Posted on 02/25/2015 8:07:03 PM PST by UB355
Madison — With echoes of 2011's labor battle, Republican state senators approved so-called right-to-work legislation Wednesday, less than a week after they announced they were fast-tracking the measure.
A crowd of onlookers chanted "Shame! Shame!" as senators filed out of the chamber.
The bill would bar labor contracts that require workers to pay union fees. It passed 17-15 mostly along party lines and now goes to the Assembly, where majority Republicans are expected to approve it next week. GOP Gov. Scott Walker has said he would sign it.
The labor legislation comes four years after Walker advanced what is now known as Act 10, which all but ended collective bargaining for most public workers in Wisconsin. That move made Walker a national figure, prompted an attempt to recall him and helped propel him toward the front of the field of likely GOP candidates for president for 2016.
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Go Wisconsin. Git ‘er done.
Right To Work should be the law of the land.
Wisconsin will make 25 states with Right to Work
Good move Wisconsin. Scott Walker and his Republican allies are methodically reestablishing freedom in their state. Republicans across the country would do well to learn from them.
Yes, it’s shameful that people actually have a choice whether or not they want to join a union.
How shameful it is. Only to communists is this shameful.
Nice to see indentured servitude to the unions being eliminated. Now the unions will be forced to convince people their “services” are commiserate with their dues.
“Go Wisconsin. Git ‘er done.”....
It’s not done yet, there’s still the police and firefighters unions to go. If you are going to “bust” one union, bust them all. As I see it, “Right to work” does not get that done, it only says you don’t have to pay dues. Perhaps, just perhaps, the dues payers will decide they aren’t getting their moneys worth and the union will eventually collapse (Doubtful!)
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