Wisconsin anti-union bill is 'word for word' from rightwing lobbyist group

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Wisconsin anti-union bill is 'word for word' from rightwing lobbyist group

Ed Pilkington in New York
Monday 23 February 2015 21.01 GMT

Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin who is considering a Republican presidential run, has promised to sign into law an anti-union bill targeted at the state’s private sector workers that is an almost verbatim copy of model legislation devised by an ultra-rightwing network of corporate lobbyists.

On Friday, Walker dropped his earlier opposition to a so-called “right to work” bill, which he had described as a “distraction”, signalling that he would sign it into law should it succeed in passing the Wisconsin legislature. Republican members are rushing through the provision, which would strip private sector unions of much of their fee-collecting and bargaining powers.

On Monday, the bill cleared a committee of the state senate. A vote of the full chamber is slated for later this week, and of the assembly early next month.

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It has now been disclosed that the Wisconsin 2015 right to work bill is a virtual carbon copy of a model bill framed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec). The council acts as a form of dating agency between major US corporations and state-level Republican lawmakers, bringing them together to frame new legislation favorable to big business interests.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/23/wisconsin-right-to-work-bill-scott-walker-alec

[Scuba]

1. That's 'cause Republicans are too lazy to do a re-write.

[HereSince1628]

2. Wasn't Act 10 word for word ALEC boiler plate???

Who cares where it comes from?

It must be resisted.

[Fred Sanders]

3. ALEC may be like a dating agency between corporations and corrupt politicians, but more similar to a pimp.

[KamaAina]

4. I knew it was going to be ALEC before I clicked

[Half-Century Man]

5. ALEC = Assholes legally eviscerating communities. nt

[Praek3]

6. Grounds for conviction

Blatant plagiarism anyone? When these corrupt officials drive the earth into extinction where do these dumb asses think they'll go?

I hope their God (whom each of them swears is telling them to do these idiotic things) strikes them dead where they stand for sinning. AND THE SOONER THE BETTER for the rest of us!

Wait, maybe like Midas, they can be frozen in place to witness the destruction they have caused. I'd pay a quarter to watch that payback. Hell, I'll even bring the popcorn.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. ALEC is coming to strip you of your Country, your democracy, and kill your children's futures, all

right under your noses. And don't expect the "Democrats" to do anything about it, either. There's plenty of hush money to go around...

[Still In Wisconsin]

8. No shock there- that's how Scotty rolls.

These guys have done almost nothing original- ever. Wisconsin is literally being run by corporate interests. We have no State Legislature, we have ALEC. The goggle-eyed homunculus SKW is nothing more than the public face of this "movement."