Posted on 02/25/2015 4:01:21 PM PST by mandaladon
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — For two straight days this week, 2,000 union members converged on Wisconsin's Capitol to rally against a new right-to-work bill, chanting, marching and hurling profanities at GOP lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker.
The tone of the rallies has been bitter and angry but hasn't come close to matching the energy that coursed through the building four years ago during massive protests against Walker's proposal to strip public workers of most of their union rights. This time around, union members said Republicans are moving too fast to organize large crowds. Some have even conceded it's a lost cause and the governor is bound to score another victory against organized labor.
"People are tired," said Gerry Miller, a 44-year-old welder from Milwaukee and United Steelworkers member who joined Wednesday's rally. "You do have a moral base that feels helpless."
The dynamics of the right-to-work fight are very different than the 2011 battle.
Republicans who control the Legislature are moving at lightning-speed to get the bill through to Walker. They introduced the measure on Friday and the Senate began debating it Wednesday, making it difficult for unions to mobilize large-scale protests during the work week.
In 2011, public unions had weeks to organize and hold daily rallies against what became known as Act 10 because minority Democrats in the Senate decided to flee to Illinois in an ultimately futile attempt to block a vote in that chamber.
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Keep up the good work, Gov. Walker!
A throne of skulls he builds.
Remember when everyone thought he was going soft. Logistics are your friend and all warfare is deception.
The legislature is pushing this more so than Walker...although he has said he will sign it after sounding ambiguous at first.
Heh heh heh. The communists and their union Neanderthals have been so busy worrying about what Gov. Walker thinks about what Rudy said about their Kenyan boy that they allowed this to fall through the cracks. LOL! Morons!!! Walker 2016!
Protestors and bus drivers cost a lot more money when its freezing freaking cold out.
Guess the union workers don’t have enough work to do
The Democrats ground game must be slipping. You would think in a lefty state like Wisconsin the Democrat Rent A Mobs could’ve rounded up more than 2,000 protesters. Love how Walker makes the left go completely insane.
I’m a 30+ yr., retired union member and find nothing wrong with “right to work” laws and never have. It seems libs are only “pro choice” when it comes to killing babies. They will pay a horrible price for exercising their free will in that manner.
It seems the right to work should be without question inherent to personhood. I assume the issue here is the right to work sans approval of a labor union.
I love disheartened communists.
Where’s their love of freedom of association and freedom of choice?
What if the unions gave their money to republicans as a general rule? I just wonder who’d be literally screaming for right-to-work type laws.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
Wisconsin Senate in recess for Partisan Caucus. Presumably, vote to follow. Long day of Democrat whining. Could not stand to watch much of it...
How do you say “Tough shit” in Wisconsian? Oh, it’s “Gov. Walker” and some Republicans with guts.
Everyone heard exactly what he said, guess he heard what we said and reconsidered.
That's Politics Folks!
Should we go pass out some tissues? sniff sniff
>>The legislature is pushing this more so than Walker...although he has said he will sign it after sounding ambiguous at first.<<
He played it beautifully, so far anyway. There was no doubt the GOP legislature was going to pass a Right to Work law and Walker would have certainly known that, but by suggesting it wasn’t a priority he tossed leadership to the legislature. That was a good move because going into a Presidential election that has a lot of private union members angry at or frustrated with the Democrats and Obama, he now isn’t seen as someone leading the charge against unions. Yes, he’ll sign it, but he’s on record as not pressing for the bill to be brought up.
There are those who will consider that a flip-flop. It was smart politics, and more and more people seem to be coming around to the idea that he’s good with the politics after Iowa and his trips east. It looks like he got what he needed out of those poly-sci courses and it didn’t hurt him to pass on getting the degree.
Incidentally, some of the quotes in that article reflected total resignation on the part of the union members. He just keeps winning...
Music to the ears of free market America.
“We start again with what other right-to-work states have done — explain why it’s important to be a member,”
Yep, it’s a real bitchkitty when indentured servitude is repealed.
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