Check Out the Scumbag Dem's In WI

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

That is essentially saying you can form a committee once a year to come beg with the state for an increase in your wages. It is one step away from outlawing public employee unions. The proposed benefit concessions are not draconian - the changes in the bargaining law are.

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D-Ray

Yep, the more I read about it, the more I'm convinced that this is what is at issue. This provision has made the Governor's plan an existential threat to the public employee unions in Wisconsin. Though I'm not a particular fan of public employees unions, it is certainly easy to understand why they're on the barricades with respect to this provision.

Furthermore, with the tax cuts the Gov. just instituted causing the fiscal imbalance, it's easy to understand why people perceive this as a preconceived plan to kill the union.

That said, a better business climate and a uncoupling of the unholy alliance between the public employee unions and the state Democratic party may very well help the state in the long run. In the short run, however, it's going to be ugly.