Posted on 01/27/2017 7:32:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
Union membership in Wisconsin has declined nearly 40 percent since legislation was passed that gutted collective bargaining for public workers, according to federal data.
The percentage of public and private workers who were union members was about 8 percent, or 219,000 people, in 2016, down by 136,000 members from 2010 levels, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The agency’s report shows the percentage of Wisconsin workers in unions is below the national average of 10.7 percent, The State Journal reported. …
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Makes it a little tougher to buy Democrat votes.
I’m not seeing a problem here.
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I thought I’d heard it was more like 60% in the school union, if you break that out separately. For all the noise they made, given the choice of paying union dues or not, most teachers opted out.
Wisconsin’s Act 10 needs to be national. Only Republican leaders weakness stops this.
Get some work done, red states!
True. Walker was in exactl the same position - newly elected chief executive and a newly seated Republican majority in the statehouse.
Makes it a little tougher to buy Democrat votes.
This is why Walker was initially my candidate for president but he flopped in front of the Trump tsunami. Great governor.
The people made a choice that had been denied to them before.
Democrats hate that.
WOOOOHOOOOO Wisconsin. That state was THE BIGGEST SURPRISE to me in the 2016 election (Pennsylvania and Michigan [home] 2nd and 3rd)
WOW!
Thanks for mentioning Act 10 (never heard of it before...reading about it now)
http://usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-wisconsin-debt-clock.html
Moving in the right direction. HOORAY Governor Walker.
HOORAY Wisconsin.
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