Democracy NOW: Wisconsin Governor Launches Attack on Public Sector Employees and Unions

[L. Coyote]

Wisconsin Governor Launches Attack on Public Sector Employees and Unions; Threatens to Deploy National Guard to Quell Labor Protests
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/15/wisconsin_governor_launches_attack_on_public

Recently elected Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker has proposed a bill that would eliminate almost all collective bargaining rights for most public workers and slash their pay and benefits. Walker has also notified the state’s National Guard to be on alert for actions taken by unsatisfied state, county and municipal employees. On Monday, hundreds of protesters marched on the State Capitol in Madison, with more protests being planned. Joining us from Madison is John Nichols of The Nation magazine and Brad Lutes, a Wisconsin public school teacher. Nichols warns the governor’s actions could have national ramifications: “If Governor Walker pulls this off, if he succeeds in taking away collective bargaining rights from the union, AFSCME, which was founded in Wisconsin back in the 1930s, if he takes down one of the strongest and most effective teachers’ unions, WEAC, in the country, then we really are going to see this sweep across the United States.”

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. How can workers rights and their pensions that were part of the agreement

for their work be taken away? Isn't the National Labor Relations Department established to protect workers rights?

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/retirement/index.htm

[L. Coyote]

2. Agreement expires and the Mubarak-esque VP wanna-be imposes his will with military might

That worked really well in Egypt :rofl:

[still_one]

3. who voted this clown in? /nt

[L. Coyote]

4. The company that counts the ballots?

[L. Coyote]

7. Wisconsin voting issues

Wisconsin uses the following voting machines in addition to hand-counted paper ballots in some counties. ....

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wisconsin_voting_issues#Voting_Machines_used_November.2C_2008_in_Wisconsin

[still_one]

8. Oh, so what happened in 2008, did that company also vote? /nt

[L. Coyote]

9. Do we trust electronic elections?

Check out what kind of voting technology they have.
In 2010 it was the same as 2008, in terms of which machines counted the votes.
With black boxes and no auditing, we are simply trusting that the results are not rigged. There are no real controls.
The HAVA was just a legal ploy to remove the evidenciary aspect of vote rigging from the process.

[Kolesar]

5. Why should not teachers be allowed to organize a union

and have collective bargaining?

I am sure that teachers who voted R are regretting that vote right now.

[kster]

6. .....

:toast:

[L. Coyote]

10. It is time to start a Minimum Wage Workers Union!

The day people can't drive thru McDonalds will be uprising day in America :rofl: