re-certify was defeated.
The percentage of those who voted ‘yes’ must be over 50% of the entire union membership.
They are counting a failure to vote as a 'no' vote.
As a nation, we do not require our political winners to receive over 50% of the total available registered voters, including ones who did not vote, but only 50% of those who actually voted. Why do we do different here?
50 it is
Please track I have a bad habit of losing track
Christie will find treading water in the South will be impossible.
I’ll ping a private reply and call it 50 on Christie.
K
“People don’t want unions taking their money and giving it to Rats.”
I couldn’t imagine the teachers’ union members here in NJ every voting against their union; they have among the highest pay in the nation (for 180 partial days of work - not 9 to 5), they get steep pay increases from BS degrees “earned” with no coursework from diploma mills, and they are now our upper middle class (since the real jobs are leaving NJ. They have no marketable skills; they are unemployable outside of the public school classroom.
They would always vote to keep the gravy train rolling; they have a stranglehold on the NJ taxpayers, and the lucky ones of the hosts are those that can flee to another state.
I didn’t really know a whole lot about Walker until a few months ago when I heard him speak. I still am not sure of his stances on things.
Thia guy has it all over Christie. He is smart, articulate and polished.
He would be a force to be reckoned with.
I know they will. I don’t think he has 24-7 whistlestop from mid-America, thru the NE and then through the South in him.
He will be a pile of glue and pudding before the TN primary.
I don’t think Walker will run.
As it should be.More will follow later but this is a great start.
Scott Walker would make a great president. Hell, after O, Jimmy Carter would make a good president.
Probably right. I see Walker as a technician. Christie and Obama are all yak and bluster. LOL
Collective bargaining against tax payer dollars should be against the law.
WOW!
Just like the last carpet bagger.
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