Posted on 02/24/2015 12:27:56 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"..........The right-to-work debate comes in the wake of the 2011 fight over Walker's law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers. That law also prohibited the automatic withdrawal of union dues for public workers, like the right-to-work measure would do in the private sector.
Walker administration spokesman Cullen Werwie said between 1,800 and 2,000 people were inside and outside the Capitol at midday and there had been no arrests. After the rally, protesters filed into the Capitol rotunda and joined the ongoing hearing.
While union members were vowing to fight the measure and try to sway Republicans to vote against it, some were resigned to defeat given GOP majorities and Walker's support.
"I think it's inevitable," said Sally Feistel, a United Steelworkers union leader from Menasha.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I don't get it, Ms. Feistel. If your union is so great, people will be lining up go get in. Why is it mandatory if it is so great?
"Liberalism: Ideas so good they have to be mandatory!" -- Andrew Milkow
Darn
“Wilkow”
Sorry
Madison talk host Vicky McKenna reports about 1000 Disparate group “save the whales” “pro choice” “Black Lives Matter” etc are dispursing in her 3pm CST broadcast.
Also, how many of them are actual blue-collar private sector workers?
These people want government to compel people to join organizations that restrict their ability to move up the ladder with hard work.
I wonder how many of them are just paid protesters?
Is that pic for real? If so he or she bears a striking resemblance to ISIS beheaders.
A thin crowd.
Wisconsin population is almost 6,000,000. That means the turnout was 0.033% of the population.
I'm thinking Astroturf.
The MSM ignores our side when we turn out 500,000 to march in DC.
33 bus loads at 60 per bus. Very doable.
Thanks for this and #15! Senate (State) Republicans in Jeff City need to read this!!!
God forbid anyone has a right to work. FU leftist and rot in hell.
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