Right-to-work bill passes Wisconsin Senate on way to desk of Scott Walker

[pampango]

Source: Guardian


A crowd protests inside the Wisconsin state capitol after a rally was held in opposition of the right-to-work bill outside the capitol in Madison.

The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday narrowly approved a “right-to-work” bill that would bar private-sector employees who work under union-negotiated contracts from being required to join their unions or pay them dues.

The bill, which would make Wisconsin the 25th US state with a right-to-work law on the books, cleared the Republican-led Senate on a 17-15 vote following hours of debate marked by periodic angry shouts from opponents in the gallery.

Supporters of organised labor chanted “Shame!” as the legislation was passed and sent for further consideration to the state Assembly, where Republicans also hold a majority. One Republican senator, Jerry Petrowski, broke with his party and joined all 14 Democrats in the chamber in voting against the measure.

Senate floor action on Wednesday was marked from the start by interruptions from protesters in the gallery, who were admonished to follow the rules for decorum. About 3,000 demonstrators opposed to the measure gathered at about midday around the Capitol Building in an echo of rallies in 2011.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/right-to-work-bill-wisconsin-senate-scott-walker

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Looks like the Koch brothers are getting what they want from Walker.

[marym625]

1. damn!

Just damn.

[jwirr]

2. Walker already has WI down and now he is trampling on her.

[ananda]

8. Next is Illinois.

..

[jwirr]

12. I know - the number of failed states is increasing. We need to use that in the general election.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Wiskochsin

[Iliyah]

4. I know many WI's voted against this insane heartless asshole

but he prevailed anyways and those who voted for him as well of those who didn't vote at all and especially those who voted against him all are in the same sinking ship. WI, KS, Mich, and other GOP run state main purpose is to screw the working class among other bullshit rules and laws to benefit the 1-2%ers

This jerk along with other GOP presidential candidates want to destroy the American working class.

[olegramps]

5. This is just another prime example of what happens when the workers don't vote.

Their apathy and refusal to get off their lazy butts and vote has consequences. The Republicans are intent on the destruction of every FDR accomplishment and are well along in achieving their goal. Good luck Americans.

[earthside]

9. And an example of a party that has lost its way.

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Until the Democratic Party reasserts itself as the party of labor, of unions, of progressivism, of populism, etc., then average voters aren't going to "get off their lazy butts and vote."

This is a reality a lot of folks on DU don't seem to comprehend: our voters have to be motivated and have a good reason to vote. If Democrats play the Washington game in Congress, if their President advocates for the TPP, if their leading contender for the presidential nomination is a right-leaning has-been, then where is the great emotional impetus to vote?

Really -- Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is still the 'leader' of the DNC? What kind of signal does that send?

We all hate it, but the Tea Party-Repuglicans have a fervor that Democrats sorely lack right now. We need an inspiring, progressive motivator ... and fast.

I'm predicting right now that Walker will be on the Repuglican ticket next year (unless he gets indicted between now and then). And national Democrats are sleepwalking into another electoral disaster unless they start seeing what is happening in Wisconsin as a bright red flashing emergency beacon.

[RedstDem]

14. +1

That's exactly where we are.

[LovingA2andMI]

15. This is So On Point

However, many of the fellow Democrats prefer to continue walking around with blinders on, and their heads planted firmly in the sandbox.....

Op/Ed: How the Midwest Was Won for the 1%: Right to Work for Less

"This piece will be a bit reflective but not too long in nature. To start, in the readers mind let us travel back to a time where all the core Midwest States supported the rights for workers to unionize.

It would be the year two thousand eight. Slightly prior to the 2008 election of America's First African-American President, Barack Obama.

What are the Midwest Core states of the historical Northwest Territory: Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois.

Two of these states in the years since 2008 are now Right to Work for Less - or widely known as Right to Work. The States are Michigan and Indiana.

In the other three states it appears RTW is literally around the corner from being enacted."

Read more: http://www.reachoutjobsearch.com/2015/02/oped-how-midwest-was-won-for-1-right-to.html#ixzz3SrnXfDRe
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[Crowman1979]

18. If you think that's bad. The DNC let two Rethuglican Incumbent Senators in Alabama run unoppossed!

There were no democratic candidates running against Shelby or that other asshole last year.

[Populist_Prole]

22. +2

[awoke_in_2003]

24. Well said. nt

[tomsaiditagain]

6. You have to get up after being knocked down again and again.

and that is what Americans are going to keep on doing in the states with fascist governors. Once these fascist right wing creeps all die off due to unpopularity, or even an actual death, the people will take their seats at the tables once again. The will of the few with all of the money will be defeated. The people from all walks of life will rule and the theocracy minded two faced oligarch's will be sent away to NeoCon Island to wallow in their self pity.

[postulater]

7. Welcome to DU tomsaiditagain.

I like your attitude.

Maybe I'll move to Minnesota, my mother was from there.

[Iliyah]

11. Well many do know that GOPer's hate history.

Early 20th century, by doing exactly what they are doing now - it lead to the "great depression".

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. All I can say WI

You get who you vote for - for those who did vote for this walker kochpuppet - you are in the column of knownothings..beholdin' to a party name - republiklan...you have done nothing for your state - you have done nothing for those working today in WI - be it friends, relatives, husbands, wives..or for the next generation -yep - even your grandkids..

Don't expect the rest of us to feel bad..we were there for you during the recall..and still you put blinders on - cry wolf too many times..and no one responds....

[sulphurdunn]

13. What do you do when

a majority of votes consent to the hostile takeover of their government by corporations and are content to be fucked over? Minority protesting is useless, so what are they to do if they wish to defend their rights?

[hollowdweller]

16. Wow. If back in the 70's

Somebody would have told me that Wisconsin would vote right to work in I would have told them they were insane.

The sad part is Democrats have sort of gone along with Trickle Down and Free Trade and stuff for so long, and the decline of the middle class has been so gradual that all the people who could remember what it was like when we had broad prospertity are old or dead, and the rest think this is how it has always been and passively accept it.

[TBF]

19. Isn't it something -

I was a kid in Wisconsin in the 70s. Middle of the state, farming and factories, my dad belonged to the union in the small factory he worked at. The unions were very strong in Wisconsin - remember the paper mills?

40 years later and it's all gone.

[midnight]

17. This is a shame, and why this was going on our state chair was fundraising.

https://callenharty.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/its-about-more-than-money/

[groundloop]

20. Let's all call it what it is - RIGHT TO FIRE

The semantics of "right to work" are a genius ploy by right wingers which we've let them get away with for far far too long. There's no way in hell we're going to push back on these laws until the average voter knows the truth.

"Right to work" on the surface sounds like a very good thing, who would possibly be against the right to work? And that's as far as many voters who don't want to pay attention will ever get on this.

[lutefisk]

21. Walker's comments on RTW this morning

While acknowledging that he said earlier this year that he thought that right-to-work legislation would take away from other initiatives he is proposing in his two-year budget, Walker said he now thinks the timing is right.

"Timing-wise, it's actually a pretty good time," Walker said at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee....

"I think it will have a positive impact, along with a whole series of other things"

Yes, a whole series of other things.
LINK to article

[blkmusclmachine]

23. Koch

suckers.